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Today was an exciting morning for me. I’ve been 125 lbs. for the about a year or so and I got there from 150 lbs. which I ballooned to one summer in high school. Forgetting the summer, I was a cross-country and track runner during the school year and stayed somewhere around 127 lbs. while in season.

Now, I had some really unhealthy eating habits when I was in high school. I would rarely eat breakfast and I would skip lunch on most days to avoid puking in practice. All that to say that I eat now more than ever and enjoy it. In 2007, I was in college; I was about 138 lbs., and I was a little insecure because during a speech class a skinny-mini poked fun at my love handles when I wore an exercise top for a speech I was doing.

After that day I started looking around for what I could do to “get back down to my high school weight”. The more I read, the more I found out that simply cutting your portions in half could aid weight loss. So, I tried it. Beats not eating, right? It was this one change that caused me to drop to 125 lbs. and stay there.

In 2008, I realized I had a problem. My sister had bought me a body fat monitor scale for my birthday. So, I realized soon that although my weight was down my body fat was high. I had done many ridiculous diets like the juice diet, the soup diet, the vegan diet, and the eat once a day diet, so I knew that these diets were “MAKING ME FAT!” Diets without adequate protein will cause your body to eat your muscles so you get fatter although you lost weight.

At the end of 2009 I got a little cardio machine and started to do about 10 minutes of cardio a day to keep my energy levels up and tone my calves. I also started avoiding eating too many complex carbs and sugars. My goal now is to get to 20% body fat (that’s low for a woman, not a man). I’m at 21%, but here’s the exciting part; before I started eating less rice and potatoes I was at 26% body fat. That was only a month ago.

Confession: I wasn’t exercising much at all to lose weight, don’t like it that much.

So This is What Worked for Me:

1) Cut Meals in Half

2) Don’t Eat White Things

Have to give credit to Tim Ferriss for giving some great 4-Hour Body tips in his blog about losing weight because although I’ve never been overweight reading his posts really helped me get “fat loss” not weight loss down.

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I think that this presentation that Timothy Ferriss did at the TED conference in 2008 really explains who he is and some of the strategies outlined in The Four Hour Workweek which has become the bible of lifestyle design.

My favorite quote from the lecture is: (Fear is Your Friend) “A lot of time it shows you want you shouldn’t do, more often than not it shows you exactly what your should do.”

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So…it took me a while to get this up. Let’s see, I recorded this on Saturday so that’s one, two, three, four, five days later that I’m actually getting this post up for you all. I’m just going to share what my personal experience has been with this one. With the little mastermind that I have started in my local area of “big thinkers” and entrepreneurial types I have found all the resources, advice, and encouragement that I could possible need to get my business up and running.

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Man some people just inspire the hell out of you! I mean, their stories just make you want to pack all your excuses into a trunk and drop them into a lake. This guy Tellman Knudson’s story just made me go, “What!!! I guess I am lazy…” This guy was born with a condition that caused him to be severely pigeon-toed. And he did something about it.

Kind of like Joseph Pilates. He rejected the fact that his condition would limit him and then worked his tail off until he was in a league of his own. For Tellman, this meant cross-country running. He ran until his legs straightened out. For Pilates it meant overcoming rickets and training every muscle in his body to work together.

Now he’s Something near and dear to my heart. Well he tells his story better than I do:

That’s right he’s raising $100,000,000 dollars for a charity that helps homeless children.

Running clear across America barefoot costs a lot of money apparently, and I only just heard about the adventure because Tellman Knudson happens to be one of the top authorities on list-building, and I am an avid student of marketing. So he created an absolutely, draw-doppingly, awesome offer with a few other marketers to fund his run across the states and raise that $100 mill. for charity.

I couldn’t resist; I just had to snap it up and blog about it to boot, Check It Out:

http://budurl.com/fundtherun

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Just Because Viddler Let Me Down, I’m Reposting This With Youtube Embeds.

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Every Once In a While You Happen Upon Someone That Truly Gets It:

A resolution I made in December when I created this blog was to spend more time taking in positive messages and really reprogramming myself (from all the negative thinking that bombards us daily.) This guy really gets personal development so I’ll definitely be listening in more to what he has to say.

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Christian Fioravanti Tells All About SMO and SEO Part 2

Congratulations You’ve Made It Too The Super Secret Second Half Of The SMO Interview.
Pull Out Your Physical or Virtual Notepad These Are Some Great Tips!

• Quick Tip: Write down and look up all the terms that you’re unfamiliar with like backlinks need keyword anchor texts!

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For about 20 minutes I had the opportunity to grill serial entrepreneur, Greg Rollett on starting out in lifestyle design. What I found out is that he not only talks the talk, but he walks the walk. He’s not only the founder of Rock Star Lifestyle Design, he’s a real social media expert that has done Gen-Y Marketing consulting for for Disney, Coca-cola, and Miller Brewing Company. He’s been interviewed as a personal branding expert on the Orlando evening news for the Employment Guide; he’s created the coolest non-profit that I’ve heard of to help the homeless in his area, Rock for Hunger; he lives to help others succeed: indie musicians and Gen-Y-ers that want to design life on their own terms. I caught up with him at the end of December 2009 just in time to hear about another project of his: the Rockstar Business Series for 20-somethings that want help starting out online.

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Wow, it’s the end of the year. I just asked myself what I should be doing, and the first thing that came to mind was blogging. I want to remember leaving 2009, but I also wanted to share some cool tips on how to get stuff done (faster).

1) Trick Your Mind

o You can do this by saying “I’m just going to work on this project for 10 minutes.”

(There’s a big resistance to getting started, but the rest is usually gravy.)

2) Visualization (Not Hokey! It actually creates a chemical reaction in your body!)

o First visualize yourself doing the project and doing it well.

(Also visualize your worse case scenario and rehearse in your head how you would overcome it on this step.)

o Then visualize yourself hitting specific targets or goals within the project.

o Lastly visualize yourself finishing your project and the results of having completed it.

3) Speak Well of Yourself to Yourself

o Monitor your self-talk (those negative thoughts and things you say to yourself under your breath).

o Make it a point to say good things about yourself because your thoughts create your reality.

o Intentionally practice speaking positive things as you are working on your project.

(For example if you feel like you don’t have what it takes say, “I know I can do this.” or “If…can do this so can I.” and do use the present tense and words that move you towards achievement.)

IF YOU REMEMBER NOTHING ELSE FROM THIS POST REMEMBER IF YOU DO NOT ENCOURAGE YOURSELF YOU WILL NOT ACHIEVE AS MUCH AS YOU DESIRE OR HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH!

Know any other cool tips for keeping yourself going or focused on changing your life for the better? Feel free to share them in the comments section below. Read the rest of this entry »

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