| You may have 10 pounds to lose and you're just | | | | your bodies' new need for food. |
| starting your fat loss program, or it may be the last | | | | 3. clean up your diet |
| 10 pounds to lose from months or years of constant | | | | If everything is going well, you can take some time |
| work. The last 10 pounds are the easiest ones to | | | | to finally clean up your diet. This means that the last |
| lose and let me tell you how. | | | | 10 pounds to lose may require re-thinking your diet. |
| 1. The Power of the Mind | | | | Are you eating any condiments? Are you eating dairy |
| One critical thing when trying for the last 10 pounds | | | | products? Have you been eating low fat foods |
| to lose is the power of the mind. First of all, don't | | | | thinking they're healthy and designed to help you lose |
| "try" to lose the last 10 pounds, but rather do it. | | | | the last 10 pounds? |
| Know that it is going to happen and expect it to | | | | Here are some simple rules to help you clean up your |
| happen. Simple enough to say, but it is true. When | | | | diet: |
| we get to the last 10 pounds to lose, we begin to | | | | • How many names are listed on the |
| coast and ease up on our training and commitment, | | | | ingredients? The lower the number of items listed, |
| but I'm telling you to do exactly the opposite. This is | | | | the better it is for you. |
| the time to push forward and pick up speed, and be | | | | • Can you remove condiments from your |
| every more diligent in your choices. You must know | | | | diet for a short period of time? Eliminate ketchup |
| in your mind that the last 10 pounds to lose is the | | | | (which I call tomato flavoured sugar), eliminate |
| easiest part of the journey. Use the power of your | | | | mayonnaise, get rid of salad dressings. Eliminate soy |
| mind to visualize success and yourself not only | | | | sauce from your rice. |
| standing at the finish line having successfully achieved | | | | • What are you drinking? At this point, your |
| your goal, but even more so than that.. Visualize | | | | goal of 10 pounds to lose would include a very |
| yourself picking up speed and running through the | | | | substantial change in fluids. An increase in water |
| finish line. Your motto should be "there is nothing | | | | consumption and a removal of all other fluids such as |
| more powerful than a warrior running through the | | | | juices or other non-nutritional beverages will assist |
| finish line". Be a fat burning warrior. | | | | with the last 10 pounds to lose. |
| 2. Increase your metabolism | | | | 4. Wake up earlier means more time to burn calories |
| The last 10 pounds to lose is as easy as increasing | | | | The longer you are awake, the longer your body is |
| your metabolism through exercise and a change in | | | | burning calories and the more time you have to |
| eating habits. | | | | ingest and burn the 5 or 6 meals required. Eating |
| Diet | | | | every 3 hours for 5 meals requires starting at 6 am |
| If you're not already eating 5 or 6 meals a day, then | | | | and eating last meal at 6 PM for example. For men, |
| now is the time to change your eating strategy and | | | | eating another meal at 9 pm. |
| the last 10 pounds to lose will literally fall off your | | | | The longer you are awake allows more time for |
| body. Become a fat burning machine through diet by | | | | exercise. Doing cardio first thing in the morning |
| rethinking how you look at food, snacks and meals. | | | | before your first meal helps burn fat rather than any |
| Every time you eat, your body kicks into gear and | | | | blood sugars. Make sure you exercise before you eat. |
| works hard at digesting or burning up that meal to | | | | Then staying up later allows for an evening weight |
| turn it into nutrients that your body can use for | | | | training workout, or a second cardio session. |
| energy and healing while the rest is burnt off as heat | | | | The last 10 pounds to lose might be as simple as |
| (in a process called thermogenics). | | | | spending more time awake. |
| Exercise | | | | If you are really trying to lose the last 10 pounds, |
| If you have been on some sort of "last 10 pounds to | | | | remember that it should always be considered easy. |
| lose" program, it's likely included exercise. You are | | | | If you tell yourself it's easy and your mind knows |
| probably doing cardio like crazy. Well, you should be. | | | | that you think it's easy that it becomes easy. You |
| If you have not been doing cardio, now is the time | | | | are what you think. What you focus on expands. |
| to start. If you have been, then now's the time to | | | | Your mind cannot tell the difference between what |
| kick it up a notch. The last 10 pounds to lose is as | | | | you think is real and what is real, so know in your |
| easy as increasing your output. Doubling your cardio | | | | heart and mind that the last 10 pounds to lose is |
| to 6 times per week, or if you've already been doing | | | | easy. Clean up your diet, improve what you drink for |
| that, then do a second cardio session in the evening | | | | fluids, spend more time awake and make sure you |
| for a twice a day cardio workout. Wow, that will | | | | stay active. |
| really kick things into gear. One caveat: if you | | | | Trust me, the last 10 pounds is an easy thing to |
| increase your output of exercise, you may also need | | | | accomplish. |
| to increase your calorie consumption a bit to match | | | | |