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How To Turn Super Sizing, Dietary Displacement and Portion Distortion To Your Advantage! By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS
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 Ever since the independent film, Super Size Me was released, research on the relationship between increasing obesity and increasing portion sizes has skyrocketed and the results have been virtually unanimous.
 
 There have been numerous well-designed studies published just in the last several years which confirmed exactly what we suspected (and much of what the movie suggested):
 
 * Portion sizes have increased in restaurants and fast food venues on a major scale over the last several decades
 
 * We self-serve ourselves larger portions in the home than we used to
 
 * When more food is put in front of us, we almost always eat more
 
 * most people underestimate how many calories they are eating
 
 * All of these factors have contributed to the growing obesity problem and the related health problems that come along with it
 
 The obvious solution would seem to be to decrease portion sizes across the board, and indeed awareness of and control over portion sizes in general is important.
 
 However, research has demonstrated that perhaps an even better solution is to keep the portion sizes generous, but decrease the energy density (calories per unit of volume) in the foods you put on your plate.
 
 Several studies revealed that eating more low calorie density foods, especially green vegetables, salad vegetables and other fibrous carbs, as well as very lean proteins, maintains a feeling of fullness while reducing energy intake.
 
 In other words, large portions of highly nutritious, low calorie foods displaced the less nutritious, calorie-dense foods! Most people allow the bad foods to push out the good foods, but you can actually do the same in reverse!
 
 In a study published in the Journal of The American Dietetic Association, researchers fed one group a compulsory first course salad which was kept low in energy density by using very low calorie dressing with no high calorie toppings no bacon, cheese or croutons, etc).
 
 After the salad, the subjects were allowed to eat as much pasta as they wanted.
 
 A second group was also allowed to eat as much pasta as they wanted but was not given a compulsory salad to eat beforehand.
 
 The results: As you might guess, eating a low energy density first course enhanced satiety (fullness) and reduced the overall amount of calories that were eaten during the whole meal.
 
 Since the research has repeatedly discovered that almost everyone will eat more when served larger portions from a larger plate or container, and there is obviously a serious issue of “portion distortion” occurring, another group of scientists and psychologists decided to test this even further by providing larger plates or containers of low energy density, high nutrient density foods before the main course and or in between meals.
 
 When more of the low energy density foods were made available first, the subjects ate even more of these healthy foods, which filled them up even more and decreased the amount of high calorie density foods eaten in the main course.
 
 Reporting their findings in the Journal of Nutrition Education And Behavior, the researchers said that there is a silver lining to all the negative findings about super sized portions and overeating that we have discovered in recent years:
 
 That is, although we eat more when more is put in front of us, We can use this phenomenon in reverse by serving large plates, bowls or containers of healthy, low energy density foods like fruits, salads and raw vegetables as snacks and first courses.
 
 ”While a small bowl of raw carrots might make for a good afternoon snack”, said one of the researchers, “a large bowl might even be better.”
 
 You can learn more about calorie density, low energy density foods (thermogenic foods), and choosing your portion and meal sizes with precision inside the Burn The Fat ebook. For more information, visit: www.lifetosuccess-recommends.com/burnthefat.html
 
 About the Author:
 
 Tom Venuto is a natural bodybuilder and author of the #1 best selling e-book, “Burn the Fat, Feed The Muscle,” which teaches you how to burn fat without drugs or supplements using the little-known secrets of the world’s best bodybuilders and fitness models. Learn how to get rid of stubborn fat and turbo-charge your metabolism by visiting: www.lifetosuccess-recommends.com/burnthefat.html .

The Law Of Attraction And Weight Loss: Can You Think Yourself Thin?
By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS
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Metaphysics & Brain science merge and prove that positive thinking and goal setting literally create your body and your entire life experience
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On recently broadcast special edition of CNN’s Larry King Live, Mr. King interviewed a panel of “mind experts” about how the thoughts you think literally turn into the events you experience, the material things you possess… AND even the health of your body.

For years, “positive thinking” and goal-setting were often criticized as “pollyanna” and “the law of attraction” was relegated into the category of “new age” fluff.

On the recent Larry King show, panel experts Bob Proctor, John Assaraf and others who were featured in the movie ‘The Secret’ explained that recent breakthroughs in neuroscience along with understanding mental laws, reveal why goal setting, the “law of attraction” and “positive thinking” all work, regardless of whether you look at them from a metaphysical or a scientific perspective.

