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Manifesting Body Diet – Start Date Prep

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Since I made the decision to lose weight and get in the best shape of my life a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been working on preparing for the official start date to my plan.

I have always found that when I set an official start date and set very specific goals for my weight loss, I do much better than when I’m vague with whether I’m on a plan or not.

I’ve done about a half-dozen weight loss challenges in the past, so this is not new territory for me.

I’ve been getting a bunch of stuff prepared for my new plan, such as getting my new gym setup, installing an infra-red sauna, ordering certain supplements and doing a tonne of research on potential strength training plans I’m considering following.

I’m also considering working with a personal trainer at my home to help me achieve my goals on the strength training side of things.

Another thing I’ve been doing, which is something I did in the past when preparing for my various weight loss challenges, is to go to my favorite restaurants and eat my favorite foods before my plan starts.

The reason for this is because I have often found that when we don’t have a favorite food for some time, the fantasy and image of it that we hold in our minds is often much better then the food itself, and so because I don’t want to have to fight the craving to have those foods I’ve been going to restaurants and ordering my favorite meals.

And as I’ve experience in the past, these amazing foods that I imagined in my mind weren’t actually nearly as good as I remembered them, so I’ve been kind of purging the fantasy of them from my mind one at a time.

In fact, it’s gotten to the point now where even though I’m technically still allowing myself to eat anything and everything I want right now until I officially start my plan, I’m finding myself becoming more and more turned off by unhealthy foods and more and more looking forward to healthy, nutritious meals.

For example today I went to A&W for lunch and ordered one of my favorite burgers – the BLT Chubby Chicken with fries – and I ended up picking at it, not even finishing the burger and hardly eating any of my fries.

I had almost zero appetite for this food.

Contrast that with my dinner tonight – where I went to the Keg and ordered a garden salad to start and I enjoyed it immensely.  The salad tasted SO GOOD to me!

This has happened to me in the past.  It’s a signal that my mind is pretty much ready to let go of the crappy foods that used to taste good to me but weren’t healthy, and to embrace healthy and nutritious meals instead.

I’m hoping that this weekend I can finish off my preparations and perhaps even officially start my plan.

I still have a few things I want to figure out and get done prior to my official start such as:

  • Get 100% clear on my new diet plan.  What I’m going to do, which plan I’ll follow etc.  I’ve got this about 80% figured out.  Few different paths I could take.
  • Take before pictures, measurements, and Skulpt Aim stats for my “before” file.
  • Pick up some 10lb, 5lb and 2.5lbs olympic weight plates and possibly an olympic bar for my gym.
  • Pick up a few more supplements that I’m still researching.
  • Figure out my plan for my strength training and cardio program.
  • Pick up some groceries that I might need to start my plan.

These are all very minor things, that I should be able to get done most likely this weekend and realistically I could get started without even getting all of those things done, except for the before pics and measurements.

I definitely want to make sure I have “Before” pics and measurements as I don’t want to later regret not having them.

I’m really excited to be finally putting my health and fitness as a priority in my life and I can’t wait to see where this transformation will take me.

I’m also looking forward to blogging about my transformation as I have found that to be one of the best ways to stay on track and produce results.

Making a public declaration about your weight loss and fitness goals is a great way to stay accountable.  Basically your entire blog audience becomes your accountability partner. 🙂

If you’ve been looking to improve your health, lose weight or to just get in better shape I highly recommend Blogging about your journey.

If you don’t yet have a Blog, I recommend getting setup with Kalatu as it’s the easiest way to get started with Blogging.

Click here to learn more about Kalatu.

 

The Mystery of Money Revealed by a Genius You Probably Never Heard Of

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One of my favorite “underground” authors who teaches about the Law of Attraction, spirituality, money, abundance, health and everything else under the sun, that almost nobody has ever even heard of is a man named Stuart Wilde.

I always found Stuart Wilde’s books had this perfect mixture of energy of practical philosophy and spiritual mastery.

Yet, unlike many other authors like Esther Hicks, or Napoleon Hill or Andrew Carnegie, Stuart Wilde has always kind of flown under the radar of most people only revealing himself and his energy to people who were ready.

Today I’d like to share one of his lectures with you, where he talks about the mystery of money.

If you like this lecture, you’ll like Stuart Wilde.

Enjoy.

 

Herbalife Chocolate Coconut Protein Bar Review

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Today I want to do a quick review of the Herbalife Chocolate Coconut Protein Bar.

This is another one of the snack products I ordered with my initial Herbalife order to try out their products.

One of the reasons I wanted to try out these bars is because I often find that one of the only things I can stomach first thing in the morning for breakfast is a bar of some sort, and what I find usually happens is that I end up eating some sort of supermarket brand granola bar that is filled with sugar because that is all I have available.

Most of the supermarket bars I’ve looked at have around 25-30 grams of Carbohydrates (sugars) and around 1-2 grams f Protein.

The Herbalife Chocolate Coconut Protein Bar has about half the Carbohydates at 16 grams, and about 6 times the Protein at 12 grams.

I’ve had three of these bars so far and I quite enjoy the taste.  I love the taste of coconut, so the bar tastes good to me.

One other benefit I noticed with this bar is that the other day I had to run out of the house due to a small emergency and I was unable to eat anything until around 3 pm in the afternoon.

