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Skulpt Aim Unboxing and Initial Review

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I have to admit – I’m a gadget freak.

I just love my gadgets. 🙂

That’s why when I first saw the Skulpt Aim Indiegogo campaign over a year ago, I wanted one right away.

The Skulpt Aim is a revolutionary new fitness tracking device that is takes a different approach to traditional fitness tracking.

How?

By allowing you to accurately track results – not activity!

Don’t get me wrong.  I love my activity trackers as well, but what’s unique about the Skulpt Aim is that it helps you to measure the actual results that the activities you’re doing are producing, so that you can quantify your results much better.

The device itself is a bit smaller than a typical cell phone in size, and it synchronizes with their cell phone app via Bluetooth.

 

I just got the Skulpt Aim this afternoon and I decided to shoot a couple of quick videos to show you guys how it looks and works.

The first video is the unboxing of the Skulpt Aim.

Once I unboxed it, I had to let it charge for a few hours and got the cell phone app setup as well before shooting this second video with my first impressions.

After playing around with the Skulpt Aim a bit more, here’s my first impressions of it:

What I Like:

  • Quality seems good.  Feels like it will be durable.
  • Very easy to use.  Only took a few minutes to understand how to use it.
  • Phone apps available for iPhone and Android – Yaay!
  • Phone app easy to use as well.  Graphics look nice too.
  • Rerunning multiple tests of the same body area seems to provide fairly consistent measurements.
  • Nice full-color screen.
  • Guest mode available.  Yaay!

What I’d Like to See Improved:

  • More cool graphs in the phone app would be nice to match what you see in their promo video.
  • Touch screen in a future version would be nice.
  • An affiliate program for bloggers! 🙂

Overall my first impressions of the Skulpt Aim are very positive.

Seems like a great device, and I’m looking forward to tracking my results with it.

The Skulpt Aim retails for $199 and you can purchase it from their website here.

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Manifesting Body Diet – Tracking Your Progress

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Yesterday I wrote the new diet program I’m creating for myself called the Manifesting Body Diet.

Today I’m going to reveal the two platforms that I’ll be using to track my progress.

Before I go into that, I want to explain why tracking is so important.

Whenever we set a goal that we want to achieve in our lives, we must find some way to quantify our journey towards that goal so that we we know whether we are getting closer or further away from it.

When it comes to weight loss and fitness, it’s really important to track our progress so that we know whether the things we are doing are helping us to lose weight or not.

However, we also don’t want to over-complicate the whole process and make it really difficult to track things either.

The more automated we can make the process, the better.

For the Manifesting Body Diet, I am going to be tracking the following metrics:

  1. My food / drinks / supplements
  2. My activity / heart rate / sleep 
  3. My weight and body fat percentage 

The first two metrics allow me to track my “input” into the equation – meaning what I’m actually doing, and the third metric allows me to track the end result – ie. my weight and body composition.

So how am I tracking these?

#1 – Food / Drinks / Supplements Tracking

Over the years I’ve tried various different software packages for tracking my food / drink / supplement intake.

I’ve tried everything for writing it down in a journal, to a desktop software, to Excel spreadsheets, to using cell phone apps etc.

One of the most accurate methods of tracking your food intake is to use a software that allows you to track calories, fat grams, carb grams, protein grams, fiber grams, as well as vitamins and minerals inside the food.

It’s a very accurate system of tracking, however the downside of it is that it is ridiculously time intensive to track all that food.

Trying to track calories and macro/micro-nutrient breakdowns like that would definitely be one of those things that would take energy away from me building my businesses – therefore it’s a NONO, so I’m not going to be doing that.

However, I still want to track SOMETHING so that I can quantify which foods are creating which result in my plan.

After doing a bunch of research, I decided to use the new WeightWatchers online tracking system to track my daily food / liquids and supplement intake.

By doing this I am essentially leveraging decades of THEIR experience working with thousands of customers, instead of trying to re-invent the wheel myself.

Remember, one of y primary goals with the Manifesting Body Diet is to make it simple, easy and time-efficient so that I can focus more time on making lots of money with my business, instead of farting around with food tracking systems.

