Diet and exercise will only take you so far when it comes to weight loss. For 80% of you it has only taken you as far as the first 4 weeks of 2008 after setting your New Years Resolutions to lose weight. Eating well and working out like crazy has now become more of a chore and is very difficult to maintain. So what is it that separates the people who stick with their fat loss goals from those people who continue to struggle to lose weight?

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Every Friday is weight loss tips day here at Former Fat Guy Blog and the 3 weight loss tips for the new year that you can take action on right now are about goals, foods and exercise.

Weekly goals should be part of any weight loss program as long as they’re worded correctly because how your brain hears what you’re saying is critical.

Weight Loss Tips - Goals, Food and Exercise

Goals should be actions

Instead of having a goal of loosing 3 pounds this week, make your goal or goals the actions to get there. Instead of “I will lose 3 pounds this week”, state something like “I will walk 30 minutes every day this week”. Your focus should be on what’s going to get you to your result, not the result itself.

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New Years Eve thoughts turn to New Years Resolutions and with it, all sorts of manifesting and “law of attraction” principles. Whether or not you know of the law of attraction, or manifesting tips or techniques, I’m sure you set out some goals for the new year.

Looking back over 2007 here on the blog, the writers and I have posted what turned out to be some really great law of attraction and manifesting tips that I’d like to return your attention to before you write your new years goals.

Law of Attraction Principles For New Years Resolutions

Weight Loss

The hidden secret to the movie “The Secret” is a very simple principle. It’s about taking action. My post this summer in regards to the Law Of Attraction For Weight Loss was about exactly that. You can think about it all you want, learn about what to do, buy all the expensive gym memberships or home fitness equipment, but until you Get Off Your Ass and get to work, all the wishing, thinking, dreaming, meditation and goal setting isn’t going to result in an ounce of muscle being built or a pound of fat being burned. Most new years resolutions start with a great goal in mind, but wind down just a few short days or weeks later. Getting the body you want in the new year is going to require a bit more work than that. Read my thoughts on Taking Action On Your Weight Loss.

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I was recently interviewed for an article in the NY Times about the television show “The Biggest Loser“. I was asked my opinion of the show and if I thought it was realistic or set people up for failure. I had some opinions of course, but you can read about that in the New York Times.

In the mean time, I’d like to ask you quite simply:

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If you have any thoughts on the Biggest Loser, please leave them in the comments below. As for the article, you can read my comments in the New York Times. It was also picked up by the entertainment section of MSN.

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My morning walks to the gym have become something that I look forward to. I use this time to reflect, to contemplate, to plan.

There are no voices. The silence tolls its minutes mute as a mime artist gazing through infinate shadows. A nuisance of shroud lined streets…one after another.

I get lost in the chemical slip of lights and traffic knuckled down to marauder strides of panic. I lock inside sublimation and beating 4 am lasts forever. This is a place with no windows, only space. This cold, quiet mantra of my mind, where beneath midnight lurks shallow clocks and silent warnings as I catch dreams like moths in my mouth.

And its beautiful this way.

My eyes placate, tasting the cool fire of my imagination, climbing inside my soul in an onslaught of sliding sensations. Pulling a pheonix canopy over questioning eyes, inducing rays of skyfire and orange tinged horizon fantasies.
Something in the air whispers contagious and I devour impossibilities while I take one step closer to my goals…

I felt a rush as I stepped through the mall doors and continued down the hall towards the gym.
Something great is going to happen today…I can feel it.

I changed quickly, remaining overly excited for my date with the scale.

Did I push it enough? Will I able to pull it out last minute? What if I didn’t lose? What if I gained? I wonder how much Israel lost?

Panic sets in and all of a sudden getting on that scale is the last thing I want to do.

“Get a grip lady, you are running yourself into a frenzy here….just breathe. You know you’re amazing.”

Ahhhhhhh the voice of reason.
She forever remains a prisioner inside my head, but holds me close when I need her the most.

*deep breath and step up*

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