Scientists have even identified specific parts of the brain, such as the reticular activating system (RAS), which works with the visual parts of our brain to call our conscious attention to things that are important to reaching our goals and to filter out those things that are unimportant.

The RAS is activated by “programming” goals into our sub-conscious minds. Our sub concscious mind is the “power center” and THIS is the mechanism that explains why goal setting and positive thinking are now being accepted as scientific methods for change.

We are discovering that our brain is cybernetic in nature, which means that it is literally like a computer, waiting for a program to be installed.

Here’s the kicker – the subconcsious is completely neutral and impartial – it will carry out any instructions you give it.

Unfortunately, many of us are still running negative programs we picked up from others as children when our non-conscious minds were totally open and impressionable, or which we developed over the years as a result of repetition of our own negative thinking.

As it turns out, our own thoughts, repeated daily, are one of the primary ways that our “mental computer” is programmed on a sub-conscious level, which is the level of beliefs, habits and automatic behavior.

To change your results, you must overwrite old negative programming and install positive new programming into your subconscious.

This can be achived through such techniques as written goal setting, positive self-talk (affirmations), and mental imagery (visualization).

In the 1970’s, the Soviets and East Germans were the first to formally use structured mental rehearsal, and at that time, they dominated in several olympic sports. This was reported in great detail in Charles Garfield’s landmark book, “Peak Performance.” Today, virtually all elite athletes use visualization extensively, as we now know that the brain cannot differentiate between real practice and practice that is vividly imagined.

If you are getting more of the same negative results in your life – such as the same health problems, or the same body fat continues to return even after you lose it, then you have probably been un-consciously running old negative programs and re-inforcing them with negative thought patterns.

You can begin the positive mental reprogramming process by writing down your goals, changing your internal dialogue and taking a few minutes to relax, quiet your mind and perform a session of visualization or mental rehearsal every day (seeing yourself in your “mind’s eye” not as you currently are, but as you ideally would like to be).

These methods, repeated often enough, will begin to program the non- conscious portion of the mind, which is the same part of the mind that controls your heart beat, digestion and new cell production, all on “automatic pilot.”

In the last decade, neuroscientists discovered that you have the capacity to create an almost infinite number of new neural connections in your brain when you run new thought patterns.

The Old neural pathways are like grooves in a record, and if you are struggling with your health related behaviors or behaviors in any other area of your life, you have been playing the “old records” over and over again.

If you were to carve a new groove into that record, it would never play the same way again. the old pattern would weaken and the new one would take over. Brand new, positive thoughts, feelings and images begin to create new neural patterns.

Psychologists estimate that it takes 21 to 30 days to establish a new pattern in your brain. During this time, the focus on sticking with your practice and repeating your new thought patterns is critical.

Is this easy? For most people, no it’s not. In fact, controlling your thinking and keeping it constructive may be one of the most difficult challenges you have ever faced. Fortunately, writing goals and reading affirmations can help get you started.

You can take some of the pressure off yourself by simply accepting that negative thoughts and self criticisms will pop up from time to time. Just observe them, without mulling over them or adding to them, and change the polarity of the thought by quickly repeating one of your positive affirmations or by changing your mental pictures.

So is there something to this whole “positive thinking” thing?

The philosophers and theologians have been saying yes for the entire span of recorded history: “As you think, so shall you be.” Variations on this proverb can be found in every spiritual and philosophical tradition.

But… if you are the left-brained, “prove-it-to-me” type, you dont have to go on faith anymore. Scientists are beginning to prove more and more convincingly that thoughts are powerful things. Even Larry King seemed impressed with what his panel of “mind mentors” had to say.

So how soon are you going to begin your mental training right alongside your physical training? When are you going to learn how to harness this power locked up inside your mind?

Guess what? You’re already using this force every day because you cannot turn it off. Whatever you are thinking and picturing in your mind repeatedly on a daily basis is already on it’s way to you, so it’s simply a matter of HOW you are using it, not IF you are using it.

What do you say to yourself every day? Do you say, “I am becoming leaner, healthier and more muscular every day?”… or do you say “I am a fat person – Ive tried everything, nothing ever works?”

