The LifestyleGuy's 5th Commandment

(5) If the desire is there, you can truly achieve.

Only by truly wanting something with every fibre of your being, by feeling it, visualising it, hearing it, can you really achieve what you want!

Wishful thinking just doesn’t make it happen.

How many times have you heard people chant that old mantra, “I wish” or “if only”!

What man can conceive, man can achieve!

Constantly “wishing” for an event to happen or “hoping” that some day this will come true, is just that, wishful thinking. Nobody ever got rich or slim or successful on wishful thinking.

Of course the thought had to be formulated first and maybe that came to the individual as a “I wish or I hope” but unless you actually want that thing so badly that you can hear, taste, feel and see it and you make yourself so dissatisfied with the fact that you haven’t got this thing that you simply have to take some kind of action to attain it.

That is true desire, straight from your “heart” and once that message has been received and acknowledged by your unconscious mind you will begin to formulate a strategy that will quickly collate events and situations and people to attain that goal.

The Lifestyle Guy's 4th Commandment

(4) Contrary to popular belief, to lose weight you must eat more often.

Unless your grossly obese, it’s a common mistake to believe weight that you have to “starve” yourself.

Not only is this wrong, it can be damn right dangerous.

Once you start “starving” the body of calories it automatically goes into “famine” mode. That is, it actually starts to slow down to conserve energy and the fuel that it uses for everyday functions, i.e. walking, talking, breathing, sleeping, is “lean” muscle tissue.

The fat is left alone as a reserve fuel because it is the slowest burning fuel in your body and becomes a precious commodity.

Eating little and often teaches the system that fuel i.e. food, is readily available, so there is no need to conserve fat stores. The effect of eating “little and often” (also by slightly increasing your protein intake and slightly reducing your carbohydrate intake) also creates a thermogenic effect within the body which raises body temperature, in essence you are raising your metabolism, which get’s you leaner quicker and helps you to burn calories.

What you also have to remember is that one pound of fat on your body, is literally one pound of fat, It serves no purpose and it does nothing for you, it is a complete “dead” weight that you are carrying around with you. In contrast, one pound of muscle on your body, burns an extra 50 x calories a day, even when you’re sleeping or sitting down relaxing.

Eating little and often also helps to keep your blood sugar nice and constant and even, so you have no “energy highs” quickly followed by “energy lows” and your body has a constant supply of the nutrients that it needs they are readily available as opposed to cannabilising lean muscle tissue for fuel and because you are feeding your body at regular intervals you immediately teach it that it has no need to conserve fat as fuel because you are supplying it with everything that it needs, even “good fat” so it quickly realises it has no need to conserve fat as fuel either, ergo, a fantastic metabolism and a wonderfully lean and trim body!