The #1 reason so many women battle belly fat…

After a week of giving a new fat loss plan a try – eating right and sticking to an effective exercise plan, they re-measure and see no change on the scale and nothing looks different in the mirror. So they give up. 



Add in the fact that many women are misled by the notion that hundreds of abdominal exercises or hours of doing cardio are the solution to lose the stubborn belly fat. They are associating discomfort with results. 



Not you!

You know differently and will keep at this for you have the resources, the knowledge and the support available to you through my 28 Day Fat Blast System and my Complete MindBody FX Lifestyle Program

The success stories being shared are also evidence that as you lose the belly fat, you will experience some toning/tightening of lose skin. Some may take a bit longer than others – but little by little it does improve. 



The only exception is the case of severely stretched skin – indicated by deep stretch marks. While our skin is fairly elastic, it can reach a breaking point – a point of no return. (This is in severe cases). 



No, there are no magic exercises that make the belly fat go away – there are however moves you can do to help strengthen and tighten your INNER core muscles. This in turn will help your belly look flatter as you do continue to lose the belly fat.

The best moves are the ones where you do NOT “move” at all. You know… everyone’s favorite Plank and Side Plank. 

Doing MORE of the exercises found in my 28-Day Fat Blast System or my MindBody FX Lifestyle Program will NOT make your results happen faster. 



It is very important that you give your body and your muscles a rest for this is when the improvements are made. Doing more will only interrupt this process and delay your results.


~ Increase your overall activity levels! 



I know you said you would do exercise on during TV commercials… maybe switch out watching TV with something that keeps you on your feet vs. sitting on the couch?  You should be getting in 10,000 steps a day, you can track this with a pedometer. 



~ Eat Clean More Often! 

If there is ever an area you want to put more focus and energy into – it should be your nutrition plan. What you eat has the greatest impact on the loss of belly fat. So follow the nutrition plans that I include in my two permanent weight loss programs, my 28-Day Fat Blast and my Complete MindBody FX Lifestyle Program.

Don’t give up! Allow your body a chance to change based on these strategies…all you
need is a good 4 to 6 weeks to see and feel an amazing difference! 


So, if you started using my 28-Day Fat Blast System at http://28DayFatBlast.com – Keep at it! You can lose up to 20 pounds in 28 days. But more importantly, you will learn the skills to keep it off.

If you became really serious about achieving permanent weight loss and invested in my Complete MindBody FX Lifestyle Program at http://MindBodyFXProgram.com then don’t quit now, this is the most effective weight loss program every created. It will help you create the mindset necessary for success and teach you lifestyle habits that you can keep for life, to keep that weight off for life!

In the next 30 days, you could learn how to achieve permanent weight loss and ditch many of your bad habits. In the next 30 days, you could start of a fabulous journey towards a brand new way of living where weight loss is only the beginning.

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Valentine’s day is so filled with pseudo-romantic fluff that its true meaning easily gets lost: Gratitude and appreciation for that special someone in your life.

There’s nothing wrong with flowers and pink hearts; of course, as long as you also take some time to reflect on all the things you’re grateful for.  These could include people and things in your own life, and of course your partner if you have one.  It also includes the other important people in your life, family, friends, colleagues, and beyond.

Take some time to thank them for being in your life, and then add something specific about them that you’re grateful for. Whether it’s something they have done for you, or something about them that makes you happy to be in their company, figure out what it is and share it with them.

Expressing gratitude has been shown to give people a big emotional lift.  It does the same for relationships.  Gratitude and resentment or anger cannot reside in the same place at the same time.  So once you fill your heart with gratitude, the negative emotions won’t have a place to settle in and will evaporate.

Not that this is a new and revolutionary concept.  Quotes and writings about gratitude have been plentiful for centuries.

Melodie Beattie wrote:

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, and confusion into clarity… It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

And Wikipedia has a solid grip on the benefits of gratitude as well:

“Grateful people are happier, less depressed, less stressed, and more satisfied with their lives and social relationships. A large body of recent work has suggested that people who are more grateful have higher levels of well-being. Grateful people also have higher levels of control of their environments, personal growth, purpose in life, and self-acceptance.”

The more grateful we are, the happier we are, and the more effectively we’re able to cope with life’s challenges.  We even sleep better when we’re grateful.

Clearly, gratitude is something we could use more of, and the best part is that we are able to enjoy as much of it as we like. It’s completely in our control — and it’s completely free!  So find ways to add a good dose of gratitude into your daily life.

