11 Ways To Achieve the Body of your Dreams

1. Believe You Can Achieve!

This may sound cliche, but cliches become so because they are true. You will not outperform the vision that you hold of yourself. If your mind tells you that you will always be fat, unhealthy, and unappealing - guess what - you will be. If you believe that losing weight is hard, or that you aren't motivated to eat "right" and exercise consistently then your actions will NEVER support your intentions. The bottom line: without 100% unyielding belief you will never permanently achieve your weight loss goal.

The Bottom Line- Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.

2. Persist

Altering a lifetime of unhealthy eating habits and/or enduring the physical discomfort that often times accompany strenuous exercise is not easy. However, its not the hardest part. The "hardest" part of losing weight and reshaping your body is persistence - undying, relentless, unyielding persistence - staying the course no matter what challenges you encounter along the way. Persistence, my friends, is what separates the boys from the men and the girls from the women when it comes to accomplishing any worthwhile task, including transforming your body

The Bottom Line: Its not about whether you can transform your body and blast away body fat, its about how long youll persist in doing what you need to do in order to accomplish your goal.

3. Don't Fall For Weight Loss Scams & Gimmicks

The weight loss industry is a multi-billion dollar industry driven by profit and not by the delivery of safe and permanent results. Unfortunately, the weight loss industry is designed to help you fail. In fact, its survival is 100% dependent upon your failure, because as long as you keep failing, you will keep spending your hard-earned dollars on the next promised solution. God forbid you discover the truth that there is no magic diet, pill, powder, or potion. How then will they make their money? Exactly.

The Bottom line: Stop spending your hard earned dollars on quick fix solutions, and think about this: If there was a successful "quick fix" weight loss solution, everyone would be using it and 2/3 of the American population would not be overweight or obese.

4. Lift Weights At Least Three Times a Week

Listen up. Muscle is your metabolic machinery. Fat is burned in your muscles, therefore the more muscle you have the more calories, or energy, you are able to use. And if you're worried about bulking up...don't, because it's not easy to put on size, or bulk. In order to develop Schwarzenegger sized muscles you would have to dedicate your life and your time to doing so. A moderate intensity, full body resistance training program performed three times a week is all you need to boost metabolism and firm your body.

The Bottom Line: If you're trying to lose weight and/or reduce body fat and you're not lifting weights a few days a week you're "missing the boat" completely.

5. Surround Yourself With "Losers"

One of the most effective ways to achieve success, including weight loss success is to emulate and "imitate" those who have already achieved what you wish to achieve. Successful people avoid negative people and they spend the majority of their time surrounded by those who have already achieved what they themselves seek to achieve. So if your goal is to weigh 150 pounds by eating healthy and living an energy full life - then seek out others who have already achieved this goal, or who are working towards achieving this goal.

The Bottom Line: Don't put yourself in an environment or surround yourself with people that do not support your weight loss goals.

6. Set Specific Goals

How can you reach a destination if you don't now where it is? Setting specific, realistic goals is crucial to transforming your body because it keeps your mind focused 100% of the time on the task at hand. Just wanting to lose weight is not clear enough of a goal for your subconscious mind to act on. How much weight do you want to lose, both short term and long term? When is your "deadline"? What might you have to overcome to achieve these goals? What specifically will you do to achieve your goals? How will you reward yourself? These are the questions you must answer BEFORE embarking on your weight loss mission.

The Bottom Line: The more vivid and descript your goals, the more likely you are to achieve them.

7.Drink Plenty of Water

Drinking enough water is the easiest Fat-Blasting strategy to implement, and yet the most often neglected. Few people truly realize how significant of a player water is in the game of weight loss. Perhaps this is because drinking plenty of water seems too simplistic of a solution to be effective. Water facilitates weight loss by suppressing the appetite, eliminating toxins that compromise metabolism, and contributing zero caloriesto your "diet".

The Bottom Line- Always err on the side of too much water rather than not enough, but a general rule of thumb is to drink half your body weight in oz.

8. Eliminate Processed & Packaged Carbs

Its easy to blame weight gain on carbs, but the truth of the matter is that humans have been eating carbohydrates since the beginning of time, and we haven't always had the weight problems that we do now. The problem lies not because we eat carbs, but in the quality of the carbohydrates that we eat. If your diet consists primarily of processed and refined carbohydrates such as foods containing white flour (white rice, white pasta, white bread), packaged food products, or foods high in simple sugars such as cookies, sodas, and fruit juice then you will always have a difficult time losing weight.

The Bottom Line - Eliminate all white flour and simple sugar from your diet, and consume predominantly whole grains, beans, vegetables, fruits and lean proteins.

9. Eat Carbs with Protein Every Three Hours

One of the keys to getting your body to utilize fat for energy 24 hours a day is to keep blood sugar stable. When your blood sugar becomes too low you crave sweets and processed carbs and you feel weak and lethargic. When your blood sugar is too high, your body cannot efficiently burn fat and you stress your organs. Combing carbs with protein helps to keep blood sugar stable by controlling the release of insulin.

The Bottom Line-To stabilize your blood sugar levels eat carbohydrates with protein and fiber, and never by themselves (complex carbs not simple carbs).

10. Visualize Clearly and Often

All things are created twice, first in the mental realm and then the physical. You cannot achieve your "perfect" body if you don't have an idea of what the perfect body means to you. Your subconscious mind does not differentiate between that which is imagined and that which is real. It accepts everything that enters its realm as truth. Therefore, by visualizing yourself looking and feeling, not as you are now, but as you will be, youre in effect tricking your subconscious mind into believing that your desired result has already been attained.

The Bottom Line-Make sure you have a vivid, tangible picture of what you want to look and feel like. Put this picture where you can see it several times a day. This image will imprint on your subconscious mind and your conscious mind will make it a reality.

11. Keep A Food Journal

Starting and maintaining a food journal is paramount to your success in improving your eating habits and transforming your body. Keeping a food journal makes you aware of your conscious and unconscious eating habits, and the moods that are attached to them. Food journaling allows you to learn about yourself, and then to use that self knowledge to make adjustments to your eating habits.

The Bottom Line- The first step to changing unsupportive habits is being aware of them. Keeping a food journal is the most effective way to track your current eating habits so you can make the appropriate changes.

I hope you find these tips helpful and I can assure you that if you implement them into your lifestyle you will radically improve your physique sooner than you may think possible.