The fact is – you can think yourself thin and healthy or you can think yourself obese and ill. Maybe not in the literal sense…but most certainly as the critical part in the chain of causation…

You see, there’s a lot of talk these days in the personal improvement world about law of attraction, manifesting, intention, visualization, affirmations and of course, positive thinking.

Without understanding that there is an orderly, scientific basis underneath all of these things, many people will simply remain skeptics, while on the opposite extreme, others may get the idea that you can sit around meditating and visualizing, then expect a mystical “law of attraction” to kick in and then “poof!” a great body materializes out of thin air… along with the perfect relationship, a nice bank account and fantastic career success.

What really happens is “Positive thinking” and related methods quite literally re-program your brain, which in turn creates new behaviors that move you physically toward whatever you have been thinking about and focusing on.

So success is achieved through positive thinking + positive doing…. attraction + action. There are two sides to the coin. Without paying attention to both, you may continue to struggle… often against nothing but yourself.

If you want to transform your body or any other aspect of your life, then you have to change on the inside (the mind) first and then everything else will follow.

This process of *scientific* goal setting and mental reconditioning through emotionally charged mental imagery (visualization) and internal mental dialogue (affirmations) is the very first thing I have always taught my clients and the first thing I wrote about in my book, Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle You can learn all of these techniques in detail in chapter 1. Learn more about the psychology of body transormation inside the Burn The Fat ebook:

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About the Author:

Tom Venuto is a natural bodybuilder and author of the #1 best selling e-book, “Burn the Fat, Feed The Muscle,” which teaches you how to burn fat without drugs or supplements using the little-known secrets of the world’s best bodybuilders and fitness models. Learn how to get rid of stubborn fat and turbo-charge your metabolism by visiting: www.lifetosuccess-recommends.com/burnthefat.html.

Why You Should Always Buy the Best
 
 - by Tony Mase
 
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 One of the single, biggest mistakes people make in their quest for wealth is buying things because they’re cheap rather than buying things because they’re the best.
 
 Surrounding yourself with cheap things is not in any way conducive to developing and maintaining the mental attitude that’s absolutely necessary for you to become wealthy.
 
 In an article titled “The Constructive Attitude”, the fifth article in his “Lessons in Constructive Science” series, Wallace D. Wattles, best known for his classic masterpiece “The Science of Getting Rich”, said this on the subject:
 
 ”… if you wear cheap clothes, eat cheap foods and surround yourself with cheap things to “save money” you will put yourself in the mental attitude of cheapness and inferiority. You will think of yourself in connection with cheap and inferior things, and so will see yourself as a cheap and inferior person. The cheap and inferior within you will be brought to the surface, and you will never do your best. You will be incapable of exerting your whole power, and by the law of reaction, cheap and inferior things will move toward you.”
 
 On the other hand, in the same article, Wallace D. Wattles said this:
 
 ”If you wear the best, eat the best and have the best in your home, it puts you in the right mental attitude. You see yourself as one who has the best, is of the best, as IS the best; and the best there is in you will come to the surface.
 You will take the mental attitude of faith, confidence and power, and your success will be assured. You will take hold of your work with conscious power, and your work will be well done. You will BE the best, and by the law of action and reaction, the best will move toward you.”
 
 Now…
 
 Before you run out the door and go on a spending spree…
 
 A word of caution is in order here…
 
 The “best” does *not* necessarily mean the most “showy”, nor does it necessarily mean the most expensive.
 
 It’s never best to buy anything purely for show or solely because it’s expensive. Only cheap and inferior minds care those things. The best minds care about usefulness and comfort.
 
 That which has the most use and comfort for you is the best for you.
 
 And…
 
 The use and comfort you get from something may depend on a number of factors.
 
 For example…
 
 A person whose strongest desire is for the beautiful will buy those things that are most pleasing to the eye, regardless of comfort.
 
 On the other hand…
 
 Someone whose strongest desire is for physical comfort will buy the most comfortable clothes and the most comfortable furniture, regardless of how they look.
 
 The important thing to understand here is…
 
 As long as each gets the “best”, both will be right.
 
 With that in mind…
 
 The bottom line is…
 
 If you want to be wealthy…
 
 *Really* wealthy…
 
 Starting today…
 
 Stop buying that which is cheap and start buying that which is the best!
 
