Affiliate Contest Winners

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...

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Unstoppable Fat Loss Interview With Shane James

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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

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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

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 Zach Even-Esh

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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

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 Cooper

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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.

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 Marna Goldstein

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Emotions Drive You To 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 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.

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 Kyle Battis

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Taking Action On What You Learn

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 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.

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