The only thing I ate from the time I woke up until 3 pm was one of these bars for breakfast and surprisingly I didn’t feel like I was starving for lunch like I normally do when I don’t eat my lunch by 1 pm or so.

So these bars definitely do keep your hunger levels at bay, most likely because of their high protein content, which I like.

Overall I like these bars, and I’ll continue to use them along with some of the other snacks from Herbalife.

If you’d like to learn more about the Herbalife Protein Bar products, you can visit my independent affiliate store by clicking here or contact me if you’d like to place an order or learn more about the Herbalife opportunity.

 

Herbalife Roasted Soy Nuts Review

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Along with my recent decision to lose weight and to get in better physical shape I also decided to become an independent affiliate with Herbalife and to try out the Herbalife brand of products to see how good they are, how good they taste and how I like them.

I ordered a bunch of different products they offer to try them out, but in this post I’m going to specifically focus on reviewing the Herbalife Roasted Soy Nuts.

The reason I ordered these is because I wanted to have some healthier snack options available to me as I work at my computer throughout the day.

Sometimes you just have a craving for a savory snack and it’s easy to end up eating something that isn’t exactly very healthy for you, so a light snack like this can be very helpful to have around.

Herbalife advertises these nuts as something that will satisfy your craving for something salty and crunchy, while at the same time being nutritious.

The soy nuts are also individually wrapped so they are easy to take with you to work, or on a trip or to just have in your desk drawer for when you want a snack.

Each individually wrapped packet is 22 grams, 100 calories, has 9 grams of protein, 7 grams of carbs, 2 grams of fiber and 4.5 grams of fat.

Overall this makes these a pretty decent snack, nutrition wise, and definitely much better than having something like a bag of potato chips or something along those lines.

So far I’ve only tried the chile lime flavor and it’s actually pretty good. They do taste good, and they do satisfy my craving for something salty / savory.

They do also fill me up when I eat them so that I’m not as hungry in between meals.

If I had one complaint, it would be that the soy nuts are pretty dry so as you eat them you’ll want to make sure you have something ready to drink along with them like water, which might not be a bad thing at all as I do really need to increase my water intake anyways. 🙂

One thing I do love about Herbalife is that they have one of the best consumer protection plans on the market, offering a full 30 day money back on all their products so if you order something and you don’t like the taste of it, you can return it for a full refund no questions asked.

This pretty much eliminates all the risk of trying them out. You either like them, and keep them, or you don’t like them and you send them back.

For me personally I’m keeping my box of Herbalife Roasted Soy Nuts as I like how they taste and I like how they fill me up in between meals and satisfy my craving for something savory / salty.

If you’d like to learn more about the Herbalife Soy Nuts or other Herbalife products, you can visit my independent affiliate store by clicking here or contact me if you’d like to place an order or learn more about the Herbalife opportunity.

-Paul

How to Add an Archive Page To Your Kalatu Blog

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Prior to switching from WordPress to Kalatu I always liked to have an “Archives” page on my Blog where all of my past blog posts were listed in reverse chronological order.

WordPress has many different plugins that you can use to create an Archives page, but at the end of the day none of them really did exactly what I want from an archives page so when I switched over to Kalatu I just decided to create my own Archives page.

It’s actually very simple to create such a page…

… all you do is go to the “Pages” section and click on “Add New” and create a new page called “Archive” and save it.

Now you’ve got a blank canvas to work from.

What I did for my Archive page is I created a bullet-point list for each month of Blog posts that I have, and just listed all my posts in reverse chronological order with the newest content up top.

Here’s a screenshot of what that looks like:

By setting it up like this all I have to do is just add an extra bullet point listing for each blog post I write and add it to the top of the current month.

I actually don’t update my archive page every single day.  I do it every few days.

It’s really easy to set it up, and I recommend that everyone should have a page like this…

Why?

Well for a few reasons.

Firstly, whenever you want to find a blog post that you wrote a while back, you can just load this page and then hit CTRL+F on your keyboard to activate the “Find / Search” box on your browser and then type in the title or a keyword from the tile of one of your blog posts and it will find it.

It may not seem like a big deal if you only have a few blog posts, but trust me, once you have a few hundred blog posts on your site it makes it really convenient to be able to quickly find a post you wrote in the past.

On my previous blog where I had about 700+ blog posts I used to use my Archive page all the time for this purpose as very often people would ask me questions online and in a lot of cases I already had a blog post written that answers their question, so instead of re-answering the same question over and over again, I just sent them a link to the blog post where I answered that question. 🙂

Secondly, an analysis of your Google Analytics stats will show you that if you have an Archive page a lot of people will visit it, and perhaps they’ll find more articles that you wrote that they’ll enjoy reading.

This will increase your traffic stats and of course provide more value to your audience.

Thirdly, although I can’t verify this or say for sure, but I do believe you Archive page will eventually become a higher authority page on your Blog in the eyes of Google and the links from it to your blog posts may help you with your SEO rankings.

This third reason is the least important reason in my opinion, and it might not be valid anymore as Google is constantly changing their algorithm so who knows what actually helps and what doesn’t by the time you’re reading this, but in either case it couldn’t help to have a page on your Blog where anyone can find all of your Blog posts listed for easy reference.

If you’d like to check out what my Archive page looks like, click here.

Feel free to copy the layout.