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Extra Fat Disappears... With the Power of a Wooden Spoon .............3 The Fat Tucked Under My Skin Jiggled ...............................................3 Failure: How Are You Fooling Yourself? ..............................................5 Exercise Your Right To Choose How You Look and Feel ...................5 Are You Trigger Happy? The Right Motivational Trigger Will Kill Overeating ..............................................................................................7 The Wooden Spoon Fat Loss Cure ......................................................8 Pain Motivator .......................................................................................10 10 Motivational Tools for Weight Loss Success ...............................11

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Extra Fat Disappears... With the Power of a Wooden Spoon

Feel like a teenager again! Instead of beating yourself up on the inside, struggling with junk food addiction and falling back into the same pattern of unhealthy choices, you can have energy and condence as toxic fat melts off your body all served up with a wooden spoon. I used a wooden spoon to lose 15 pounds of stubborn belly fat in just 34 days. You may be wondering how I went from being overweight to a healthy weight with a wooden spoon, so let me tell you a little more about myselfand the secret. My name is Joe and Ive been married for 15 years with 4 growing boys. Overall, Im pretty healthy. I eat a well-balanced diet thanks to my wife, whos a very good cook. I also get a fair amount of regular exercise (which is not hard since I try to keep up with my 4 boys!). But for most of my married life, I have had a huge problem of being overweight: 15 pounds of pure belly fat. Like most men, I tend to hold more fat around my waist.

The Fat Tucked Under My Skin Jiggled

You may not think 15 pounds of extra fat is a big deal, but do you know what 15 pounds of fat looks like or how big that is? Ill give you a quick glimpse of something that looks like buried blubber, but whip my shirt back down before you get a good look! Fifteen pounds of excess belly fat is about the size of 3 loaves of bread with butter!

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Imagine having a loaf (or 3!) of bread tucked under your shirt everywhere you go! Now I cant see what kind of spread, sag or lumpy gut you have under your shirt, but Im pretty sure you have extra loafs of bread disguised as fat that you want to get rid of. If youre 30 pounds overweight, then youve got the equivalent of about 6 thick loaves of bread stuck to your bones, hanging out in front and smothering your lean muscles. Youre no fool. You know that what makes your beltbuckle disappear is not bread. Its gooey, globby, Fat that jiggly, buttery yellow fat.

just sits there, weighing you down. Its nothing more than billions of storage sacks, individually stuffed with lard, getting bigger and bigger when you stuff more grease into each one. And not only does fat LOOK bad hanging wherever it hangs, but its harmful to your health in many ways. Did you know fat is the primary storage place for harmful toxins, pollutants and poisons from exposure to unclean air, pesticides, chemicals, food additives, and biological contaminates? The downside is the more body fat you have, the more toxins you are storing. Your body holds on to the fat cells for dear life, literally weighing you down. So the less fat you have, the less toxins youll store and the more energy youll have.

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Failure: How Are You Fooling Yourself?

Since I am being personal with you (I showed you my fat belly for goodness sake!), let me ll you in on what I have found to be true about good intentions for losing weight. The biggest reason most people have extra fat is that they dont DO what they know they should do! For example: Most people know that eating two 400-calorie cream lled chocolate glazed donuts for breakfast is not a healthy way to start your day Most people know that eating a slice of pepperoni - pizza right before bedtime - doesnt promote fat loss. Most people know they should exercise more than they do

But, despite all this knowledge Most people fail to do what they know they should do. Why is that? Well, today, Id like to show you the missing link for how you can stop sabotaging yourself, stop eating crap that you know is bad for you, and start losing that stubborn fat once and for all. The secret? Its all about creating a foolproof personal system of accountability and Im going to show you exactly how you can create your own system that will guarantee reaching your goals, whatever they may be.

