Archive for May, 2008

Make My Body Hot

16 May

Tags: article, downloads, Fat Loss, hot body, subscribers, Training, update
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To those of you on my subscriber lists you’re going to be welcomed to a new information series I am doing called the “Audio Subscriber Series”. If you didn’t get the email last week then here is a quick update.

Every week I am going to give my subscribers an update on things in general and give them the new password to the subscribers section in my blog. In there lies the secrets to all of life’s problems…or just some cook stuff you might find useful on your fat loss journey.

This week is the start of the audio series I am going to be doing each week. Usually it will be a 3 to 6 minute audio on various topics about fat loss, diet, and more. I will also be updating it with articles and other extras as well.

This week will be the start of the “Make My Body Hot” series where I will discuss how to train for the body you actually want. It’s a topic I will be covering this weekend in detail at a speaking engagement but you lucky people get it here for free.

If you aren’t getting the emails take a look and make sure I am not going into your spam folder.

Minimum Rate of Fat Loss?

14 May

Tags: book, calories, eating, Fat Loss, Logic, results, tracking weight
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Q: Hey Leigh! Thank you so much for the Fat Loss Troubleshoot. A question….

How long should I wait before I see results in a logical sense? I am not trying to be impatient and I understand the 5 methods of monitoring results that you discuss in the book. It is just I have wasted so much time already and I can’t afford a calorie counter.

I did your quiz and it was really eye opening. It told me I was at least 300 calories less that I thought. I am a big girl and I thought I got to eat so MUCH more than I needed to. I am 4 days in and am already down 2 lbs but that can just be a fluke. I am not trying to sound needy but I was just wondering if you could share what you see as too long to not see results if they are happening.

Again I loved the book and I have so many light bulbs go off while reading it!

Thanks Leigh!

-Amy R-

Hey Amy,

A: First thank you very much for the kind words about the book. To your question…

I do hit on this in the FLTS somewhere…I feel like an music artist who can’t remember the lines of her own song right now. In short fat loss and weight loss are two different things. Weight loss happens at various and usually faster paces than fat loss in the beginning. After 4 to 6 week those initial gives are gone.

In most cases it’s just simple food volume and water. If you were eating more you would weigh more as food has weight as well. That extra food has liquid too. If you take in carbs you will hold more water, etc. If you are in a deficit (unless already pretty lean) you should see some initial loss of a few pounds right off the bat.

In general, the more you have to lose the more of a rate of loss you should see in weight and fat.

That doesn’t mean every week will give way to scale loss and that water/muscle, etc., can’t all play bouncing games. But if a larger level of weight loss needed (above 15 to 20 pounds of body fat), if you aren’t seeing the scale go down in two weeks or a picture change, there’s something wrong and you need to re-check yourself.

If you’re leaner (15 lbs or less to lose) optimally every two weeks CAN be a 3 to 4 lbs loss if you are having issues with your water balance/cloaking.

No matter WHAT size you are if a month goes by with no trend downward then you need to re-check things with the Fat Loss Troubleshoot or if you KNOW you are doing everything “right” then maybe it’s time for the Metabolic Repair.

Retraction and Reflection

12 May

Tags: Fat Loss, health, motivation, Training
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I am going to get to the “response,” but I want to make a quick retraction note on something.

1-I shouldn’t have cut on Jimmy.

And before you claim that I got a bunch of negative backlash because of it, I didn’t. I got positive comments actually, which made me feel like a school bully and THAT is not my style. Sarcastic yes, bully no.

Here is the thing, and I do hope Jimmy reads this: I don’t hate him as a person, I don’t even know him. I just strongly disagree with a lot of what he says in the aspect of health and fitness discussion and question his ethical motives. That is all. It’s just the things people like him say that makes MY job harder. It makes the UN-teaching I have to do more. I also feel that there is a lack of nobility, and that is gut instinct that is backed by it not being addressed. I openly welcome a conversation about it, seriously.

In the end though, who am I to judge? I am just an ego with a blog. I should NOT have used my blog or influence as a source like that. That was wrong.

2-I went back to a lot of training today and it reminded me that the net is kind of a place that infects you when you are around it enough. There is so much going on outside of it that is real life and true. That doesn’t mean I lose my charm; it just means I will use it for more positive convo.

3-You find out really quickly who your friends when you least expect it. Thanks to a lot of people who gave me so much big help and to you others…

I don’t like you anymore and I think you smell.

Final Thought-Will Power and Education

11 May

Tags: calories, clients, education, family, Fat Loss, health, hormones, marketing, News, Research, Studies, Training, trust
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Okay I lied. It was two days, not three. Sue me, you get it early.

To end this we are going to start where we began. Will power.