WeightWatcher’s system seems to be doing the trick for me.  It’s really simple.  Here’s a screenshot from my tracker today:

Weightwatchers Dashboard

Across the top you will see that Weightwatchers automatically calculated how many points I get to “spend” on food each day, based on the personal information I gave them like my weight, height, sex, and activity levels and my goals.

For me, they’re starting me off at 49 points per day that I can spend on various foods.

Then, in addition to that I also get an additional 49 points extra per week to spend on other stuff if I want to, such as for example if I want to have a “cheat day” or “cheat meal” etc.

With their new points system, they’re taking into account the fat grams, protein grams, carbohydrate grams, and fiber grams to calculate how many points a food is worth.

For example, a 355ml can of coke is 5 points.  Two slices of Dominos Pizza with the toppings I chose is 11 points.  Make sense?

It’s basically very similar to calorie counting, except for a few differences.

Firstly, I think it easier and faster than counting calories because it’s easier for me to remember that a can of Coke is 5 points rather than trying to remember that it’s 160 calories.

Secondly, on this program any fruit and vegetables that I eat are worth ZERO points, which means I can have an unlimited amount of broccoli if I wanted to, or any other veggies and it would still be zero points.

If I was doing calorie counting, I’d have to track my fruit and veggie calories as well.  This makes it easier.

Thirdly with calorie counting, 200 calories worth of donuts is treated the same way as 200 calories worth of fruit for example, but they do not have the same nutritional value to the body, so reducing everything down into just the calorie content is too oversimplified in my opinion.

What Weightwatchers did is they took calorie counting and made it more simple, and also more effective by giving foods that are healthier for you a lower point value than foods that just give you empty calories.

The app also allows me to track my daily liquids, fruit & veggies, whether I took a multivitamin and my healthy oils intake.

Lots of cool tracking abilities, but also very simple and easy to use.

The system also integrates with the Fitbit platform to automatically pull activity data from my Fitbit tracker, and to award me with extra points on active days!

So for example if I walk 10,000 steps or more during the day, the system awards me with extra points I can use. 🙂

If you’d like to learn more about Weightwatchers, if you’re in Canada click here, and if you’re in the US click here.

Please note that I’m only using Weightwatchers strictly for their software and tracking system, but I have heard from people that their live meetings are also good.

I have no desire to go to weekly meetings, so I just use the online app for my Manifesting Body Diet purposes. 🙂

#2 – Activity / Heart Rate / Sleep Tracking

As far as tracking my activity levels, heart rate and sleep, I’m using the Fitbit Charge HR bracelet and website.

Here’s a screenshot of what my activity levels look like:

Here’s the sleep tracking it shows me:

I don’t have a screenshot of the heart rate tracker, but I do have that tracked as well.

Tracking activity is important so that you can measure progress and gauge how activity affects your results.

However, tracking activity can’t be time intensive or take up too much energy otherwise you won’t stick with it.

That’s why I’m using the Fitbit Charge HR tracker because it tracks all that for me just by wearing it, and it automatically uploads all the data to the website when my wrist band comes close to my computer and calculates and graphs all that data.

Finally, the third thing I track is…

#3 – Weight and Body Fat Percentage Tracking

I have also completely simplified my weight and body fat percentage tracking as well.

In the past I’ve tried all kinds of tools and devices from calipers to DEXA scans to track my body fat percentage.

They all work with varying degrees of accuracy, but the challenge with all those different systems is that they all take up a lot of time to do the tracking / measurements.

What I’m using instead is the Fitbit Aria scale which handles everything for me.

I step on the scale in the morning when I first wake up, and the scale automatically measures my weight, body fat percentage and then when I step off, it automatically uploads that data to the Fitbit website where the system graphs my weight

It also graphs it for you automatically on a nice graph so that you can see your trends.

