Are You Still on a Diet? Reprogram Your Mind and Change Your Lifestyle!

How do you get motivated to get or stay healthy and sane in this troubled world and this financial chaos that is literally destroying people’s healthy, jobs, marriages and even lives? How can we possibly think of exercising and eating well during these times? I have and heard people saying that they were postponing their health and fitness and will think about it later when things get better. I say that later will be too late and that the time is now. If nothing is done, a few years later could dramatically be worse, a lot worse. Who can afford to diet these days? So many of us get trapped into thinking that it’s all about diet when there is so much more involved in changing how we look on the outside.

Reprogramming Your Mind

Getting in shape is not for the rich only so if you find yourself on yet another diet you need to stop and think about what you are doing. A diet isn’t the way to go. Instead, you need to change the way you are thinking about your body and your life and make a change to your overall lifestyle. You aren’t going to lose all the weight and reduce stress simply by eating better if it isn’t something that you are willing to embrace wholeheartedly.

A diet is the reason why so many people fail to lose weight or keep the weight off. The term diet indicates that what you are doing is temporary and you are just going to continue to do it until you meet your goal. Yet, if you stop dieting when you reach your goal you will only gain the weight back and you will be left wondering what went wrong.

If you want to change your body the change needs to start in your mind. You literally need to reprogram and reboot your mind so that you start to think about losing weight and getting in shape from the inside out, instead of from the other way around. You don’t have to live the rest of your life eating foods that you hate and you also don’t have to spend three hours a day in the gym. There is a healthy balance; you just have to know how to go about achieving it. If you stop thinking about diet and you start thinking about a change to your overall lifestyle you’ll find that you can achieve the results much more easily and you will also be able to maintain them.

The Answer

If you are looking for the answer that will truly help you reprogram your mind and learn how you can obtain a healthy lifestyle without starving and killing yourself at the gym, you may want to check out my book Mind Over Body. This book is all about lasting weight loss and how it really is all in your head. If you can see it in your mind, feel it in your heart you can manifest it in real life and this book will show you how this can realistically be done. Forget the hypes about dieting and the hours in the gym. This is it! All you’ve been waiting for is in Mind Over Body! Thousands have tried the revolutionary concept of the book and finally discovered the truth to a beautiful and healthy mind and body.

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Who is Nordine “Avtar” Zouareg

In almost all parts of the world, overweight people struggle with their health and fitness. It is a constant battle for them to be accepted and therefore live a normal life. Their self esteem is so poor they find it hard to get out and enjoy themselves. This poor perception of their body image has created unhappiness and has destroyed lives. To add to this, fashion magazines and media outlets have always showcased models with size zero which further adds enormous emotional stress.

The need to love one’s body

It is essential that everyone overweight or not, learn to love and appreciate their body as it is a fundamental starting point in behavioral change. This however begins in the mind. The consciousness that we all are beautiful from within heightens self image and creates a greater sense of self worth. Stress, fear and anxiety are our everyday companions; we need to learn how to accept them instead of resisting them. Methods such as self hypnosis and mind therapies all seek to accomplish greater spiritual, mental and physical well being.

Nordine “Avtar” Zouareg: an inspiration

Nordine “Avtar” Zouareg is a perfect example of what the mind can accomplish no matter what the obstacles maybe. Born from illiterate nomad parents in the back of a truck in the Sahara desert. His survival chances were minimal considering his numerous health problems as a child. In fact, many people had given up on his prospects at reaching adulthood. Inspite of facing all the odds, Avtar decided to leverage mental exercises to overcome physical constraints that he faced. His phenomenal success prompted him to share his methodologies and practices with many people around the world ranging from business tycoons to celebrities and soccer moms.

From Rickets to Mr. Universe

Avtar was almost abandoned by his parents who could not take care of their child who fell constantly ill. However, his mother could not bring herself to abandon him. After a few months Avtar was diagnosed with rickets at which time he was hospitalized in Algeria. He also underwent advanced treatments in France where he lived with his parents and thirteen other siblings.

Being the subject of constant bullying on account of his poor physical health, Avtar was the victim of a dismal childhood. Then came a turning point in his life when he saw his siblings watching a gymnastics show on television at which time Avtar decided that this could be the ticket to new found success.

