21 Days To Unstoppable Fat Loss Affiliate Contest

Affiliate Contest Winners

2008-08-20T08:13:00.000-07:00

Thank you to all my affiliates who helped make the re-launch of Unstoppable Fat Loss a huge success. You can be happy to know that the customers who you referred to the program are making great progress already.

Now onto the contest winners...

TomVenuto came in 1st with the most sales by a significant margin. Tom gets to join me and the top marketers in the world on Mike Filsaime's Marketers Cruise: www.FitnessMarketersCruise.com

One other person has been selected in the random draw to join us on the cruise. If you made at least one sale during the affiliate contest, your name was entered into the draw. And the winner of the random draw is...

Leighp0224 - Congratulations, your efforts really paid off!

Here's a video of my daughter choosing Leigh's name out of a bucket. Just proof that it wasn't set up.

The prize for 2nd most sales goes to M231G

The prize for 3rd most sales goes to BEVOPUB

Thanks again to all of you. It was great to hear that a few of you made your very 1st affiliate sale during this promotion.

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Unstoppable Fat Loss Interview With Shane James

2008-08-10T19:41:00.000-07:00

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Are Bad Knees Holding You Back From Fat Loss Success?

By Scott Tousignant, BHK, CFC
www.UnstoppableFatLoss.com

What you are about to read is an excerpt from an interview that I did with Shane James from the MP3 audio program, Unstoppable Fat Loss. If you adopt the mindset that we cover below and apply it to your workouts and nutrition plan, you can expect success and amazing results.

Shane: It was a funny situation. I had been working out and training, doing the treadmill and elliptical and all that kind of stuff. My knees were starting to get sore, and I wasn't quite sure what was going on. They got more and more sore. They got so sore to the point where I couldn't even get out of bed, Scott.

Scott: Wow.

Shane: Yeah. I would get out of bed, and I could barely walk. So I finally went to the doctor and I said to the doctor, "What's going on here? I can barely move. I cannot walk." So they sent me for tests and stuff, and my tests came back, and they said, "Well, Shane, this is what's happened. Your knees have come off their tracks. There's nothing to hold your kneecaps in any more."

Scott: Jeez.

Shane: They were wobbling all over, right? I said, "So what's the verdict? What do we have to do to get this better?" He says, "Well, it's going to take a long, long time, and you've got to quit your exercise." Quit my exercise? So that means I can never exercise again? He says, "No. You cannot exercise."

So I went home that night. I remember this like it was yesterday. I go on home and I was like, "Oh, man! What am I going to do? I can't exercise. Exercise has been my whole life." Now, for that month, I kind of went through a little bit of depression, right?

Scott: Uh‑huh.

Shane: It was kind of like my whole life had been taken away. I'm a motivational speaker. How am I going to be able to stand on stage and speak for eight hours? Now that's gone too. All my goals and all my dreams, just taken away in a second. And I sat there for about a month, and this was when I started gaining some weight. I started gaining weight. I gained about 25 pounds heavier than I had been ‑ overweight.

All of a sudden one night I woke up and I said, "You know, that's just his opinion. That's his belief. That's a suggestion he made to me. I don't have to take that on and hold it out as true right now."

So what I did was I started to visualize. I would lay in bed before I went to bed ‑ half an hour, visualize: I had strong knees. I was healthy. I was vibrant. I felt good. I was the guy with the strongest knees in the whole world.

Scott: Right.

Shane: Yeah. And every morning.

Scott: Not just stronger knees, the strongest knees in the world. Hire that man.

Shane: Did you hear that? And I would visualize that in the morning as well. And then, one of my buddies would call me, certain ones. I'd say, "Hey, look. Don't bring up my knees any more," because every time you say how your knees are doing, they make a suggestion that I have bad knees.

So I don't have bad knees. I said, "You call me and you say, 'Hey, how's the guy with the strongest knees in the world doing?' I'd say 'Fine, great, thank you.'" And so, even when other friends would call me, I would say, "Look, don't bring up my knees anymore. Don't call me and ask me how they're doing." Because everyone will call me and they say, "How are your knees doing." Well, they suck! Hello? [laughs]

Scott: [laughs]

Shane: So they all stopped asking me that question. Now, I was visualizing at home, and then when I started going back to the gym ‑ I wasn't supposed to go back. And listen to this: I was on a treadmill. I could only do 0.5 walking. I was barely moving.

Scott: Mm‑hmm.

Shane: Barely moving. So I started just like that, very slowly. And I would visualize on the treadmill: "The strongest knees. I have the strongest knees in the whole world. Nobody in the whole world has stronger knees than I do."

I did this for about a month every night. And I had everybody around me. I said, "Bring that energy to me. Bring that energy to me. Visualize for me, me having the strongest knees." I believe everybody got on board with me. And a month later, I was up on the treadmill at a 2, then a 3, 4, 5. Now I'm at an incline of 4, and my knees are just about perfectly better. Wow.

Scott: Wow. That's incredible. From someone who is not supposed to exercise ever again, or at least for a very, very long time, and can hardly walk at all, that's incredible, incredible.

That all started with an authority figure, someone whom we're supposed to look up to: a doctor telling you. He instilled that belief in your head that you're not going to be able to do that, and it took you over time to say, "That's his belief. I want to develop my own belief. I'm not going to let him limit me."

Shane: That's right. So often in life, we decide to take on the beliefs and opinions of other people, and we hold them as true. But that's just their opinion. So I even went back to him. I said, "Hey. You know that suggestion you put in my head about my knees? That wasn't very good!" [laughs] Honestly, he didn't really know what to say. He had nothing to say to me. "Well, that's good you overcame it." That's about all he said.

Scott: Yeah. And there are a few things, like even talking about your friends. Your friends were trying to be nice, asking how your knees were, giving you that sympathy. I find that happens a lot in weight loss. People are looking for sympathy. If they've got a thyroid problem, or they've got some other health issue where they struggle to lose weight.

Whatever their excuse or reason is for struggling, their friends come up to them and they're sympathetic and they're trying to be nice to that person, but what that person doesn't need from you is the sympathy. They need those positive thoughts. They need you to instill the positive beliefs to get you to live that unstoppable lifestyle.

This interview was an excerpt from the MP3 audio interview program, Unstoppable Fat Loss

About The Author:

Scott Tousignant, BHK, CFC is a personal trainer and motivation coach from Ontario, Canada. After graduating from the University of Windsor’s Human Kinetics Program with honors in movement science, Scott began his career with an intense interest in physiology and biomechanics, but quickly developed a love for sport psychology.

His interest in the power of the mind led him to create Unstoppable Fat loss, (UFL) an audio interview MP3 interview series. UFL is different because it’s not about what to eat or how to train. It’s about goals, mind, motivation, vision, persistence, emotions, passion, overcoming obstacles and even how fitness and health fit into your life purpose. The interviews include fitness professionals and “regular folks” who have overcome some very big problems.

You can visit Scott’s website at:
www.Unstoppablefatloss.com

Unstoppable Fat Loss Interview With Rob Kottenbrock

2008-08-10T19:39:00.000-07:00

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Accountability For Fat Loss Success

By Scott Tousignant, BHK, CFC
www.UnstoppableFatLoss.com

What you are about to read is an excerpt from an interview that I did with Rob Kottenbrock from the MP3 audio program, Unstoppable Fat Loss. If you adopt the mindset that we cover below and apply it to your workouts and nutrition plan, you can expect success and amazing results.

Scott: I have my goals written right next to my alarm clock and I look up on the wall: I have some other pictures of body parts that I want to achieve, so I've got those images there myself. But again, I like how you said, "You're accountable to yourself."

I know I've mentioned my goals to other people out there as well, but I may even sit in bed for two minutes after the alarm goes off and think to myself, for a brief moment, "Oh, man this is comfortable..."

But something kicks in, that purpose, that I know I've got reasons why I'm getting out of bed. That alarm went off, not to get me out of bed, but there's a reason why it went off...

Rob: It went off to get you leaner.

Scott: Yes, absolutely. And the feelings that are going to happen when I am reaching my goals that I'm aiming for right now. All right, so let's continue. You got your butt out of bed to do your cardio that you can't stand... [laughs]

Rob: [laughs]

Scott: And you're able to do that. Let's continue with the accountability. What other kinds of things do you do with your close friends and your accountability partners that really helps you out?

Rob: I have an Excel file that is now over two years old, where it's all done in the three‑month phases. Every three months, I add a new sheet. And what that does is, it's in four different quadrants, and in one quadrant, for each week, it's got my weight, my body fat percent, and then the actual pounds of lean muscle and fat, and then my goal for each week just down the column of how much each is going to change.

And then in another quadrant is the actual progress that I made, and then another quadrant is the difference between the two. And then the other quadrant is a bar chart that tracks actual against goal.

Scott: OK, excellent.

Rob: Yeah, and so every week, I have to update and send that file out to my accountability buddies. It's really weird, because every now and then, I'll get a note from one of them, and it's like, "Wow! You're really inspiring me to just go and get to the gym."

Scott: Right.

Rob: And basically, it's not so much for them to grade me or anything, it's just to hold me accountable to myself.

Scott: Right, exactly.

Rob: It's not that I'm asking for praise or support or anything. It's just kind of proving that, yeah, I did this.

Scott: Right.

Rob: But they also, more so when I first started, I actually made them agree, for that first phase, to just randomly call me one time a week to say, "Did you get on the bike?"

Scott: I love that.

Rob: Yeah, just random, just randomly call me.

Scott: Yeah.

Rob: You know, once a week and just say, "Did you get your workout in? Are you eating clean? Are you staying on program?" and basically just to say, you know, you started this, how well are you following through?

Scott: Yeah. Did they catch you a few times?

Rob: Yeah. Oh yeah, they did. Yeah, they did.

Scott: And what did that do for you? Did it give you that instant jump?

Rob: Yeah. You know, you have to find the right people.

Scott: Right.

Rob: Because they never yelled at me. You know, it was basically "You set up this plan for yourself Rob, how well are you following through with it?"

Scott: Excellent.

Rob: And you know, sometimes it was a voicemail. Because they knew if I let it go to voicemail that I wasn't on plan.

Scott: Right.

Rob: Because if you are like, "Oh God, that's one of my buddies, no, I'm not going to pick that up" and then you get the voicemail. And, you know, it was always encouraging.

And the weird thing is, is that these are people who have been fit their entire lives and they are the exact type of people that I had previously, stereotypically, you know, from my experience in high school and everything, deemed as the "jock" or the "gym jerk" or whatever.

Scott: Right.

Rob: But because they are friends and they knew me and I asked them to do this, to help me, and I said, "Just help me help myself. I'm laying out this plan and all I'm asking you to do is help me stick to the plan."

Scott: Wow.

Rob: And so, yeah, it takes a whole lot of, trust. But do it with friends.

Scott: Right.

Rob: And do it with people that know you.

Scott: Right.

Rob: Because they will genuinely want to help you help yourself.

Scott: Right, and then the more they see you making the progress, I mean, they probably would feel guilty themselves if they weren't calling up, they really want to see you succeed.

Rob: Yeah and especially for people that go to the gym regularly, they know how beneficial that can be. If you tell them, "OK, my experience has always been negative but I'm wanting to change and I need your help,” they are going to be so supportive.

Scott: That's right. Awesome. Accountability and surrounding yourself with the right people. I like what you did. You set out and you chose people who were in shape, people that you could look up to and use as role models and examples.

Rob: Yeah, and you know, there would be times that I would be like, OK, you know, because sometimes on Monday when I'd send that thing out, and you know, one time I had done everything according to plan but I gained a pound of fat.

Scott: Right.

Rob: I was just like, "What's the deal?" And you know, some of it was me venting, it's like I don't know what I'm doing wrong. And then one of them said "Rob, when was the last time you took a week off?"

Scott: Right.

Rob: You know, "When was the last time you just stopped and slept?"

Scott: Wow.

Rob: You know, I was like "Well, that was 20 weeks ago."

[laughter]

Scott: Yeah, yeah.

Rob: Then I replied back to all of them, "OK, it' s an off week. I'm taking the whole week to re‑feed and sleep and I'm not going to work out." And you know, that re‑feed week, not even working out, you know, a pound‑and‑a‑half gone.

Scott: Awesome.

Rob: It's just like" OK, this is just weird; I ate more, I didn't exercise at all, and I burned fat."

Scott: Right.

Rob: Go figure.

Scott: That's the coolest thing, when you do surround yourself with the successful people who have been there and are living that lifestyle, hearing that, "Take a week off" is totally different than what happened in the past. You treated this week off differently than you would have in the past, I'm sure.

Rob: Yeah, and after you're on the program for a while the junk you were eating doesn't even sound good.

Scott: That's so true.

Rob: And especially you know, my dad is four weeks on the program ‑ 12 pounds down ‑ Go, Dad. Go, Dad.

Scott: Awesome, yes, keep going, keep going.

Rob: Yesterday we had my sister's birthday party and there was the cake and the bowl of fruit. My dad looked at the cake and thought, "that doesn't even look good."

Scott: Wow.

Rob: It's just like, Wow! That didn't take as long as I thought it would.

Scott: It happens. It really happens.

Rob: It happens, it's amazing.

Scott: I love that part of it. That's the message that I like to get across so much. Because you can associate pleasure with these foods and lifestyle that you once thought was painful.

Rob: I love endorphins. I mean, that's the only thing about cardio that I love. I hate doing it, but I love when it's done.

Scott: Right. You know the out come. That purpose, that drive, you know what the outcome is going to be. That's great. And this is good, see, I love that you're at this point that you're teaching others. And that must really help things sink in for you as well. And give you more satisfaction for the whole process and really, you can learn even more about the process because you're seeing things through other people's eyes.

Rob: And it gives me more drive.

This interview was an excerpt from the MP3 audio interview program, Unstoppable Fat Loss

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Unstoppable Fat Loss Interview With Zach Even-Esh

2008-08-10T19:29:00.000-07:00

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Create The Environment For Fat Loss Success

By Scott Tousignant, BHK, CFC
www.UnstoppableFatLoss.com

What you are about to read is an excerpt from an interview that I did with Zach Even-Esh from the MP3 audio program, Unstoppable Fat Loss. If you adopt the mindset that we cover below and apply it to your workouts and nutrition plan, you can expect success and amazing results.