Here’s my graph showing an upward trend of gaining weight over the last year or so:

Of course the goal of the Manifesting Body Diet is to LOSE excess body fat, not to gain it so I’m hoping to see that graph start changing direction very soon, but I just wanted to show you how easy it is to track your weight with a simple device that takes literally less than 10 seconds per day to track your weight and body fat percentage.

If you want to learn a bit more about the weight loss tech gadgets I’ve mentioned in this post, check out this blog post here.

So what about you?  What are YOU using to track your weight loss / activity progress?

Manifesting Body Diet

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For over 15 years now I’ve been an ultra-busy entrepreneur with a part-time fascination with advanced nutrition, health and weight loss strategies.

I’ve studied, experimented with, and tried out virtually every popular diet out there.

Except for a few exceptions, I have also lost anywhere from 10 – 40 lbs of weight each time I tried one of these various diets.

The only challenge is that I’ve always gained the weight back.

Why?

Well, funny enough most diet books or programs out there will say something like “Oh, that’s because diets don’t work.  What you need is a ‘lifestyle change’.”

Right… and then they proceed to give you THEIR DIET plan which is supposedly better then anything else out there, but they label it as a “lifestyle change“, and not a “diet“.

I’m sorry, but I’m not 3 years old… you can’t trick me into following what clearly is a DIET, simply by labeling it with a different name that sounds more fun like a “lifestyle change” or a “health program” – LOL.

Here’s the truth that I’ve discovered about diets, after being on close to a dozen different ones…

DIETS DO WORK!

Shocking, right?

If you look at every single person out there who has lost weight, or gotten in the best shape of their life, they’re following some sort of diet that is usually (but not always) healthier than people who are overweight or obese.

So you can’t say that diet’s don’t work, when that’s obviously not true.

Trying to form a belief like “diets don’t work” which is based on a lie, just so that you don’t have to take responsibility for the way your body looks and feels will not help you.

It’s much better to embrace the truth, and to take 100% responsibility for your body and to stop blaming diets.

The reason I’m currently overweight is NOT because the diets that I’ve been on didn’t work.

The reason I’m currently overweight is because I STOPPED FOLLOWING those diets after losing the weight that I wanted to lose, and so I gained the weight back.

So a more accurate statement of truth would be “Diets do work, and produce the specific results that they were designed to deliver, if they are followed.”

Right?

I mean it’s common sense.

Besides my own experience, I know dozens of other people who have lost weight over the years and gained it back.

While they followed the diets that they were on, they swore by them and constantly spoke highly of them saying “This diet really works!  I already lost 30lbs!”

However, six months later or a year later they gained the weight back and then they would say “Yeah, that diet didn’t work…I gained the weight back.”

But hang on a second, did they continue to follow the diet the same way as when they were losing weight and somehow ended up gaining the weight back while still being on the diet?

NO!

They STOPPED the diet, and THEN they gained the weight back.

So it’s not that the diet doesn’t work…it’s just that it doesn’t work if you stop following it!

So the real question is not so much whether certain diets work, but rather why do we stop following diets…

Why We Stop Following Diets and Gain the Weight Back

One of the most challenging things about my health and fitness for me has been trying to figure out why I lose weight on various different diets and weight loss plans that I’ve been on, and then go right back to gaining the weight back.

It’s not an easy thing to lose 30 lbs or 40 lbs of fat or more, so why go through that process only to then gain it all back?

This is a question that I’ve spent a LOT of time contemplating.

I’ve already invested over a decade of my time and energy into studying nutrition and diets and weight loss, and testing various different methods for losing weight…

… and to be completely honest, it is NOT difficult for me to lose weight.

I know exactly what things I need to do in order to change my body composition and to lose the excess fat that’s hanging around my belly right now.

I’ve done it many times, and I have total confidence that I can do it again.

But the REAL question that I’ve been fascinated with more recently is how to NOT gain the weight back!

That’s the real million dollar question, as far as I’m concerned.

I believe that the answer to that question somewhat depends on the individual person, as I don’t believe that all people are internally motivated the same way.

We each have a different set of beliefs and values that we live our lives by, and so the reasons why one person stops following a diet might be totally different than the reasons why another person stops following a diet.