Exercise Your Right To Choose How You Look and Feel

So, lets do a little thinking exercise together. Imagine.... 1. What would it be like if you did what you knew you should do to lose weight? Almost as if you were playing a video game and controling yourself on the TV screen from a distance command yourself to do only what is best for you, no longer falling into those self-sabotaging traps BartonPublishing.com 2012 Wooden Spoon Fat Loss Cure 5

that always seemed to trip you up. 2. How would you feel if you had internal self-discipline and motivation? Your mind would force you to stop eating or your body would resist craving junk food. You would have strength to maintain a consistent exercise program without joining something like weight watchers, and without paying for a personal trainer! Instead of getting fat and losing muscle, you would burn off ugly fat and build lean muscle instead! 3. How good are you going to look and feel when you reach your own personal goals. Youll never fall back into old harmful patterns because youll have new condence gained with a leaner, stronger body. Now, Id like you to grab a piece of paper and a pen or pencil. You are going to identify the difficult habits that you need to break and the effective patterns that help you make good choices. Please answer the following 2 questions: 1. What unhealthy & harmful things are you currently doing that you shouldnt be doing? Ideas: Maybe youre drinking too much soda pop, eating too many desserts, drinking too much beer, eating too many French fries, smoking, driving dangerously, taking too many pills, or having a negative attitude, etc. 2. What positive things are you currently NOT doing that you know you should be doing, in order to be healthy, t and condent?

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Ideas: Maybe youre not eating a healthy breakfast, not eating enough raw nuts, fruits & veggies, not exercising enough, not taking your vitamins regularly, not spending enough time with your children, not writing in your journal, or not getting enough sleep, etc. Id like to congratulate you! By completing these questions, you know have a great chance for successful weight loss. Keep this list handy. Well get back to it in a few minutes so we can build a better you

Are You Trigger Happy? The Right Motivational Trigger Will Kill Overeating
OK, so back to my story and the 15 pounds of unwanted fat. Ive gone on many low-carb diets before, including the Atkins diet, South Beach, Ideal Protein and others. They seemed to jump-start my fat loss for a short period of timeas long as I stayed committed to the selected elimination diet items. The major problem was I always sabotaged my own weight loss success when I reverted back to my old comfortable patterns of unhealthy eating. Bottom line was I was addicted to junk food. My favorites were: Chocolate chip cookies Pepperoni pizza French silk pie Mr. Goodbar Dairy Queen Blizzards Whatever gooey bars my wife would bake

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addicting. (And my apologies if this list tempted you to run to the kitchen! Dont worry! Youll be able to overcome these cravings very soon!) It wasnt until I discovered my MOTIVATIONAL TRIGGER that I was able to create my personal success plan: To overcome junk food addiction Maintain a consistent exercise pattern Eat more nutritious foods

My trigger was a wooden spoon.

The Wooden Spoon Fat Loss Cure

The wooden spoon has helped me lose all the extra fat 15 pounds of ugly, jiggly belly fat and it only took me 5 weeks! I call it the Wooden Spoon Fat Loss Cure or the Wooden Spoon Diet. No, I dont eat meals with a big wooden spoon (though that might work, too LOL). What is the secret? I discovered that a the wooden that

spoon

became

trigger

helped me make good choices, instead of bad choices. For me, I fear the pain of getting whacked wooden on the butt If with a spoon. youve

experienced the wooden spoon on your behind, then you know exactly what Im talking about (thanks, Mom!). It hurts! So, I wrote down my list of unhealthy things I was doing, as well as the healthy things I wasnt doing. Then, I told my 4 boys if I dont follow my plan each day, they each got to whack me with a wooden spoon!

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My list included not eating junk food, which is my biggest weakness: cookies, candy, bars, ice cream, pie, bread, pizza crust, cake, doughnuts, cereal and sugared drinks.

My list also included a minimum daily exercise routine that I had to complete every day: pushups, pull-ups, squats or cardio. Finally, my list included healthy foods I had to eat: salad with green vegetables or a healthy fruit & veggie smoothie.