Scott: You talk about merely existing. Now when you see other people in the health club where they are just going in and they are not putting the effort into it. They are just going through the motions. Going through the movements. So, this type of mentality, this sort of not giving it your all, is one of those things that is holding them back Wouldn't you say?

Zach: It is, and you know, with anything you do you might as well go for the best, the absolute best with it. There is no sense for me to go 80 percent of what I could do, or half of what I could do. It is a big reason why I do not train at gyms now because the atmosphere is for the most part pretty negative. I am generalizing, I know that.

Scott: Right.

Zach: But I like to just create my own atmosphere and a lot of times that means I'm training outside, I'm training in nature. I am putting myself in places and in the state of mind that bring me joy, and make me happy, and make me feel good, because the results come that much better. Or I'm training at home, in my garage, in my backyard, in the place where I came play my own music.

Scott: Right.

Zach: It is all about putting yourself in the environment that makes you feel good. When people want an equation, I ask them to think about the places they go to most, the restaurants or wherever you shop at. Why do you go there? It's because of the experience, because you feel better there. I'm going to go to the restaurant that has the great food, and the beautiful music and the beautiful artwork on the walls. As opposed to the restaurant that has poor service and angry waiters and waitresses.

That is what you will stay away from. So, you want to apply those things to how you train your mind and train your body. Put yourself in the place, in the environment that brings you the feelings of joy and happiness, and success. That little thing will really springboard you into becoming a much more efficient, happier, more joyful person. You are just going to bring about a lot more joy to your life.

Scott: That is so true. I think that is awesome and very powerful. I mean I see it in your videos. You have converted your garage into your own home gym. And the type of atmosphere in there is just awesome. It just oozes positive fun. The energy in there, I can tell the guys you are training in there and that you are coaching, when they walk into that garage, how can they not push themselves hard and get their intensity level up.

I hear the music that you have pumping in the background and they are into it, but you have created that environment for them. If it were just dull and boring it just wouldn't have the same kind of effect.

Zach: Nobody would want to come.

Scott: That's right.

Zach: It's like the Starbucks experience. You know, we were just in Florida, and in Florida they have outdoor malls. It's beautiful. It's like California. You know the sun is shining everywhere. You are breathing in fresh air. Well Starbucks was packed. It was jam‑packed. There were people inside. There were all the tables outside. Why were they doing this? Is their coffee that much better than anywhere else? I am not really sure it is a whole lot better. It is very good coffee but they are outside. They are reading the paper. They are on their laptop. They are breathing in fresh air. They could be drinking something else for all it matters.

Scott: Right.

Zach: But it's the experience and the same thing when you are training yourself or you are training with other people. You want to create that kind of environment.

So we have all these motivational black and white photos up on the wall in the garage from body builders from the Golden Era which is when people trained just because they loved to train. We play the music. We just pump that music up because it puts them in a good vibe. It is not a place for them to be complaining but it's a place for them to work hard, have fun and we also train in groups because it is infinitely more fun. We put our guys together in groups of five and they work their tails off but they have so much fun. I mean I don't even realize that I am working when I am training all these athletes and that's what I do. I always hooked up with people who were motivated, always in good moods. It just elevates the progress much, much faster than like what I keep emphasizing, putting yourself in a crappy environment.

Scott: Instead of thinking of it as a chore, and something I have to do and it's out of desperation or I've really got to lose weight, you have created an experience where is fun and you enjoy the journey. I think that's really what it is all about. It shouldn't be the pressure of needing to get something. It's really loving it.

Zach: Yeah.

Scott: and what you have to do you have to create that environment around you. If you can't find it in the gym, do something in your garage or out in the yard. I have seen you with some pretty wicked cool exercises outside. Even with the picnic table you are lifting up there and doing different things. You can tell as intense and focused as you are, you're having fun and you are loving every second of it.

Zach: You got to love it. Anything that you love you will do. You'll do it without… I can't remember what the exact quote but it had to do with if you start to do something that you love you will never have to work a day in your life again because you don't realize that you are working. It's the same thing at least for me with my health and my fitness. I love to train. So it is not a chore for me. It drives me insane if I miss a workout. That's why I always allow time for a quick five minute workout, fifteen minute workout. If I have the time it may be 30‑45 minutes.

When we talk about training outside, fresh air will do wonders for your mind and your body and it is almost like a form of meditation. Most people don't get outside enough and I'm training outside, even when it is cold, when it is in the 30s and 40s, I will get outside and at least get some fresh air. Even when it is a little bit over 100 degrees hot and humid I am going outside. I am training. It's my freedom. It's a place where I lose myself and I find myself and anybody who wants to get results, you have got to do something that you enjoy, whatever kind of moving it is ‑ surfing, bike riding, playing soccer, playing basketball, volleyball. It might be lifting weights. Doing whatever it is that you love. As long as you are moving your body. you are on the right path. There is no one path or best path for getting fit. I think that we've put a limitation on what people can or can't do or what they should do to get fit and people are probably feeling like I don't like working out with weights or I don't like doing that and then they don't want to work out. Whatever you love to do that allows you to move your body, go out there and do it. If it brings joy to you, then that's what you have to indulge yourself in. That's what the human body is for.

Scott: Right.

Zach: It's for moving. It's for movement. So, I'm not going to tell people you should only be lifting weights.

Scott: Right.

Zach: Spring training is definitely my love but I love doing things like mountain biking, things that are outdoors, hiking, jogging, running with my dog. Those are the things that I love to do. If somebody likes to do something else, then that's what they should spend a lot of their time doing.

This interview was an excerpt from the MP3 audio interview program, Unstoppable Fat Loss

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Unstoppable Fat Loss Interview With Rob Cooper

2008-08-10T13:21:00.000-07:00

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Success Story: 300 Pounds Weight Loss

By Scott Tousignant, BHK, CFC
www.UnstoppableFatLoss.com

What you are about to read is an excerpt from an interview that I did with Rob Cooper from the MP3 audio program, Unstoppable Fat Loss. If you adopt the mindset that we cover below and apply it to your workouts and nutrition plan, you can expect success and amazing results.

Scott: So when you realized that you had to improve your health, did you have a goal at that time? Your focus wasn't on weight loss, it was just, "I've got to get better. I've got to get healthier."

Rob: Right. Like I said, I had never intended to lose 300 pounds. It was not what I was looking at. It was not what I was focusing on. And I don't know why this occurred. But my focus again was on health. What could I do to become healthy?

I really didn't know anything. I knew what I knew from television and from magazines that I might pick up and read. I knew salt was bad and I knew fried food was bad. And that's where I started.

Scott: Right.

Rob: Then I just started learning. I picked up a book. It was called "Fit for Life." Actually, before I found "Fit for Life," I started just looking at fruits and vegetables. I started buying whole‑grain bread; I started looking at vegetable soups and canned vegetable meals. I started buying lettuce and stuff. And to be honest, they became fridge experiments.

Scott: [laughs]

Rob: I kind of nibbled on them, but I really wasn't completely committed yet. But at least I was buying them. And then I stumbled upon this book by an author, Harvey and Marilyn Diamond. It was called "Fit for Life." Are you familiar?

Scott: Yep. Food combination.

Rob: OK. Yeah, food combining, exactly. And the theory is that, when you combine foods in certain ways, you actually improve the digestion process. The idea is that proteins and starches do not combine together in the stomach; they will not digest together, supposedly. The other one is, that fruit is supposed to be eaten on an empty stomach, never with a meal, never after a meal, because it would just sit there and rot. So these are some basic principles I picked up, and I just started using it as though it was kind of like my health Bible.

Scott: Right.

Rob: And I read it, I followed the principles, and lo and behold, I started getting results. Now, I started dropping weight, and I started tightening up my belts and stuff like that. And it was really fascinating for me to see the process get results.

Scott: Right.

Rob: So I just delved deeper and deeper into it, read everything that I could read about health and nutrition. Got into buying organic; got into juicing. I bought a juicer; I started juicing. I read about macrobiotics; I started adding in miso. I started looking at brown rice, eating brown rice. And slowly, these new habits that I was making was replacing all the other stuff I was doing.

Scott: Right.

Rob: It became this very interesting science project, is what I was forming.

Scott: Right.

Rob: It was just so interesting to see the results. I wanted to see how far I could take it, and what would happen. And it was just this really interesting journey to go on. It led me through numbers of pant sizes, countless pounds, and then it was, I think, 385 pounds, I decided to start walking. And then I just did a daily walk, every morning after I finished my shift of driving taxi. And that's how it all began.

Scott: Right. Yeah, education is such a huge part of success, and there's so many different ways you can educate yourself. But it sounds like you applied a lot of the information that you were learning, which is a huge key to success. That's pretty incredible. And now you're at the point where you're, I mean, getting a lot of questions from people asking you, what kind of workout programs? What kind of nutrition? And just all kinds of different questions from people that get in great shape.

What are some of the things that you see are holding people back from achieving their dream bodies?

Rob: Well, they're not doing anything. They're not taking action. Everybody's time is valuable, and I'd love to help people, and I do answer questions. But let's work 50‑50 here; I mean, you know, I'll help you out, but let me see what you're doing, too. And you're going to have to provide some kind of action; you've got to do something.

So a lot of the common questions I get are: How do I do this? What should I do? What workout program should I follow? And, what should I eat? And my first response, I want to see what they're doing already. And my first response is, what are you doing now? Tell me what it is you're following, what it is you're doing, what actions are you taking. I'll bet you 95% of the time, I don't get an answer back.

Scott: [laughs]

Rob: So, if I was to spend a half an hour, an hour, writing out an email or recommending something, I feel almost like I'm going to be wasting my time, because they haven't looked into anything, and they're not even taking action yet.

Scott: Right.

Rob: So why would they take action on anything that I'm recommending, right? If I know that they're already taking steps, and they're looking for some new direction, then absolutely. Let's work together and get you some tips, some things you could do.

So I think that the biggest thing that's holding people back is not taking the action. And we talked earlier about how an object at rest tends to stay at rest. If you're not doing something, then it's harder to get out and start doing something. Does that makes sense?

Scott: Yeah. Oh, absolutely.

Rob: Good. But as soon as you start reading about things, thinking about how this might work, and start trying some stuff, you've started motion. You're in motion. You ask me a question, or you find some advice from somebody else as to a new theory or a new tweak or the current thing. Or even finding a role model who's getting results, start following what it is they're doing. At least you can change the direction and tweak the direction.

I mean, when I went through my whole process, I kept reading different pieces of information, and I never stopped. And I still haven't stopped; I still read about stuff. And if something makes sense to me, logically, I'll try it. And if it works for me, I keep it. If it doesn't work for me, I set it aside. I tried it, I've set it aside, and I'm looking for something else.

So what I've become is kind of an amalgamation of little pieces of lots of things, and they all happen to work for me. But not everything works for every person. You know, we're all different. There's a lot of common things that will work for a lot of people, but then there's some tweaks that you need to do, that you have to work into your lifestyle, have to work into your beliefs and your philosophy from whatever.

But that's the whole thing, is to start doing something. Taking action, I guess, is what I think holds people back. And not to mention just limiting beliefs, that they see it as a big picture. For me to have gone back now and think that I've got to lose 300 pounds, that's a huge mountain to climb. But if I look at taking steps into becoming fit and applying new health habits and new principles into my diet, I'm adding one thing at a time. Each one of those new habits replaces an old habit.

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Unstoppable Fat Loss Interview With Marna Goldstein

2008-08-10T12:41:00.000-07:00

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Emotions Drive You To Fat Loss Success

By Scott Tousignant, BHK, CFC
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What you are about to read is an excerpt from an interview that I did with Marna Goldstein from the MP3 audio program, Unstoppable Fat Loss. If you adopt the mindset that we cover below and apply it to your workouts and nutrition plan, you can expect success and amazing results.

Scott: Those are key points. If emotions are that powerful to make you put on weight, you can use them to your advantage to take off weight as well. I'm sure that's what you coach your clients on, working with emotion.

Marna: Yes.

Scott: It's powerful. It's one thing to have these powerful thoughts and to think about what you want, but really the emotion is what's going to drive it and help make it permanent. It's made it permanent in the negative sense up to this point.

Marna: Yeah, you got it. That's exactly right. That's precisely it. If you've been physically abused, somebody has come into your space that you didn't want. Then all of a sudden you gained some weight and you saw that nobody was coming into your space. That feels pretty good.

Scott: That's right.

Marna: Then, as you're dealing with those issues in those areas and you want to release the weight, there has to be that psychological component as well around the emotion to feel the safety, to feel that it's going to be OK, to feel that you'll be strong no matter who comes into your space.

Scott: Right.

Marna: Whether it's just simple things like "I don't deserve it."

Scott: Right.

Marna: "I don't believe I can attain it." Pretty basic beliefs that have significant impact on results.

Scott: That's a huge impact. When I started doing the research for my book and I was asking people what holds you back, I was blown away by people saying, "I just don't believe I can do it. No matter what you give me or tell me, I just don't think I can do this. I don't believe I can follow through with the whole thing, or I don't deserve it."

That one word, that one phrase has been holding them back for years and years and years. For some of them, it wasn't until I asked them that question, "What's holding you back" where they really realized, "I just don't believe that I can do it." So many people asked me, "How do I believe in myself?" It's kind of a difficult question. How would you answer it?

Marna: It is difficult. You know, it's a great question because it's powerful. I think there are incredible techniques like EFT which can help. That's particularly what EFT does. It helps with changing beliefs through a tapping mechanism.

Scott: Yep.

Marna: For me, I've seen huge results in other areas of my life as well around using EFT, so there are strategies. The other thing is, for the person that you mentioned that gets really excited for those first three days.

Scott: Right.

Marna: And then the excitement kind of drops off.

Scott: Right.

Marna: I often suggest having a really powerful vision, something that just tickles their insides. Typically, someone who's preparing for a wedding has a pretty strong vision.

Scott: Right.

Marna: And will keep that vision powerful and will keep moving towards the goal. Or somebody who's competing in a competition or whatnot, that's a strong vision that someone can hold out there. If you don't have a wedding or a competition, we've got to create a vision that's going to knock your socks off, that every day you think of it, and you're like, "Yes! I want to create this body."

Scott: That's right.

Marna: "I want to have this desired state." So vision work is a lot of what I do as well at the beginning.

Scott: Again, it's the emotion. You just got me thinking about one of my clients, and this is how I got her to get out of this whole non-believing thing. When she started actually losing weight, she told me that, "Oh yeah, this morning when I was putting on my pants, I showed my husband look at how loose my pants are."