However, at the core of the issue is one simple truth.

The reason we stop following diets is because they don’t align with our core beliefs and our highest values.

Here’s what I mean by that…

Throughout the various weight loss journey’s that I’ve been on I noticed a pattern that would emerge in my life when I’ve gone on the different diets.

Two main things would happen…

#1 – My Business / Income Would Suffer

For the most part, I have usually gone on diets and weight loss programs that last around 30-90 days and I’ve lost upwards of 40+ lbs on those diets.

I used various different methods and diets over the years and have actually become more and more effective in losing weight faster and more efficiently.

However, the pattern that I started to notice is that when I would go on these diets for 30-90 days, and my weight would start to drop, some weird circumstances would happen in my businesses that would result in my business income also going down.

In fact, by the time I would usually be in the last part of my weight loss plan, withing a few pounds of reaching my goal weight, my business would be in such a dire need of my attention that I would be in this state of mind where I didn’t really care about the weight loss anymore and I just want to get it over with and reach my goal so that I can stop focusing on that and focus back on my business.

The first few times this happened, I just thought it was bad luck or co-incidence, but after it started to happen again and again I realized that it’s a pattern.

And when this pattern would emerge I would then go back to focusing most of my energy on getting my business back to running smoothly, with the intention of going back to focusing on my weight loss / health when my business stabilizes.

However, in most cases by the time I would get my business back and running smoothly, I had already gained the weight back especially with the added stress of having a business that’s in trouble.

This made me realize that ENTREPRENEURS have a different set of values from other people, and in a lot of ways our businesses are one of our highest values because we believe in changing the world so much, and we have this desire to help other people so much that even our own health takes a secondary focus if our highest values are jeopardized.

The second pattern I realized was…

#2 – My Ability to Manifest Things in My Life Would Suffer

The other pattern that I began to notice throughout the various different weight loss journey’s I’ve been on is that my ability to manifest positive things in my life, using the laws of the Universe such as the Law of Attraction, would diminish while on a diet.

Meaning, as a practitioner of the Law of Attraction for many years, I have gotten used to a certain FLOW in my life where I can manifest pretty much anything I set my mind to and the minute I set my focus on something, it’s like the Universe aligns itself to help me achieve my goals.

Certain people, situations, resources and events seem to flow into my life, as if by magic, to help me achieve what I want.

However, when I’ve gone on various diets in the past, I’ve found that my capacity to manifest has diminished!

Once you become good at manifesting things in your life, you kind of get used to it, and so when that ability is diminished it starts to drive you nuts.

And that is exactly what I started to notice when I would go on the various diets I have been on.

It’s as if by reducing my body weight by 20%, I also reduced my ability to manifest by 20% or more!

I believe there are a few main reasons for this which I’ll get into in future blog posts, and as I experiment with different strategies, but at the core of the issue I think it boils down to one thing.

If we are on a diet or weight loss program which causes us to align ourselves with the energies of LACK and UNWORTHINESS when it comes to our food, then we will manifest more of those types of energies in every area of our lives.

Meaning, for example, if I think about having a certain type of food and my mind goes into a pattern of thinking that goes something like “I want to eat this, but I’m not allowed” or “I can’t have everything I want” or “I don’t want to eat this but I have to because it’s good for me“, then those types of thoughts tend to produce feelings of LACK and UNWORTHINESS and when we vibrate with those energies, we attract more of that in every area of our lives.

Having these realizations that every diet I’ve been on has produced these two undesirable effects on my entrepreneurial endeavors and my ability to manifest, I’ve decided to create a new diet / lifestyle program that I’m calling the Manifesting Body Diet.

Manifesting Body Diet

Whenever I create a new concept or process or system for myself, I like to give it a name or a label of some sort so that it’s easier for me to build a framework around it and also to attract new ideas, concepts, and resources to help me expand the idea.

So as a starting point, I’ve decided to call my new program the Manifesting Body Diet.

I’m going to design the Manifesting Body Diet around two main criteria that it must take into account.

