Tips For Alternate Solutions To Your Dieting Motivation

What can you do about your dieting motivation? Are you reading this because you are 10, 15, 30 pounds or more overweight? You know if you don’t lose the weight you can end up an invalid or worse; Dead! But you also know your will power to stick with a life saving diet is nil or for all practical purposes; next to none. This article will offer tips on how you can improve your commitment to saving your on life.

You are well aware your lack of motivation is the single most common reason you will give up on a diet before you’ve started. Because you don’t see results in a day or two, it’s easy to give up. But you also know it is absolutely vital for you to stick with it for at least a week. In addition you know the first week is the hardest. After you have stuck to your new diet and exercise for one week only, it becomes much easier from then on.

Making a change to a new diet is a big deal. You are literally changing your lifestyle. More than likely if you were a bad eater before, you are going to have to give up a lot of food you enjoy.

This is the point where you will become the most discouraged. However, there is a way to overcome this discouragement. The key is to replace the enjoyment you used to get from food with other more healthy activities. Take the time ride a bike with your children. Go for a walk with your partner. Enjoy the beauty of a sunset or sunrise. You will be pleasantly surprised how good these little things will make you feel.

Studies have shown that for a great many overweight people, junk food or excessive eating is an emotional problem rather than a physical problem. Therefore you well need to consult a professional councilor to root out the problem. Once you know the real reason behind your weight problem, your motivation for getting rid the weight will skyrocket.

To assist with your dieting motivation consider getting your mind off food altogether. When you stop thinking about food you will be surprised how your cravings for food will decrease. Keeping busy is the key to sticking to a diet, and this means taking up hobbies or reaching out to others. Find a passion in your life and the cravings for food will seem like a distant memory.

Results from dieting can often be slow to show materialize. But don’t let that ruin your motivation! You can speed up the weight loss process by combining it with exercise with the result being faster weight loss.

Once you do start seeing results your motivation can sky rocket. It is this first sign of your new body that literally makes you never want to go back to your old bad habits. The first time you have a glimpse of what your body is working towards then motivation is rarely a problem.

So what else can you do to motivate yourself to stick to that diet? Rewards are an excellent idea if you are still craving that chocolate cake or soft drink. It’s not necessary for you to eliminate every single food or drink that you enjoy. The process of dieting is about reduction and moderation, not elimination.

Set yourself a goal to stick to your diet for 4 straight days, then on the 5th day you can enjoy that chocolate cake or ice cream (in moderation). When you know you will be having a treat, rather than making it the forbidden fruit, it will do amazing things for your motivation.

Dieting motivation is all in the mind; if you have control of your mind then you can also have control of your body!

Marcilio David is a Cardiologist and Internet Entrepreneur. Learn more tips and tricks to a leaner figure, and a FREE Weight Loss Ebook download at http://diet.seuamigodopeito.com The Safe Diet Guide.

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Quick Update

I have roughly two weeks of workouts left under P90, then on to P90X. I have been reviewing the CD’s for P90X and OMG – big change from P90. Actually I am excited about the workouts. The one area I am concerned about is the nutrition plan. It will be difficult to do – having 4 kids in the house who all love to eat carbs. I might struggle with it. Lately, I cant eat enough. For the past week I have been hungry constantly. It is leading to me eating stuff I shouldnt be like Chicken burritos from Taco Bell twice. Not sure why the big change in my appetite? Like right now I could eat a meal. Time to drink my shake ……..

P-90X or Master Series P90

I am at that time to decide on what program I will move onto next. I have narrowed it down to MS P90 or P90X.

I have read some reviews on MS P90 and over all they are just average. After reading these I am not so sure it is the program I want to buy. They say Tony talks a little to much and the workouts are not as hard as they could be. So now I am looking into P-90X today.

My only reservation about ordering P90X is the added costs for dumbells and the pullup bar. I am not sure if the pull up bar is even going to fit in my door frames I have at home. I just have to read some reviews. I am not afraid of the work P90X would take. Infact I love the workouts. The only one that concerns me is the Yoga being 90 minutes long!

My wife wants to do a yoga program. So I think I will buy her one of the Yoga Booty Ballet programs. I have to google “reviews on P90X”…………………… Later

Pictures

Updated pictures will be up soon. Took them last night just have to up load them.

Workouts are going well. The sculpt is slowing becoming better. The lunges with the 20lbs weights really killed me early on in 3-4. My strength has in creased greatly. Overall I cant complain. My diet is going well. I need to tighten up a tad on the snacking. It is not out of control.

5 Secrets to Doing More Pushups

When I started training Paul, he was struggling with 5 pushups. He wasn’t overweight, but he just didn’t have the upper body strength and endurance to crank out more pushups. But in weeks, following these five simple steps, he was able to pound out almost two dozen pushups in a row.

