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We wanted to announce the winner of our recent referral contest in Foster City, Therese!!
We also want to thank the following people for referring their friends during the contest:
Alissar, Lisa, Leah, Elaine, Robin, Tod and Evangaline. Thanks guys!!
Roy and I build our business primarily from referrals. Just so you know, you will get 1/2 off your next months boot camp for referring a friend who participates in our 6 or 12 month bootcamp program. And, If you’re not in the bootcamp and you want to refer a friend, we will pay you $50 cash!
I’m curious. What do you think would be a good prize for upcoming referral contests? Please leave your comment below.
The following is what I learned so far from Dr. Robert Anthony’s program, Zero Resistance Weight Loss. I bought his program because I strongly believe it is the mind and your day-to-day thoughts that will ultimately get you results in our bootcamp or any other weight loss, body conditioning or fitness program.
I purchased this program myself so I can review it for you, and I highly recommend it to you because it get’s to the root about the reasons for gaining excess weight, and how if you remove the root cause, you will release your excess weight automatically. You won’t even have to worry about dieting, because the program gets you to naturally pick foods that are the right kind, and in the right amounts, without resistance.
If you really want to lose weight, and you are tired of making excuses, failing or not seeing results fast enough, this is the program for you.
Here are some things I learned from part 1 of the Zero Resistance program (these are my actual notes from the program):
Go for weight release NOT weight loss (if you lose your keys, you want to find them. You don’t want to find your weight again, do you!?)
Your “subconscious emotional weight survival program” is the software you are running inside your mind that keeps you at a subconsciously selected weight. The good news is that you can override this programming!
Normally, weight loss involves a constant struggle, but not if you remove your subconscious resistance first!
To be successful, you need to align subconscious with conscious. Your thoughts might say you want to lose weight, but if your subconscious mind says something else, it will override your conscious mind every time.
Weight loss is more than calories in vs. calories out.
If your subconscious emotional weight survival programming is set for you to be overweight, you will continue to not lose weight.
All diets fail in the long run.
Overriding your subconscious programming doesn’t work in the long run. You can’t simply use “will power”.
Trying to get results with only your conscious mind is like driving your car with the emergency brakes on. (I personally thought this analogy hit the nail on the head.)
If your emotional survival switch is turned off it will be easy and effortless to lose weight.
Addiction is having a lack of choice. Compulsive and emotional eating is an addiction.
Will power does NOT work. This is trying to override your subconscious programming and is the path of resistance.
Stopping smoking by willpower is difficult. However, stopping smoking by having the same thoughts as a non-smoker is easy. You simply won’t be interested or you’ll be repulsed by the idea. This same idea works in releasing your excess weight.
Mental, emotional or spiritual stress is perceived as a lack of something. Brain takes the message of not enough, and turns it into something physical. Food, shopping, alcohol, caffeine, ect. may be what your mind will look for.
Being overweight is serving your emotional needs.
If you believe you were meant to be fat, or born to be fat, you have your emotional weight programming turned on.
Weight loss becomes effortless with the fat switch turned off.
Systematically eliminating the mental and emotional factors.
Emotional eating – eating purely for emotional reasons. Distracts you from what is really bothering you. Cope with negative emotions. Physical tension or anxiety then triggers the physical response to eat. When I’m stressed, I tend to eat, because it calms me down and makes me feel better. Anticipatory anxiety or worry is a stress that can create emotional eating. Associate love, comfort and security with eating. Brain is programmed to use food to fulfill these needs. Ex. Your a child, you get cake for your birthday. Your mom gives you candy when you are good, or to make you feel better. People use food as a treat or a reward. When you’re stressed, the candy bar wins out over the fitness strategy every time. Dopamine is released and leads to patterns of addiction and leaves a permanent identification of where pleasure comes from. We all engage in emotional eating to some degree. Healthy people eat to live. Emotional eaters live to eat. This means your fat switch is turned on.
Emotional obesity – Is the actual need to be fat as an emotional survival mechanism. When you have emotional obesity, you come to the conclusion that consciously or unconsciously being fat makes you feel safer. Not good, but safer. Being fat or overeating becomes the best way to protect you.
No weight loss program will ever be able to work for you. When you turn off your fat switch and emotional obesity you will succeed.