When it comes to will power, you either have it or you don’t. When it comes to wanting fat loss, you either want it or you don’t, period. That being said will power CAN be discouraged or helped by RESULTS. Results come best with Education.

Let me put it even better.

The heart has the will power, but fear can break it down. In that instance educated thought can be our only savior from defeat.

Education is will power’s best ally.

I see great examples of this in my clients everyday. Ready to throw in the towel and give in, I provide them why something is the way it is, and in an instant they feel better and they didn’t fold. That is not accountability, it’s being a walking and talking “ask jeeves”.

How good do you think that will power is going to stay when influenced by education if the people following you start losing respect for your word?

Can you think of some recent events in which you lost respect for someone after you had come to follow their education in something?

Some people can cut and separate character and knowledge as two separate things, but most can not. Instead, with most people if you suck as a person and aren’t to be trusted, ergo the same will be said for what you are teaching. This is why integrity is so important because ethics are a part of your everyday journey. It doesn’t matter, work, play, dating, family, even telling the cashier she rang something up wrong so at the end of the day she doesn’t get in trouble. It’s everywhere in everything you do.

I don’t care about people making money. You want to make money fine. Just keep it real.

This isn’t about anti-guru. I like a lot of them.

This is about going that extra mile to make sure that people understand sometimes certain programs and training methods aren’t for everyone. That all “new studies” aren’t always good studies or valid ones. That there is a difference between FAT LOSS and a PROGRAM.

Oh, I am saying “that” again.

Fat loss is a scientific process that occurs due to a caloric deficit.

A training program is a METHOD to achieve that.

Any program, good or bad, is just that, a Method.

Low carb, cycling, stubborn, warped, whatever there is a new one everyday. They are all methods.

However, some METHODS of approaching fat loss may not work for you the same way. Not everyone can do the same things and get the same results. Some methods are bad for people to do who have a more sensitive hormone system. Now don’t read into that, I didn’t say you wouldn’t loss fat in a caloric deficit, did I?

No, I didn’t. So don’t even go there.

You can, though, do a program that messes you up enough that your hormones, NEAT, and general desire for living alter so much that what was once was an 800-calorie deficit becomes 200 and you’re taking a month to lose 1 pound. Yeah THAT can happen.

Everyday I get emails because ^^that^^ happened.

Will power is no longer an issue, your education source is blown because there is no trust there, and next thing you know it’s 5 years later and you’re being told that you can’t lose fat because you don’t have the will power to do so.

BULL.

I am not saying that can’t be the case. I am not saying people don’t stuff themselves.

But sometimes, SOMETIMES, the people just need a voice of reason and integrity, to hear the truth. Sometimes they don’t need hype, they just need the education.

Now here comes the twist…

YOU (the ones that lack “will power”) think our style, my style of teaching education is boring.

Apparently, if it doesn’t come with flash and a yellow highlight it doesn’t do the trick.

It’s an interesting argument that has been going on for a while now.

What marketing method is best? What is the most trustworthy? Does it matter how you target your audience as long as the product is good?

I say let’s have some fun and find out.

In the mean time, enjoy these words from our sponsors.

Fat Loss, Clients, and The Viers

10 May

Tags: burn, calories, clients, eating, education, Exercise, fads, Fat Loss, inspiration, metabolism, News, Research, testimonials, testimony
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Don’t get attached they say.

Don’t get involved. Keep the relationship 100% professional.

Yeah well, you don’t know The Viers!

I was doing editing for new testimonials and they had given me theirs, and I had no way to fit it in that little box on my website. There isn’t enough time or words to describe how I feel about these people. The only thing I can do is just share with you my readers how wonderful I think they are and hope that they will inspire you.

Also Sheila is one heck of a cook and you might just being seeing some more of her information in the near future, so look for that.

In the meantime what lead to all of this is the exact principles as laid out in the Fat Loss Troubleshoot!

December 30, 2006 was the turning point for me. It was the day that my husband and I began working with Leigh. Before that day, we led the pack on the journey through every mainstream diet plan out there, every fitness regime, and every gimmick to no avail. I would spend hours online researching the latest and greatest fitness fads to try but nothing seemed to work for us. We were frustrated, worn out, and I am pretty sure that our metabolisms were on strike. When we met Leigh I was eating less than 1200 calories a day, working out for two hours, 5 days a week, but I wasn’t able to lose a pound. We also hadn’t taken a week off of working out in over a year. It wasn’t the commitment that we were lacking; it was the right education and the right tools. Leigh was able to give those to us. I like to think of her as our little guardian angel because she came into our lives when we had virtually reached our breaking point.

