VPCD stands for: Visualize, Plan, Consider this when all else fails, Defeat your greatest saboteur

Strategy #9: Visualize

Visualize to lose more weight

Visualization is now a standard athletic training technique for all top-level competitive athletes. Studies have found that using your mind to visualize a perfect golf swing, a perfectly timed jump, a targeted swing at a speeding tennis ball – whatever it happens to be that requires precise coordination combined with explosive body movements – improves the task almost as much as if one had spent hours in actual physical practice.

In the same way that athletes improve their performance through visualization, so too can you improve your body transformation results. By focusing, laser-like, on the image you are trying to get your body to accept as yours, you are more likely to achieve it. These sessions of intense concentration cause tremendous synaptic firing of your brain cells as you “program” your brain to allow your body to change into the exact shape you want.

Strategy #10: Plan

Plan to lose more weight

One of the “little” things that many people think nothing of is the simple act of planning.

While most everyone is interested in learning about the latest exercise program or fat loss supplement, they don’t necessarily want to invest the energy required to make the program work – diet, daily schedule, sleep, etc…

How will a person implement their program? How will they navigate the road and reach the finish line? I am talking about the need to plan for success.

The President and his staff plan the future course of the United States; builders lay out plans for a house.  Each of these acts, though different in nature, requires precise attention to details: if your goal is to attain a maximally lean, fit, and healthy state, your body requires the same detailed planning.

Strategy #11: Consider This When All Else Fails

Eat right foods to lose more weight

I have found that most progress-related problems boil down to one source: FOOD. If you are not making progress, and your fat loss efforts have stalled, first, ensure that your weight training and aerobic exercises are being performed properly and consistently; then analyze your food intake. You can bust your diet even if you’re only eating “clean” foods. Remember, you have to consistently burn more calories than you consume each day.

Strategy #12: Defeat Your Greatest Saboteur

Banish hunger to lose more weight

One of your body’s most powerful defense mechanisms that prevents you from losing fat is HUNGER. That’s right, plain old hunger pangs are the worst enemy of any dieter.  We have evolved over millions of years to our present form, and our bodies have developed powerful mechanisms to survive and thrive.  One of these methods is a powerful hunger reflex.  When you become hungry, everything else becomes subordinate to your quest to feed yourself.

There are several things you can do to keep hunger at bay. The first is to consume at least 5-6 very small meals per day, making sure your total calorie levels are below your maintenance requirements.

You can also suppress your appetite. If you are healthy, and caffeine doesn’t bother you, it can be used as an appetite suppressant. Plus, most everyone loves a good strong cup of coffee in the morning. An added benefit from coffee is it will help to release stored fat into your bloodstream – perfect before cardio.

Take Charge!

P.S. Want to: Learn the “Easy” way to get and stay in shape? Discover the secret to quick fat loss? How to exercise less and get better results? Discover the secret to ripped abs without doing endless crunches? Then be sure to get my “Amazing Fat Burning Formula” HERE.

continued from yesterday’s post…

RULES TO LOSE FAT (LOSE MORE WEIGHT) BY:

Start this diet (which, by the way, should be a lifelong diet – and can easily be one as you’ll soon see) by going 5 days in a row eating the following general combination of macronutrients:

• High Protein
• Moderate Fat
• Low Carbohydrates.

Some of the foods you CANNOT eat during these 5 days are:

• bread (of any kind)
• milk
• fruit
• sugar
• potatoes (of any kind)
• rice
• pasta
• corn
• carrots
• cereal (of any kind)
• juices (of any kind).
• Coffee or tea is fine, you just cannot use real sugar. A sugar substitute is fine
• If it comes in a can or packet or box you can’t eat it.

What’s left?

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Picture this eating day…

Alarm sounds…

You wake up and wonder what you’ll have today…

You start breakfast with:

4 large, homemade-style pancakes (with eggs and milk)
Pure Maple Syrup
2 Large glasses of Chocolate milk

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calories = 1,170

A couple of hours later (before lunch) you decide to eat…

2 Ray’s New York Bagels Frozen Everything Bagel – lightly toasted
2 1/2 large, homemade-style pancakes (same as above)
Pure Maple Syrup
2 Large glasses of Chocolate milk
Calories = 1,295

A couple of hours later (after lunch time, but you feel kind of “snacky”)…

1 pint of Haagen-Dazs Extra Rich Light Dulce De Leche Caramel

Calories = 880

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Several more hours later and you start to ponder what your mid-afternoon snack might be and decide on…

1 scoop of Beverly International Mass Maker protein powder (lots of carbs in this – it’s for gaining weight)
1 glass of 2% Reduced Fat Milk
1 serving of Oats

Calories = 550

For dinner you decide on…

2 Ray’s New York Bagels Frozen Everything Bagel
2 Large glasses of Chocolate Milk
1 serving of Haagen-Dazs Extra Rich Light Dulce De Leche Caramel

Calories = 980

I save my “dessert” for later on and decide to have…

4 large, homemade-style pancakes (with eggs and milk)
Pure Maple Syrup
1 glass of Low-fat Chocolate Milk

Calories = 900

Before bed I’m feeling a little peckish, so I decide on…

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1 Mars, Inc. King Size Snickers Bar
1 serving of Our Family Blueberry Waffles

Calories = 720

Grand total calories for the day = 6,495!

As I drift off to sleep, having had a wonderfully enjoyable day of eating my favorite foods, I remember I’ll be checking my skin-fold thickness in the morning to check my bodyfat levels. This morning I measured in at 8 mm on my abdomen skin-fold thickness. I wonder what will happen tomorrow…

As the alarm sounds, I groggily get up out of bed and stumble over to the bathroom and pull out my trusty digital bodyfat calipers.

Pinching the same spot on my stomach I’ve pinched countless times before, I feel strangely “lean”. In fact, it’s not such a strange sensation at all, as I’ve felt it on numerous occasions in the past. It’s just that I know what I ate the night before and by all logic I should be feeling quite bloated by all common sense of the “normal” rules of eating.

Looking at the reading (6.5 mm), I  smile as I dropped 1.5mm from my reading the morning before, meaning I’ve lost “even more” bodyfat in the 24 hours since I last measured — even after eating like a horse the day before.

Do I have a tapeworm?

Is there an alien living inside of me, feeding on every morsel of food passing into my stomach?

Do I have a third leg?

None of the above, my dear friend.

I simply employed a unique, and highly-effective technique that allows me to eat whatever, however, as much as I want, several times per week AND lose fat quicker and easier as a result.

YOU DID NOT MISREAD THIS LAST PART… (So I’ll say it again).

You can Lose fat quicker and easier by eating junk food on a regular basis — but only if you  follow my rules of the road.

Stay tuned tomorrow when I reveal what those rules are…

Oh, by the way, before I let you go I have a riddle for you… let’s see who is smart enough to figure it out…

My skinfold thickness on my abs went “down” from the day before. This means I lost fat. HOWEVER, I gained weight from the previous day?!? How is it that I can lose fat but yet gain weight?!? What is the answer to this seemingly impossible occurrence?

The first 3 people that answer this correctly (there should be 2 parts to the answer – you have to explain “why” I gained weight and the mechanism behind it – you don’t have to explain why I lost fat… leave that to me tomorrow) will get 1 bottle of my new Creafit (creatine/ribose/glutamine combo) supplement.

Take Charge!

P.S. Want to: Learn the “Easy” way to get and stay in shape? Discover the secret to quick fat loss? How to exercise less and get better results? Discover the secret to ripped abs without doing endless crunches? Then be sure to get my “Amazing Fat Burning Formula” HERE.