If you do not change this, you will find a way to sabotage your weight loss. Even if I said you will lose weight just by snapping your fingers 30 seconds per day, you would find an excuse, lack of time, etc. why it will not be possible to do this. Your emotional obesity will always win out.
Fat can create an emotional “distance” in relationships or in being harmed in relations with people.
Fear can make people fat, or skinny (anorexia).
Gaining weight can be a way of hiding from the world, almost like a turtle. Retreating inside your body, or underneath your fat.
Some people stay fat to rebel against the people who want us to be slim. “I don’t want to be controlled, and you can’t control my weight.”
If someone else wants you to lose weight, they may stay fat just to resent you, and to maintain control.
You will have people around you that try to sabotage you, and you may want to stay the same just to keep everyone happy.
If people start giving you attention because you lose weight, and you don’t want that attention and it makes you feel out of your comfort zone, you may revert back to emotional obesity to remain in your comfort zone.
Another way we can be triggered into emotional obesity is through death or a loss of a relationship.
You cannot ignore the problem of emotional obesity. Rather than ignore it, address it, and then watch the weight literally melt off your body.
Here’s an important lesson when it comes to emotional eating, and emotional obesity, that you must learn – sometimes in life, you just have to allow yourself to feel bad. This is critically important, so it will be repeated. Sometimes in life, you just have to allow yourself to feel bad.
By bad I mean stressed, upset, dissapointed, frustrated and so on.
To fix the problems in your life, sit with your feelings. This will cause you to get to the root of the problem.
True freedom from being overweight does not involve a lifetime of dieting. True freedom requires getting to the bottom of things, and then dealing with it, so you will be released from being overweight forever.
The reasons diets don’t work, is that they require you to change your eating habits without addressing your crutch.
Food is merely a mirror that reflects what you’re feeling or what you don’t want to feel.
The old behavior was to eat.
The new behavior is to heal and resolve what’s causing you to emotionally overeat.
Another problem with being overweight is because it’s accumulative, and it shows on you wherever you go.
All diets and even healthy eating plans are doomed for failure.
Being overweight is really a disease of MORE. No amount of food is enough. No matter how much you have, it’s not enough.
The need for food is sometimes called the big empty. If you’re spiritually feeling disconnected, this could lead to emotional overeating to fill the void with food.
It’s never about the food, it’s about the emotion behind the food.
Meaning and purpose to our lives gives us “soul food”.
How do you know when your emotional eating issues are gone? You will feel safer, better, more connected. Your fat switch will turn off, then you will have zero resistance and you will naturally drop the weight.
We have developed a NEW fitness challenge for you, and we call it the Bodyweight “300″ Challenge. You may have heard of the movie about the 300 Spartan warriors who bravely fought 10,000 Persians in a bloody battle. Well, to prepare the actors and to get them in phenomenal shape for the filming of the movie, a workout called the “300″ was developed, which is a super-hardcore workout.
This workout we have developed, was inspired by the original “300″ workout, but we’ve changed things a bit so that it has broader appeal, and can be completed by most anyone (without injuries or contraindications).
The reason it can be completed by most people, is because we’ve developed 6 levels, from uber-beginner to advanced. Regardless of level, it’s a timed event. I’ve actually posted the entire challenge below:
Objective: Use the challenge as a way to improve your fitness level, to test your fitness level, and to improve and challenge yourself and others.
Directions: Start by choosing a level. Level 1-3 are beginner to intermediate levels. Levels 4-6 are intermediate and advanced levels.
Next, start the timer and begin the challenge, working your way through each exercise consecutively. You can take as many breaks as you wish, whenever you wish, for as long as you need to. Always rest enough to bring flawless form into your exercise technique.
The goal is to complete the challenge in the shortest time possible. Form is always more important than speed. Supervision of a professional fitness trainer is highly recommended, but not necessary. Write down your time when completed, then use it as a benchmark for your fitness level. Try the challenge again in 4-6 weeks to test improvement in your physical strength and endurance.
Note: Regardless of level, this is an advanced fitness challenge and should be taken seriously.
Disclaimer: You are advised to consult your doctor before beginner this, or any other fitness test, program or challenge. Fit For Life Bootcamp, Fit For Life Enterprises, Fit For Life Solutions and Fit Body Boot Camp and their trainers are not responsible for any injuries, including death, that may occur to you during the Bodyweight “300” Challenge.
