Archive for the "Mind" category

 

Weight Loss with Visualization – From the Archives

 

Shortly after I started The Fit Shack I began writing daily motivational posts. I thought I’d recall two of them today because the message I wrote about is as true today as it was in April, 2007 when I wrote about it.
The Power of Visualization
When you can see it and feel it you can achieve it. Even [...]

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How to Create a Strong Weight Loss Affirmation – Part Two

 

Yesterday you read about Leilani’s process of getting healthy and fit and learned how she’s had a very important awareness, an awareness that is a vital point in life in general – whatever you focus on is what you will create more of.
She realized that she was focusing on what was “wrong” with her instead of what is [...]

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Where’s Your Focus? – Reader Q&A Part One

 

Today I’m answering a reader question that Leilani (isn’t that a beautiful name?!), a smart reader of The Fit Shack sent to me.
This will be a two-part post – today we’ll look at Leilani’s excellent question and the awareness she has already come to and tomorrow we’ll look at how to create a stronger weight [...]

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Why You Need a Bigger Goal than Weight Loss

 

It’s great fun to lose weight, to see the numbers on the scale moving down, to get into smaller sized clothes and to see muscle definition forming from your toning exercises.
All of this is fun and motivating but there is a danger lurking in your weight loss goals, something I’ve done in the past and [...]

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How To Lose Weight Like an Olympic Athlete

 

Do you know the secret that all top sports stars and Olympic athletes have in common? They use the power of their mind, their thoughts, the power of their imagination to visualize themselves at their end goal.
Olympic athletes see themselves crossing that finish line first, executing that dive perfectly, doing the perfect landing off of [...]

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Do Panic Attacks & Stress Have You Running to the Frig?

 

Welcome to week two of my 15-week series in my latest experiment on myself here at The Fit Shack. In this experiment I’m using Lucinda Bassett’s program Attacking Anxiety & Depression on myself.
In this series I’m reporting my weekly experiences with you like I did in my emotional eating experiment, my ban on refined sugar [...]

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Who Will You Be 6 Months From Now?

 

Would it surprise you to hear that who you think you are today isn’t really you, but instead is who you were 6 months ago? Surprising as that may sound, it’s true! You see, the thoughts that you were thinking and the actions that you took six months ago culminated into the creation that you [...]

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Turning 5 Weight Loss Fears Into Motivation

 

Yesterday we looked at 10 fears that could be draining your weight loss motivation. If you haven’t read that post yet please do, otherwise this post might not make much sense. Besides that, yesterday’s post was meant to stir up your thoughts and help you discover whether or not you have any fears that are [...]

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