Avtar spent most of his teenage years in aiming to become a successful gymnast. Utilizing the methods he outlines in his book, he overcame his poor health and gained success worldwide. From gymnastics Avtar moved to competitive body building. His body structure improved and this strengthened Avtar’s resolve to get into the international competitive arena. Soon after this, at 23, Avtar won Mr. France, Mr. Europe, Mr. World and Mr. Universe making him the youngest Mr. Universe ever after the famous Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 1999 soon after he was awarded the recognition of “Alien of Extraordinary Ability” (a status given only to those awarded excellence in their fields) by the United States Department of Justice, Avtar was sought after by world renowned health spa Miraval in Tucson Arizona to develop an award winning fitness facility and programs, he achieved the tasks and lead the team for 7 years.

Current Situation

Today Avtar is an international self development and wellness guide, author and speaker. He also has a lucrative coaching business based on his program called The Mind Over Body Coaching Solution. He can be reached at 520-744-5108 or by email at nordine@nordinez.com

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DENNIS AND HIS UNSTOPPABLE SPIRIT

Thousands have made life changing transformation through my book Mind Over Body: The Key To Lasting Weight Loss Is All In Your Head! But the book is far more than a fitness book or a self help tool, it's a life altering guide. A client of mine who made positively enormous changes in himself was Dennis, who came to me overweight and sadly out -of -shape. In his mid-fifties, Dennis had been leading a sedentary life for years and looked it. He had a flabby middle, no muscle tone to speak of and a sagging spirit to boot. (When we met he told me he felt quite depressed and worthless.) The one crucial advantage Dennis had going for him, however, was his spirit. The combination of soul-building and body shaping that are outlined in Mind Over Body had proven its effect once again.

Inspired to create a healthier mind and body, Dennis proved to be one of the most unstoppable people I’ve ever trained. After six months, Dennis had lost about 50 pounds; his nutritional plan was impeccably lean and healthy, and he looked years younger. What’s more, Dennis so perfected his weight training and body sculpting that he looked like a champion, and I told him so. He even considered competing as a senior body builder! Dennis has continued to stay in touch with me and he is still in superb shape, years after he made his commitment.

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OUR SOUL'S LEGACY

Our task is simply to be more fully within each thought, within each breath, within each interaction. This will grant unto us a grace that allows us not to stumble, not to get caught up in pettiness, not to be hard on ourselves when life seems over-whelming. This will be possible because we are activated from a deep place of remembrance in our being. There lies the power and opportunity of the legacy that we can embrace in order to simply be the more loving world, the more peaceful world that we long for; to be able to live in peace in every moment of our existence, to become a being of unconditional love. This is a legacy that we are uniquely qualified to create. It is a legacy of hope, of change, of validation to the hearts of humanity. It is the legacy of the soul.

We create this legacy by courting stillness, committing to being creative, evoking our courage, asking better questions, challenging our context, and remembering that it is a dream. We create it by living our values, by grounding ourselves in actions that uplift and transform, by becoming one with the systems of natural order, and by growing intimate with our souls. In this way we create an inheritance of abundance for ourselves, our planet, and our species. A process of change and inner transformation has already begun. Be still and you will feel it in every fiber of your being.

Reduce the Pressure

Stress can be an incredibly powerful drag on your fitness and health and study after study has found that when a person is stressed, the body reacts. Results of stress can lead to high blood pressure, tension headaches, upset stomachs, and many other ailments. Exercise is probably the most effective defense against stress in your life. But there’s a secret that most people don’t know, and the secret is this: It’s not the exercising part that’s hard. What’s hard is actually showing up to exercise and then keeping up the effort day in and day out. So I have one question for you: what keeps you from exercising and adhering to healthy habits so you can live the life you deserve? I can and I will help you change the things that most are not aware of, things that will transform you in mind, in body and in spirit. Just join my coaching program here.

Do you have too much belly fat?

The size of your waist is a good indicator of whether you have too much belly fat. Even thought measurements that compare your hip and waist circumference (waist-to-hip ratio) or compare your height and weight (body mass index) are more precise and can be used for research, your waist size alone can give you a good idea of how much belly fat you hold.

For most men, the risk factors for various diseases increase with a waist size over 40 inches (102 centimeters).

To accurately measure your waist:

· Place a tape measure around your bare abdomen just above your hipbone.
· The tape measure should be snug — but not so tight it pushes into your skin.
· Check to make sure the tape measure is level all the way around.
· Relax, and measure your waist after you breathe out — no sucking in your belly!

Can you reduce belly fat with sit-ups?