They were loose. She was actually showing me. She was pulling on the back of her pants and saying, "Look. I was showing my husband that I've got all this space in my pants here, and it was so exciting. It was a really cool feeling.” I told her, “OK, keep feeling that. How great was that feeling? Didn't that feel like the best thing, where you're showing off to your husband? Think of all those emotions and how wonderful it is and whenever you're feeling bad thoughts or whenever you're about to grab something that's not so good for yourself, think of how great that moment was.” This is really powerful.

That was something that really hit home with her. Getting on that scale and seeing the weight loss didn't really excite her all that much. She wasn't getting all that pumped up. But as soon as she started feeling those clothes loose, and she could show that it was noticeable, that's when she really got all those emotions stirred up. So, whenever someone tells me they've got a specific number that they're going to aim for, I say, "That's not really what you want." It's that feeling that she was feeling at that moment.

Marna: That's true.

Scott: When she was excited and proud of herself, that's what you want and everything associated with that moment is what you want. You don't want to drive for that number.

Marna: No, you don't want to strive for the number. The number can be motivating for a few days.

Scott: Right.

Marna: It's not going to get you excited and pumped up and passionate in the way that that feeling does.

Scott: Right.

Marna: The feeling of success and accomplishment, and so sometimes if someone hasn't achieved that success or accomplishment around their body yet, we find other areas in their life. You know most everybody has had an area, whether it was getting a degree and keeping that vision of having that walking down and getting that diploma. Whatever it may be, we've all had areas of success that we've accomplished because we created a picture in our mind and we held it so closely, and we just moved towards it consistently.

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Unstoppable Fat Loss Interview With Kyle Battis

2008-08-09T10:43:00.000-07:00

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Taking Action On What You Learn

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What you are about to read is an excerpt from an interview that I did with Kyle Battis from the MP3 audio program, Unstoppable Fat Loss. If you adopt the mindset that we cover below and apply it to your workouts and nutrition plan, you can expect success and amazing results.

Scott: …Right. I think that the key point is just being aware, like you said. You hear yourself saying these things, and you see that you're doing them. As you become aware of them, and say what can I do about it? What am I going to do to make me overcome this hurdle, and go in a positive direction this time? What can I do if it is bad genetics, what can I do to overcome my genetics? My family's overweight. It's almost like when some people say, 'I want to be the first one in my family to go to college.' I'm going to be the first one in my family to be thin for once. Think those thoughts rather than just thinking 'I'm going to be like everyone else' and settle for what they've had to settle for the rest of their lives. It's definitely being aware of it, it's a huge thing. Deciding I'm not going to settle for this, I've got to snap out of it and move on.

Kyle: Right. Awareness is such a good thing, and you can come to awareness in a lot of different ways, education. One thing to combat bad genetics, you go and you learn... One seminar that I attended, there was a nutritional genius there, his name was Thomas Inkerdon. A very, very smart guy with a PHD in nutrition, he also competes in strongman events. He's just a genius. Anyway, he put up a graph during a PowerPoint presentation, and he called it the 'Pie Graph of Hope' for people that say they have bad genetics. All the research shows that only about 18% of your overall total results are due to genetics.

And so everything else is totally within your control, and so people that say they have bad genetics, it's a cop out, and there are so many things that you can do between your diet and your training, your nutrition and your mindset that can totally change your psyche by becoming aware. That one little factoid there might be the awareness that you need to say, 'You know what, maybe I can change my body, my genetics aren't going to hold me back.'

Scott: That's a big deal. I mean, 82% is in your control.

Kyle: Yeah!

Scott: That's crazy! If you put up excuses for anything, think there's any obstacle in your way, obviously it's you.

Wow, that's pretty remarkable! But that's a very good point, education, and going to these types of things. If you just pick up that one tidbit of information, whether it's a book or a conference or audio, one little piece of information can transform your life. That is awesome!

The big thing is, we hear all this stuff... Applying the information is another thing. Educating yourself and reading is good. More than half of the people don't even get through the entire book, let alone read the entire thing and take action on it.

Do you have any kind of strategy, like when you set aside a certain amount of money to educate yourself. Do you say I'm going to read this chapter and start taking action? Or if you read a book and an idea jumps out at you, are you able to put that book down right now, and even though you know there are going to be some great secrets later on in the book, I want to apply something right now! Do you ever catch yourself doing something like that?

Kyle: I think that's really solid. I was at a seminar this past weekend in Washington D.C. and down the side of my notes (I take diligent notes while I'm at seminars), and down the right side of my notes, I always put a column and I write 'Action Items' at the top of that right column. I'll write down any notes that come to mind, or key points that I think are helpful when I'm attending these seminars, or listening to a teleseminar like this one, or listening to a presenter talk, or reading a book about training mindset, nutrition, or even business ‑ whatever it is.

But any time I find something that is a nugget that I can take away and there's action steps, that will immediately give me better results, I will write that action step down.

By the end of that conference, I'm going to compile all those notes and put those action steps all into my folder, my inbox, and eventually process those and figure out how I'm going to implement those action steps into my daily, weekly, business or training. There's just so many takeaways. But the key is, if you only educate but you never do anything with that information, you're not going to make any progress, really.

So Scott hit on a great point: you've got to implement it. And so there's a lot of things that I do. I think habits are a great thing. I train my mindset and I train my body every day, and there's certain things that I do for my business every day. And so one of the things I always do is, I always start off my day remembering what it is that I want. Most people cannot even tell you what they want. I can say without a shadow of a doubt the top five things that I want out of life right now. By becoming ultra‑clear on those things out front and spending a lot of time thinking about what it is that I truly want out of life, I can write those down, and I repeat those to myself every day.

Why? Because it's programming. It's the programming that I want. It's overcoming some of the negative programming that comes at me every day from television, from people in my life that aren't necessarily sharing the same ideals and goals and values that I have. And they're there, and they'll always be there, and so that's why it's even more vitally important that you constantly program your mind with calls like this, with audios and hanging out with people that are like‑minded and have similar goals and values to you, so that you can stay on track and stay focused. That's the first thing I do every day; I read to myself, out loud, what my major targets are. And once I've read those major targets, I take a look at my day and figure out, OK, what can I do to bring me closer to achieving these major targets today? And I don't go to bed until I've done something to make some progress toward every single one of those.

Scott: That's right. And it can be small; you don't have to take big steps every single day. One little action towards it is a big deal.

Kyle: Right. And those little actions add up, you know. That's the thing most people fail, is they try to do a big action: major diet, major exercise program for the first two weeks of the new year, and then they fall flat on their face because they haven't overcome their negative programming, their self‑image hasn't changed a bit, and they haven't done enough work on their mindset and their brain to keep that going. Because determination and willpower are really, really poor ways to try to change anything. That's the way most people try to do it, and so I totally recommend not trying to will yourself through a diet or training program. I encourage people to study how your brain works and learn how to use your imagination, and imagine the physique that you want, and imagine the life that you want, and then every day try to live up to that imagination, try to live up to that vision that you hold.

Scott: Have fun with it.

Kyle: Yeah, have a lot of fun with it.

Scott: It's a lot of fun! And the big thing that hits home with me, it's creating something that's more than just a wish, and more than just a dream. Even if it is just writing something down that you want, that's a much bigger step than someone who just says, "I wish I had six‑pack abs." If you're actually writing down, "I want six‑pack abs," and you cut out a picture of six‑pack abs. And you're like, "OK, what step can I do today that's going to bring me closer to six pack abs?" That's way better than someone going, "Man! I just can't wait. I really want to have six pack abs."

If you're just saying to yourself, "I want to have six pack abs,' it's just a small part of the puzzle. But, here you are really laying out an action plan, and having fun with it at the same time. Like, actually taking one little step towards it makes it exciting. And if you're doing those little things that you do, they really add up.

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Unstoppable Fat Loss Interview With Kevin Gianni

2008-08-08T16:39:00.000-07:00

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Self Talk and Fat Loss Success

By Scott Tousignant, BHK, CFC
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What you are about to read is an excerpt from an interview that I did with Kevin Gianni from the MP3 audio program, Unstoppable Fat Loss. If you adopt the mindset that we cover below and apply it to your workouts and nutrition plan, you can expect success and amazing results.

Kevin: There is a quote that I absolutely love, I mean it's one of my favorite quotes, and I actually just learned it recently. You know, I'm always learning about things, I'm always talking to new people and they are always telling me great things, and this is the quote‑‑I don't know who said it but it's just awesome‑‑it says: "If someone taught me how to flip a switch I wouldn't dismiss it as simple, I'd just enjoy the light."

Scott: Wow.

Kevin: I know, isn't it great?

Scott: That is awesome.

Kevin: It's a fantastic‑‑

Scott: Trip.

Kevin: I mean, it's a fantastic quote. And there are tricks that you can use, that I can show you, that Scott can show you, that everyone out there can show you, that fitness pros can show you; and you can use those to enjoy the light. And I'll tell you, flipping the switch is actually easy, it's just getting up to flipping the switch. [laughs]

Scott: Right.

Kevin: Is when it becomes a challenge. So I use different mindset techniques to make this happen with my clients and with myself. And I will preface this, I'll say everything that I talk about and that I use on my clients, I've tested on myself. I do this stuff all the time and that's why I can talk so confidently about it, because it works for me.

It works for other people, it can work for you, and it can work for anyone. And the first thing that I absolutely do with all my clients, before I even sit them down, and I do this subconsciously, subconsciously they're not knowing it, and I do it consciously with them as well. So the first time I'll meet with a client I walk in the door and I give a huge smile, OK? A huge smile and I say, "Hey, how are you doing? My name is Kevin." And in most cases they usually smile back.

So, right there you're starting to change your state. Most people when they think about a trainer they think about fat loss. They get very serious.

Scott: Yeah.

Kevin: Very serious. You're reading your exercise books and you're learning about nutrition, you're getting all the things you really, really need. You have to eat this. You have to eat that. Forget it. I want you to associate exercise, and fitness, and healthy lifestyle with smiling. Because man, when you smile everything is in tune. Everything is going your way. So that's what I do first off.

And then I'll actually sit down and do an exercise, and I saw this from a Tony Robbins seminar that I went to where he has everyone stand up and he says, "All right, everyone, I want you to put on a grumpy face. I want you to put your head down. And I want you to just kind of get in a really bad mood." Right?

Scott: [laughs] Right, right.

Kevin: And then you do and you're like I'm in a bad mood, why did he make me do this? This sucks.

[laughing]

And then what happens is he says, "All right, now you're in a bad mood. I want you to stand up straight and I want you to smile. The biggest smile that you've ever had." So everyone laughs. And usually when you smile you can feel that energy of the people next to you.

Scott: Right.

Kevin: It's a really neat thing. It's something that probably they'll find out what it means after we all die, but it's a fantastic feeling that you get when you're around a bunch of people smiling or laughing. You saw that contagious laughter.

And then he says, "While you're smiling I want you to think about that terrible thing again." And you're like, "I can't." And then you know how powerful that is. It seems so simple.

And I go through this with my client while we're just standing there, and we go through it and they say, "Wow. I never thought of it that way." And it's so simple. I mean, I remember hearing when I was a kid, put on a happy face kind of thing.

Scott: Right.

Kevin: And just kind of dismissing it. But I use this in the morning. I tell my clients to use this in the morning. Get out of bed. Get up. Go to the mirror. Look in the mirror. Smile at yourself. You'll laugh because of the fact you're doing it.

Because it's just so silly, right? And then tell yourself something. Say, "Hey, I'm going to have an awesome day today." And laugh about it. And laugh how silly you are doing it.

And I guarantee you if you do it for five days in a row your week is going to be better than last week.

Scott: Awesome. That's right. That's right.

Kevin: And I used to resist that. I mean resist it to the point where I would ignore doing it. I'd get out of bed. I knew that I had to do it. I'd go to the mirror. I'd put a little smirk on like your saying something to yourself. You know? [laughs]

Scott: Yeah, yeah.

Kevin: And then I'd just say, "All right. Well, I'm not going to do it." And now I've gotten to the point where I go to the mirror and I say like six things. My fiance thinks I'm crazy because I'm talking to myself in the mirror in the morning and she's still rolling around. She's like trying to sleep.

And then I come out and then all throughout during the day I'm saying things to myself like, "I'm in great shape." Or, "I'm feeling fantastic today." And I'm saying it out loud because there's only so many things you can say out loud in the given course of the day. And obviously you can tell by the way I talk I say a lot.

Scott: Yeah.

[laughing]

Kevin: But, there's so many things that you can say during the day. And if you say the good things your body and mind is going to accept those as true. Because think of all the things you think in your head. I mean, you can think of some of the most fantastic things in your head to some of the most strangest things that you ever could have possibly imagined. Like how did that come into my mind, right?

Scott: That's right.

Kevin: Everyone's had those moments. Well, the strangest things never come true and in most cases the wildest dreams never come true because they're never mentioned. So, if you start mentioning more of those things, hopefully the wilder, awesome things then you're going to start to actually realize those things. And the power of that is just incredible. And think of it as hokey until you do it.

Scott: Oh man, no way.

Kevin: And then it becomes such a reality. It's absolutely incredible.

Scott: That's right. How can you not have a great day? How can you not be in a great mood when you yell out or say out things like that to yourself? It's awesome. I do the same thing myself, man, and it's fantastic. These are probably some of the greatest things that I've learned from Tony Robbins myself.

The way you sit, the way you walk, the way you stand. It's just body movements, positions, like you said, smiling. Simple things like that. Like you said, it sounds hokey, but it works! Walk like a successful person who's in great shape. Go to the beach and walk around like you are in the best shape out of anybody else there. Watch what it does to your mood.

And watch what it does to what you eat that day. If you're walking around like that, it's amazing. You walk by the ice cream bar and you don't want it because, hey, you're walking tall and proud. You're thinking like you're already a success, and eating the ice cream's not going to be what a successful person would do that that time. Simple body gestures like that are very powerful.

Kevin: You got it.

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Unstoppable Fat Loss Interview With John Riccio

2008-08-08T16:37:00.000-07:00

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Achieve Fat Loss Success And Become An Inspiration To Others

By Scott Tousignant, BHK, CFC
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What you are about to read is an excerpt from an interview that I did with John Riccio from the MP3 audio program, Unstoppable Fat Loss. If you adopt the mindset that we cover below and apply it to your workouts and nutrition plan, you can expect success and amazing results.

