Destroy Fat And Get Fit After 45+ - Step 1 - The Knowing

Part 1 - THE KNOWING

Before I get started on this article I shall shout something at you first . . .

NO! IT’S NOT TOO LATE. YOU ARE NEVER TOO OLD. YOU DO HAVE TIME. 

STOP MAKING EXCUSES!

. . . shouting finished, let us continue.

There are many reasons why various people fail at destruction of the fat cells and the first one is oh, so simple.  Fat destruction starts by using the most important tool in your body, the brain.  It's all about the knowing, not believing.  People "believe" in things they have yet to see as real such as fairies, unicorns and pots of gold at the end of rainbows.  You can not just flimsily "believe" in this journey. . .

You have to KNOW you are going to destroy your fat, not lose it, destroy it. If you lose something your mind will try and help you find it again . We don’t want that. First step is KNOWING. Telling your mind that you ARE destroying your unwanted fat reserves, not tomorrow, not next week you have ALREADY started.

1^st Step – The Mind Mantra

Keep repeating in your head “I have destroyed my fat. I am fitter. I am healthier”

No, it matters not one jot if you haven’t even put down your doughnut first. The first step is always convincing your mind you are a success.

Here is a little experiment to prove how strong your mind is over your body.

1. Stand near a wall (we don’t want any harm done here!!) 
   
   
2. Tell yourself over and over again in your head you CAN NOT stand on one leg. Do this for about 3 - 5 minutes.
   
   
3. Now try standing on one leg whilst telling yourself you CAN NOT stand on one leg. Go on do it.
   
   
4. Notice how you CAN NOT stand on one leg either at all or not for as long as you have in the past.

NOW:

1. Sit down. Close your eyes. Tell yourself over and over again I CAN stand on one leg. Visualise yourself successfully standing on one leg. Keep the visualisation going and keep repeating to yourself that YOU CAN stand on one leg. Do this for 3 – 5 minutes.
   
   
2. Once again, constantly visualising your one leg standing success and telling yourself YOU CAN stand on one leg. Try standing on one leg.
   
   
3. Notice how you COULD do it this time. Maybe for even longer than you have in the past!

And so it is with destroying the fat. You have to KNOW you are a success the moment you make the decision to change. Tell yourself how wonderful your fat destruction is, how you love feeling so much more energised and how brilliant it is that you now want to move more and make better food choices. In the evening sit for a few moments just visualising yourself slimmer and fitter. Visualise yourself moving gracefully across a floor in an outfit that shows off your strong, sleek body.

There is a sentence a friend of mine loves saying:

You Have To Fake It Before You Make It.

In other words, you have to make the steps toward your goal KNOWING you have already reached it!

Step 1 is of the highest importance and I will not go into all the meta physical stuff.  Simply put, control your thoughts and you control your body.

I have kept this short as I wanted you to read ALL of it.  We will get to diet and excercise later. Hit subscribe for future installments!  

 

YOUR BODY TELLS YOU NOTHING AND YOUR MIND JUST WANTS CAKE (and wine gums)

I have read the PubMed and trainers articles in abundance.  Sat for hours poring over various books telling me which foodstyle life is the best.  I have lived the raw food lifestyle, the vegan lifestyle, the low protein high carb.  I then moved on to try low carb high protein, caffeine fuelled lifestyle.  However,  I have been studying food and its effects on the body for over 5 years and one thing that I keep on hearing/reading is that our bodies shout out at certain times depending on what it needs.

Here I have a huge, nay, brobdingnagian problem with this.  My mind and my body seem to have fallen out.  My mind and my body do not speak.  It is either that or I have a mute body or just a really loud mind. 

When I am afflicted by any ailment such as a cold (which I am nearly dead with as I write), my body seems to be coughing and producing snot, but my mind is screaming:

"EAT CAKE! YOU NEED CAKE (oh and probably some wine gums)".

I cough and splutter and wheeze a bit more and my mind then shouts

"BACON.  THAT'LL CURE YOU, BACON THEN CAKE (oh and probably some wine gums)"

My Question:

Is my mind trying to kill me?  Have I got, instead of a champion of self preservation, some ethereal rogue assassin going from brain to brain popping off people who float, seemingly automatically, toward any cake aisle (or wine gums)?

My Brilliant Theory:

Maybe all these professionals should rephrase.  Our bodies are dumb, mute, speechless and silent witnesses.  Our bodies do not get on with our minds.  I would go so far as to say they totally and utterly ignore each other when we are having our mad, bad food cravings. 

Our bodies do not tell us what food does, it has surpassed speech.  Speech to the body is so yesterday.  The body realises we don't listen and just moved swiftly to "LOOK YOU IDIOT!"

My body is BRILLIANT at showing symptoms of bad eating.  Hell if medals and pointy shiny hats were made to celebrate such a thing my house would be resplendent in hats and badges galore! 

After coffee/wheat/having a cold my eyes do the *wrinkle, crinkle, sag, *

wrinkly, crinkly eyes

If I don't drink enough fresh water my body will, knowing my vanity, just age my face by 2000 years.  As my Nana used to say "Pfff that'll learn you" (she was a strong woman who had no need of grammar!)

My respiratory system quite blatantly heaves and disallows any decent training if I perchance on wheaty badness.

My belly will go onto auto bloat should me and cake party.

Sleep is a thing that will not happen if I have raw cacao drinks after 4 pm.

I say this people.  Don't try to LISTEN to your body,

just look at the bloody thing

If:

• when you stop jumping up and down your body doesn't for another few seconds
• your skin is covered in oily pimples
• you are bloated
• you have nail fungus
• you have so many bags under your eyes Alexander Wang wants to sponsor you
• your skin is 50 shades of grey and definitely not sexy
• your eyes are not bright and clear 
• you look 700 millenia older than you should
• ad infinitum stuff  . . 

This is your body showing you that things are going awry.  THIS is your body transcending the barriers of speech and shoving FACTS in your face.

To conclude. 

Stop trying to get your mind to tell you what to do as your mind just wants cakes (and wine gums).  

Look at what your body is actually showing you.

fuck off mind!