That day when I found Leigh’s site online, was that day that I said to myself I am 25 years old, I don’t want to be one of those women who is perpetually fighting the love-hate relationship with her body for her entire life. You know the drill, she has been and forever will be riding through life on the roller coaster of ups and downs, bouncing from one diet program to the next, never satisfied, always hungry or binging. If she reaches her goal at all she basks in the glory for one shining moment/event/dayand then blows it all on a week of ding dongs and cheese fries because damn it that was the hardest diet she has ever been on. And the cycle begins again. NO WAY. That is not who I want to be. Life doesn’t have to be that way. You do it once. You do it right. You FIX the mess that you have made, and then you live, eat, exercise for wellness and for maintenance. Because you know the drill, you have the tools, and it becomes part of who you are.

Leigh is more than a trainer to us. She is a friend, an inspiration, and a confidant. She has helped us to achieve goals in life that I never thought possible. Since that day in December I have lost 20 lbs and I am in the best shape of my life. I have a new respect for food and a new respect for me. I no longer stand in front of the mirror and focus on a little jiggle here or a little ripple there, I feel like the confident woman that I am and I know that from here on out, I am equipped with the knowledge to live my best life.

To become your OWN testimonial…well you know what to do!

Geez, do I have to spell it out for you?!

Fat Loss Troubleshoot is my hero !

(NEW TESTIMONIALS ADDED!! So go all the way through and even more to come!)

Will Power and Education, Is There a Difference? Part 3

09 May

Tags: education, Fat Loss, marketing, trust
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Last night I was stuck at the gym waiting for a tornado to pass through. Being that I have lived here my whole life, you get this feeling when something isn’t right where you live. It was late when I left for the gym and I remember looking at a wind chime on a neighbors’ porch when pulling out and thinking that ‘this was going to be one hell of a storm’, but at that particular moment there was just barely a breeze.

See, we have these things inside of us. Some call it faith, others ESP, instinct, etc. All it means is that something inside lends to a belief of something just because. There can be a rhyme or reason, you could break it down to the fact that my body and senses have constantly charted a “norm” and last night there was no internal match for that chart. Who knows, all I know is that I just knew it was going to be one hell of a storm.

While I was stuck at the gym a question that had been posed to me by a friend was just repeating about “What is so wrong with how you market a product if it’s a good product?”

It’s a fair question, and it deserves a proper response.

How many have really given a response to this, that didn’t just have to, with taste or that there are just better methods? Not many. Most of the best answers I have seen are behind closed doors because in truth this is a big game of networking, right?

Back to the question though. “What is so wrong with it, even if it is a good product? ”

Currently in health and fitness there is one undeniable “truth” being told, that fat loss is an opinion. That the science is up for debate. That there ISN’T a difference between OPTimal and OPTional. We get told on a daily basis countless views of ONLY. This creates a distrust and confusion in the consumer that can lead to a panic.

Remember when I brought up the Nanny 911?

What happens when you have a child and one parent tells them “no” and the other tells them “yes?” It creates an instability of trust in that conflicted child because the adult leaders are at odds. What should be a rule and “law” is all of a sudden debatable. The “truth” is now opinion. One parents opinion leads to yes, the others parents opinion leads to no.

The end result is a child that feels unsafe and challenging of one or both of those authorities. No matter who was right or wrong the damage of confusion has been done.

Now you might be thinking “This is a stupid analogy because everything has a opposing view.” Yes, you are correct, and I am getting to that.

In the moment of the “yes” or “no” mommy/daddy battle the child is going to try to get away with what they can because they are human, BUT they inside by instinct know that one of the answers is more trustworthy, that one is better and giving the the truthful and correct answer. They go for the quick and easy fix but inside the perhaps calm and right parent has the respect.

Now what happens if that parent out of need to please the child or make the child happy starts to falter? What if they don’t want to be the “bad guy” and give in?

Well now the child feels like they can run the house, like they have the upper hand, like they are the ultimate deciders!

But like any child they will run into a problem and when they do they feel helpless because they don’t respect the parents who were supposed to have the help and answers. That trust is gone, the instinct has vanished, and now they are just going to act out.

Are you getting it yet?

Are you getting where I am going?

When the good guys, when the trustworthy and those filled with the knowledge start giving in to the easy way out or those with the misinformation because that brings the instant gratification, it creates a chaos and lost of trust.

What was once a truth becomes an opinion.

Those who once felt safe are now questioning.

Sometimes when we are lost we fall into the wrong hands or just self destruct. So having the high quality, having the trustworthy people to turn to to balance out the bad advice IS important to making our fitness and health kids feel safe. If we take that away, even with the best of intentions, it can be a dangerous game to play.

So judgment or no judgment, “hate” or no hate, we have to as professionals be careful because our “kids” are watching this messy divorce and since 60% of our country is considered obese, I say they are acting out because of it.

Fat Loss is NOT an Opinion.

In 3 days you will hear my final word on it.