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Do you want to lose the need to lose weight?

Are you aware that your lifestyle is either working for you or against you every minute of the day?

Most people are not aware of this, content to know that they worked out or made a better food choice (both are which are great) but don’t begin to touch the surface of what’s possible for you. Don’t feel bad if this is you, most of us, don’t have a broad enough concept beyond eating better (not Less) and exercising more, associated to lifestyle, to take full advantage of the power they really have.

Healthy high achievers do.

Becuase they do, they are able to unleash the full potential of their lifestyle to look, feel and perform better, meanwhile most other people sit and wonder, "how the heck do they do it?" It’s what you don’t see that makes the difference.

Unleashing the full potential of your Lifestyle is the missing link that makes the difference between suffering from the diet, weight and the long term health issues that so many people struggle with, and looking feeling and performing the way you want to.

Get ready to lose the need to lose weight. It’s not that you’ll never want to take off a few pounds here and there… weight fluctuates, it’s a fact of life and it’s easy to do in a healthy way. I’m talking about not having to lose significant amounts of weight and go through body transformation programs over and over again.

This can become a thing of the past when you understand Performance Lifestyle.  

I want to completely shift your paradigm here, not just a little bit, but a lot a bit! Read Unleash the Full Potential of Your Lifestyle then leave a comment.

By John Allen Mollenhauer, MTCP, CPT CNT
www.PerformanceLifestyle.com
 

It’s your lifestyle!

The only reason why you have to transform you’re body is because your living on the downward trend. That means you’re living out of balance and poor lifestyle decisions are being made as a result of overwhelm and exhaustion.

When we talk about Performance Lifestyle, where talking about whether your lifestyle is working for you and the achievement of your goals or working against you. If you’re not living in relative balance, and taking care of yourself at a high enough level, you’ll inevitably lack energy; the energy to take care of yourself and achieve your goals in a healthy way. You’re living, overwhelmed by too much going on, too many demands on your energy, too much food, maybe even over training, etc… It all leads to overweight!

The Performance Lifestyle starts with a thriving environment and it ensures you’re driven effectively, charged, fueled, and fit for the challenges in your life and business. That includes the successful management of your energy, your food quality, and activity levels at the core and this is essentially, what athletes pay attention to most.  

Athletes are incentivized to take care of themselves at a high level because they are always preparing for events that require health and performance. The question I have for you is why are you any different?  Aren’t you always preparing for events - personal, professional, social etc?

If you don’t manage your personal energy and you’re eating nutrient poor (as most of the population does), if you are physically inactive and you don’t condition your body to be able to perform, its incredibly easy to see why we downward spiral with limited energy and then resort to body transformation programs to solve our problem. Problem is, they don’t solve it!

Nobody, not even the best of the best can sustain themselves, experience quality of life and be legitimately happy and productive for the long haul, let alone maintain their "look", feel good and perform well in the face of today’s incredibly demanding schedules, if
they are living in chronic overwhelm, and exhausted. This is why coordinating all aspects of your life to support the fast-paced lives we live today and learning the core personal energy management strategies are the foundation of a Performance Lifestyle. The quality of the food you eat and exercise essential parts of the lifestyle formula, but secondary.

If I had a dollar every time someone asked me what the best "energizing foods" were, I’d be many times wealthier than I am right now. When’s the last time you ate a healthy food, unless your blood sugar was low, where all of a sudden you had boundless energy? It doesn’t happen! Depending on the food and your energy level, maybe you got a little boost, but if you were fatigued to start, you’re still fatigued after you eat. Foods don’t’ really energize, they fuel you. Recuperation energizes you!

The above insight alone makes the case for the Performance Lifestyle. If the way you’re living is driving you downhill, energetically, the very aspects of life most directly associated with health and fitness, (eating and exercise) are simply less effective in solving your problem (lack of energy, overweight etc) and this is the trouble with most body transformation or weight loss programs.    