This is a short video I created to give you a brief introductory to Zen practice and meditation. I don’t get into the theory too much, but focus in on how you can start practicing the art of meditation so that the Zen mind will begin to enter into your life. The Zen mind is a mind that is focused, clear, and aware. It can greatly affect the quality of your life at a very fundamental level.
This video is a thank-you to all who joined the short Zen hike we did with Jennifer’s FunFitUnite Meetup.com group, and our Fit For Life Bootcamp group. Thanks everyone who came out and shared the experience! I’ll schedule another one soon!
-Forrest
Also, if you want to understand more about Zen, I suggest learning from the same Master I did. You can find his website here:
The other day I went healthy food shopping at Trader Joe’s with two new bootcampers, Cassandra and Maggie. I must say, this was one of the funnest healthy shopping trips ever!
Here’s a video of our shopping. Hopefully it will give you some good ideas and help you with your own shopping.
Please leave a comment below. I’d really like to hear where your favorite place to shop is, and please include the name of your favorite healthy meal!
I get a lot of requests from clients asking how much cardio they should do to burn the most flat, help them sculpt and tone, and flatten their stomach.
The woman in this picture used Turbulence Training. I recommend you use it to help give your training an edge you just can’t get elsewhere.
My advice to burn fat fastest is to do muscle-confusion circuit training with weights and cardio (this is what we do in our bootcamp), keep a food log, and perform interval training on days when you’re not doing circuits with weights.
I’ve been following this guy, Craig Ballantyne, for a while now, and he is on the cutting edge when it comes to fat loss. He is actually someone who I look up to and learn from, and many of my peers who own and operate successful fat loss and fitness bootcamps worldwide follow what he does, too.
If you want the secrets to burning fat fast, even in the comfort of your own home with NO equipment, then you need to check this out:
Today I wanted to share this video I put together for you on how you can take 10 to 15 minutes during your lunch break and turn it into a revitalizing mini-vacation. There’s no reason to wait all year long before you take a vacation and give yourself a break…I say give yourself a vacation RIGHT NOW!
I’m putting on a Zen hike this weekend to give you a better understanding of how you can do this too. Hope to see you there. Here is the link for the hike this Saturday:
Here’s an interview Roy did with Sam Bakhtiar who is a fitness and weight loss guru in Chino Hills, CA. Sam has a track record that Roy and I aspire to with getting his clients great, life-changing results. We listen to him, and so should you!
Today we’re bringing you 2 videos to get you great results in your fitness program. The first video is from CNN, and it shows you the importance of what we are doing here. The second video is from me, Forrest, to show you how to put this awesome weight loss strategy into practice.
If you’re not doing this, you won’t see results. Trust me, the extra work will pay off!
…and it’s been a long time coming. I’ve found something that’s really going to help you lose weight, and keep it off, even if you’ve tried and tried again, and failed miserably. I’ll even go so far as to say even if you’re stuck on a plateau and can’t seem to get any results, this solution will work for you!
You see, being a fitness trainer, the name of the game is change. It’s my job to change bodies. I get people to lose weight, to tone up, to get strong, to make exercise a habit, to eat right.
I’m constantly motivating, educating, inspiring people to make change.
But, when people want to change, they are in a constant battle with themselves. Why? They want to lose weight, right? They want to be healthy, don’t they?
Here’s the real deal why summed up in one word…RESISTANCE.
Resistance is the reason why change is so difficult. Resistance is what happens when you have a plan, but just can’t pull it off for some “unknown” reason. Resistance is the thing that tugs you back into your old habits when you try to quit smoking, go on a diet, start an exercise program, stick to a budget.
Remember, resistance is a good thing, because when you overcome it, you grow stronger. We know this in the gym when we lift more weight. We know this in life when we go through a tough time and come out of it as a stronger and better person. We need resistance, but we also need to overcome that resistance, or else we are beaten.
Want to beat the resistance that’s been holding you back?
Want to find out how to kick resistance to the curb once and for all?
Want to find out why you’ve tried over and over to get the same failed result?
Want to start training for results, or take your training to an all new level?
I’ve found something that will help you kick your resistance with weight loss to the curb once and for all here:
