Close Kept Secrets to Weight Loss Lesson #6
I am so proud of you and your accomplishments. You’re embarking on your own journey and you astound me because you want something more, something that surpasses what you currently know. You are such a gift from God and He is right there with you as you’re on your journey to discover you-peeling back the layers to find the wholeness that already exists.
When I went through my transformation to discover myself after being very sick and peeled back my own layers and changed my thoughts, I had a difficult time adapting to the new me. For years I had been this person who lived in fear and worry and attracted everything that was separate from God; I didn’t know the person I had become.
Here I was experiencing a higher vibration of energy encompassing peace, love and joy and didn’t quite know what to do with these feelings. I was having new conversations with people on a whole different level and saying goodbye to some when I felt the need to do so. You may experience this as well. People are going to see changes in you and might be unsure of what this means for your relationship with them. Try not to be alarmed as there might be relationships that you’re going to have to say goodbye to because they don’t represent who you are any longer. Make sure you thank them for the role they played in your life (either in person or writing it down in a journal). This is necessary for your healing. Be aware of it and embrace it.
Wayne Dyer, my mentor who wrote The Power of Intention, eloquently states "Surround yourself with the conditions which you want to produce." If you’re looking for harmony, then attract only those people, those experiences that will produce harmony. Likewise, if you want to attract weight loss, then attract those people, those experiences that will help you produce weight loss. If you are around people who always want to eat in an unhealthy way, how is this going to help you in your quest to lose weight? What are you going to do about it? To quote Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."
This is the intention of these lessons. To show you that you already have all the answers within. I am the one who holds your hand to guide you to your answers. As Wayne Dyer serves as my mentor, I will serve as yours. I’ll be your coach, your cheerleader to say, "You can do it." It’s so easy to look outside yourself for the answers, but the answers always lie within. We need to be ready to be open and to listen to our inner voice, our spirit. Sometimes we can listen to the itty bitty committee that is within us as well. Have you ever heard of this committee? They tell us that we can’t do it. They shout at us and say "Who do you think you are to lose weight. You’re never going to be able to do it. You’ve tried in the past and haven’t been successful."
Take a few moments and write down all the thoughts you’ve had in the past that supports the committee’s existence. Every thought that you’ve had that you couldn’t do it, it’s too hard, everyone else can lose weight but me-all those I can’t statements.
Right now, express gratitude to the committee. Take a moment and thank them for their presence because you needed them at one time. Our challenges can be our greatest gifts so it’s important to communicate gratitude because of the lessons we’re supposed to learn. Remember, the itty bitty committee is our own negative thoughts.
Ready to have some fun? Stand up and visualize the committee as these small, troll dolls lined up across the floor. Now turn around and shake your hineys at this committee while shouting and laughing, "I am my ideal weight. I am a beautiful person. I am a lean, mean, sex machine. My butt is nice and shapely. I am a Divine child of God." You can keep going with this and use any affirmations you would like and have more fun. Here’s a bumper sticker we could make?.my thighs are smaller than your thighs. Now, you’re changing your thoughts to embrace a higher vibration of energy to attract only positive people and experiences in your life. Keep practicing and use the EFT tapping points too!
We haven’t talked about exercise yet so here’s your homework. Exercise your little (notice I said little) hineys off. Pick something that you like to do and do it for at least ten minutes a few times each week. It can just be walking around the house. You can turn on butt movin’ music and dance around the house for a few minutes?even more. If you have children, get them involved. Dance with your significant other. They will love this time with you.
As you’re exercising throw your body into it. Let your body know that you love it and are giving it the attention it deserves. Your blood is moving, your toxic cells are leaving your body. Your lungs thank you, your muscles thank you. Every part of your body is feeling the exhilaration. Ba bye, fat cells!
Thank you for letting me part of your life and help you. You are the most incredible person there is and I’m very blessed to have you in my life.