To most people body transformation is something different from having a successful lifestyle with a primary focus on energy management. The way most people are "trained" is to simply eat less and exercise more and take lots of supplements, but the same downward trending lifestyle stays in place. This is why they don’t maintain longer term. They don’t have a healthy performance lifestyle to start.

For example, here’s the stereotypical definition of body transformation people buy into. It is great if you’re a bodybuilder but not so great if you’re a business professional, working parent etc and want to live a healthy high performance lifestyle to achieve your goals and simply look and feel better.     

I Googled "body transformation program" and here’s what comes up #1: http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/bodytrans.htm. Now I am a former competitive bodybuilder. I was fourth place Mr. New Jersey in my early twenties, a mere 15 years ago, and I owned a hard core bodybuilding gym at one point, before I got into the health club business.

So I know this world of body transformation very well and it’s effects. I lived it full time and I can tell you this is not a healthy successful lifestyle unless you’re obsessed with bodybuilding, fitness, or weight loss and you make that, your way of life. Even still it’s not healthy. Read the link.

Is it any wonder why people get trained in this way of life as the way to lose weight and change their lives for the better? The results of these transformations, sell magazines. Contrast is a powerful marketing principle and it works here too. That’s why most people default to unsustainable body transformation solutions rather than get their lifestyle, healthy and high performing. It’s also the reason why so many people are unsuccessful when it comes to transforming their body. They can’t live like that!

Tactical solutions like those in the bodybuilding link above permeate virtually all weight loss solutions on the market today. They are not lifestyle solutions that promote health and success and the market is full of them. They will keep you stuck.

So you have two options:

1) You can go with the tactical solutions that sell you nutrient poor diets, high in protein, and synthetic supplements or,

2) You can set yourself up in a lifestyle that is healthy and successful. You can move forward in a position of strength, no longer on the downward trend, with your lifestyle "firing on all cylinders". And you can take it to heights you never imagined to look, feel and perform better.

One lasts you months and you just follow it; the other requires some lifestyle training and coaching but lasts you for years.

Which one do you want?

BOTH paths to body transformation require effort, yet at the same time, they are fundamentally different. One comes with a program mentality and the other comes with a lifestyle mindset, which is more inclusive and lasting. And true of the latter, you experience health, success, and freedom.

If you think you’re going to be free eating a low carb, high protein diet that is nutrient poor, taking short-term gain synthetic supplements and exercising your tail off at high levels of intensity year in and year out, you’re going to "hit the wall" and "fall off the wagon". It is just one more thing you have to worry about as you head back to a downward trending lifestyle.  

Do you want that?

I didn’t think so.

If you want to take your energy, health and fitness to new heights, you can get involved in a fitness challenge (which I support 100%), but first get your lifestyle working for you, and you’ll be ready to fully engage. You never have to "worry" about sticking to a diet or exercise program again when Your lifestyle is working for you all year round.

The Performance Lifestyle is the way to transform your body, because it is all about your lifestyle, getting off the downward trend and fast tracking your health and success by living better. Healthy High Achievers worldwide have Performance Lifestyle’s. We’ll show you how to implement the lifestyle formula and help you unleash your full potential. 

See Part III to Unleash the Full Potential of Your Lifestyle

I just got an email a little while ago talking about yet another “total” body transformation system that’s going to take you from "flabby to fabulous in record time!"

Now I have no issue with people wanting to transform their body or any health and fitness professional showing them how, but I do have an issue with gurus saying they have the puzzle all figured out, meanwhile their talking about tactical solutions to manipulate weight loss… so you can "look like a celebrity.”

Do you really think you’re going to "look like a celebrity," in record time? What do YOU think this is about; do you think it’ll be the result of true lifestyle changes or dietary manipulation and a tanning bed?  

It’s amazing the smoke and mirrors we have to dodge these days to get to the fundamentals that keep us looking, feeling and performing well all year round.  Meanwhile, these same people are saying “enough already with the hype!”