Scott: Right, right. I mean, it sounds like at a young age you had purpose in life, even though people were telling you all these things. You wanted to impact people and help them become.

John: Yeah, that's always been my goal and my desire, because when you grow up in a hospital, and there's other little children around you who are suffering with, you know. My particular thing was cerebral palsy, there was MS, there was spine abifida.

There were just horrific things, amputations, you know horrible accidents, brain trauma. And, you know, you either become callous to those things, or you become tremendously empathetic, towards people's suffering.

And I think I made a decision then that, if I have to go through all this, I'm going to make it count for something. So, I think that's the thing, you know? I've always said that pride and pity, are on the opposite end of the same dirty stick, because the focus is always on us. And I think that will handicap you right away.

Because if you're not giving out to others, if you're not reaching down to help someone up, it just becomes so unfruitful, it's almost like the dead sea. The Dead Sea only takes in water, it has no outlets. But there's no life, where as the sea of Tiberius, which is known, or people remember that as the Sea of Galilee, has the most outlets.

But it's the most fertile fishing ground, that exists. So I think even in nature there's an example there that it's not so much what you take, it's what you give back. And I think that's the most important thing. One thing that I've learned is that I've been there for others, God takes my problems and my issues and he deals with them, you know?

And the key is not to focus on the problem, but to focus on the promise. Cause, you know, you can take your mess and turn it into a message. You can take your test and turn it into a testimony, and so I'm never moved by the circumstances, because the minute I do that I stop going forward. And I can't be living water, and the minute water stops it becomes stagnant. And there's no life in it, there's death.

And I think a lot of people, what they do is they look at their past, they look at what people say. And instead of using it as a guide post, they use it as a hitching post. And so, once again here's an exit where I can sail. Here's another area where I can drop the ball. Instead of saying, look I'm going to make each day count. You know?

So we stop having that I'm just here to exist, but each day should be lived with a purpose. You know, to be a blessing and encouragement. And if you can't edify and lift and encourage, then I think you really need to assess why you're here. But like I said, we're never put here to complete with each other, but to only complete each other. And that's the most important thing.

Scott: Right, I love it.

John: And that's why it's so important that I share things, because, you know, I have crutches and a wheelchair, but we all have handicaps. And if I can help that person, if I can give them a key to unlock the chain that's holding them back, then I've done my job.

If I can use those things to find a way out of the maze for you, then that's where the blessing is because at that point it's up to every individual to say, 'Hey that guy believes in me and look what he's accomplished.' The key is to not stop trying. Everybody fails.

If you look at Abraham Lincoln and his history, he failed so many times before he was elected president, but he didn't give up and he maintained character and integrity throughout and I think that's the important thing.

My desire to be good in bodybuilding came from Jack LaLanne. I used to sit there on the couch‑‑I couldn't sit up, so I can't technically say that; I was kind of slouched over, with my arms twisted from spasticity and my legs‑‑and I would watch Jack LaLanne and say, "You know, some day, I'm going to have a body like that, no matter what anybody said." And at the time, I had braces up to my waist.

Scott: Wow.

John: You know, the metal braces and everything?

Scott: Yeah.

John: Well, I held on to that, and I didn't let that dream evaporate. I watched over it, and every day, I said, "This is what's going to happen, " despite all the surgeries, despite everything they said...

Scott: Right.

John: Because doctors were pretty cruel. And doctors, we have a tendency to put them on a pedestal.

Scott: Right.

John: And unfortunately, we do that with a lot of people in our life‑‑our loved ones, friends that we care about‑‑but we have to realize that this is the only body we have, and we have to do everything in our power to do what's best for it, to enhance our quality of life, because everything you do one season will affect the next.

Scott: Mm‑hmm. Exactly, exactly. How old would you say you were when you first saw Jack LaLanne and were really inspired to do something?

John: I'd have to say that that was about four, I think. Age four.

Scott: Wow! You were really young.

John: Yeah, Jack LaLanne and then Captain Kangaroo. But I got a heck of a lot more out of Jack LaLanne.

Scott: [laughs]

John: It was something about him. He was so positive and so encouraging, when he was saying that he was happy to spend the time with you, and it just made you feel like part of the family. It was just a great inspiration. Down the line, years and years and years later, I got to share my story with him and his wife, Elaine. And it was really neat.

They were actually in tears, because they were on one of my buddy's television shows, and they called me from Florida after he had told them what I had told my buddy, and my buddy Clark said, "Do you know that he's the top handicapped bodybuilder in the world right now?"

I think that seed had planted itself, but I continually watered that seed, I gave it food, I gave it sunlight, and it flourished into something that people could take shade under. And I think that's important. If you out here, any of you, have a desire to do something: number one, have the right motive. I think that's the most important thing.

This interview was an excerpt from the MP3 audio interview program, Unstoppable Fat Loss

About The Author:

You can visit Scott’s website at:
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Unstoppable Fat Loss Interview With John Bartlett

2008-08-08T10:13:00.000-07:00

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Hitting Rock Bottom

By Scott Tousignant, BHK, CFC
www.UnstoppableFatLoss.com

What you are about to read is an excerpt from an interview that I did with John Bartlett from the MP3 audio program, Unstoppable Fat Loss. If you adopt the mindset that we cover below and apply it to your workouts and nutrition plan, you can expect success and amazing results.

Scott: So do you want to start getting into what really was your turning point, what really drove you to make the change?

John: Well, the first that happened was: my father passed away from his second heart attack at age 65. Now, he was pretty heavy most of his life. When he got into his early 60s, he started using the treadmill, and he dropped a lot of weight. He was actually thin by the time he passed away, but it was a little too little, a little too late.

He died at 65 suddenly. Although, not that suddenly‑‑he was fairly sick. When I say "suddenly," he had retired at 50, he was on a cruise in St. Thomas, and he died on the cruise. So that's what I mean by "suddenly."

Scott: Right.

John: That really woke me up a little bit. That's when I started to break into physical fitness. Now, over the next year, what I would do is I would start a diet every Monday morning, because by Wednesday, I was done.

Scott: [laughs loudly]

John: I would go to the gym every Monday morning, and I might even get there on Wednesday, but I certainly wouldn't be getting there Friday, Saturday, or Sunday...

Scott: [laughs] Right.

John: So I would start my routine again.

Scott: Right.

John: And it just never stuck. I knew I needed to make a change, but it never stuck. And then, my wife and I decided to adopt a baby from overseas, which was another motivator, that I did not want to be the guy that was obese, bringing up the child. I couldn't run around with him. I couldn't go bicycling with him. I couldn't do things that little boys want to do, because I was just so obese.

Scott: Right.

John: I didn't want to bring him up with bad eating habits. I didn't want any of that stuff. So that was another motivator. It wasn't enough for me to really make major changes, but it was another thing burning inside, kind of more of the stick, I guess you would say.

And then, about a year after my dad passed away, I went to see my doctor, and my blood pressure was 180 over something. My pulse was, I don't know what‑‑it was like 100‑something. And he said I was in trouble. I was having major, major problems, and I was very sick. I didn't have any definite disease yet, but a stroke in the next few years was possible. A heart attack was possible. I was on medication for blood pressure; wasn't working.

Between that, my dad passing away, and the fact that we were adopting a son, everything just came together, and I kind of felt that that was my rock bottom, as far as health goes...

Scott: Yeah, yeah. When you get that wakeup call from the doctor... And it's one thing to be told this. But it seems to be the experience of seeing your father go through it as well, and it almost becomes like a reality for you, and if you don't start doing something now, you could very well end up like that yourself.

John: Yeah. My wife broke down in tears. Just so many emotional things happened right at that time...

Scott: Wow.

John: It all just came together. That was the wakeup.

Scott: Wow. So what were the kinds of things that you started doing at that point? Did you get out of the "go to the gym Monday morning and stop by Wednesday" kind of routine?

John: Yes. I broke out of that routine. And it just happened: there was no progression. I've got an all‑or‑nothing mentality, and I basically went all‑out. I told my wife to take some photos of me. She did, and those are my "before" photos on the website.

Scott: Mm‑hmm.

John: And I started going to the gym. I went to the gym for an hour a day, every day. I bought two mountain bikes: one for my wife, one for myself. I mountain biked every day. I live in a mountainous community with hundreds of miles of mountain bike trails, so I took advantage of that. I biked, usually two hours a day, sometimes three or four. It just became my obsession.

Scott: Right...

John: I read anything and everything I could find on health, fitness, nutrition...you name it.

Scott: Was it helping out? Did you learn stuff from what you were reading? Were you applying it? What you were reading?

John: Without a doubt... I would spend probably four hours an evening reading. I probably would go through a book a day.

Scott: So you were intense *laughs*.

John: Yeah, very intense and you know I came up with a lot of my own ideas at that point on how to get in shape and I ended up following through.

I also had a deadline. My wife and I were planning to travel overseas to Kazakzstan for the adoption in August of that year so my deadline was August 1st to lose the weight, to get in some sort of decent shape before I met my son and we brought him back.

Scott: Aha!

John: Granted, he's a one‑year‑old baby but it was my deadline. So I had a deadline so I created a deadline. The next thing I did was I created a website and became accountable. I put everyday...I would log in my journal...what I did, how I ate, what I did for exercise I even talked about. A lot of personal stuff back then.

Scott: Right..

John: And I put it out there for everybody there in the world to see. I.

Made claims, statements, this is what I'm going to do and you better believe, that made me accountable.

Scott: Yes, it puts a bit of fear in you I guess. I highly recommend it. It's one thing to set goals and a lot of people don't even write them down or even tell their spouse. [laughs] But you told the entire world, basically, this is what I'm going to do and the steps I'm taking. You had a plan to get there and you were documenting the whole thing. I think that's a very important key factor when it comes to driving towards your goal. Tell people. Let as many people know as you can because the accountability is such a huge factor. It's not just you should have accountability within yourself but when you've got other people kind of rooting for you or just even having them know what your doing you want to make sure you achieve it so you look like this successful person that you are.

John: And then there was one more thing that really helped light my fire. It kept me going. And that is that my wife is bit of a pessimist.

Scott: [laughs]

John: And I feed off negativity.

Scott: Yeah?

John: So by me telling her I was going to be in shape, she would say, "Well you will never do it." I can't wait to prove her wrong.

I just couldn't wait. So after she saw me getting in shape, that stopped. So I had to make the claims much more sensational so I would say something like, "I'm going to be a fitness model" and she would laugh at me. And then I worked harder and harder and harder and harder.

Scott: Right.

John: The next thing you know, I'm contacted by somebody who wanted me to do ads for them. And the next thing you know I'm in magazines. Then I told her I'm going to be a professional bodybuilder.

Scott: [laughing]

John: No way. OK, so that was my next thing. I got a little nudge from a friend who told me, "Hey, you know you really got to get on stage. You've got to try it. You're either going to love it or your going to hate it but, if you love it, it's really wonderful."

Scott: Right. This really touches on an interesting point because a lot of people are really trying to avoid negativity with this whole love attraction out there which I firmly believe in and I apply myself. I've attracted a lot of great things but I don't necessarily block out any negativity. Here you thrive off of it. So if it can come in here, you're not going to let it sink into you. You know what, you're right. I'm not going to do this. I'm going to prove you wrong. So that's a real important point and something that not enough people are talking about right now. So I'm really glad you brought that up.

John: Well, I think it's a personality trait. I think some people don't feed off of the negativity.

Scott: Right...

John: So I think it depends on the person. But, for me, it was the fire.

Scott: Right...

John: I mean that's what pushed me further and further. Granted, I lost the weight. Granted, I got in shape. But to push myself to the other extremes, fitness model, to winning bodybuilding contests, to becoming a natural pro, all that had to do with the negativity I was able to get from my wife.

Scott: Wow.

John: And now, you know what she does? She tells people. She sends pictures to her friends when I'm in a magazine or I have a photo shoot.

Scott: [laughs]

John: She's all proud of me so now to fuel myself, to get fuel from her again, I kind of have to think of something else very sensational. So it's kind of a fun little game. But I know I'll find something.

This interview was an excerpt from the MP3 audio interview program, Unstoppable Fat Loss

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Unstoppable Fat Loss Interview With Joe Vitale

2008-08-08T09:46:00.000-07:00

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How Do You Measure Fat Loss Success

By Scott Tousignant, BHK, CFC
www.UnstoppableFatLoss.com

What you are about to read is an excerpt from an interview that I did with Joe Vitale from the MP3 audio program, Unstoppable Fat Loss. If you adopt the mindset that we cover below and apply it to your workouts and nutrition plan, you can expect success and amazing results.

Scott: …But there's one point, you're talking about you enter these Body for Life contests, and it was more‑or‑less for the accountability. It wasn't necessarily to win the contest, and I saw in one of the videos, you were excited just to have your name on the list of people that completed...

Joe: Thank you for pointing that out. You know, I've written, as you pointed out earlier, more books that I can list here, like 30‑some books. But I have five certificates of completion from the Body for Life people, and I'm more proud of those than most of my books, because those five 12‑week programs were harder to do for me.

What I mean by that is, it wasn't impossible, of course. Obviously I did it. But it was more of a challenge for me after 50 years of basically not working out to actually enter a fitness contest, and entering the first one when I'm 300 pounds or just about, was a major effort for me. That was a major challenge for me. So these are milestones.

In that one piece of paper that you're referring to was published in the EAS Body for Life award catalog, and it was like... I think it was the 2005 Championship Finishers, and my name is on there. It's in small print, but it's big enough to see without a magnifying glass, and whenever I see it, I'm thinking, "Oh man, I'm proud of that."

In fact, all five of these things, six of these things, are in frames and they're on the wall in my gym, right where I look at them, when I'm on my bike doing the cardio. I'm looking at those and reminding myself, "I've done it before. I'll do it again, and I just might win one of these suckers down the road."

Scott: That's fantastic. I love that. I love that. It's really cool because success can be measured in so many different ways. So many people could have come up to you and said, "Well Joe, you didn't win the contest", but you won in so many other ways that you didn't have to win the contest.

Joe: Yeah, and that's an important thing. First of all, nobody has ever said anything negative about winning or not winning, and I think most people realize that thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people, enter these contests but the vast majority of them, if not 80% or 90%, never finish them.

Scott: That's right.

Joe: So it's not a matter of actually winning anything, it's a matter of actually finishing something, and then for me, I like the phrase that the runners have about exceeding your personal best.

