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 The TOP 5 EXCUSES YOU CAN'T MAKE IN 2016

12/28/2015

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In the next 2 weeks you’ll be bombarded by cheesy ads for making “THIS year, YOUR year” “Lose 30lbs by Valentines” or “How to quit smoking fast” and my personal favorites, all the fitness ads.
​First they fill you up with food, then"try" to help you lose the weight again. It’s like going to the bar keeper to help you quit drinking.

So without further ado, here are the Top 5 Excuses I hear when people want to change their lives. 
​ 2015 in the past and 2016 in the future… the best way to win the battle over your mind is to know what to expect and prepare for it. 


1. " I never keep my resolutions anyway"

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Of course you never keep your resolutions! I couldn’t either if that was my line of thinking. The very definition of change means doing something different. You’ve always gotten the same outcome because you start and end at the same place every time.
DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT
Don’t just make half ass resolutions because everyone else is. Don’t do it to please others or because you feel guilty over eating too much and your cousin Cindy looking better than you.
Do it because you WANT to, nay, NEED TO. What do you need in your life badly enough that your willing to fight for it? Lose sleep over it? Give of your time and your money for it? What is worth that to you? Any resolution you make less than that, will fail by default because YOU never really waned it. 


You never keep your resolutions because you:
Didn’t truly want it in the first place                 Lacked the education
No self commitment/discipline                        You had no support
Step 1. Find out what you really need.

2. " I like eating way too much to diet"

Every body wants to lose weight. Everyone wants to know that mysterious secret to how Angela down the street never gains a damn pound. Everyone wants the energy. Everyone wants the drive. Everyone wants. Everybody wants.I want to be in a giant real life Willy Wonka factory and would love to strip nude and swim in the chocolate river, followed up with eating every gummy and eatable teacup and plate my eyes can find. Sure. But like children, we do not think of the reaction to our actions. 
You may want to slam the driver in front of you going 20mph in a 45; but you don’t because you think of the reaction. The reaction is far worse than your action. Hence your fear of loss is greater than your fear of gain.
You want to hit Bad Driver Goober on his cell phone, but you know if you do, you’ll be in jail and that outcome is worse than the satisfaction you’ll feel. See where I’m going with this?
The same voice of sanity that goes off in your head there, needs to sound off with your food choices. 

Who said you can’t eat? Pound per pound, I eat 2x as much food as the Average American, yet I’m not obese as most of America is. Don’t allow ignorance to become your excuse. You and I both know you could eat more of the good stuff and less of the bad. But it’s a matter of will. It falls back to “how badly do you want it?”. Are you willing to suffer, to change, to learn, in order to grow into who you want to become?Women give up smoking for the baby in their womb, they suffer the withdrawls, and do so willingly and with commitment- because their love for their child exceeds their love of smoking. Your love of your body needs to exceed your love of breads or sugar. Be your own hero. 
You say you like eating too much because                             You are scared to fail, or fail again
Your afraid to admit you lack the discipline                           You don’t know how to start, or where
                             You don’t have on going support after the inspiration ends

3. "I don't have time to change everything around"

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I hear this more often than not. People have a false sense of what is required for inner change because they base it on what advertisers sell them. American’s believe in what I refer to as a “one pill Solution”. Headache? Take a pill. Lose Weight? Drink this shake. Depressed? Take these pills. Can’t sleep? Drink this.
And if the real world worked like that, you’re right, we DON’T have time for all that.
But that’s only how the marketing companies what you to think. You are a created customer of the pharmaceutical industry. 


What you don’t have time for are symptoms of a greater problem. Stop chasing the symptoms and get to the core. Change THAT and you change everything. 
Change your self belief, change your thinking.                  Change your thinking, change your actions.
                                 Change your actions, you change your life. It all starts with believing in yourself. 

4. "I don't have the money to change everything and buy a bunch of stuff"

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Hey! Guess what? Most American’s have less than $1,000 in savings… so most of us don’t have the money to change everything around.
But who again told you that you had to?......Or was that just an assumption you made?
Waiting until we are ready means we will never be ready. Your desire for change needs to exceed your fear of it. You do not need to spend an excess amount of money in order to eat healthy. Anyone who tells you that is selling you something. You are going to spend money anyway on food. And you will be for the rest of your life. That will never ever change. It’s a fixed cost of being a human. 