Sit-ups will make your abdominal muscles stronger, sure. And, you may look thinner by building your abdominal muscles because you can hold in your belly fat better. But strengthening your stomach muscles alone will not specifically reduce belly fat.
There are no particular "spot-reducing" exercises that are best at shedding belly fat. But most people do reduce belly fat before reducing fat in other parts of their body when they get more exercise of any kind. Remembering that you reduce last what you’ve gained first will help your frustration a great deal.

Is belly fat inherited?

While some men are more likely to put on extra pounds because of their genes, for the vast majority of men, the problem has a lot more to do with lifestyle than inherited traits. Our society’s demands are so great that they far exceed our ability to perform creating therefore a great amount of stress. Stress can lead to many negative results in our lives and one of them is overeating. Stress also triggers the body to release the stress hormone cortisol that facilitates fat storage around the organs and mostly around the belly. Simply put, when you are stressed out of your mind and take in more calories than you burn to make you feel better — the excess calories are stored as fat and you feel worse later. The same thing occurs in women but in more parts of the body; part such as the hips, arms and thighs.

We've had a huge change in our environment. Men — and women — used to have much more active lifestyles. But our lifestyles today allow us to live and work with virtually no opportunity for physical activity. About 65 percent of American adults get no vigorous exercise in their leisure time at all. We are also eating larger amounts of high-calorie foods than we used to, such as "fast food" that is high in fat and carbohydrates. People are responding to this change in the way you'd expect — by gaining weight. Men need to be more active — to get out and keep moving.

Can you really get a beer belly from drinking?

We do know that there is a link between drinking excess alcohol and gaining belly fat — the "beer belly." However, it isn't just beer that can increase belly fat. Drinking too much of any kind of alcohol can have that effect. We know that alcohol is high in calories and increases appetite, but still aren't exactly sure why drinking too much causes increased belly fat in particular.
If you drink, the key is to drink in moderation. While increased belly fat is most noticeable in people who drink to excess, keeping it to less than two drinks a day will reduce the amount of calories you consume and help you avoid putting on belly fat. It is also better for your overall health.

BEWARE OF BINGE EATING AT NIGHT

Night Binging: What’s Happening

Binge eating mostly happens in the evening and you become someone else. In the evening you are probably tired and stressed, and that is why you should use your rational hours of the day planning your evenings in order to eat moderately. When you eat supper, you gorge yourself with everything you have at home such as sandwiches, ice cream, etc. Try not to keep sandwiches, ice cream or other fattening, unhealthy food at home. Be sure to buy in advance the ingredients you need to prepare a large, tasty salad, so that you can have a big meal that is not fattening and unwholesome for your body.

The main goal here is to get healthy, wholesome and reasonable eating habits. If you do this in the first place, your body weight will go down to a level that fits your physical constitution.

The alternative to escaping the anguish by binge-eating is feeling the anguish. This can provide useful information that you might need for accurate estimates in life. Be curious about what can come out of your feelings and ideas if you desist from gorging yourself with food.

Lie down and focus your attention inside of yourself. Be brave! What you feel may not be pleasant. But these unpleasant feelings usually die away after a while and afterwards you are enriched with a new understanding of your inner feelings and you will feel generally better.

It takes about 10 to 15 minutes of deep breathing exercise for the cravings to dissipates if it is still there get-up and prepare a large salad.

Think About All Of The Steps Involved:

1. The thought enters your mind that you want to cheat. (REFRAME NOW!) Ask why and make a better decision.
2. You decide to take action on the thought. (IT’S STILL NOT TOO LATE!)
3. You stand up. (YOU ARE ABOUT TO MESS UP ALL YOUR EFFORTS!)
4. You walk over to the fridge, door (to go to the store), or phone (to order food). (THINK AGAIN!!!)
5. You open the fridge door, grab your keys and unlock the door, or dial the phone (after looking through your pile of menus and picking one out). (POINT OF NO RETURN!!!)
6. You reach into the fridge and start searching around, walk out your door to the store or sit and wait the fast food delivery man.
7. YOU JUST LET YOURSELF DOWN.

These are definitely a lot of steps! And there are many in between I have probably missed as well. So as we see here, there are 7 opportunities to reason with your own mind, and think "ok, do I really want to kill all my hard work in the gym by eating something that will only award me temporary satisfaction, and make me look/feel worse?" In the heat of the moment, the binge eater is sometimes likened to an animal that cannot control itself, acting on instinct only, without regard to what is going on.

