Your Rival is a loser!

Welcome back, glad your still reading I admire you, by you just reading this tells me you are also interested in making lasting changes to your life.

Today we talk about your rival, we all have a rival, some consider a friend a rival some consider an enemy, but the truth is your rival is a loser.

A loser? yes a loser, your rival, the one person in your life that holds you back is of course yourself.
But not yourself in your entirety, just the worst aspects of yourself holding you back, and as you know it is probably your hardest fight because your rival self has all your ability's and knows what you fear, knows how to manipulate you through the primal instincts of fear.

Fear of failure, fear of what you might need to do to achieve your goals but you need to ask yourself daily, whenever your unable to do things you want, ask yourself "What do I get from not doing this?" then after that process "what do I get BY doing this, what do I gain?" 99% of the time the gains outweigh the pain.

Everyday whenever anyone wants to make any lasting changes you will come face to face with your rival self, and you have to tackle the problem without remorse.
Tell yourself, wait better still, envision whenever you make decisions that all the other decisions are like balloons attached to that decision, each balloon is a different choice attached to that decision, envision that when you make a decision that all the other balloons (choices) are cut free, they are now out of the question, once you can drill into your rival self that once you make decisions you stick to them, it will no longer be able to temp you into changing or not following through in these decisions.

Know this phrase?
"You have to learn that things in life worth having don't come easy"

Well I disagree with it, I think once you have complete control over yourself, and your rival is destroyed you'd have no difficulty going out into the world and getting whatever it is you want!

Confidence to stand up to your rival self is hard, your rival has every insecurity, fear, phobia and desire at it's disposal, but once you analyse decisions and work out when you make decisions based on emotion, you can turn it around, and make sure decisions are only governed by thought.



For example lets say your battling weight, and you want to lose weight.
You know you have to either A) Try to diet or B) Exercise.

Dieting manuals make me sick, you don't need to use them, it comes down to simple equations as to how to manage your diet.

"Eat in proportion to the effort you expel"
I said this a post or two back, if you add more to anything than what's going out things fill up!
Also being wise to WHAT you eat helps, sometimes small things actually carry a big punch!

My task to you today (or whenever you read this) is to do one of two things, one, look at the saturated fat content of any packaged foods you plan on consuming, anything that is small and over 2 grams of saturated fats is bad.

And Two, look at what unhealthy foods can be substituted for better alternatives.

I think whatever time of day you have your biggest meal, you should aim for no more than 5 grams of saturated fats, if something just says "fat" and will not provide the saturated fat figure it is normally around half of what is the "fat" content listed.

Meals, I know I've brushed the subject, but when you look at the times you expell the most energy for most of us the evening is the time of the day we tend to expel the least, but also the time in British culture that we eat the most, when you think about it that is a pretty messed up counter productive system.

So, for effective meals, your breakfast should be your biggest meal of the day, lunch should be second biggest and dinner should be the time of the day you eat the least!
You will spend less of the evening delegating energy to digesting food, and more time to recovering energy you expelled while relaxing, pointless to eat a huge meal and spend the evening digesting it all.

"The National Cholesterol Education Program recommends that your saturated fat intake be less than 7% of your total food intake daily. That is, if you are following a 2,000-calorie diet, you should not consume more than 14 grams of saturated fat each day."
(Source: http://cholesterol.about.com/od/cholesterolnutrition101/f/satfatfoods.htm)

Now Its important to think about foods that stimulate brain power, foods that boost brain power are listed here: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/content/wellbeing/features/boost-brainpower/1/


Giving your brain a little boost will only benefit you, you should look into your diet, a few small changes will make a big difference and a lasting difference on not only your appearance but also your health.

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Food
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DAY 5:
(Morning)

1 bowl of Bran-flakes (no sugar) (Soya Milk)

1 Pint of Cranberry and Blueberry juice

(Lunch)

Cheese and Parma ham panini (not too much cheese)
1 Pint of Cranberry and Blueberry juice

(Dinner)
Half a rack of lamb coated in breadcrumbs, herbs and garlic, with mash potato.
1 Pint of Cranberry and Blueberry juice (loving blueberry juice, bought some today)

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Fitness
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Day 5:

NONE
Really annoyed, but I literally was back to back with things to do, I did however buy some decent jogging bottoms to make my runs more comfortable in this volatile weather.
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Remembering that any choices you avoided any opportunities you failed to take up or even all the times you did not accomplish what you set out to do, the only person that held you back was yourself, make your body your slave, don't let your fears and weaknesses enslave you.

Peace!