So let’s think about how much that box of cheerio’s cost you…. $3.69 in Florida. That could buy a box of organic oatmeal. Same cost, WAY better benefits. Add up your cost on flavored drinks, teas etc. And yes, I hear you screaming “oh hell no she’s not taking away my sweet tea!”
No, I’m not. Just add up the cost. And let that sink in. Your buying sugar water and chemicals which cause you to get sick and gain weight all for the pleasure of taste on the tongue? American’s need Coke and Pepsi like a crack addict needs its next fix. 
But I NEED it”. 
No. You don't need it. Your fat needs it. Fight back friends.
You think it will cost more money because:
You are afraid to look at what you’re really doing, you’re comfortable
Lack of education           No Support

5. "Ya but, you don't know MY situation"

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And here my dear reader, you are 100% I do not know your situation. Only you do. Only you know what it will take to achieve that dream you have. You know the hard work it will require. You immediately think of everything you’ll have to undergo to achieve it and you feel overwhelmed.
Then, every single time, you stand back and take inventory of yourself. And the hate talk begins. “Remember last year? You did it for like a week, you really think you’ll do it this time?”
“Look how fat you are. You got like 100lbs to lose, you’ve tried 100 times and failed every time”
“Every diet you try fails anyway, none of this shit works so why even bother?”
“You know your doctor said you’ll never be like before, stop trying”

These heart breaking thoughts will keep going through your head, but only YOU have the power to change that. You have the power to start believing it before you ever see it. Love yourself enough to fight back against these. Love yourself to look in the mirror and SAY IT to yourself “I love you”. And let those voices come. This is your battle and your fight and YOU only you have the ability to fight it and win. 
It’s easy to let advertisers tell you what you want to hear, that it will be easy and quick- but they are lying.  It’s easy to think a pill will fix you- but it won’t. It’s easy to look out the window in search of a hero to break in ad save us from our ails- but they will never come. 

2016 isn't the year of resolutions
It's the year of the Fighter​

The year we break free from the lies we tell ourselves, the comfort zones we build around ourselves, and we find our courage to grow into who we NEED to become.
                                                      Be Your Own Hero 

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IDEAS ARE SCARY

12/18/2015

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​Ideas are scary, they come into this world ugly and messy. Ideas are frightening because they threaten what is known. They are the natural born enemy of the way things are.
Yes, ideas are scary, and messy, and fragile.
But under the proper care, they become something beautiful."

Believing doesn’t say “if”. Believing doesn’t say “but”. 

​To believe is the beginning of what could be. It can start as an idea, a picture in your mind, or a hope of what could be. Believing doesn’t say “if”. Believing doesn’t say “but”.
Believing, is an absolute; and you either do, or you don’t.
It is not something you can will yourself into, or push yourself to. Believing pulls you and drives you. 
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Are you ready?"
Is it that you need to know the means, or the end? I want you to know the end. I want you to believe it’s possible for you. YOU have to believe it’s possible, but you need to be ready.
When you believe in something so great and so deep inside of you, when it consumes your time, your thoughts and your days… you’re preparing.
When you are ready, the means don’t matter. Only the end matters. When you are ready, you’ll claw and dig and fight your way out to save your own life and rebuild it. 

If it was easy everybody would do it

Less than 5% of the American population has a six pack.
Do they all WANT fabulous abs? Let’s assume most do for our story.  Why doesn’t everyone have “fabulous abs”?
Because it’s hard.
And if you’re reading this thinking anything like “…ya but…if….” Then I refer you to the top of this page again.
It’s hard because YOU have to believe it for yourself first before anyone else can ever see. The need for change needs to be so strong that it burns your soul. And you need to be ready.
  

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   See your goal and then fight for it, regardless of what’s in your way.
If that process was easy, everyone would do it.
But they don’t. 
You can’t be that person. YOU have to decide.
That’s the story of war. If you’re reading now then you haven’t lost that war yet. If you’re thinking “ya but…” I refer you to the top of this page.
 
It all starts out with an idea. A dream. A vision. Find yours and replay it over and over again. Make it a reality for you, but first…believe.
Believe it’s possible. 

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Coffee Creamer: Que the Scene

12/5/2015

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Water, Sugar, Palm Oil, Corn Syrup, Sodium Caseinate, Dipotassium, Phosate, Mono and Diglycerides, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Carrageenan

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     Que the scene: It’s about 7am, the early morning sun is draping in through the windows onto your white satin sheets, with you in them, tucked in tightly. You awakw to the sounds and shuffles of your children brushing teeth and getting dressed. As you rise and throw on your cloth robe and slippers, the deep rich aroma of coffee hits your nostrils. The husband must have made coffee, because he loves you. Making your way down the spotless spiral staircase, you see your loving overly handsome husband in his work suit and a cup of coffee with the perfect amount of froth on top…and on the counter you see the Coffee Brand X and its creamer and you smile….