Scott: Mm‑hmm.

Joe: What I'm always trying to do is not beat somebody else, I like the idea that we live in a co‑operative universe, not a competitive universe. And there is some truth to having competition and whatever you're doing sports‑wise. But for me to lose weight, it's more a matter of me beating my personal best than me beating anybody else.

Along the way, and this is worth mentioning because it's going to help folks, when I first decided that I wanted to lose weight and get in shape, I started looking around for a role model. I started to think, "OK, what do I want to look like, when I'm all said and done?" And I didn't have any pictures of me being perfectly slim and trim and athletic and fit, because that didn't exist beforehand.

So I went looking around to find, OK, who's got the ideal physique for me. And I found it in the world of bodybuilding with Steve Reeves. Steve Reeves was the original Hercules; he had what's called the classic physique. I will not end up looking exactly like him because for one thing, he had hair.

Scott: [laughs]

Joe: For another thing, he was like 6'2" or 6'3" and I'm not even... I'm like 5'8" or eight and a half, somewhere in there. So physically, there's not going to be a direct comparison, but his model, his physique, inspired me to want to... what is it... what's the word I'm looking for ‑ mutate, not mutate ‑ it's like transform... morph! Morph my body. Morph my body into something closer to him.

Well, Steve Reeves, if he was around, I would have found him and trained with him but he had died a few years ago. The person who had the classic physique, who's still alive is Frank Zane. I found Frank Zane is alive and well, he's like 64, he's in phenomenal shape, he works out tremendously all the time, and he does trainings. I flew out and trained with Frank Zane a couple of years ago.

Scott: Wow!

Joe: It's important to realize I was still overweight. I had already been in a couple of contests, I had lost like 60 pounds by the time I got to Frank Zane's door, and also I want to admit, I was nervous about it. I didn't know Frank Zane; I knew he was a legendary bodybuilder of the Olympic School. He's one of the classics; he's going to go down in history as a famous classic physique bodybuilder. And here I am flying to his home, paying him for three days' worth of training in his own gym, and I'm thinking to myself, "Oh my God, what have I got myself into!" Yet at the same time I'm also thinking, "Wow, Joe, you must be serious, because look what you're doing! Not only are you working out, but you've been to all these contests, and you're modeling Steve Reeves, but you've found a living classic physique bodybuilder in Frank Zane, and you're flying out to his home!"

Scott: Right.

Joe: So I'm doing all of these things to help me move to my goal. And I think these are all elements, when you make a decision, things will start showing up that you can do or can't do, and it's up to you to decide to say "yes" to them, even when they might seem out of your comfort zone.

Scott: Right.

Joe: You know, might seem a little scary at first, but it's only scary because you haven't done it before. It's actually not scary in a life threatening way, it's just scary because it's new.

Scott: I think, I forget the exact quote, but it goes something along the lines of, "If it doesn't scare you, it's not worth doing." Something along those lines.

Joe: Yeah. Well, Bob Procter who's in the move "The Secret", a friend of mine, he's a great guy. Well‑worth studying his products, they're very inspirational. He says, "A goal should scare you a little and excite you a lot."

Scott: I like that.

Joe: And I like the blend of that, it's like, "Yeah, it's going to excite you. It's like, wow, I'm going to get fit; I'm going to lose weight; I'm going to be in shape." And then it's going to scare you a little bit, it's like, "Oh my God, this is a different me."

That's something you also have to take on, it's like, yes, you are becoming a different you. A better you, a healthier you, a new and improved you, but a far more confident you, that will be able to do so many more things in the world with a greater degree of confidence.

I remember, and this was a year or so ago, I was at a conference some place, I was speaking, I had a booth, it was long days, and I woke up in the morning and the thought went across my mind, "I should go work out." And I remember telling myself, "Oh, forget that. You're already working plenty by being at this booth, by giving these speaking engagements. You just traveled here. Just keep sleeping." And then the thought went through, "But this is the new Joe. The new Joe gets up and works out!"

Scott: [laughs]

Joe: In that moment, I wrestled with it for just a second. I thought "Nah, it's OK to sleep," and then the thought came, "Wait a minute, this is the new

Joe: this is the Joe who wants to be slim and trim. This is the Joe who wants to be fit. This is the Joe who is at least semi‑athletic. This new Joe would get out of bed."

I got out of bed. Marissa was laying beside me, and she says, "Where are you going?!" And I said, "I'm going to go work out..." and she said, "Are you serious?!" And I said, "Yes, this is what I do now." And I went and did it.

This interview was an excerpt from the MP3 audio interview program, Unstoppable Fat Loss

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2008-08-06T18:23:00.000-07:00

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Unstoppable Fat Loss Interview With James Villepigue

2008-08-04T19:44:00.000-07:00

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Embrace The Setbacks and Challenges
In Your Fat Loss Journey

By Scott Tousignant, BHK, CFC
www.UnstoppableFatLoss.com

What you are about to read is an excerpt from an interview that I did with James Villepigue from the MP3 audio program, Unstoppable Fat Loss. If you adopt the mindset that we cover below and apply it to your workouts and nutrition plan, you can expect success and amazing results.

James: …And, quite honestly, that was 1989, 1990, and now here we are in 2007 and I'm 35 years old now and have never looked back. I never had a problem again with bulimia. You know, I always reflect back on who I was, but I'll tell you something: that makes me the man I am today. Because I learned that I have empathy, which helps me to recognize what other people are going through. And I love being able to help other people that are facing similar challenges and obstacles in their lives. Because I know what they're feeling.

Scott: Right.

James: I know what they're going through and it's not an easy feat. But once you know what you need to do and you have people to support you and you can find that inner drive, inner motivation inside you and learn how to bring that out every moment of your life, you too can get to where you most desire to be.

And people like me and Scott are here to help, but where I'm at today, I'm very blessed and I'm very thankful that I got myself where I needed to be.

Scott: I love that you're able to look back and not look back with regret. Because so many people, even getting to the point where you're at right now, or even if it was, say five years later, they're in great shape. If they kept looking back and saying, 'I wish I didn't do that to myself. Imagine if I'd been healthy all along and didn't go through all this.'

I mean it's almost like you're just obsessed with those types of feelings.

James: Right.

Scott: And for a lot of people, I think that's what sets them back even after they've accomplished great goals. They still picture themselves as that person, whereas you James, you seem to be this goal‑driven person constantly moving forward. And accepting what's in the past, like I said, that's who you are and I know who I am based on my failures and successes and whatever went on. I mean, that created who we are right now, this great person that we've become. It's a part of us that we need to accept and appreciate, but that's not who we are anymore.

James: You know, and I'm not one to look at the whole 'would've, could've, should've' thing. You know, we need to take responsibility and I am blessed that I am who am today. But I don't look back at all and say, 'Oh my gosh, I wish I'd changed this or that.' You know, I'm thankful for what I went through. That's not to say that people should start in a bad place in order to get to a great place, no.

It's basically saying what you just said, is that wherever you're starting from there is always room for improvement. And you can always overcome those obstacles and challenges if it's something that you really want to do.

But that person that I used to be, you know, he's still in me‑‑that fat kid who was very vulnerable and went through all those things. I'm not a new person. I still have those things. There are still scars there. But, I am thankful that I went through those things and I overcame those obstacles and challenges. And again, it helps me to identify people who are going through things now.

But, I love myself and I'm very blessed, again, that I am where I am today. But I still have my challenges. I still have my obstacles, but that's life man. Life happens. And you have to learn to find solutions, rather than dwell at the problem at hand.

Scott: Right. And appreciate those obstacles. Like look at those obstacles as an opportunity, rather than a challenge that's going to set you back. That hey, if you fail, so what? [laughs] You're going to learn from it man. Just keep moving forward. It's going to make you stronger, and better, and learning. And that's another way of educating yourself is going through that. And I love that you...

I think that's fascinating that you took personal training courses before even thinking that you were going to go through that career path, just for that educational purpose. That's what I find. The most successful people continue to educate themselves, including myself, yourself, top experts, other people who aren't experts but have still achieved their dream body, you want to learn more.

Because, like you said, there's always ways that you can improve yourself no matter what stage you're at. And I think education in all the different forms, it's a big thing and it keeps it constantly on your mind where you're going and why you're doing it. And just keeps you intoned with your body, I think.

James: Absolutely. And for people to really... You know, you need to know who you are. It's not easy if you're overweight, you're not feeling good about yourself, and people are treating you unkindly. It's not easy to deal with that type of stuff, but you need to know who you are inside and all the wonderful characteristics and attributes that you have.

You can't let anybody deter you or hold you back from doing what you ultimately want to do. There were people, as I said earlier, that really treated me terribly. And now the really incredible thing about it, is that once I started looking great and feeling great, people started treating me very differently, Scott.

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Unstoppable Fat Loss Interview With Fran Harris

2008-08-04T17:53:00.000-07:00

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The Three H’s Of Fat Loss – Heart, Hunger, and Hustle

By Scott Tousignant, BHK, CFC
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What you are about to read is an excerpt from an interview that I did with Fran Harris from the MP3 audio program, Unstoppable Fat Loss. If you adopt the mindset that we cover below and apply it to your workouts and nutrition plan, you can expect success and amazing results.

Fran: Absolutely, because than I became an athlete in high school, and started to really see what success was all about. And how it had nothing to do with ‑ where you were born, or what family you came from, or what school you went to, or which neighborhood. It really had to do with your character, your heart.

Now, I talk at all college campuses about my three H's, which are "Heart, Hunger and Hustle." And I talk about, those are the three ingredients that people need to be successful, whether you're talking about your fitness goals, or your business goals.

If you don't have the desire, which is that heart ‑ if you don't have the desire and the heart to create a complete transformation in your life, nothing is going to happen for you. If you don't have the hunger, which is of course that drive that gets you out of bed every morning to go run, or walk, or do the right things where nutrition is concerned, you're never going to have it. And if you don't have the hustle, which is that on‑going effort, that discipline every single day to move you in the direction of your dreams, nothing is going to happen for you.

So, you got to have the Heart, the Hunger, and the Hustle. And I continue to reiterate that with my clients, and my own life, because those are the essential ingredients for any kind of success.

Scott: Right, and you pretty much need the whole package to get there.

Fran: Yeah.

Scott: Cause one is not good enough.

Fran: That's right, that's right.

Scott: A lot of people can have the hunger, but it's only that temporary hunger. And it only lasts for a short time, and they just don't get that hustle going, or they get knocked down and they don't keep going at it.

Fran: Yeah, or you have that heart. People who have the desire ‑ Oh, boy! I really, really want it! But, then they don't have the hustle, the effort, the day to day effort. The getting up and going to the gym. The getting up and going for a walk on the beach. The getting up, and just eating well. That requires effort. So, you're absolutely right, it requires all three things.

Scott: Now, you must have experienced several different degrees, levels of intensity. I guess, in all these areas of going from ‑ I mean, high school, to you played college ball, in Texas as well, and you moved on to the WNBA as well. Did you have to like really ‑ was the heart, hunger, and hustle always there, or did you increase an intensity as you advanced from one level to the next?

Fran: It's been ever evolving, if you will. I can remember a great situation in college. While I was a freshman in college, and of course I went to the University of Texas at Austin, where everybody on that team was great in high school. And so what happens in the transition between college ‑ between high school and college, is that in high school of course, you're the big woman on campus. Everybody knows who you are, you're the superstar, you're in the paper all the time.

And you get to college, you're just a rookie, you're a freshman, you're a little fish in a big pond. And so for me I was like, "Oh, I want to go to Texas, and I'm going to be a star, " and you know all that good stuff. And the first game out of the gate, our preseason game, I was ‑ the whole game was going on, and I wasn't playing. And I was like, "Well, when is coach going to put me in? When is coach going to put me in? I mean, the time is dwindling, when am I getting in the game?" And time went on, time went on, time went on.

The whole game went by and I never saw one minute of playing time. So, the next day I am hot! I am beside myself! "Why in the world is this woman not playing me? Doesn't she know I'm a superstar?" And I went to my coach's office and I said, "I don't get it. You know respectfully, I don't get why I didn't play?" And she looked at me and she said, "Fran, you can be a good player, or you can be a great player. But to be a great player, you have to show up every single day." And wow! What great words, whether you're talking about sports, or life. You have to show up every single day.

So, clearly I may have had the heart. I may have had the desire to be a good player, or a great player, but I didn't have that hustle. I didn't have the necessary discipline and effort that great athletes and superstars have. I didn't have that at 17. But, my coach had to intervene and say, "You know what? I don't really care how good you were in high school. Everybody is good in high school. If you want to play at this level, and please hear ‑ not just at this level in sports. If you want to play at this level in life, if you really want to be an elite player in life ‑ you have to show up every single day." And isn't that a great lesson, Scott?

Scott: Oh, yeah! It's powerful...

... without a doubt. Slack off for a second, and someone's going to surpass you, cause there's a lot of people out there who have the heart, hunger, and hustle, and want it just as bad, if not more than you.

Fran: Absolutely.

Scott: Excellent. Those are definitely valuable lessons there for sure that everyone should be applying immediately.

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Unstoppable Fat Loss Interview With Donna Krech

2008-08-04T17:42:00.000-07:00

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Believe In Your Fat Loss Goals

By Scott Tousignant, BHK, CFC
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What you are about to read is an excerpt from an interview that I did with Donna Krech from the MP3 audio program, Unstoppable Fat Loss. If you adopt the mindset that we cover below and apply it to your workouts and nutrition plan, you can expect success and amazing results.

Scott: Great, great. I love it. I love it. So now being a belief builder yourself you must have come across in initial consultations where you see a lot of people with limiting even self limiting beliefs. Along with that, what are some of the things that you see that are holding people back from achieving their dream body?

Donna: You know we just don't realize, people just don't realize, that all we need for success is to change our minds and what we do is teach people how to change their mind. I mean really it is one thing. It's just choosing one thing to change. What we find is, absolutely let me confirm what you just said. Absolutely people have self limiting beliefs but you know what the reason the self limiting beliefs keep limiting them is they don't know they have the self limiting beliefs.

Scott: That's right.

Donna: They don't have any idea that they are there. The first thing is identifying that the self limiting belief is there and Oh my goodness paying attention to your thoughts and your words. Life and death is in the power of the tongue. As a man thinks so is he. This stuff is all true. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Now let's think about the things we say with regard to our body or regard to exercise. I hate exercise. I am never going to get this weight off. I am always going to be fat. My parents are fat. I am supposed to be fat. I really don't want to go on this diet. Gosh I wish I can have that food. I am so limited with what I am allowed to eat and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Scott: Right.