#1 – It Must Support My Entrepreneurial Lifestyle

Unlike previous diets and weight loss programs that I’ve been on, the Manifesting Body Diet has to be designed around the concept that my diet, health and fitness program has to SUPPORT and improve my ability to be successful with my entrepreneurial endeavors, not take away from them.

Because I am an entrepreneur at heart, and one of my highest values is being an entrepreneur, and having a positive impact on the world, if my diet and fitness programs are at odds with my highest values, they’ll never last.

Yes, they might work short term, but if for example losing weight gets in the way of me achieving my business goals, then I’ll have to constantly be in this mental battle of trying to decide whether I should do what I know I’m supposed to do according to the diet or weight loss program that I’m on, or whether I should do what I know needs to be done in order for my business to thrive.

And when you enter into a battle with yourself like that, your highest values will almost always win.

And that is why I’ve always been able to lose weight short term for a few months, but then as soon as my business needed my attention, I would abandon my weight loss program to put my energy in that direction instead.

So one of the primary focuses of the Manifesting Body Diet program will be that it must support and align with my entrepreneurial goals and aspirations.

Secondly…

#2 – It Must Support and Enhance My Ability to Manifest

The other aspect of my new diet program is that it must support and ideally even enhance my ability to manifest using the Law of Attraction and the other Universal laws.

Meaning, by putting time and energy into creating and following the Manifesting Body Diet, my ability to manifest what I want in my life has to go UP and not DOWN.

Although it’s not always easy to quantify or somehow track or gauge our ability to manifest things in life, because there are a lot of moving parts to the formula and not everything that we want to manifest comes about instantly, there is one way to know on a moment by moment basis if you’re aligned with your highest ability to manifest what you want in your life.

How?

By being aware of and tracking how you feel throughout the day.

When we are in full alignment with the Universe and our ability to manifest our dreams and desires is at it’s best, we FEEL GOOD…

Well, more accurately we feel great!

The side-effect (if you can call it that) of being in full alignment with our manifesting abilities just happens to be that we feel good or great in our lives.

So for example, if I was to implement some sort of weight loss strategy that was supposedly proven to produce rapid fat loss results, but by following that strategy it put my in a state of feeling horrible, even if I was losing weight by following this strategy, I would stop following it.

In other words, the purpose of the Manifesting Body Diet is NOT to find the most scientifically accurate and most efficient way to shed excess fat off my body while at the same time feeling like crap, and being miserable, and trying to tough it out… in fact it’s going to be almost the exact opposite of that.

The purpose of the Manifesting Body Diet will be for me to be able to lose weight, while also at the same time FEELING GOOD throughout my days, and having no reason to even look forward to stopping being on the diet, because it feels good, and I enjoy it, and it’s also producing the desired weight loss effect that I want, so why would I ever stop?

Starting the Manifesting Body Diet Today

Even though this diet and lifestyle program is pretty much just at it’s infancy stages as I write this blog post, I am officially starting this new diet today.

My initial starting weight is 242 lbs with approximately 32% body fat percentage, according to my Fitbit Aria scale.

My target weight is 175 lbs, and <20% body fat, so I have about 67 lbs of excess fat that I need to lose in order to achieve my goal.

As I embark on this journey, I’m going to blog about it on a regular basis and share some of the ideas, strategies and systems that I’m going to be using to achieve my goal.

If you’re an entrepreneur with a busy lifestyle or someone who wants to enhance and improve their ability to manifest things in their life, by creating a Manifesting Body that literally vibrates and emanates the Universal energies of abundance, health, prosperity and love, then I think you’re going to enjoy following my journey.

And since one of my primary focuses with my business right now is to build up a six and eventually seven figure income as a blogger, and to encourage and mentor others to do the same thing – by blogging about my Manifesting Body Diet journey I am aligning my new lifestyle with my business as well.

To follow along with my journey, I strongly recommend that you subscribe to receive regular updates from my Blog by entering in your email information below.

That way you can be notified when I publish new blog posts with ideas, resources and progress reports.

The Real Reason We Struggle to Lose Weight

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Weight loss is one of the most convoluted subjects on the planet.