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If you are like most people, you may feel at the mercy of life and that you have little power over how things turn out. Nothing could be further from the truth.
You can learn to use attraction to have more of what you want. The Law of Attraction is a powerful force and is responsible for most of what you experience in life (good and bad). It is accessible to every human being at every moment in time. All you have to do is learn how to harness it to make it work to your advantage.

Everything in the world is made of energy – you, a rock, tree, or table. Energy is vibration, and everything vibrates. As a human (energetic) being, you have a frequency that you vibrate at – sometimes high, low, or in-between. Magnetic energy is attached to your thoughts. For example, when you feel “up”, filled with joy, gratitude, you are sending out frequency vibrations that magnetize good stuff to you. Fear, worry, guilt, shame send out lower frequencies. Thus, the way we think, is the way we feel, is the way we vibrate, is the way we attract!

No one is immune to the power of attraction. When you are not intentional about what you want, you create by default. Everything in your life you have attracted because of the person you are – what you think and feel, including your work, significant other, home, financial success or distress. Even challenges and opportunities have been attracted into your life because of your persistent thoughts about them.

The law states, “that which is like unto itself is drawn.” Simply put, like attracts like. Happy people attract happy people. Anger will draw frustrating circumstances. A prosperous mind attracts money-making opportunities. Doubt breeds more doubt. The law of attraction is neutral. It can help you or hurt you. Your state of mind will equal your state of life – be it positive, loving and flowing or negative, fearful, and stuck.

Like it or not, you are getting what you are getting because of how you are attracting. If you are not happy with what you have, you have not matched your vibration/intention to your desire. Keep doing and feeling what you have been and you will get more of the same. In other words, if you say you want to be rich, and yet feel poor and unworthy inside, your emotions will send out the frequency of lack, and that is what the universe will supply you with. You are creating your experience at this moment. Your thoughts are a form of energy that vibrate at a speed determined by the level of emotional intensity accompanying the thought. The more loving, fearful, doubtful, etc. you are, the more rapidly your thoughts radiate from you and attract similar people and situations to match that feeling state to you.

Attraction is an unconscious energy – you can’t see it, but you can feel it. It’s the “vibe” that you give off. Intentional attraction is the conscious recognition of the quality of your vibration and the deliberate choice of where and what you point that vibration towards. To become more attractive, you must reprogram yourself into the affirmative and positive. Do not say or think, “I don’t want to be poor anymore” or “I don’t want to be treated badly.” When you think in the negative, what you are sending out into the universe is what you don’t want. And lo and behold, you will experience financial setbacks and/or unhealthy relationships. For an entire week monitor your thoughts and words. When you catch yourself dwelling on the negative, use a thought-stopping technique and substitute it with something affirmative. Research shows that thoughts held consistently for about 15-20 seconds will begin to attract similar energy. This is a great reason to read, review, and reflect! on your goals and purpose daily, so as to reinforce what you really do want.

To activate this law in your life, pay attention to your thoughts and change them to a higher frequency. Be aware of your desires and take action on manifesting them. Put your energy and focus on what you want, not on what you don’t want. Be open to synchronicities, welcome people and opportunities that show up to help you fulfill your desires. Creative visualization and affirmations also support your desires. Use anything that helps you to be focused and upbeat. This makes it difficult for the message to get mis-communicated. Watch for sending mixed signals. Consciously align your thoughts, feelings, and actions and you will see amazing results.

Be like a student. Read, write, repeat, learn, re-learn what it is you are trying to get. If you want more love, be love, and do love. Make love your mantra. Feel loving and most of all, give love away. Because the more you share love, the more it will come back to you. Benjamin Disraeli said, “As you think, so shall you be.” If you think positive thoughts, you will have positive feelings, and thus more positive experiences. When you apply the principles of attraction to your own life, you start to co-create with the universe and reclaim your personal power. You will discover that you really can have more of what you want and find it much, much easier to come by. And guess what, success leads to more success!

Michelle L. Casto, Ph.D., is a Life Coach, Speaker, and Author of the Get Smart! LearningBook Series, which includes books and workbooks on romantic relationships, career development, life purpose/life strategy, and stress management. Her coaching practice is Brightlight Coaching. She empowers people to live with passion, purpose, & possibility and inspires people to freely shine their brightlight to the world. To learn more or to subscribe to the Get Smart! Live Smart newsletter, Visit virtually: http://www.getsmartseries.com
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