And don’t worry. You won’t have to wait to be grateful until you win the lottery.  Appreciate the little things, or the things that are really quite big but that you take for granted.

Whatever it is that you’re grateful for, make a note of it.  Write it down.  In fact, make a gratitude list. Simply write down all the events, things and people for which you are thankful. Expressing gratitude and appreciation for people in your life brings joy to both of you.

In fact, you could make a gratitude list for your Valentine!  Take some time to write down everything you appreciate about your partner and then share it with him or her on Valentine’s Day! 

But don’t stop there.  Continue to find things you’re grateful for every single day.  Make it into a regular practice.

You could begin the morning by making a list of the things for which you are grateful. It may be your health and wellness, it may be the love you share or abundance of finances, or perhaps it’s your home or the motor home that takes you on many adventures! It can also be the simple things like a bed to sleep in and clean water to be able to bathe in. By seeking to find all the positive pieces in your life, you begin the day with a positive attitude. What a wonderful way to get started! 

Or you may prefer to give thanks for your blessings at the end of the day, just before drifting off to sleep, by reflecting on a wonderful day and the many things for which to be grateful. It could be the nice person who served the coffee, not running out of gas, being acknowledged for a job well done, having the finances to pay for a car repair, or simply being grateful for the food you had for dinner. Gratitude comes in many shapes and sizes, but it always makes you feel good.

A “Gratitude Journal” is another awesome way to keep track of the things you are grateful for in your life. There are different journals on the market, some very elaborate and others simple, but the important thing is to start one!   Like anything in your life that you wish to change, it takes practice and repetition. It’s said that it takes 21 days to change a habit or create a new one. Gratitude journaling is definitely a good habit to start!

Here’s one of my favorite quotes:  “Yesterday is gone, tomorrow isn’t here…so all we have is today and that is why it’s called the present!” 

Think about it:  How grateful are you for your present…for today and every day of your life?  Be sure to let your Valentine and everyone around you know how much you appreciate them.  And spend some time appreciating yourself as well.

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Valentine’s Day is coming around again, and there’s no escaping it.  Everywhere you look, there are hearts, roses, and candy wrapped in pink. With everyone’s thoughts on love and whether or not you have a Valentine of the traditional kind, here is one Valentine you should have: YOU.

Yes, that’s right.  You should be your own Valentine.  Even if, and especially if you have another Valentine.  That’s because in order to truly love someone else, you have to love yourself first.  And that can be a challenge, especially if you’re carrying around unwanted pounds.

Read on to discover how you can improve your mindset, your attitude towards yourself, and your self-image.  Find out how a more positive view of yourself will help you lose weight and improve your love life and your relationship.

The number on your scale

Do you measure your happiness by the number on your scale?  Do you feel that until that number comes down, you have to punish yourself by not eating, restricting what you eat, or exercising like crazy?

Do you feel you don’t deserve to be happy until the right number appears on your scale?

Here’s why this is a problem…

When you focus on surface results, you’re using food to escape your emotions and the underlying root issues that are causing you to use food as a distraction from what is truly driving you to eat.  What’s worse, your inner battles with food really cause you to think about food more. 

And what about those rules and restrictions you’ve developed to hold yourself in check? They are only temporary solutions because… what you resist, persists.

So stop trying to wrestle your body into losing weight by deprivation and by restrictive eating and exercise patterns.  It won’t work.  It will just keep you stuck in that endless cycle of thinking you’d nurture yourself by eating yummy foods (or Valentine’s candy), only to move to feelings of remorse and self-hatred because you’re ashamed of your lack of self-control.

Be Kind to Yourself

Instead of beating yourself up over and over because of your eating-related “failures,” why not try something different.  Be kind to yourself.  You’re here on this planet for something much more meaningful than endless attempts at losing weight.  No matter how hard you try, you’re not going to succeed until you learn to love yourself first, extra pounds and all.  But how do you do that?

Realize that you’re a unique individual and that there isn’t anyone else quite like you. Take the time to be alone with yourself in meditation, looking deeply into your beliefs about your relationship with yourself — and with food.  You’ll find that it will help your body, mind, and spirit to recharge and rejuvenate, which is a phenomenal self-love process.

Be open to getting support

Then again, you may be so used to loathing yourself that you need some support as you explore what’s really inside of you.  If so, you might want to consider going to someone who can coach you through some of your deeper issues around why and when you eat. 