There are countless so called “experts” out there all selling the latest diet or exercise program, trying to cash-in on our desire to lose weight and get fit.

The interesting thing is that while the weight loss advice industry has exploded and virtually everyone from the latest diet expert to your aunt Judy has a theory on weight loss, the majority of people in North America and now worldwide are just getting fatter and fatter.

You could blame laziness, a lack of exercise, a lack of proper diet or a lack of willpower to stick to a healthy diet, but what’s the real cause of these things?

Why do we find it so hard to stick to a diet, and why are we always so hungry???

I have studied nutrition and weight loss for over 10 years now and have tried virtually every diet under the sun.

I’ve lost weight while on the various diets, but I’ve always gained it back after completing my diet and feeling hungry for all the different types of foods I’ve “deprived” myself of during my diet plans.

But why do we crave so much food, so many calories and all these foods that we know are “bad” for us?

I believe that Dr. Wallach has the answer to this.

Why We Struggle to Lose Weight

In this video Dr. Wallach explains how our inability to lose weight comes from two main reasons:

Reason # 1 – Mineral Deficiency

Unlike the food that our grandparents ate, most of the food we buy today at restaurants or supermarkets is deficient in various minerals.

When our diet is deficient in minerals we develop an uncontrollable appetite for food, and especially carbohydrates.

Dr. Wallach explains how when farmers want to fatten up their livestock, all the have to do in order to get their cows to eat more food is to make their food deficient in minerals and then provide them with a steady stream of cheap carbohydrates (ie. corn).

When you starve a cow of minerals, it’ll eat and eat and eat and just continue to get fat.

In the livestock industry this is not a problem, as fattening up cows is how the farmers make their money, selling the fattened up beef for more money.

But for us, as humans, being mineral deficient is a huge problem because we can try to eat a “sensible diet”, but if our diet is lacking in the proper minerals we WILL have an uncontrollable urge to eat more food – especially carbohydrates.

Reason # 2 – Too Much Carbohydrates

This will probably be of no surprise to most people.

As a society we have become completely addicted to and dependent on cheap carbohydrates.

Bread, white pasta, white rice, corn, sugar, donuts, the latest Starbucks creation, you name it… we’re addicted to carbs.

Anyone who has gone on any diet knows this.

We all know we need to cut these crappy, nutrient deficient carbs from our diets and incorporate more healthy proteins and fats, so why is it so hard to follow through on this?

Well, the reason is because our food is mineral deficient, and so we CRAVE carbs uncontrollably.

So yes, you COULD blame carbohydrates for the fact that you’re eating too many calories every day and STILL feeling hungry, but that isn’t going to help you.

What you need to do is you need to make sure your body is getting ALL the vitamins and minerals that it needs every single day, and THEN you can slowly start cutting out carbohydrates out of your diet without going insane.

Easiest Way to Ensure You Are NOT Mineral Deficient

When Dr. Wallach concluded his research and began lecturing on this topic of us being mineral deficient, many people wanted to know how the heck do we make sure we get all of our vitamins and minerals?

Yes there are many different multi-vitamins and multi-mineral products on the market, but you would have to combine dozens of different pills together on a daily basis to get everything that you need, and even then you’d have to ensure that all of the vitamins and minerals that you need are all in the right proportions for your body and that they’re not coming from synthetic sources.

So to address this issue, Dr. Wallach formulated is own multi-vitamin / multi-mineral product line which contains ALL 90 of the essential minerals and vitamins that your body needs.

He called this line of products 90 For Life, and it makes the process of getting all of your minerals simple and convenient.

Yes you could read his books, and figure out the exact amounts of each mineral and vitamin that you need and then try to create your own set of supplements, but it’s not easy to find the right combination of supplements which gives you EVERYTHING that you need.

Most multi-vitamin/multi-mineral products out here don’t even have 20% of what you need.

This is why I’ve chosen to use Dr. Wallach’s 90 For Life product to make sure I’m getting all of my nutritional needs met for my upcoming weight loss program.