Let’s get real; most of these body transformation systems work. Yes, I said they do work. Unbelievably, achieving "results" is simple; you can do anything differently and you will experience a different “result”. When you do anything that’s different and do it intensely, like changing your diet or exercise levels, I promise you, you will see different results. This is good to know because whether or not you’re going to get a result is not the question.

The questions are about whether the results are

a) Truly better?

b) Just different?

c) Sustainable?

Body transformation programs are succesful only when based on a strategy that promotes health, better performance, and sustainable success. You can take an approach that yields these outcomes, just as simply and as quickly as you can an approach that is tactical and manipulative, unhealthy and unsustainable. Either way, you will look feel and perform better in the short term, only one approach outlasts the other.

Which approach do you want to take? Do you know how to tell the difference?

Body transformation programs are not successful lifestyles in and of themselves even though millions of people have made them a way of life. In some cases they are "chase your tail" lifestyles lead by guru’s profiting off your lack of experience and desire to get results fast, at virtually any cost. You never solve the real problem and have to keep starting again when you hit the wall.

In other cases, you are so focused on "sticking to the program" you actually reinforce the very problem the program is trying to solve, and continue to chase your tail. The problem is, "results" are being sold like widgets these days, and life has other plans. 

The results that many body transformation programs offer are not truly better, they are just different, they are not sustainable and the long-term effects are unknowns.

Don’t get me wrong, many body-transformation programs, even if they aren’t the healthiest or for the long term, are often good for people because they can inspire lifestyle change in the right direction, and this is a good thing. I am very fond of some pro’ whom I disagree with in terms of overall approach or some aspect of it, because I love them as entrepreneurs, as people with heart and with good intentions in the world.

But just be careful.

For example, if you’re transforming your body, with a high "animal" protein low carb diet and lots of synthetic
supplements, there could be many negative consequences. Most plans that promise weight loss and celebrity makeovers
are based on this "model". That’s right; it’s a proven business model for weight loss. 

There are cases though where body transformation programs are bases on sound fundamentals; these are the ones you
want to seek out. These are the true lifestyle fitness challenges like that offered by the Monkey Bar Gym, and
various dietary programs bases on the principles of nutrient density; "Eat to Live" is a prime example. 

Where does the Performance Lifestyle Stack up? 

Given these insights and the obesity trends http://www.mytrainer.com/obesitytrends/ in the market, the fact that we’re not solving the real problem, making it more about "before and after" pictures than health and higher performance, I decided to attempt to
package up the real thing - the fundamentals of a healthy high performance lifestyle into a "formula" anyone can put into play.

I realized that the #1 reason why people don’t understand lifestyle, is because they don’t understand lifestyle, so we made it easy! Let’s face it, we need things to be simple today and what better model to use than the time-tested and proven model of healthy high performing athletes. It’s amazing, how so many millions of people try to stick to obsessively unnatural
weight loss programs, when they could simply model the lifestyles of the people they admire. You don’t have to be an athlete to do it!

Optimizing your Lifestyle, and unleashing it’s full potential is about mastering the fundamentals of successful living first, so you don’t stay stuck in this pattern of "hitting the wall" and "falling off the wagon", again and again and have to trade your health for success. It’s about developing a lifestyle that works for you and the achievement of your goals. 

Athletes don’t have to transform their bodies over and over again. They have healthy lifestyles that enable them to look, feel and perform better and achieve their goals virtually all year round.

If you are looking for the body transformation program that works ALL the time… healthy high performance living has been time-tested and proven for decades if not hundreds of years! What I’ve done is capture the core essentials of this lifestyle to create the Performance Lifestyle Formula(tm).

Get the Lifestyle Formula into play first and you’ll be able to decipher the difference between a body transformation program that works and one that will keep you stuck. You’ll also get better results with a lifestyle that’s now reinforcing your health and success.

See part II of this article series on body transformation programs.