"The 4 Ultimate
Secrets Of Life At
Your Healthiest Weight"
Four Hidden Keys to Vibrant Health,
Lasting
Happiness, and Struggle-Free Weight Loss
2003 by Dr. Frank B. Smoot, DD, MA
www.CoachFrankSmoot.com
Boy, that's a lot to promise, isn't
it?
Yes, it sure is. But my clients wouldn't call it an exaggeration.
When you stop spinning your wheels and wasting your time on "Diet
Industry" weight loss approaches, and actually start doing what
works, your entire life changes.
Sure, you lose weight. And the stress and struggle that had always
been such an unhappy part of your weight loss efforts just
disappears from your life.
But the real benefits show up in the way you feel every day--about
your self, about your body, about your life. You will also probably
see dramatic difference in the way others see you, treat you, and
relate to you.
You see, the big difference between Diet Industry weight loss
approaches and what my clients learn to do is that you'll make
changes where it counts--in the beliefs, attitudes, and motivations
that are the real reasons why your do everything you do in life.
When You Make
Positive Changes Where It Counts,
There's Simply No Way To Stay Stuck Where You Were
If you have read either of my free e books, you know that I am
radically opposed to conventional Diet Industry weight loss methods.
The simple fact that they fail 96% of the time, and that people who
use them gain back 95% of what they lose, are reasons enough for us
to dump them.
But even though none of the Diet Industry weight loss methods are
effective, they've been the only game in town until now. Not any
more! Now we have a much better alternative--the truth.
And the truth is that the Number One reason you're overweight is bad
information.
That's why we're going to leave Diet Industry thinking behind
forever and begin to operate on something totally different: facts.
Before we get into detail about what does work, it's vitally
important understand what doesn't work, and why it doesn't work.
Otherwise, the temptation is always there to fall back in to the old
ways of thinking, and waste still more years of our lives doing what
can't possibly get us where we want to go.
As we begin to un-brainwash ourselves, keep in mind that what you're
about to learn may seem like "alien" thinking to anyone who's been
exposed to decades of misinformation. Also be aware that your
current thinking--however poorly it may have served you in the
past--isn't going to give up without a fight. You may find yourself
resisting the very truth that could set you free.
So please try to keep your mind as open as you can as we explore...
- The 4 Major Elements Of
Weight Loss Success -
Success Element
#1: Sufficient Motivation & Desire
The very first ingredient in your success, and perhaps the most
important, is having enough motivation and desire to succeed.
Ideally, this motivation and desire come about as a result of an
eyes-wide-open assessment of both the costs of staying overweight
and the benefits of losing weight.
In other words, you are fully aware of how dramatically your life
will improve, and in how many different areas, when you get to your
healthiest weight. You are also crystal clear about the many serious
costs of being overweight, and you are completely out of denial
about the very real health risks of obesity. In other words, you
"get it," and you are now ready to do something about it.
While others can help you see the light and can build a fire under
you from time to time, you know in your heart that it is very much
in your own best interest--and in the interest of those who you love
and who love you--to make your life a healthier, happier place.
Ultimately, your own motivation, based on your own realization, is
what will power you to success. If you don't have enough motivation,
you can get it. But be aware that your real motivation comes from
your own deeply-held beliefs and attitudes and the conclusions they
lead you to. If you don't have self-supportive beliefs and
attitudes, then getting them must be your first step. Using
professional help can make a tremendous difference here.
Success Element #2:
Accurate Information
Again, the single biggest reason most people fail at weight loss is
a lack of accurate information. They simply don't understand what
doesn't work and why, or know what does work and why. On top of
that, many of us have spent so much time and energy doing what can
never work that we're almost too and frustrated, fried, and burned
out to start doing what does work.
This is an attitude we simply can't afford--especially since doing
what works actually gives us energy, instead of robbing it from us
like Diet Industry methods do. Let's look a bit closer at those Diet
Industry "solutions" and why they don't work.
Why Diet Industry Methods Fail 96% Of The
Time
The fundamental problem with weight loss methods like drugs, diets,
metabolizer pills, calorie counting, relying on will power, exercise
machines, and self-starvation is that they are only aimed at
altering what appears to be the problem--our extra pounds.
As the research has clearly revealed, our unwanted pounds are only
physical manifestations-symptoms--of problems that exist on
non-physical levels. In other words, the problem you can see (your
unwanted pounds) is merely a symptom of a problem you can't
see--those beliefs and attitudes we just talked about.
This concept is extremely important to understand. It truly is the
central key to life-long weight control success. So why do we have
so much trouble grasping it?
The "Logical" Mistake That Keeps Us
Overweight
When someone decides it's time to lose weight, the first place they
typically turn is to food--to
dieting. And why not? It seems like the obvious thing to do. If we
weigh too much, it must be because we eat too much. Which means that
food must be the problem. So we need to go on a diet. It's the only
logical solution, right?
No! Dieting is exactly the wrong place to start. If you're serious
about success...
...dieting is the last "solution"
you should be
considering, not the first!