If you’re looking to lose weight, I’d recommend ordering a starter pack and supplementing whatever diet and/or exercise program you’re going to be following with these products.  It will help you to get all the nutrients you need so that you’re not the carb-rich junk foods that you know aren’t good for you.

To learn more about 90 For Life and to order your starter pack click here

If you have any questions about which product might be best for you, feel free to contact me with your questions.

How to Double Your Chances of Sticking to a Weight Loss Plan

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Making the decision to start a weight loss plan is always the first step towards weight loss.

But how do we increase our chances of actually sticking to the weight loss plan we create for ourselves.

Over the years I’ve gone through many different weight loss programs I created for myself, and in most cases I’ve reached my goals, and sometimes I didn’t.

Looking back on it now, I realize that there has been one differentiating factor that really helped me to stick to my weight loss plans when I’ve succeeded.

It’s something that most people avoid doing when making the decision to lose weight because they don’t like putting pressure on themselves.

However, the social pressure behind doing this one thing is what makes it so effective!

What I’m referring to is blogging about your weight loss journey.

When I’ve done my previous weight loss plans and I blogged about my journey from setting a goal to recording my starting weight and doing my “before” pictures, all the way through to actually reaching my goals and everything in between, I’ve always found that blogging about it was a tremendous help.

There have been numerous studies done that show that publicly announcing your weight loss plans has a positive effect on achieving your goals.

The perceived accountability and gentle social pressure we put on ourselves can be exactly what we need to keep us on track during the inevitable tough times we may run into during a weight loss program.

I’ve even gone to the point of challenging several of my friends in weight loss challenges where we put up hundreds of dollars and public humiliation on the line to make sure we hit our goals.

You don’t have to do that, but blogging about your weight loss journey can be a HUGE motivating factor for losing weight.How to D

The support you’ll garner from friends and supporters online could just be what you need to keep going.

When I’ve ran into challenges with my weight loss in the past, such as when I’ve hit plateaus, I’ve had my readers posting comment of encouragement and recommending various resources to help me out as well.

If you are a blogger, I STRONGLY recommend blogging about your weight loss journey, publicly declaring what your goals are and sharing your progress on a regular basis.

Even if you have ZERO followers and nobody reads your posts (they will), just knowing that someone out there could be watching can be just what you need to keep you accountable.

If you haven’t started a Blog yet, I would also strongly recommend getting started with blogging by clicking on this to get access to one of the most powerful blogging systems on the planet with the best training as well.

My Public Declaration

I would be a hypocrite if I wrote this post but didn’t publicly declare my weight loss plans as well.

Losing weight has not been a priority for me for several years now, and truth be told I’m actually currently at my heaviest weight I’ve been at all of my life.

As of this morning I weighed in at 243.8 lbs which is pretty much the heaviest I’ve ever been.

I don’t yet know every detail of the weight loss plan I’m going to follow to lose this weight but I have a pretty good idea and I’m organizing the resources to get started shortly.

For example, about a week ago I purchased a recumbent exercise bike to help me with my cardio training, and I’ve been gathering other resources as well.

My ultimate target goal is to lose 75 lbs of fat from my current frame, as well as to start building some more lean muscle mass after that.

I don’t know how long it’s going to take me to reach this goal, but that doesn’t really matter.

One way or another I’m going to hit the goal, that’s all that I know.

How to Make Your Public Declaration

Declaring your weight loss goals publicly isn’t easy for most people.

Especially when the majority of people tend to give up on their weight loss plans after just a few weeks.

However, I promise you that if you declare your weight loss goals publicly, it WILL help you to stick to your plans.

As human beings we tend to stick to things that we tell someone else we are going to do way more than to things we just tell ourselves, so why not use this part of human nature to your benefit!

If you’ve already got a blog, just write a post sharing your plans.

I do not recommend setting a deadline for reaching your goal though, just set a target and start working towards it.

I realize that most gurus out there say that a goal without a deadline is not a goal, but that’s not true.

For a more thorough explanation of why I don’t recommend putting deadlines on your weight loss goal, check out this video:

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