If I didnt follow my own plan to perfection, I gave my boys permission to whack me as hard as they could, with no consequences to them. Boy, oh boy, did they LOVE that idea!!! And, yes, I did mess up but only once! One day, I forgot to do my pushups because we were up early and traveled all day long. By the time we got to our destination, I was exhausted and forgot to do my pushups. Three out of four of my boys let me off the hook, but one of them did not Carson, my 3rd child, had been waiting for this moment for weeks! Finally, after he wouldnt let me talk him out of it, I let him do what I told him he could do from the beginning and he let me have it. Hurt like a son-of-a-gun, too! After the rst 30 days, I had reected back on the wooden spoon fat loss cure and realized it had been a smashing success! I had lost 15 pounds of ugly belly fat disguised under my shirt!

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Pain Motivator
Whenever I was faced with the option or desire to eat something on my forbidden list, like a piece of cake or bread, I would think about the pain of a wooden spoon that I would have to endure. The pain of a wooden spoon isnt actually all that bad, really. But the anticipation of the pain is the kicker .and ideal motivator for not giving into temptation. Once you actually get whacked with a wooden spoon, it only stings for a minute or three. But thinking about the potential pain especially right as youre waiting for it to come (I closed my eyes and screamed into a pillow) - is the most agonizing form of punishment. So, maybe the threat of a whack with a wooden spoon isnt something that would motivate you. I doubt it will work for me when my kids are older and out of the house. The key is nding something that would hurt you enough that prevents you from completely falling off track and stumbling into old, unhealthy habits. The interesting thing is, if we dont come up with a short-term pain motivator, were going to have longterm pain in the form of an unhealthy body, for unhealthy depression condence and a levels, higher risk of disease, greater chance potentially shortened lifespan. So, what can you think of that could act as your wooden spoon punishment? What puts the fear of God into you?

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10 Motivational Tools for Weight Loss Success

Take a minute to brainstorm some ideas that would motivate you to avoid pain and unhealthy decisions. What motivates you in other areas of your life? Try to adapt them to achieve greater weight loss success. And if you cant think of any, here are 10 things that have worked for other people: 1. Paying a signicant amount of money to an organization that you are opposed to. (For example, donate to Planned Parenthood if youre ProLife) 2. Letting someone shave your head. 3. Giving away your favorite pair of shoes or jeans to Goodwill. 4. Being forced to eat a whole serving of a food you hate (Brussels Sprouts would work for me). 5. Giving a speech in front of a big crowd. 6. Sharing a really embarrassing moment on your Facebook status. 7. Giving away your car. 8. Wearing a realllllly ugly outt to work. 9. Sleeping one night in the dog house. 10.Getting your face smashed with a cream pie. To make this plan work, youre going to need two vital ingredients: 1. An accountability partner who will NOT let you off the hook 2. A commitment to tell the truth and not lie about breaking one of your rules I know someone who chose a punishment that did NOT motivate them to eliminate bad behavior. Her wooden spoon was riding as a passenger in a car while someone else driving which had been her phobia for years. But when she broke her own rules, she talked her husband into letting her off the hook and she avoided the painful consequence of her action.

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Your wooden spoon needs to be an action or a consequence that you cant avoid, not matter how painful. Plus, your accountability partner needs to stick to the punishment no matter what! As a side note, my friend found a new wooden spoon that worked well for her A good lesson here is, if you choose something and it doesnt work, then try something else until you nd the motivational trigger that works to keep you focused on a healthy body and clear set of goals. Ive assumed that you probably already know what is and is not healthy for you. 80-90% of your list is going to keep you steadfast in pursuit of weight loss success and turn you away from diving head rst into a fat of melted chocolate or stuff down a loaded pizza or two. Id like you to have some accurate

information that will help you maximize the efficiency of your transformation to a the new you. If you want to learn the best methods for burning fat through proper nutrition, then I highly recommend this program for

successful weight loss.

Disclaimer: The advice in this book is intended to supplement, not replace, the advice of a trained health professional. Consult your physician before beginning an exercise program, modifying your diet or altering medications. The publisher and author specifically disclaim any loss, risk or liability, which is incurred as a consequence of the use of information in this report.

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