He consumes simply for the sake of consumption, and receives his satiety from this fact, and this fact only: he will not stop until he is absolutely stuffed and will award his palate with a plethora of different tastes to fit his liking.

Train the Mind

The solution here is to first learn to train the mind to eat for "nutrition" and not for "taste". Eventually, upon successive training, the mind will register this, and begin to understand that those foods provided by nature, and not chemically derived by man, are the ones which will be most fulfilling, because they will allow the body to naturally carry out its metabolic processes in the fullest form, the way it was designed to do.

“Furthermore, foods occurring in nature will provide more of a nutritional benefit which will allow the body to reach its desired state of leanness, or muscular developments at a much faster rate than chemically designed food such as potato chips and candy.”

The second part of the solution is to realize that just as we saw up above, there are many steps between the time you "think" of eating something not on your dietary regimen, and the time you actually put the food into your mouth. It is necessary to dispel the thought at an earlier step, and not allow yourself to commit the thought to action if you cannot have control.

Lastly is the concept of "moderation". If you are going to have something that is not on your plan, then make sure that you don't go all out and destroy all your hard work. Learn to achieve satisfaction from a bite of something, and then fill yourself up with something a little more nutritious late night, such as a chicken breast along with a salad with balsamic vinegar and garlic.

Remember, the satisfaction which junk food provides is a pseudo-satisfaction, which is temporary. It occurs only in the mind, and not in the body. Train your mind to find satisfaction from doing your body good, and you will be well on your way to achieving all of your goals when it comes to building the physique of your dreams. I myself am victim to the "wolfs call" so to speak. I sometimes go through the same thing, but the key is awareness, awareness, awareness.

None of us are perfect, but we all have the ability to control the thoughts which enter our heads, and the way we control those thoughts determines our successes or failures in life

Remember that what is in your subconscious and is not serving you, should and must be replaced by something that does.

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The Five Stages of Exercise Adoption

“What fits your extremely busy schedule better, exercising one hour a day or being dead twenty four hours a day?”

What Stage Are You In?

1- Pre-contemplation

At this stage you are not even thinking about exercise and have no intention of becoming more active, moreover you are most likely not even reading my book Mind Over Body: The Key to Lasting Weight Loss Is All In Your Head!

Not a very good stage to be at!

2- Contemplation

You are thinking about exercise, but are not engaging in it. The Amydyla is firing up neurotransmitters in the brain causing you to stay in a comfort zone. The key is to focus on the outcome of your goal. If you are fearful you mostly likely to revert back and if you are empowered by thinking of the outcome, you most likely to be empowered.

You are reading my book and are most likely to apply its concept. There is not time frame in this stage as you are the one to make a choice to start.

3- Preparation

You are getting ready to start an activity or are exercising on occasion, but it is still a new habit. At this phase you are applying the principles of my book to overcome obstacles leading you to revert back to old habits. You are ready to step-up and increase activity level.

At this stage you are overcoming any obstacle. It starts at week 3 or 4 from beginning of behavior changes.

4- Action

You are exercising regularly for at list 12 weeks, and it has become a ritual.

This phase is a good phase to be at and you are most likely to stick with it.

5- Maintenance

You have a ritual of exercising that is longer that 6 month. All new habits are now automatic. It is a part of you to be healthy and fit.

It is now your second nature, it is “automatic” It’s a new you! This is the best stage to be at.

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WHAT IS THE BEST AEROBIC EXERCISE FOR BEGINNERS?

There is no best for everyone. Fitness is very individualistic. While some exercises might burn more calories. It is most important to choose one that you enjoy. I usually suggest some form of walking or stationary recumbent bicycling to start. Even if you enjoy the activity, it must be something you are capable of handling. For example, you may love to walk, but if you have a knee problem, this won't be your best choice of aerobic exercise. Talk it over with a professional to find the activity that is enjoyable and safe.

8 Reasons You Aren't Reducing Weight

In a high tech world, there’s a whole slew of ways to determine whether you’re reducing body fat on your diet and exercise regimen. The favorite traditional methods of measuring body fat include underwater weighing and skin calipers. The newest rage is a specialized bathroom scale that sends infrared beams through your body to determine how much of your body weight is actually fat and how much is lean body mass; muscle and bones.