But if dieting is so useless, why is everybody so focused on it?
Simply because it's our "knee-jerk" response to being overweight,
resulting from the avalanche of weight loss misinformation that has
us snowed under all our lives.
You see, there's more to the weight loss puzzle then meets the eye.
As we noted, the real causes of our excess weight are non-physical
and non-visible. So what appears to be the problem really isn't. And
what really is the problem isn't apparent. The result of this
double-blindness is that we end up lost and clueless about what to
do.
This same blindness is the reason Diet Industry approaches don't
look beyond physical factors. As a result, they only attack
symptoms, leaving the real, root causes of your problem unaltered.
So how could they help but fail?
I'm not saying that food, your body, exercise, and other physical
factors are unimportant. But the real causes of your unwanted pounds
have virtually nothing to do with anything physical. And when you
focus on those physical factors before you correct the underlying
reason you're overweight, you're simply heading down the wrong
trail.
Trying to get rid of excess weight by dieting, drugs,
self-starvation, calorie counting, fasting, will power, etc. is like
trying to get rid of dandelions with a lawn mower. The best you can
do is get rid of the symptom for a while.
But until you eliminate the problem at
the root, you know it will be back--and bigger than before! Only
after the underlying causes of excess weight are dealt with can
physical factors like diet and exercise make any useful or lasting
changes.
Success Element
#3: A Success Plan That Is
Custom Tailored To Who You
Are
One of the least obvious reason why Diet Industry approaches fail is
their one-size-fits-all, cookie-cutter mentality. Because their
approach is entirely physical, they neither understand that the
real, root causes of obesity are non-physical, nor do they offer any
way to modify them.
They see all humans as more or less identical biological units, who
will respond more or less the same to physical weight loss methods.
This attitude is disastrously wrong for two major reasons.
First, we are not nearly so biologically similar as Western medicine
would like us to believe. Eastern medicine long ago discovered the
need to tailor treatment to individual body types. But more
importantly, the Diet Industry (in fact, our entire healthcare
industry) appears to be completely clueless that the root causes of
obesity are non-physical, and revolve around your unique individual
situation and personality, and the attitudes and beliefs that make
you the unique and special person you are..
The sad consequence of their unawareness is the simple reality of
the Diet Industry's 96% failure rate. So a major key to your success
will be to take actions based, not some generic plan, but on a
fully-customized program designed especially for your unique self
and situation. Fortunately, this is now easy to do, using special
assessments developed just for this purpose.
Success Element #4:
A Proven "Make-It-Really-Happen" Mechanism
This crucial fourth Success Element has proven to be the downfall of
even the most dedicated dieters and anyone else who's serious about
weight loss success. People find that they simply can't provide
themselves with all the steam they need to get to the finish line.
What you MUST have is some mechanism that makes sure you stay with
your plan until it creates weight loss success for you
automatically. And make no mistake--once you correct the underlying
beliefs and attitudes that are now sabotaging your weight loss
success, the process of getting to your healthiest weight and
staying there becomes just as effortless and automatic as staying
overweight may be right now.
And yet, for some reason, many of us are hesitant to seek outside
support. It's interesting to note that professional sports figures
and Olympic athletes see no shame in seeking professional help, yet
the average person somehow feels "incompetent" or "inadequate" if
they do the same. We seem to think it's "un-American" to ask for
help.
I respectfully submit that this is crazy. If we don't take advantage
of the tools that are (finally!) available, it's as if we didn't
even have them. It's as if none of these new weight loss discoveries
had ever been made, and we were still stuck back in the "Dark Ages"
of weight loss, where Diet Industry methods were all we had, and a
dismal 96% failure rate was all we could hope for.
Please let it into your awareness that you do NOT have to put up
with the endless struggle and frustration of useless and outdated
weight loss methods. You CAN win at weight loss. In just a few
months, you can see changes you scarcely imagined were possible.
All you need to do is to say goodbye to what has never worked and
can never work, and open yourself to the success technology that's
now available.
A Word Of Caution...
By the time you've finished reading either of my free e books,
you'll know things about successful weight control that most health
professionals don't know. So don't be surprised if your healthcare
practitioners don't have a clue what you're doing. You'll be
covering ground that few of them are familiar with, or even aware
of. Be prepared to have your current ways of thinking challenged.
And be ready to feel your own internal resistance to new
information, because...
"When you're used to doing what's wrong,
doing what's right will
feel wrong."
But don't let the newness of the information keep you from reaping
the benefits you desire and deserve. Join the proud ranks of
Christopher Columbus, Albert Einstein, and Thomas Edison. Leave the
unbelievers behind and boldly go where most people will never
go--into the "New World" of weight loss solutions that actually
work!
Yours in total health,
Dr. Frank
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health, Dr. Frank B. Smoot, MA, DD
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Dr. Frank B. Smoot, MA, DD, is a professional weight loss
success coach and the creator of the "Get
Motivated For Life! /
7 Weeks To Lifelong Weight Loss"
and "Weight Loss God's Way"
success program (www.WeightLossGodsWay.com)