I am just back from a 2 week trip to California, where I was visiting family. (I live in Sydney now, although I am originally from Chicago).
Usually when we go to the US, we come back kilos heavier and our clothes don't fit. We tend to eat foods that aren't good for us and that are loaded with unnecessary additives and generally speaking... eat too much crap. Unfortunately a very American way of life, that is becoming all too common in Australia as well.
In any case... I was shocked to learn that I had mostly maintained my size and even dropped a bit of fat around my belly. Complete shock, as I was totally convinced that I had gained fat. My point here... it's amazing what the mind can do.
We can think ourselves thin and we can think ourselves fat. I honestly looked in the mirror and saw a fatter person and also, thought that my clothes weren't fitting as well.
I teach my clients all the time that the biggest thing to overcome in your mission of creating your ideal body, is your mind. Trust me when I tell you, I got into this field and wanted to solve my own problems with yo-yo diets and have done a lot of work on my nutrition, exercise and mindset, but yes.. i still have some skeletons in the closet that come out every so often.
Let me preface this mission with the fact that I have already started working on losing fat that I had gained during my pregnancy. I have been working on this the past few months. My husband, Hugh, did a phenomenal course teaching him to actually spot reduce fat. In other words... get rid of fat in those areas of your body that you struggle to get rid of, no matter how hard you try. Things like love handles, flabby arms, your butt, hips, thighs, man boobs, etc.
It is all based on balancing the hormones in your body and works AMAZINGLY well. Here has been the problem with it... when we first started, our protocol was to go on a very high protein diet. We eliminated everything but meat and some veggies, (a minimal amount of the veggies). I LOVE veggies, fruit and yes chocolate. So what happened, I believed i had no variation of food, got bored of meat, my body struggled to break all the meat down and in my mind... I felt so restricted. So... I started to hide eating sweets from Hugh. (How many of you have done this?) Even hid eating fruit! The funny things was, I was still dropping the cms/inches. The problem with this was massive...
I started to feel guilty about my eating and hiding it from Hugh, so I started eating more of it. Yes, even though I teach how to stop this horrible spiral, I too became a victim of it. Yikes! It hasn't lasted long (only a few weeks), and here I am telling you the tale, so that hopefully it will help you get out of any vicious spirals downwards that you are creating for yourself. Once I started feeling guilty and binging more, I started to put fat on, only small amounts, but the past few weeks that is what happened. I got more stressed and my body stored the fat. Again... I'm showing you the power of the mind.
So... I have taken control back. The first step for me was admitting this problem to Hugh, so yesterday we talked about everything that happening for me. I told him everything. We talked about what was happening in my mind, uncovered a few more things and I'm getting back on track now, in my own way. The one thing I tell all my clients when they want to lose weight is that what you eat, must be sustainable long term. Don't worry about diets, just eat whole foods.
So this is my commitment... Go back to basics, eat whole foods, if I chose to eat anything outside of that, I will and know it's a choice I make and feel okay about that. This is the mission... to show you that eating a balanced diet, combined with exercise, some supplementation and the right mindset will get you the results you desire.
Keri Norley is an international coach who has helped hundreds of people to reach their ideal body.
With her husband, Hugh, their business http://www.targetedfatloss.com.au/ can help you with individualized plans and coaching to help you get rid of fat in those hard to lose areas that don't budge with common weight loss practices.
If you want to get rid of flabby arms, thunder thighs, love handles, fat belly, man boobs or a double chin, contact them today at info@targetedfatloss.com.au.
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