Dear Self, Please do me one favour: Don’t quit, keep going. You are five weeks into your plan. And you don’t really care about the scale. But it would be nice to see more than one measly pound of progress this week. I get it. But that’s the thing – the beginner’s luck weight loss has passed – …
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Stop Poisoning Yourself The biggest poison is living with regret. For years I lived with regret. I let others lead. Others take chances. Others get the girls and get the good jobs and get the satisfaction of “going for it” and not looking back. But that’s no longer the case, because I’m doing what I …
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Hey it’s hump day. Are you kicking A#% and taking names this week? I took home a really good lesson from my conference in Toronto on the weekend. Mark Fisher (owner of MFF) quoted the late Joseph Campbell in his talk: “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek” What’s your biggest …
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I’ve been feeling off lately. Maybe it’s because I’m on a diet and I hate to diet, but I call BS on that. I’ve been IGNORING my darkness for too long. We all have some things to deal with. I’m good at burying mine, but it came to a head on the long weekend and …
This was an article I originally had published on BroBible.com Have you started 16,456 diets in your lifetime – most of them on a Monday? Why did you quit? What went wrong? Your motivation is never higher than when you start, but what happens when it wears off? Bingo. You fall back into old habits. You need …
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You’ve been told you just need more willpower and you’ll FINALLY lose those last 20 lbs, right? That’s great and all, but you live in the real world. Your willpower is being used up on bigger priorities, right? So what can you do when your life is full of stress, the kids candy is all over …
Life is full of temptations. And they are only magnified the harder you try to resist them (I’ll explain why below). You’ll find day-old donuts in the lunch room appetizing after starting a diet, or the smell of a cigarette will lure you just as you’ve resolved to quit smoking. So what makes you able …
Your brain is constantly looking for ways to save energy. Research shows that one way it does this is by turning activities into habits. New research by Duke University scientists suggests that a habit leaves a lasting mark on specific circuits in the brain, priming us to feed our cravings. Published online Jan. 21 in …
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Are you tired of stopping and starting over? Maybe you’ve tried losing weight before – only to get stuck shortly after starting? If you want to change your life (in ANY area), you need to change your habits. How do you do that? Here are three tips to prevent failure. 1. Start small. This works …
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I don’t have the genetics to have a six-pack abs. I don’t like vegetables enough to eat clean. I don’t have the time to cook the kinds of foods that I need to be eating. Those were the thoughts I struggled with at 240 lbs some 13 years ago. It’s not until I frankly called bullshit on …
“Oh, no.” That was my thought as I struggled to move the barbell. I wondered if this was the end of my short tenure into the gym. Those are the thoughts that race through your head when you lay trapped beneath your own bench press; the cold iron grazing your throat. Thankfully, a far more experienced …
The following is a guest post from Mark Miller, who blogs over at Smartbeard.com, a site for everything related to men’s lifestyle – from exercise, to cars, gadgets and careers. By Mark Miller I’ve never been into heavy lifting or one for making time to go to the gym, but fitness and keeping lean is still …