As you learn being truly present in your life and mindful of what you’re doing, you’ll find that you’re finally moving towards reclaiming self-love.

Be your own Valentine 

Yes, be your own Valentine. Treat yourself with the kindness you deserve.  In fact, treat yourself with the kindness you would show to a dear friend or loved one.

But wouldn’t that be selfish?  Not at all!  Only when you love and respect yourself will you be truly ready to love and respect another. 

If your relationships haven’t worked as well as you would have liked, get ready for changes. You’ll find that once you love yourself, your ability to attract and co-create a loving relationship with a partner will improve dramatically. 

And what about your weight? 

So what does all of this have to do with the number of your scale?  Only when you truly love and appreciate yourself will you be able to make the lasting changes that will help you let go of those extra pounds — and keep them gone.  So self-love really is the key all around.

So if you want a Valentine, i.e., a relationship that works, with someone who truly loves and appreciates you, start with being your own Valentine.  Once you can do that, and enjoy your own company, you’re also reclaiming your capacity to love and appreciate the “other” Valentine.

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The body is the physical form and machine that’s instructed daily by our dominant thoughts and actions. The body carries out actions based on directions from the conscious and subconscious mind. It’s the evidence of what’s held in the mind. 

For example, let’s say you decide you want to be a public speaker. If you are nervous and worried about saying something inappropriate or if you are concerned that someone will make fun of you, those thoughts will manifest in your body as sweaty palms and embarrassing stumbling of words. However, if you spend time imagining how positively your audience will respond, how articulate you’ll sound, and how energized you’ll feel, that will manifest in the body as well. You’ll be confident and filled with energy. Your audience can’t help but respond positively to you. 

When we intentionally change our thoughts to which we give the most focus and energy, and repeat these thoughts until they become desires, they are impressed on our subconscious mind and become our emotions. Our bodies put those emotions into action and our actions become our results.

How to Create the Paradigm Mindset Shift You Need to Lose Weight Now

A paradigm, which can be a habit, belief, attitude, pattern or expectation, gives you the guidance to interpret and approach the world around you. When you examine your paradigms around weight, you may find your current results aren’t what you want. 

Your objective of reaching your “ideal weight” is to move your conditioned results into alignment with what you want. For instance, let’s say you used to drink one glass of red wine every evening. But, to reach your ideal weight you have to change that to a glass of water with a lemon slice instead. This is a paradigm shift. 

We all know only too well what we have to do to be at our ideal weight. The problem is that we aren’t doing it! The secret to success is to gain an understanding of why we’re not doing it—what the primary cause of the problem is—and then correct it. 

Remember when you were growing up and your teacher or parent would say, “Why did you do that?” and you probably said, “I don’t know” and then your mom would say, “What do you mean you don’t know? You know you weren’t supposed to do that.” At that point, you dropped your head and would say “Yup, I know.” The crazy thing is that we still carry this silly, “I don’t know” concept into our adult life! 

We all do things we know we shouldn’t do—things we don’t want to do—and we do them anyway. We’re conditioned to believe that it’s our behavior that’s causing the unwanted results in our life. That’s really not true.  We’re forever attempting to change those behavior patterns: eat less, eliminate junk foods, and exercise more often—all without success. 

Millions of People Fail in Losing Weight Because They Fail to Change Their Mindset

There are millions of people in every country in the world going on different diets all the time to lose weight. These people aren’t trying to reach their “ideal weight.”  Their whole obsession is with “losing weight.”

There’s a dual problem with this.

First, they believe that food—eating the wrong food or eating too much food—is the primary cause of their problem, which isn’t true. Their eating habits are a secondary cause of their problem. It’s the primary cause that needs to be corrected if the results are going to permanently change.

Second, when you lose anything—it doesn’t matter what it is, from your car keys to those 20 pounds—you’re subconsciously programmed to immediately begin to look for it.  Unfortunately, when it comes to your weight loss, you usually find it because your focus is on losing weight rather than living at a healthy weight.

To experience any kind of lasting success with weight loss, you must address the primary cause of your problem, which stems from your thoughts and beliefs. Once you deal with the primary cause, you’ll find lsoing excess weight and keeping it off will be easier than ever.

To help you change your mindset starting today, I invite you to get my free sneak preview of The MindBody FX Lifestyle: Mastering the Mind-Body Connection for Permanent Weight Loss at http://www.weightlossconsumersguide.com/

Here’s to changing your mindset and finally reaching your ideal weight.

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