Now lets talk about the dreaded 'E' word, EXERCISE! Most people are aware of the benefits of regular exercise and most people have tried to stick with it at different times. Frequently people will tell me that they feel so much better when they have been exercising as they often feel like they have been ‘letting off steam,’ running off their daily hassles, ‘working out’ their problems and their worries.

It amazes me that there are people who do not exercise. But then again it is human nature to know something is good for you and still not do anything about it.

The most frequently used reason for not exercising is a lack of time: ‘I’m too busy. I just don’t have time.’ I’m told by many people that they have demanding jobs, household chores, kids and pets to look after as well as friends to see and cars to wash and lawns to mow!

Some can be very compelling reasons and I no that sometimes its impossible to fit exercise in every day, but I find many people just give up at the thought. To me it comes down to a priority. That means you have a choice to make it a priority or let all those small jobs take its place?

People who make exercise a priority tend to be able to find time to do other things as well. How can this be? How can we fit all this into our day and find that you have more time to do other things?

They don’t actually have more time, of course there are only 24 hours in a day, but these people have more energy and feel better which their for allows them to get more done.

More and more research is showing there is a phononum called ‘mental obesity’. It is when your beliefs or thoughts either cause you to gain weight or prevent you from losing weight.

I heard of a railway worker in Canada who worked on a train that had refrigerated cars. His greatest fear was that he would accidently be locked in one of the cars one day and that he would freeze to death. Sure enough, one day he was invariably locked into one of these cars. He wrote a letter to his daughter about how he was always afraid of this happening and he died that night in the car. The next day they found his body.

The coroner’s report was that he had frozen to death. The only problem was the refrigeration in the car wasn’t turned on that night! He had frozen to death, simply because he believed that he was going to freeze to death.

Beliefs and thoughts control our reality because they act as reality fillers. So if you believe something is possible, or will happen you open up a range of possibilities to allow this to occur. On the other hand, the harder we think something is do achieve, the harder it will be to become.

So the lesson is when it comes to weight loss you may have tried to lose weight and failed so many times that you have come to believe that losing weight is either extremely difficult or even impossible.

I would strongly suggest that you realise these negative beliefs. They will only get in your way and believing that losing weight is difficult for whatever reason, causes mental obesity.

Tips to rid yourself of negative thoughts

• Repeat positive affirmations about yourself each day.
• Visualize positive transformation of your body
• Understand if you are having negative thoughts and look at ways to replace these with positive thoughts.

Q. I would like to know how to loose belly fat. I’m loosing it all over but it seems to take forever to loose the belly fat. It is going just really slow. I can’t stand it any more. Can you help?

A. Its a common question actually. Firstly be proud that you have and are losing fat. Its often frustrating when one part of the body doest change as fast as other parts. Read more...