Donna: If we stop and replay that and then you take a look at where your life is at you find that your life has absolutely become a self fulfilling prophecy of the things you said and you thought.

Scott: That's right.

Donna: Now what happens if we just ‑ whether we believe it or not, this is what I tell people, whether you believe it or not, just do it. Try it. Just humor me.

So what happens if we take all those things and we just flip‑flop them, just turn them around? And we say, "I love being a size two fit and looking 20 years younger than I am, with the energy of an 18‑year‑old. I absolutely love that I'm healthy and that when I take great big breaths my lungs become completely full of air.

If we just turn those negative statements into the positive benefits statement, the statement doesn't have to be, "I love to exercise". It really should be centered on the benefit of exercise or the benefit of losing the weight. And that's something else; we really need to pay attention to the benefit. That's what we talk to our members about when we get into never‑ending motivation.

We talk about the self‑limiting beliefs. But we talk about something called a powerful "why?" When a person has a powerful "why?"' they achieve their goals. Too often, we have temporary goals. We think they are goals. "I want to lose weight to go on a cruise" and sometimes you lose some weight to go on a cruise. And what happens when you come back from the cruise? You gain the weight back.

Scott: That's right.

Donna: Or they go, "Oh, my god, my class reunion is coming up. I must lose some weight!" And they lose a little weight for the class reunion. The class reunion is over. They gain the weight back.

Scott: Right.

Donna: When the goal is based around a powerful "Why?" ‑ something that is real, something that matters more than anything. Go and visit a nursing home and you will acquire a powerful "Why?" To be able to keep walking and not fall and break your hip. Watching your kids or grandkids and wanting to run with them and play with them and be down on the floor wrestling with them and listening to them giggle at the top of their lungs ‑ you can't do that if you're limited in movement.

Being able to travel the world with the person you love on your arm, with your tennis shoes on, running the steps of the Eiffel Tower during your retirement years, whatever the case might be, a powerful 'Why' is a much bigger goal. It is a further out goal.

Scott: Right.

Donna: And that's what people need to focus on. There really are only seven different components to maintaining motivation and if we go back to my story, really what we talked about is never‑ending motivation was keeping that "staying forever motivated" ‑‑ keeping that going. And then moving on to the next level, and the next level, and the next level, and the next level. And there are only seven different things that can come against motivation. And if you are aware of them, that in and of itself will build belief.

We went back and said, "OK, we had these self limiting beliefs" and that's absolutely true. But people can do specific things to build their beliefs once they are aware. My sister, who I love and I adore, has always struggled with her weight. She has been on all the different programs. When I began to uncover never‑ending motivation and began to share that with people and teach that to people, she sat in one of my teachings. She came up to me afterward and said, "I can't believe that I never realized I didn't believe I would ever achieve the goal. I just didn't really believe it. That's what's been in my way."

And I will tell you Scott, for the first time ever she is losing weight. She loves exercise. Her personality just completely lights up the room.

Scott: Excellent.

Donna: Her life has changed.

Scott: All from learning to be aware that she didn't believe in herself.

Donna: That's the first key.

Scott: And then just taking that leap of faith and saying, "You know what? I do believe in myself. I can do this."

Donna: And going through some of the exercises that we provide with 'Never‑Ending Motivation', which are all very, very simple. One of them is just so simple. It feels like it is too simple. Once you are aware that limiting beliefs are what are causing your problem, or what's holding you back I should say, than the real key is to begin building the beliefs.

Now, we all know about the belief builder statements, or positive affirmation statements, where we say what we want in a positive present tense. "I love being at this awesome fit, looking 20 years younger than I am, size 2" or whatever the case may be, building that belief statement and looking in the mirror and saying it with a big smile on your face, five to 10 times a day that statement. Your mind begins to cognitively believe what is being said and then you will behave accordingly.

We have all taken different kinds of training like that. But the simplest thing you can do to build belief is pour stories into your mind on a daily basis. It doesn't have to take long. We provide two to three minutes a day for people. Just getting a story going into your mind because it will get filed back there and through the day it will creep up. And the next day you get a different one.

Well what happens is that big storehouse of beliefs just starts getting fuller and fuller and fuller. Well you see belief and unbelief really cannot live together. They are opposites. So the more you build belief and the more that storehouse begins to get fuller, the more unbelief goes away, until eventually, and it just almost feels like magic, it's not there anymore.

Now you're a walking, talking and believing person that you can achieve any goal that you want to achieve. And it began from something as simple as pouring the stories of people who have achieved into your mind. It changes everything.

Scott: Right. Yeah, if they can do it why can't I?

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Unstoppable Fat Loss Interview With Tom Venuto

2008-08-04T10:26:00.000-07:00

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Break Through Your Fat Loss Plateau
By Expanding Your Comfort Zone

By Scott Tousignant, BHK, CFC
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Have your fat loss results come to a screeching halt? Or even worse, have you been working out for years with not much to show for it? The only way to break through the dreaded fat loss plateau is to stretch your limits and expand your comfort zone. In the world of discomfort ‘simply going through the motions’ is unacceptable. You must challenge yourself. The beauty is that each challenge is coupled with it’s own reward. And that’s what makes it all worthwhile.

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Scott Tousignant: Tom, I’ve heard you talk about stepping outside of your comfort zone, and embracing discomfort. Can you talk a little bit about the importance of this?

Tom Venuto: It goes hand in hand with personal growth and being better than the you of yesterday. If that’s your attitude, and if that’s your belief system, and it becomes part of your conscious awareness, you realize that you have to keep growing. You realize there is no such thing as retirement. Retirement equals death. When those kinds of things are your belief system, when you have those kinds of beliefs, the next question - the only next question - is HOW? How do I keep growing? It’s simple: You have to expand your boundaries. We’re all living inside these little circles or these small boxes, and you’ve got to get outside the box. It’s like, do you know those little crustaceans that keep growing and they have to discard the old shell and find a bigger shell to accommodate the bigger size?

Scott Tousignant: Yeah.

Tom Venuto: Well, we’re like that too, but the difference is, those creatures reach maturity, but we never stop, or at least that should be part of our purpose. We don’t reach a state of adulthood or a state of maturity in our personal development where we’re finished with growing. You approach life and you approach your vocation and your sport or your hobby as constant growth and you expand forever. You step over your boundaries, you step over your past limits. And that means going into the unknown. You step out of the familiar and into the unfamiliar, out of the comfortable into the uncomfortable. You get out of your comfort zone. The Late Cavett Robert, who was founder of the National Speakers Association, said something that always stuck with me:

“Most people are running around their whole lives with their umbilical cords in their hands and they’re looking for some place to plug it back in.”

Scott Tousignant: [laughs]

Tom Venuto:: Most people want that womb of comfort. But the extraordinary people are the exact opposite. They know they have to get out of the comfort zone, and into new territory or they’ll die inside that old, small shell. Walt Disney once said that he never wanted to repeat a past success. He was always creating something new. They called it “Imagineering.” They had to create something new and different that they had never done before. It was a never ending process of constant growth and look at where Disney is today.

Scott Tousignant: That’s right.

Tom Venuto: This is playing the game at a new higher level. And to play at a new, higher level, you have to grow. You have to become more. You have to step up and step out. You step out of what you’ve already done and into new territory because that’s where growth takes place. I think it’s one of the single most important secrets of personal growth and change: You don’t change by doing what you’ve already done. Here’s another little quote that everybody should post on their bulletin board, their computer desktop or somewhere they can always see it:

“Do what you always did, get what you always got.”

Scott Tousignant: Right.

Tom Venuto: That pretty much sums it up. You have to do what you always did just to maintain. You have to work at the level you’ve always been working at just to prevent yourself from going backwards. You’re working against entropy in this world. And the world is changing! Think about technology in business – it’s changing so much, so fast, that if you don’t step outside of your comfort zone and grow in your business and career, you’re going to lose your job. Your competition is going to eat you for lunch, but most people won’t step outside of their comfort zone. They won’t do it in business, they won’t do it in their personal lives. They won’t do it in their sport. They won’t do it for personal health and fitness. Why? Because change is painful. By definition, what’s it like outside the comfort zone?

Scott Tousignant: [laughs] Uncomfortable.

Tom Venuto: [laughs] Right, uncomfortable! The change is uncomfortable. Sometimes it’s physically painful, but always mentally and emotionally, in the form of discipline, uncertainty and fear. I don’t care what anybody says about “no pain, no gain.” That phrase gets knocked all the time as if it were wrong. Well, I’m going to tell you, the fact of life is that you don’t grow unless you step outside the comfort zone, and outside the comfort zone is discomfort.

I find that it’s mostly the non-achievers who put their own semantic spin on “no pain, no gain,” to make it seem like a bad thing. But, hey, 95% of the people in the world are not achievers so that’s not surprising. The winners understand “no pain, no gain,” and stepping outside the comfort zone in a healthy context, so they embrace it.

Scott Tousignant: Right. And I think an important point to make is that, as you step into discomfort and try these new things and grow, your comfort zone will expand, so you’ve got a much bigger comfort zone. These things that may seem uncomfortable right now become comfortable to you.

Tom Venuto Exactly. And then you’ve got to keep stepping outside of that comfort zone and then a new level opens up beyond you that you never saw before. The next level. There’s always a next level.

When you’re talking about something big like the Olympics, or pro bodybuilding or the Super Bowl or a world championship, you’d better believe it’s physical pain, it’s discipline, it’s sacrifice, it’s blood, sweat, and tears - literally. But you know what? For most people who simply want to go from unfit to fit, from overweight to ideal weight, it’s not so much about physical pain; it’s more like stretching yourself. Do you know how you develop flexibility? What does the trainer tell you? You stretch to the point of discomfort, but not to the point of pain, right? You get into a position of slight discomfort and you hold it, right?

Scott Tousignant: Yeah.

Tom Venuto: You hold it just long enough, and then what happens? The discomfort goes away, because the muscle becomes more pliable, and the range of motion is increased. And the next time, you stretch it a little bit further.

Scott Tousignant: Right. Good analogy.

Tom Venuto: Each time, you stretch just barely into the range you’ve never been in before, and eventually, you’re doing the splits. And why do you approach it like that? Because you don’t want to injure yourself. Stretch too far, too fast and your muscle tears.

You expand your comfort zone slowly. The elite athletes and high achievers really have to push themselves; they’re going to test their limits. If you’re not an elite athlete, and you take the advice, “no pain, no gain” too literally, then you’re going to end up getting injured. I always say to my training partner when I watch him cringing during a set and he finishes up with that pained look on his face, “Are you injured, or just hurt?” And he knows what I’m talking about. If he says he’s hurt, I say, “OK, good. As long as you’re not injured. Let’s get on with it. Next set.”

Scott Tousignant: [laughs]

Tom Venuto: I think that’s how most people should approach this. It’s not about how much you can injure yourself. That would be just plain dumb. Stretch yourself just a little bit. You have to extend your range of motion, you have to extend your boundaries, or you can’t grow. You can’t improve unless you stretch yourself. If you do the workout you’ve always done, you’re going to get the body you’ve always gotten. If that’s what some people want – if they just want to “stay fit” – OK fine. It actually doesn’t take that much to stay fit, once you’ve already achieved it. But what if you want to improve? What if you want a new body? What if you want to change? You’ve got to step out, you’ve got to break comfort zones, and I don’t care how hard you think you’re working, if your body is not changing, then whatever you’re doing right now is inside your comfort zone.

Scott Tousignant: That’s right. Again, like the slow stretching, it’s the day by day, and just be better today than you were yesterday.. Awesome. That’s just incredible advice. Thanks Tom.

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Unstoppable Fat Loss Interview With Jon Benson

2008-08-04T10:23:00.000-07:00

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Become What You Pursue With Your Fat Loss Goals

By Scott Tousignant, BHK, CFC
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What you are about to read is an excerpt from an interview that I did with Jon Benson from the MP3 audio program, Unstoppable Fat Loss. If you adopt the mindset that we cover below and apply it to your workouts and nutrition plan, you can expect success and amazing results.

Jon: Knowledge is not the problem Scott. Knowledge has never been the problem. Knowledge is not power. The application of knowledge is power. The inspired application of knowledge is genius.

Scott: Ah, yes.

Jon: And this is the catalyst that we want to go for. Everyone out there has the potentiality for genius. I'm not talking about an IQ over 140. I'm talking about genius within your own frame of reference, meaning that you can do something that exceeds your own expectations, exceeds your own concept of who and what you can become. In that sense, you're acting in the whole realm of genius, and that's what I call "inspired action." There's a big difference between that and what most people do.

So, if I had to say other than certainty, what's holding someone back from achieving their dream body, it starts with small goals and small vision. Now, most people will tell you: "Oh, set up small goals. That's a good thing" right?

No… that's a lousy thing Scott! That's a really lousy thing, especially for someone relatively intelligent. The people out there listening to you and I talk right now, most of people out there are intelligent. I think the "small goal, baby step" mentality toward this stuff is what holds people back.

Now, I'm all for baby steps when it comes to just changing a few things in your food plan, etc., but that's not your goal. Your goal isn't to change something in your food plan; your goal is much larger. Your goal is a vision of what you want your destiny to be, what you want your life to be, what you want your legacy to be. This is a lot larger than dropping 20 pounds for your high school reunion. If anyone out there listening to me right now says, "My destiny. On my tombstone, I want my epitaph to read: That guy lost 20 pounds for his high school reunion." I'll tell you, what a guy!"

If that's your goal, just log off this call right now because you're not going to get anything out of the rest of it! I think most people out there want something far, far, far greater, and that is what's holding you back.

Scott: For sure!

Jon: You must adopt the largest vision possible for you life. The way that you do that, is by starting with your core values. What already exists within each and every one of us. It's already far larger, then you are. Everyone out there listening to me has this. For example, everyone out there listening to me right now, probably values love, family, faith and freedom, far more than you value yourself.

Scott: Absolutely!

Jon: Most people would die for those things.

Scott: For sure!

Jon: OK, on some level you have something you would live and die for. Those are your core values. Now, what if you could take those core values, that already exist, and link them, through what I call core leveraging, to any goal you want. And all of that, quote unquote, dropping 120 pounds of fat became “I'm going to increase my freedom, in my life, by doing something else.” And that became a mechanism, a catalyst for doing nothing but increasing what you already possess. Then it becomes something much more enjoyable. It becomes something, what I call a state of becoming.

