Thanks Candice, now look, we are not telling you that you need to become certified personal trainers. We are telling you this because we want to make it clear that this is the subject we have dedicated the rest of our lives to.

- Have you ever walked by a mirror and not looked at yourself because you knew you would not like what was staring back at you?
- Have you ever been so excited for January 1st to come, because you know that “this time” you were going to lose the weight and keep it off— permanently. And then only to wake up in March or April to realize that your dream had once again slipped away.
- Do you become apprehensive to participate in outdoor activities, like swimming, with your children because you are embarrassed of how you look?
- Do you dread shopping for new clothing—because we all know, the mirrors in the dressing room do not lie!
- How many dollars have you spent on ab machines, treadmills or fitness riders only to find that you are using them to hang your clothing on or it’s in the garage collecting dust, or, it has a $5 For Sale sticker on it at your next garage sale.
- The ugly truth is, the weight loss industry does NOT want you to lose weight permanently. They would like nothing more than to have you continue on your fat, thin, fat again, thin again cycle.

It’s one system you can follow with ease because we have designed it from top to bottom with a simple end in mind – give you something that produces fast results but in a way that you’ll stay with it for life. Keep reading to discover why we want you to become a part of this movement that is sweeping the world.
Have you ever decided to go on a diet? DUH?! I mean, that’s why you’re listening to this—right? Ok, you’re sitting in front of the TV one Sunday afternoon, watching …let’s say an Iron Man Triathlon, and you are awed by the athletes’ stamina and dexterity. You’re munching on some nachos with the works (and you know what I mean) and you’re chasing it down with a big glass of soda.
You’re feeling sluggish in the face of all the action on the screen when, suddenly, somebody wakes up in you and says, “What are you doing? Look at yourself, You’re FAT! You’re OUT OF SHAPE! DO something about it!”
It has happened to all of us. Somebody wakes up inside us with a totally different picture of who we should be and what we should be doing. In this case, let’s call that person The Skinny Person.
So Who is The Skinny Person? It’s the one who uses words like discipline, exercise, organization. The Skinny Person is tolerant, self-righteous, a stickler for detail, a compulsive tyrant.
The Skinny Person despises fat people. Can’t stand idleness. Needs to be on the move. Lives for action.
The Skinny Person has just taken over. Watch out—things are about to change!
Before you know it, you’re cleaning all the fattening foods out of the fridge. You’re buying a new pair of running shoes, barbells, resistance bands and sweats. Things are going to be different around here. You have a new lease on life. You plan your new life: up at 5, run four miles, cold shower at six, breakfast of granola with almond milk and a banana; then ride your bicycle to work, home by seven, run another two miles, to bed at ten—the world’s already a different place!
And you actually pull it off! By Monday night, you’ve lost two pounds. You go to sleep dreaming of winning the Maui Ocean Front Marathon. Why not? The way things are going, it’s only a matter of time.
Tuesday night you get on the scale. Another pound gone! You’re incredible. Amazing. A lean machine.
On Wednesday, you really pour it on. You work out an extra hour in the morning, an extra half-hour at night.
You can’t wait to get on the scale. You strip down to your bare skin, shivering in the bathroom, filled with expectation of what your scale is going to tell you. You step lightly onto it and look down. What you see is…nothing. You haven’t lost an ounce. You’re exactly the same as you were on Tuesday.
Dejection rolls in. Resentment starts to creep in. “After all that work? After all that sweat and effort? And then—nothing? It isn’t fair.” But you shrug it off. After all, tomorrow’s another day. You go to bed, promising yourself that you will work harder on Thursday. But somehow something has changed.
You don’t know what’s changed until Thursday morning.
It’s raining – Your bedroom is cold – Something feels different.
What is it?
For a minute or two you can’t quite put your finger on it.
And then you get it: somebody else has possessed your body.
It’s The Fat Person!
It’s back!
And it doesn’t want to run.
As a matter of fact, it doesn’t even want to get out of bed. It’s cold outside. “Run? Are you kidding me?” The Fat person doesn’t want anything to do with it. The only exercise it might be interested in is eating!
All of a sudden you find yourself in front of the refrigerator—inside the refrigerator—all over the kitchen!
Food is now your major interest.
The Marathon in Maui is gone; the lean machine is gone; the sweats, barbells and running shoes are no longer used.
The Fat Person is back and running the show again. Because we’ve been hoodwinked into thinking we’re really one person.
The Skinny Person and The Fat Person are two totally different personalities, with different needs, different interests, and different lifestyles.
That’s why they don’t like each other. They each want totally different things.
The problem is that when you’re The Skinny Person, you’re totally consumed by it’s needs, it’s interests, it’s lifestyle.
And then something happens—the scale disappoints you, the weather turns cold, somebody offers you a double chocolate brownie—with vanilla ice cream.
At that moment, The Fat Person, who’s been waiting in the wings all this time, grabs your attention. Grabs control.
That’s you again.
In other words, when you’re The Skinny Person you’re always making promises for The Fat Person to keep.
And when you’re The Fat Person, you’re always making promises for The Skinny Person to keep.
Is it any wonder we have such a tough time keeping our commitments to ourselves?
It’s not that we’re indecisive, or lazy, or unreliable; it’s that each and every one of us is one person dealing with two extremes. Asking any one of those extremes to defer to the other is inviting a battle or even a full-scale war!
You can’t be both; one of them has to lose. And they know it.
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