      Que reality: It’s about 6am and its still dark outside, and the blankets are on the floor.  After rolling over and checking Facebook and the news you drag your flabby self up and into the bathroom, in the background sounds of the kids fighting over who’s turn it is to do the dishes. You grab whatever isn’t dirty and make your way past the mine fields of legos, dog toys and random articles of clothing. The husband is throwing a bagel in his mouth and tells you there’s still some hot coffee on the pot as he runs out the door.

So if the advertising associated with said products aren’t true to life... doesn’t that set a precedence for their product quality also?
So if the advertising associated with said products aren’t true to life... doesn’t that set a precedence for their product quality also? Instead of Folgers in your cup with blue birds singing, your drinking poison. And you’re doing it every single day, just like millions of other American’s.
But it’s just coffee right?
Wrong.

According to Statisticbrain.com, 62% of coffee drinkers use creamer…. If your one of that 62%, keep reading. And if you’re not, keep reading anyway and learn something!
 
Annual creamer sales top 3 billion. 3 billion with CoffeeMate owning the majority, with International Delight a far second.

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Below are links to sites covering each ingredient in depth, then, lets put it all together in YOUR daily life.
  • Palm Oil- destroys our rain forests, not easily digested- causes muscle pain
  • Corn Syrup- highly refined sugar syrup, addictive, feeds inflammation and headaches
  • Sodium Caseinate- isolated milk protein causing gastrointestinal problems
  • Dipotassium Phosphate- thickening agent, creates negative neuro responses 
  • Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate- creates an immune response such as swelling, mucus
  • Carrageenan- preservative, neurotoxic chemical depletes your oxygen 
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Some people I have worked with are so sensitive to these poisons they complain of headaches, muscle and neck pain, and overall pain within minutes of consuming. Granted the majority of American’s wont experience symptoms, which really is a faux; because whether you feel it or not, there are negative impacts on your body. Most creamers contain a litany of known toxic ingredients. And Sherlock, have you figured out what it hasn’t got?
Cream.
Okay, so you’re off the flavored creamer band wagon. I’ve ruined it for you. Well, have no fear reading friends… I’m going to further disappointment you. You might be saying to yourself, "I'll just take my sassy self to the store and buy some Half & Half" but….
Nearly all conventional Half & Half is loaded with Mono and Diglycerides. Don't take MY word for it, go look at the label.
    People with auto immune related diseases typically experience head, neck and muscle pain after consuming diglycerides, but the symptoms are exasperated when mixed with caffeine on an empty stomach.
Coffees with a higher caffeine content mixed with these toxins can sometimes cause experiences such as shakiness and the “jitters” which is an unhealthy high by any stretch of the imagination.



Monoglycerides and diglycerides
Monoglycerides and diglycerides are food additives commonly used to combine ingredients containing fats with those containing water, two types of ingredients that don't ordinarily combine well. Food manufacturers typically use them to extend a product's shelf life. Made in part of fatty acids, they are similar to triglycerides, the predominant fat in food according to the Harvard School of Public Health, except they are classified as emulsifiers rather than lipids. -
Trans fats from animal, vegetable, or man-made sources can increase the risk for numerous diseases.
According to registered dietitian Mary Beth Sodus of the University of Maryland Medial Center, trans fats have been associated with increased risk of numerous diseases, including heart disease, stroke and diabetes. They promote inflammation and obesity; raise LDL, or bad, cholesterol levels; and lower HDL, or good, cholesterol levels. Made up in part of fatty acids, mono- and diglycerides may contain trans fats, either when manufactured in a lab or, if they come from an animal or vegetable source, when exposed to heat for processing into packaged and prepared foods.”
- See more at: http://www.livestrong.com/article/445850-what-is-bad-about-mono-diglycerides/#sthash.8nYUKs5n.dpuf



Still want that cup of Joe? Eat2Live2Love has an easy remedy for this commonly asked question.
  1. Buy unflavored, organic coffee (more on that in another story)
  2. Reduce your sugar intake a little per cup until you require no sugar
  3. READ THE LABEL on your creamer of choice. Eat2Live2Love refers all it’s members to try Organic Valley Half & Half or, for a richer cream (and more fattening) try Organic Valley Heavy Whipping Cream. Neither of these have mono and diglycerides. Just milk and cream from grass fed cows and can easily be found at most grocery stores.
Que the scene: You are an empowered individual who understands the value of knowledge. You’re not fooled by cheap marketing tricks and when YOUR feet hit the floor each morning your ready to heal instead of hurt. And soon enough this scene WILL be your reality…. One small step for you, one small sip for mankind.

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