Step 1: The Harsh Truth

While Paul wasn’t overweight, he still needed to lose body fat, and when we helped him drop 7 pounds in 3 weeks, his pushup performance skyrocketed. The harsh truth about pushups is the more body fat you have, the more deadweight that you are trying to push around. So, make sure you are doing your interval training, doing your supersets, and incorporating a healthy diet to bring your body fat down and get rid of the deadweight.(1) If you do these things, then you’ll find that you are able to do more pushups.

Step 2: Control Your Muscles

Most men and women aren’t able to control the muscles that need to do the work in the pushup. Pushups require your chest, shoulders, and triceps (muscles at the back of your upper arms) to contract and provide force to raise your body to the top position. However, most people don’t realize that those same muscles must control the lowering phase of the pushup.

So every pushup you do, focus on thinking about your chest, triceps and shoulders controlling your descent and then contracting to produce the force as you rise up. Plus, in every pushup, you must brace your abs (as if someone was about to punch you in the stomach). This will give your torso stability and create a powerful straight line from ankles to shoulders. This will work your abs and protect your back.

Step 3: Practice on the Bunny Slope

When you are doing pushups, there are a couple ways that you can add strength and endurance. First, you can do an incline pushup. This exercise will allow you to take some of the weight off when doing the pushup, which will in turn add more endurance. So to perform and incline pushup, rest your hands on a bench, and then mimic a pushup. With this exercise, you are not going all the way down to the ground and so it will be a little bit easier in helping you build endurance.

If you lack the set-up to do incline pushups, the next best thing is to do kneeling pushups. Just make sure you keep your body in a straight line and brace your abs at all times.

Step 4: Build Strength By Lowering Your Body

The next step is build “eccentric” strength. That refers to the strength in the lowering phase of the pushup. Think back to the muscle control we talked about earlier. What I want you to do is take 5 seconds to lower yourself to the bottom position in each repetition of the pushup. This will build strength and muscle control faster than if you just let your body flop to the ground.

You won’t be able to do as many, but you’ll get more muscle control and build more strength. I recommend that you do these exercises earlier in the week because this might cause muscle soreness. The first time you do these, do only one set of as many slow lowering pushups as possible on a Monday, then incorporate Step 5 later in the week in a second pushup workout.

This slow lowering phase also teaches you perfect form and reminds you to brace your abs and work your stomach muscles in each repetition. Soon you’ll be able to do as many 5-second pushups as you could do normal pushups, and that will double the amount of pushups you can do at regular speed.

Step 5: Hold It!

If you are still struggling with doing less than 5 pushups in a row, your next steps are to do 3-5 second holds at both the middle and bottom range of the push-up. This will build strength in your weakest points along the pushup path.

In this workout, do one set of pushups where you lower yourself to bottom of the pushup position and hold for 3 seconds and then push back up, doing as many repetitions as you can. Follow that with a lower body exercise and 1 minute of rest and then do a second set where you lower your body to the middle of the pushup position and hold it for 5 seconds, and then push back up to the top position. Repeat for 5 repetitions.

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Sorry

I have had no time to take my measurements or photo’s. With family, hockey and work, I have no time the last few days. Hopefully, this weekend it will work out! Keep pushing Play!!!

So the time is here:

I hopefully will be taking my measurements and pictures tomorrow. I think there has been a marked improvment over that past 60 days. Well, at least on can hope! Please check in to see what I look like.

Sculpt 3-4 tonight. I can wait. Feel much more refreshed today then the past week!

Busy Week

Hi Everyone,

The works are going extremely well. I can feel me slowly moving out of Level 3 and pushing hard to Level 4. I take my updated pics in three days. I cant wait to see the change. It is very exciting!
I have hockey everyday this week. So early morning workouts and I will have Thursday off. My only concern is becoming bored, P90 is really the same thing over and over again. It can become hmmmmm hard at times. Really the only complaint I have about P90.
Talk soon!

Quick Update

WHEW! What a week, Kodiaks Main Camp, 2 practices on fri and sat at 10 am, birthday party, scouted two games for Under 16 team and some how figured in 4 workouts in all of this. Now off at 7.30 am for all day golf and meal. Then Monday off work and coaching in a first exhibition game. Then Tuesday off to my new job. Love it though, missed the hockey talk, being around good people and the challenge of winning a national championship. Anyways – to my workouts Sweat 3-4 not as hard as I thought. Sculpt 3-4 different story it is much harder with all the pushups. But love the feeling of being bagged right after its done. Cant wait to see what I look like on day 90. My diet has been okay, I haven’t cheated much, couple of cookies and one small spoon full of ice cream. So overall not bad. Little low on calories. My meal plans will start going back up soon once I am around the computer a bit more.

Quick Update

I have not workouted the last couple of days. I have been at our Main Camp for the Kodiaks. Long nights, i have had 14 hours sleep in three days. So I am very tired at the moment. I have to work out tonight though, we will be doing sculpt 3-4. My diet has been great, had one meal with the scouts that was a mushroom sandwich with some i sure had a very fatty sauce but other then that I have been bang on. The calorie intake might have been a little low. I have missed the workouts, the two days off were much needed as I worked out 10 days in a row. I will also start posting my meal plans again as well. Talk soon.