Still, the most tried and true device, and possibly the most accurate way to determine if your dieting efforts are working – is the old fashion bathroom scale! If you’re reducing weight on the scale, you’re also reducing fat. Sure, if you’re dropping more than 3 pounds per week or your energy levels are waning, you’re likely to be shedding some valuable muscle also along the way.

However, if you’re reducing 1-2 pounds every 1-3 weeks, and your energy and strength levels are stable, you’re likely shedding almost exclusively fat. That said; let’s explore the top reasons why people fail to see the body trimming results they hope to achieve.

The 7 roadblocks that keep many frustrated are outlined below. Fix or avoid most of these troublesome 7, and your fat reducing will be so smooth.

1) Too Many Carbohydrates.
I’m no fan of strict low carb diets, but any additional carbs above and beyond those needed to saturate your muscles with glycogen have a good probability of being stored as body fat. While bodybuilding training requires a high carb intake, many novices and intermediate trainees simply do not train hard enough to justify a massive carb intake. Depending on your size and level of training intensity, split your carb intake into 5 servings per day and aim for 30-60 grams of carbs per meal to shed fat. Start at a higher intake such as 60 grams of carbs per meal. If you reduceweight, continue with 60 grams per meal. If you fail to lose, drop to 50 grams per meal.

2) Too Much Protein.
Surprise! This factoid is tied to carbohydrate restriction. When dieting to lean down, carbohydrates ought to be slowly reduced. However, many dieters take an overly aggressive approach in hopes of making miracle-type progress and cut back too far in the carb department.

When you restrict carbs, your protein intake should increase. But – and this is a big one – over compensating by eating too much protein can also prevent fat loss by contributing to a calorie surplus. As a rule, shoot for .74 to 1 gram of protein per pound of bodyweight each day while trying to add weight and muscle. When ripping up, start chopping away at your carbs and increase the protein to 1.25 to 1.50 grams per pound of body weight. Anything more- will just be stored as fat.

3) Skip The Late Night Carbs.
Don’t believe the conflicting research. The fact remains, carbs eaten at night are less likely to be burned off as fuel and are more likely be stored as body fat. That means; forego the pasta, potato or rice at meal 5 (your final meal of the day) for lean proteins like fowl or fish, along with a side dish of veggies. Or enjoy a simple protein shake that provides you with high quality protein.

4) Wrong Breakfast.
Want to get lean and eat a lot? Eat more at breakfast. Of your 5 daily meals, the one that is least likely to end up on your hips, thighs and lower back is the first one. In the morning, muscle glycogen stores are lower than during any other part of the day. When glycogen stores are low, your body’s capacity to take carbohydrates and store them as body fat is hampered. So pack in the carbs at breakfast –along with 20-40 grams of high quality protein to jump-start your day. And don’t worry about getting fat.

5) Too Much Cardio.
What happens to the guy or gal who performs 1-2 hours of cardio a day? They send their body into a tailspin, a state where the "starvation hormones" secreted by the body skyrocket (it’s your body’s survival mechanism, a response to too much exercise!) causing fat cells to try to hoard their energy! Moderate cardio is the way to go. Four to five 20-40 minutes sessions per week is all that it takes. Any more than that and you run the risk of reducing precious muscle tissue, which negatively affects your metabolic rate and your ability to train.

6) Never "Cheating" on Your Diet.
Once in a while you should let loose and give yourself a break from the rigors of dieting and scale watching. In fact, it’s helpful in reducing weight. That’s because continual dieting eventually leads to roadblocks where the body responds by slowing its metabolic rate. Strict dieting also takes its toll on you mentally, and can leave you feeling deprived. That’s a bad combination! Taking in a couple of high calorie meals once every 7-10 days not only provides a mental break from dieting, but helps you side-step roadblocks by preventing the body from entering a starvation state where the metabolic rate slows.

7) Paying Attention to the scale only.
Ok this may sound contradictory, but the scale is not the "end-all" measurement of progress. You also monitor a couple of other things, primarily energy and strength. If you’re reducing weight and you have plenty of energy and strength, you’re reducing body fat – guaranteed. On the flip side, if you’re reducing weight yet feeling really tired or are seeing constant drops in the weights you use during your workouts, then you’re likely also burning off muscle tissue. If no energy and a loss in strength is the case, then you’re likely violating several of the above tips and will need to rectify them to get back on track.

And there you have it. Avoid these obstacles to reducing weight and enjoy your new lean body!