Love and hugs,
Tami Close
Weight Loss Expert
www.tamiclose.com
Tami Close is an Integrative Body Therapist and uses an integrative method, including cleansing and nutritional products from Isagenix, in her weight loss management practice. She is certified in Rapid Eye Technology and has a basic and advanced certificate in Emotional Freedom Techniques. She is also a Reiki Master. Tami is a recipient of a grant from the Sumasil Grant Foundation in her work with RET and EFT. She is a master trainer and has a B.S. in Training and Development. She is a #1 best selling co-author, Wake Up…Live the Life You Love Finding Personal Freedom. The other authors include Mark Victor Hansen, Wayne Dyer and Deepak Chopra and others.tamiclose.comclosekeptsecrets.com
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Learn the Truth About Weight Loss and Getting Great Abs
Debunking The Ab Myth
Ab training has been done to death but it’s time to take another look. Why? Because people are still training their abs wrong so all that ab training information must not be doing the job.
1 – No Spot Reducing – Endless crunches will not melt away the fat from your midsection. It just doesn’t work that way. And despite the “burn” of high rep ab exercises, you barely burn any calories while doing those endless crunches.
Your fat burning time is best spent elsewhere on more effective training. You also don’t work the ab muscle intensely enough to develop it.
So endless high rep crunches fail on both counts – poor muscle building and poor fat burning. Two thumbs down as the cliche goes.
2 – The Abs are a Muscle and should be trained as such. You don’t need high reps and lots of sets to work your abs. This just leads to overtraining.
Now, abs are a more endurance oriented muscle so slightly higher reps may be more effective. However, you should keep the reps at 20 or lower and work on increasing the resistance.
Yes, you should be increasing the weights on ab exercises, just like your other exercises. The stronger your abs, the better they will look when the fat is stripped away.
Ever see a really thin guy with a flat stomach but no abs? The abs haven’t been trained and aren’t developed enough to stand out even when the fat is stripped away.
3 – Don’t train the abs – What the heck do I mean by this? Well, your abs get a lot of indirect work from other exercises so you really won’t need more than a couple of hard sets of weighted crunches to work your abs.
Your abs are a factor in exercises such as squats, deadlifts, seated or standing presses, dumbbell pullovers, pulldowns, etc. Don’t believe me?
Next time you work out, do a few hard sets of standing stiff armed pulldowns on the lat machine and tell me your abs aren’t sore the next day. I did them yesterday and my abs are more sore than my back today.
If you want to develop a flat stomach with your abs visible, you need to treat your abs like a muscle and train that way. And you need to strip away the fat with a proper training and nutrition program designed around total fat loss, not trying to spot reduce through endless crunches.
Is there anything out there in the fitness world suffering from more misinformation that how to get abs?
The number of ab machines constantly coming to market is mind boggling. Especially considering that they aren’t needed and won’t give you the results that you want.
Let’s set the record straight on ab training right now and give you the real information you need so you can say no to the next infomercial ab machine and yes to actual abs.
1 – Training your abs consistently will eventually give you the flat stomach or six-pack that you want.
No. It’s not gonna happen if your abs are covered by a layer of body fat and doing endless sets of ab exercises is not the way to rid yourself of that excess body fat.
2 – Train your abs everyday for best results.
Again, no. Your abs are a muscle, just like your chest, lats, arms and so on. You should train your abs just like these other muscles, with progressive resistance and high intensity – then allow them to rest and recover. Never train your abs more than 3 days a week.
3 – You need to do hundreds or reps and feel the burn to get great abs.
Yep, again the answer is no. The abs a muscle just like I mentioned above. To get six pack abs you need to strip off the fat, but you also need to build the abs to get them to really pop out.
If the muscle isn’t developed, you’ll just have a flat stomach but no abs. The name of the game is progressive resistance for sets of 8 – 20 reps, just like your other muscles.
4 – Train the abs with lots of sets and high reps to burn off stomach fat.
You guessed it. This is also false. Spot reduction just isn’t going to happen as much as we’d all like it to. You can’t burn fat on your stomach by doing endless crunches.
You need to put together a proper weight lifting program, nutrition plan, and cardio in order to rid your stomach of that stubborn layer of fat and bring yout your abs.
Gregg Gillies
Gregg Gillies is a speaker, consultant, fat loss expert, trainer and author. He teaches fitness via his articles, books and courses at his web site buildleanmuscle.com . He is the author of two books: Complete information on his books, along with lots of free articles are available at his site. And while there, don’t forget to sign up for his free newsletter, “Fit Physique”.
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