Scott: Sweet!

Jon: It's inspiration over will power. Once you develop that larger vision, you become inspired. Inspiration is much stronger than will power. Will power is short term. Will power is the crack cocaine of mental stability, man. I mean, will power is great, don't get me wrong, everybody needs a little bit of will power. But, you know what, it's not the long‑term thing. Inspiration, I'm talking about ongoing inspiration, not an inspired moment where you do something, but ongoing inspiration is the real deal. Let me give an example, if I can Scott, and I'm rambling on and on here...

Scott: Sure.

Jon: ...so feel free to stop me, but this is a passionate subject for me. Think about this, how much will power did it take you to get up and take a shower in the morning?

Scott: Nothing, it was automatic.

Jon: Probably not a heck of a lot of will power, unless you got a problem showering. Or how about when you're hungry to eat? Now, what these are, these are pools that our body is naturally pulling us towards. They feel inspired. And the hungrier you get the more inspired you are to get food. And let me tell you what I mean by inspiration. When you're really hungry, you're going to get really creative on what you can eat. I mean, if you're really hungry and you're stuck at home, and you've got nothing but vegetables in the refrigerator, you'll figure out a way to eat that stuff and satisfy your appetite, because the hunger is the inspiring drive.

What if you could do the same thing about your workouts? The same thing about eating exactly what you need to do to achieve the body you want. That is totally possible, if everyone listened to me right now. All it takes is understanding what your core levers and your core values are, leveraging them to the point to where they become so large that you are just automatically inspired. I mean, I've got clients that don't believe this but, once they actually believe, I mean, they actually believe. It's not that they're believing a lie, they're actually believing the truth. That their workouts and their body fat levels, are directly tied to the happiness of their children.

Scott: Wow.

Jon: And you want to know why? They are.

Scott: Wow.

Jon: They are because if you guys have children and girls have children, listening to me right now, unless you want your kids to grow up, cut 15 years off the life of their parents and have abysmally low energy levels even when you are around. Or take care of you, way before your time. When they themselves are adults. You see how all this is tied together?

Scott: Mm‑hmm.

Jon: Oh, now I don't want to become a guilt trip. It can become an enjoyable thing. I just want to give my kids the most energetic parent that they can possibly want.

Scott: Right.

Jon: So all of a sudden, dropping the body weight, or what I call shedding body fat, becomes, "Wow, I'm really giving this gift to my child."

Scott: Mm‑hmm.

Jon: Now, which is larger? Giving a gift to your child by going to the gym? Or, going to the gym to get ready for your high school reunion?

Scott: Oh, yeah. It's not even comparable.

Jon: There's no comparison. But once you realize that that's the truth, it's not some sort of pump you up motivation kind of nonsense. This is real. Truthful thinking is where it's at. Because this is the absolute truth. It is absolutely true that your children's well being depends on you. And the more fit you become, the more you can give them. So this is just a small fraction of what I'm talking about. When that happens, yeah, nothing holds you back.

Scott: Right.

Jon: And the last thing that I would say that holds people back is they refuse to admit and acknowledge the power of intention and decision.

Let me clarify that. When you truly decide something, you sever all possibility of the alternative. You must honor that ability to make a decision; you must honor the power that comes within that. Once you make a decision, and make what I call an "intention." You declare an intention to the universe, to God, to your family, to whomever you want. You declare an intention, a direction that you're going to go at the cost of whatever ‑‑ the ethical cost of anything. All of that, if supported, highly, highly increases efficiency by adopting and empowering your core values.

Scott, I think you asked me once what successful people are doing that others aren't?

Scott: Right.

Jon: One of the things that they do is they become; they don't pursue. Successful people become. Donald Trump doesn't pursue in real estate. Donald Trump became real estate. He became a mogul; he became completely absorbed in it. It is his identity.

Now, if you take a look at truly successful people, people who are very balanced, they become what they pursue. They don't just pursue something. They don't dabble; they master. And that is key when it comes down to fitness, because fitness is something that each one of us must become in order to achieve and maintain, almost effortlessly, for the rest of your life.

If you dabble in it, believe you me, anything and everything will get in the way…

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Unstoppable Fat Loss Interview With Jim Katsoulis

2008-08-04T10:18:00.000-07:00

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Are You Increasing Your Desire For Foods
That You Are Trying To Avoid?

By Scott Tousignant, BHK, CFC

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What you are about to read is an excerpt from an interview that I did with Jim Katsoulis from the MP3 audio program, Unstoppable Fat Loss. If you adopt the mindset that we cover below and apply it to your workouts and nutrition plan, you can expect success and amazing results.

Scott: When it comes to the mind, and you teach all the fantastic ways to reprogram it, what are some of the things that people are doing that are holding them back, in regards to their current mindset?

Jim: Well, that is a great question. I am going to kind of break it down, because, people do not realize that they are literally sabotaging their own success, with the way most people think about weight loss. When I have ever worked with anyone and when I first ask how they are going to lose weight, the answer is always they are going to go on a diet.

The problem with a diet is that the presupposition of a diet on a deeper level is that a) it is only temporary, and b) it is going to mean deprivation. Those two things do not create lasting results, obviously.

Scott: Right.

Jim: So, right from the very start, it's important to set it up in a different way. Now, let me mention two other things about your mind. This is important.

I spend a lot of time talking about the conscious and unconscious mind; so let me give you a little bit of foundational information on that.

Scott: That would be great.

Jim: So that we're kind of speaking the same language here. We all have a conscious and unconscious mind. Now, conscious is what's aware right now. It's logical; it understands what you should do. Everyone knows what they should do to lose weight. I mean there's not a person out there that doesn't know that. Basically, eat better and exercise more.

Scott: Right.

Jim: That's easy, right? The other part is the unconscious mind. And this is the part of our mind that truly runs the show. So we like to think that we're consciously in charge of everything, but we're not. There's too much stuff going on in our lives to consciously think about every little thing.

The example I use a lot to describe this kind of difference in our minds is when we drive. When you first learned to drive, you kind of understood it. You saw your parents doing it most of your life, and it seemed pretty simple. Then you went and got behind the wheel. Then you're kind of gunning it a little bit, jerking around. You couldn't keep it straight.

But as you continued practicing it, eventually it just became completely automatic. So that when you get in the car now, you don't even think about driving. You're thinking about where you're going; you're thinking about a conversation you had last week. But it's just pretty much on autopilot.

And if you look at all the things that are like this, all our lives become pretty routine. We don't have to think about it, it just kind of happens. And that's the unconscious part of our mind.

Scott: Sort of like what happens to me a lot, where I follow the same path to work all the time. And if I'm going down the same road with a different destination and my mind is somewhere else, I catch myself continuing along that path when I really should have turned a couple of miles back.

Jim: Sure, sure. That's a common phenomenon. They call it "highway hypnosis, " and everyone's experienced where you're driving and you kind of go past the exit. You're just lost in thought. So, when you're lost in thought, who's driving the car? It's your unconscious mind.

And if you look at reading and writing, at one point that was extremely difficult to do, but now it's completely automatic. It's so automatic that if I held a word up in front of you on a piece of paper you couldn't even not understand it.

That's how quick your unconscious mind is. So that's what runs most of our lives. Now, we can obviously make decisions. Our conscious mind matters. But most of our behaviors are automatic. They're kind of programmed into our unconscious mind so that we don't have to think about them.

When you get up in the morning, you go through the same routine. It just becomes a process. You don't have to be thinking about it. But the problem is that our eating behaviors, our exercise behaviors, those are in the unconscious mind as well.

The important part is this. The conscious mind is logical. It understands things. We all know what to do, right? I mean if we could run everything consciously, no one would smoke. Everyone knows it's bad. But the unconscious mind is in control, and the unconscious mind is not logical. It works by association.

The classic example is, you've heard of Pavlov's dogs, right? He was a Russian scientist, he was studying dogs, and he came up with this experiment where he put the food in front of the dog and they would salivate. And every time he did this, he would have someone ring a bell. Put the food in front of them, salivate, and ring a bell, over and over and over again.

Eventually, all they needed to do was ring the bell and the dogs would salivate. Because in the dog's mind, the sound of the bell and the food had become one, and now elicited the same response. So, that's called associative conditioning, and that's how our unconscious mind begins to work.

We can't approach it in the same way that we do consciously. That's why when people do dieting, they know what's good, they know what they should do and all the rest of it, but they never go to the unconscious level where they begin changing up their association for what these things mean.

They'll say, "I know I need to eat healthy food, ' but on a deeper level, they think healthy food is boring, gross, not fun. So, they're constantly fighting against these associations that they have. That's how most people start. They rely completely on willpower to do this.

”Willpower is not the most effective way. I say if your willpower is so strong, do you want to take your breathing and let your conscious mind be in control of that? Or your heartbeat, do you want to consciously control that?”

So, the most powerful part of your mind is your unconscious mind, and you need to learn a few basic techniques on how to influence it and how to program it so that you have the connections and the associations that you want. So, that's kind of the beginning on the conscious and unconscious mind.

The next two things I want to point out, and this is kind of the foundation that we will keep referring to, is that the unconscious mind, first of all, does not understand negatives. Now this is very important. What I mean by this is, most people, when they start dieting, are totally focused on everything that they can't have.

Now if I tell you... Use all the will power you guys have got. Get all your will power in your body, because I want you to not think about what I'm about to say. And everyone who is listening to this: get ready. Don't think about what I'm about to say. Don't think of a yellow banana. Don't think of a yellow banana. Yellow banana.

Scott: [laughs]

Jim: All right, what happens? [laughs]

Scott: Total banana in my head right now.

Jim: Great! And it's impossible not to, because your unconscious mind needs to think about it first in order to understand what I'm even saying. So it's very difficult not to think about what I'm saying. There's very little difference between your experience when I say: "Think of a yellow banana. Don't think of a yellow banana." "Think of sundae. Don't think of a sundae." "Think of a cookie. Don't think of a cookie." "Don't think of a cookie." [laughs]

Scott: [laughs]

Jim: But this is what people do themselves on diets constantly. They keep telling themselves what they can't eat, and then they are unintentionally focusing on exactly what it is that they want to reduce in their lives.

Scott: Right.

Jim: That's one problem. And the other thing is this, and this is very important. The unconscious mind cannot tell the difference between vivid imagination and reality. The unconscious mind will respond to vivid imagination.

This is why horror movies exist, because you can go watch a horror movie, you're in a theater with a hundred other people and you're safe, but you're sitting there and you're all tense, you're nervous, you're not breathing, because you're living through the movie. You're vicariously living in that movie, pretending you're the character or in that situation, and you start to actually have the physical response like you would have if you were in that situation.

Scott: Right.

Jim: So when you add these two things together, what people on diets are doing is... I mean, think about it right now. Think about your favorite dessert. Think about it in really vivid colors. Think about the most enjoyable time you ever had it, and you might find your mouth start to salivate.

Scott: That's right.

Jim: Now this is what people are doing to themselves 24 hours a day when they go on a diet. And they're actually increasing this. They're increasing, physiologically, their desire for these foods [laughing] that they want to avoid. So you can see how it's almost like self‑torture.

Scott: Totally!

Jim: And this is why a lot of times people find it very difficult to stay on a diet, because they're concentrating exactly on what they don't want.

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Unstoppable Fat Loss Interview With Dax Moy

2008-08-04T09:46:00.000-07:00

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Set Your Fat Loss Goals With Passion

By Scott Tousignant, BHK, CFC

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What you are about to read is an excerpt from an interview that I did with Dax Moy from the MP3 audio program, Unstoppable Fat Loss. If you adopt the mindset that we cover below and apply it to your workouts and nutrition plan, you can expect success and amazing results.

Scott: When we talk about fat loss, or usually when people approach me for fat loss advice the most common things they're asking me is for the best fitness program, the best diet out there, and very rarely does anyone mention how can I set powerful goals? How can I change my mindset? How can I overcome these obstacles?

And when I mention it to them, and the very first thing I usually do with my personal training clients is sit down with them and really look at what's been holding them back. Set some goals. And a lot of them just kind of look at me with this blank stare, and some of them will sometimes think "Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've heard that, I know I need to set goals, let's just get on with the workout, come on. Beat me up here right now, I know that's what can get me there."

Do you have an explanation or some reason why so many people just brush off the power of the mind? Really there is so much research and evidence of how powerful the mind is and not just in recent years. These secrets have been around for over a century now, but really right now just coming out into the main stream, but people are still brushing it off and saying "Oh, I know that."

Dax: That's an excellent question. It's a question I actually have spent years and years trying to get to the bottom of. Because the fact is you just stated, there's tons of evidence, there's tons of research whether you look in science or theology or philosophy. Every single branch of human development is saying, ultimately, that we are teleological organisms. We need to learn things and progress towards something in order to feel fulfilled.

And yet when it comes to trying to achieve, in many respects we set mundane goals. Trying to kind of get a little bit fitter, or get rid of a little bit of body fat. People are far more than just not seeking goals. Most people I think are almost anti‑goals. And the only explanation I can give you is quite simply that people don't believe that by focusing on the mind they can actually change their body.

You know, Napoleon Hill said if you can conceive of something, and you can believe in it, then you can achieve it. We can all conceive of things, but we don't necessarily believe in those things that we can conceive. So instead of following through on the power of the mind and saying: "Well hey, you know what, I'm going to set myself something clear to focus on, and then I'm going to put a lot of my emotional energy, and a lot of my intent, and a lot of my belief behind it and really make this happen for me."

People are kind of scared to do that, because it's almost like an investment. Just in the same way as you may not want to invest in a stock or a share that you're not really sure is going to mature in the way you want it to, I think that a lot of people are scared to invest in themselves, and in their dreams and in their goals. Because in the past they've used faulty strategy to bring them about, and now they've got a false message saying you know what, every time you really commit yourself to a goal there is a huge chance that you're going to screw up and your not going to get there.

So do you know what? I'm not going to commit to the mental side of this, I'm not going to invest a lot of my hopes and my dreams into it. What I'll do instead is I'll try and do this based on logic. Logic dictates there is an A, B, C, and D, let me just follow A, B, C, and D, and eventually I should arrive at my destination. And the problem is, logic in itself is not a very effective motivator.

Nothing in your life Scott that you want, nothing in your life that you like, nothing in your life that you feel passionate about is based in logic. You can't explain any of those things in logic. You just like them, you just love them, you just want them. OK? It's based in the heart, it's based in passion.

Most people are not setting goals because they are not use to actually exposing their passion to anyone. Because I think that a lot of societies that have become extremely limited. It's almost embarrassing to share your passion with anyone.

I'm not going to share my passion with you because if I share it with Scott and I share it with all these readers on the telephone right now then in some way maybe I'm weakening myself. So I won't share my passion, what I'll do is instead is I'll share some of my logic with you. And my logic says I'm a bit fat, so I want to lose some weight. I mean if that makes sense?

Scott: Oh yeah.

Dax: And that's what I think a lot of people are operating from. And it's the people in life, I've done a massive study of successful people. Not just when it comes to exercise and fitness and fat loss, but when it comes to all areas of life. And the one thing that successful people have in common is that they have passion.

And the other thing that those successful people have in common is they're not embarrassed by their passion. I always say to people if you're not in a position to say your goal out loud, to actually put it out of your mouth and you feel a bit embarrassed to say.

Well actually I'll share with you my purpose right here on the telephone call. My major purpose in life is to have a positive impact on the lives of every person I come into contact with, that's my major purpose. I'm not embarrassed by it.

Scott: Right.

Dax: I'm not saying: "God does that sound conceited, does that sound, I don't know, strange in some way or weird? Is Dax Moy out there and is he gone all flaky?" It's almost irrelevant what you or the other people that are going to listen to this call are thinking. I am confident and I am passionate about my goal. Which means for me I'm able to take steps toward it every single day.

Now if you and your listeners are not in a place where they're able to stand up and say, you know what, this is my goal and I'm going to tell you because I'm absolutely passionate about it. If they're not at that point yet then maybe they’re not quite ready to pursue it completely. You've got to get people to the point where they are so passionate about their goals they can bring it into the real world. It has to come out of your mouth.

In answer to your question, ultimately what I'm saying is that I think the reason so many people are brushing off the power of the mind is quite simply that they are scared to unleash their passion and their scared to unleash their passion because they're scared of either outright failing, or they're scared of what people are going to think. They are absolutely terrified. Oh god, are you going to think I'm a weirdo?

Scott: Right, right.

Dax: Are going to think I'm strange for saying this?

Scott: And it's disappointing and discouraging that people aren't able to put themselves out on the line and they are in this constant fear of “I'm afraid that other people will see me fail.” And I do find that the most successful people, they we're not afraid of failure. We're able to put ourselves on the line. And if the goal doesn't come to reality when we're hoping, when we plan for it to come out, we just learn from that and move on, and it doesn't really bother us what other people think because we're still driving for that goal.

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Unstoppable Fat Loss Interview With Clark Bartram

2008-08-04T07:24:00.000-07:00

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Fat Loss Goals and Perfection

By Scott Tousignant, BHK, CFC

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What you are about to read is an excerpt from an interview that I did with Clark Bartram from the MP3 audio program, Unstoppable Fat Loss. If you adopt the mindset that we cover below and apply it to your workouts and nutrition plan, you can expect success and amazing results.

When you fail, when you mess up, when you have a bad day, which we all will... Guess what? Clark Bartram has a bad day. Every other person on your list that you've interviewed has probably admitted to having bad days.

Scott: Right.

Clark: Champions in life are not those who never fail. They are those who never quit. The real failure is not in messing up, it's in quitting. If you mess up tomorrow and eat a whole pizza, eat a whole cake, drink five gallons of soda, and fill your body full of things that are not going to be conducive to a healthy lifestyle, that's not where the failure is.

The failure is in saying "You know what? I quit. I give up on this. I'm fat because my mom's fat. I've tried this in the past, and it doesn't work." Do you see how all of that works? Do you see how all of this fits in? That's the deal right there.

Scott: Wow, these are very good points for sure. I'm glad you said, we all have our bad days. Even though you've got some good genetics, and it's your business to be in great shape, there are probably days where you just feel exhausted. You could easily say that you're just too tired to work out today.

What do you do on days like that? How do you talk yourself out of a tired state to get your butt to the gym?

Clark: To be honest with you, I'm just going to open up and share my heart with people. I have not trained with weights in two weeks. I did not go to the gym this morning. I did not go to the gym yesterday. I've eaten foods recently that I know are not going to benefit me in the end to make me leaner than I am.

But I also understand that I am not in this for a short period of time. I'm in this for my life. I'm in this until the day that I move on.

By allowing myself the freedom of not going to the gym and by allowing myself the freedom of sometimes having food that may not be on my nutritional program, I take a lot of pressure off of myself to perform every single day to 100% compliance.

I understand personally that a week off at the gym is not going to affect me. Emotionally, it might give me the break that I need to go back in there next week and hit it hard the way I can.

Maybe my joints needed a break. Maybe I just needed to mentally relax. Maybe I just needed to get away from some of the people at the gym who were bothering me. That happens sometimes. I've switched gyms.

But some people, if they don't go, automatically think that they're failing. They automatically think that they're not doing something that's good for them.

Hey, we all need a break. We all need to get away from that environment from time to time. So change it up. Switch it around. Go walk outside. Play football or basketball with your kid.

Or sleep. I personally needed some sleep. I typically get up at 4:30 in the morning. Today I slept until 7:00. Yesterday I slept until 9:00 in the morning. What that is telling me is that my body needed a rest. I'm very intuitive. I listen to what my body is telling me.

That's another key point that people need to understand. Listen to your body. Don't let your trainer or any person who is not living inside of you tell you what you need to do when you're feeling something different inside, when you know "I need a rest. I need a break."

If you hired someone to help you, and they're designing a program for you, by all means listen to that person. But when your intuition tells you "I'm going to hurt myself. I'm going to wear myself down", then you take the break that you need.

Scott: Powerful. That's a very important point for sure, without a doubt. Most diets, programs, books I read out there say, "This is the program for life, this is the lifestyle." Yet typically it's not something that you can really keep up with for life.

You've got the true definition of a fitness lifestyle or a healthy lifestyle. You're really looking at the entire long term. That whole long term includes these breaks and time off and days when you can eat whatever.

You see the whole big picture, and you're not so focused and obsessed and desperate to get into incredible great shape by a certain date. I really like that approach of looking at it for the long haul. Not enough people are really thinking about that enough.

What are some of the things that you see successful people, the people that either you've coached or other people you've come across, what are some key things that you see them doing that others aren't?

Clark: Obviously a lot of people will come to me, and a lot of people will come to you, and they'll say, "Hey, what can I do?"

I just had a phone call five minutes before we started this interview. "Clark, I need you to write me a program." Yeah, sure. No problem. It's been thousands and thousands of times that people have asked me to do that.

Here's what successful and unsuccessful people do. I'll show you both in the same analogy.

That guy that just asked me to write him the program, I'll give him the program tomorrow. Now he's faced with the decision to follow that program. He obviously called me because he feels I'm a trusted source for that information because I live that lifestyle.

Typically what happens for a person who gets into shape is he will follow that program consistently through the end. That's where successful people are successful. They get a program from somebody that they trust, they do that program, they apply it every single day, and they make it work for them.

Guess what? One plus one equals two. It is that simple. Your body will get results.

Here's where people fail. They get a program from me, for example. They start to work it. The results don't come as quickly as they want them to. So they'll go to the next person that they trust and say, "Hey, I need help with my program."

Now this person that has very good information himself will begin to interject some ideas. Those ideas might not mesh with the ones that I gave. It's not that his are any better or any worse, or that mine are any better or any worse. They just don't work together.

Now we have a potpourri of ideas, a potpourri of protocol, if you will. Then people will begin to blend these things together. It doesn't work.

If you hire somebody to design a program for you, if you hire somebody to train you, listen to that person from beginning to end. You've obviously hired them because you trust what they say, or they were referred by somebody who got results.

Four to six weeks into it you will hit the plateau, when you will hit the rough spot that will come, don't go to somebody else and say, "Hey, Joe's training me, what should I do?" ‑‑ "Well, Joe, you should add carbs here..." That messes the whole program up.

Here's where successful people go. Stick to it. Stick with one plan. People that fail start a program, then start getting other ideas and blending them together. It doesn't work.

Scott: Right. Persistence. And some of these people will give up on your program a week before they end up hitting that point where they explode and great results come. They just don't give it enough time to really see the true results come out.

Like you said, the successful people will stick through right up till the very end, till they see it happen. That's a good point.

Clark: I once heard someone say, "Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing till you get there."

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2 Chances To Win A Cruise

2008-07-18T10:58:00.000-07:00

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I am relaunching Unstoppable Fat Loss on August 6th and adding 21 more interviews to the existing 21. The new interviews are quick 10-20 minutes and I'm asking "What is your best advice to get people to take massive immediate action and continue to take action each day."

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1st Place - Goes to the affiliate who makes the most sales during the promotion period
Prize: A solo ocean view room with a balcony on Mike Filsaime's Marketers Cruise Vacation - $2000 Value.

The value of the connections made on the cruise is worth way more than the price of the room. The connections that I made last year on this annual cruise have helped make 2008 my best year ever.

You can learn more about the cruise by visiting www.FitnessMarketersCruise.com

Note: If you would like to bring a guest on the cruise you can upgrade to double occupancy for just $300 which is at your cost.

RANDOM Prize - Every affiliate who makes a sale during the promotion period will be entered into a draw which will take place Live on Ustream August 14th at 7pm EST.
Prize: A solo ocean view room with a balcony on Mike Filsaime's Marketers Cruise - $2000 Value.

That's right! I'm giving away 2 rooms on the Marketer's Cruise Vacation and one of them may go to an affiliate who makes just one single sale. This way even the smallest affiliate has a chance to win a huge prize.

NOTE: If you only make one sale and it was your own purchase through your affiliate link you will not be included in the draw. You must make a sale to someone other than yourself. This is to protect the affiliates who put in an honest effort promoting my programs to their customers, family, and friends.

If you win either of those prizes you can accept cash if you don't want to go on the cruise vacation.

2nd Place - Goes to the affiliate who makes the 2nd most sales during the promotion contest.
Prize: Deb & JP Micek's Tribal Seduction Course $2000 value

Plus 3 months of Blog i360 $147 value

Plus I'll set up the blog for you $197 value

Plus 2 coaching sessions on how to maximize your blog $197 value

Total value $2541

Learn more about the blog membership at www.i360blog.com

3rd Place - Goes to the affiliate who makes the 3rd most sales during the contest.
Prize: 3 months Blog i360 $147 value

Plus I'll set up the blog for you $197 value

Plus 2 coaching sessions on how to maximize your blog $197 value

Total Value $541

Plus more prizes to come!

About The Contest

During the 1 week promo I am bundling my 3 fat loss programs "Unstoppable Fat Loss", "The Fit Chic", and "The Fit Bastard" together for just $47. So that's a 3 for the price of 1 Deal!

Affiliate Commission is 75%

21 Day Challenge For The Customers...

Once the contest is over, for 21 days I am going to be requesting that my customers listen to one of the new Action Taking audios and one of the original UFL audios. They will need to post to the blog what they are going to take action on that day and I will hold them accountable to it.

At the end of the 21 days the male and female who take the most massive action will win some great prizes which I will be announcing soon.

If the 3 products for the price of 1 isn't enough incentive during the one week promo,
this should kick it into gear...

Post Contest Price Increase!

As soon as the promo ends the price of UFL goes up to $97 (which is where it
should be and especially with the added content)

The Fit Chic and The Fit Bastard will each go up to $67.

So they are saving $184 by jumping on the deal during the promo.

Bonuses!

I've been adding some killer bonuses from other people who are participating in the contest.

There will be a couple amazing 24 hour bonuses, some awesome 48 and 72 hour bonuses, and some bonuses that run the course of the promo.

There will also be some limited quantity bonuses. For example; I'm going to be giving an incredible bonus for the first 5 people worth $3000.

If you would like to contribute any kind of special bonus during this promotion please send an email to: scotttousignant@gmail.com

Outstanding Content For Affiliates To Use!

I will be provide affiliates with awesome content during the promo.

Affiliates can use any of these 21 audio clips from the original UFL
series...

http://www.unstoppablefatloss.com/blog/category/unstoppable-fat-loss-audio-clips/

Plus I will provide clips from the transcripts as well.

Marketing Tips To Help You
Succeed During The Contest

Just prior to the contest and throughout the promotion I will be providing you with marketing training from myself and my marketing expert friends to help you achieve maximum results.

Don't Have A List?

I'll be sharing some great tips to promote the sale that do not require you to have a list to market to. These tips will also help my affiliates who have a list boost their sales by using the power of social media.

Stay Updated On The Affiliate Contest Details Here...

If you are not on my affiliate newsletter you can sign up here to receive instant notification of the training calls that I will be holding and to stay up to date on all the contest details.

www.UnstoppableFatLoss.com/become-an-affiliate.php

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to call me: 519-728-1355

PS The price increase for my programs at the end of the promotion means that affiliates will have the opportunity to earn $95 per sale

Thank you for your support,

Scott Tousignant

PPS Mike Filsaime's Marketer's Cruise Vacation is an experience of a lifetime. This really is an opportunity that you shouldn't pass up even if you do not win either of the 2 prizes.

The rooms on this cruise are filling up fast. I'm recommending that you reserve your spot on this cruise vacation by placing a 100% refundable deposit as soon as possible.

If you win the contest I will send you the $2000 to cover the cost of your solo ocean view balcony cabin.

The price of the cruise has already gone up once and you don't want to miss out on the deal that is being offered now.

You can learn more by visiting www.FitnessMarketersCruise.com

Here's a picture of some incredible marketers that I ate dinner with during one of the nights on the cruise last year...

Imagine what it was like for me to have dinner with marketing genius Ben Mack, affiliate marketing guru Anik Singal, high ticket item expert Alex Nghiem, social media expert Lasse Rouhiainen, and fitness event expert Matt Mazur

And to think this was just one of the 8 nights on the ship. Not only did I have dinner with these amazing marketers, but I also got to lounge around the pool, relax on the beach, and explore tropical islands with them.

This experience changed my business and my life. I want the same thing to happen for you. I look forward to seeing you on the cruise.

www.FitnessMarketersCruise.com

PPPS Shoot me an email when you do sign up so we can plan out the fun things we will do during this vacation. We're working on getting hours set aside just for us to have the ships gym all to ourselves.