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Issue # 30

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Contents

1. Ramblings

2. The Negative Calorie Diet

3. Lentil Chili

4. How to Inject Success into Your Head
by Charles Burke

Many of you have asked me to provide diets to reduce your weight. May be you know that I’m not so fond of diets, because most of them are just garbage. But anyways, I’ll start in this issue to present once in a while a diet I think is worthwhile trying.

If you like it, stick to it, if not, try something else. If you just hate the foods you’re supposed to eat, you’ll find yourself “robbing” the fridge sooner than you expected. There just aren’t many people around having the willpower to stick to diets they don’t like.

“Going on a diet” and then bouncing back to your regular eating patterns after a week or two, will not help you to reduce your weight long term. Instead it will even make you weigh more (the famous “jojo-effect”).

The best way to keep your reduced weight is to change your eating habits. Start eating more healthily and not more than your body requires. And to start moving your body more than usual to burn more calories.

Please keep also in mind to ask your doctor or health provider before going on any diet.

2. The Negative Calorie Diet

One of the myths about losing weight is that you have to skip meals and starve yourself to lose weight.

Most of these diets will only make you lose water - which will be replaced soon after you finish dieting. For real and lasting weight loss you have to speed your metabolism: your body has to burn more calories than you eat.

The Negative Calorie Diet claims there are foods that will actually burn more calories in the process of digesting than the actual calorie content of the food. So the more you eat, the more weight you will lose (well, not quite, but kind of).

And you will never again feel hungry and get those horrible cravings about chocolate cake.

Why? Because your stomach is full and working. It will not signalize your brains that you need food.

With the Negative Calorie Diet you can choose from over 100 different foods that do speed up your metabolism.

Here is a listing of some foods that are "Negative Calorie Foods". Please remember that this is the food in its natural state. If you add cream, cheese, sugar, etc, they will be “High Calorie Foods”.

As you may have imagined most vegetables and fruits belong to this category:

Vegetables:

Asparagus, beet, broccoli, cabbage (green), carrot, cauliflower, celery chicory, Chile peppers (hot), cucumber, dandelion, endive green beans; lettuce; onion; radishes, spinach, turnip, zucchini

Fruits

Apple, cranberries, grapefruit, lemon mango, orange, raspberries, strawberries, tangerine

Even though it’s not recommendable to base your complete diet only on these foods, it would be a good idea to use as a snack between meals or in the evening while watching TV.

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3. Lentil Chili

Makes: 6 servings

Ingredients:

- 1 cup dried brown lentils, cleaned
- 2 cups vegetable broth
- 16 ounces unsalted tomatoes, crushed
- 1 medium green pepper, chopped
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 tablespoon garlic, crushed
- 2 tablespoons chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
- 16 ounces unsalted tomato sauce
- 2 cups whole kernel corn
- 1 celery stalk, chopped

Directions:

- Combine all of the ingredients except for the tomato sauce and corn in a 4-quart pot, and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 25-30 minutes.

- Add the tomato sauce and corn to the lentil mixture. Stir, cover, and simmer for 10-15 additional minutes. Serve hot.

Nutritional Information:

- Serving size: 1 1/2 cup

- Calories: 210
- Fat: 1.5 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg
- Protein: 14 g
- Carbohydrates: 30 g
- Fiber: 7 g
- Sodium: 230 mg

This is a sample of a GHF Diet Recipe - you'll find others by clicking here

by Charles Burke

Whatever goes on inside your head determines what happens "out there" in your real world.

No surprise, I'm sure, since this idea is mentioned by countless writers and speakers.

But over the year-end holidays I generated some extra- convincing proof of this. I used my own self-made fitness program to lose 6 kg (13 lb) and get more physically fit (went from 31% body fat to 26%). And I did it mainly by injecting certain thoughts into my own mind.

Furthermore, I did it in just 55 days. There was no struggle, no will-power, no starving or battling with myself in any way.

I'll tell you more about the details in a moment, but first I should mention that the weight loss is not the real point here. The real lesson is that the very same technique will work on anything if you'll just apply it. Inject the thoughts and watch the results.

Now, there are a lot of products out there to help us reach our targets and goals. And collectively, we buy truckloads of those products.

But we generally DON'T get truckloads of results.

C'mon... be honest now... how many real successes have you racked up recently? Count 'em up and compare that number with the amount you've spent on tapes and books and courses. Is your average cost per success running more or less than $1,000?

If you're tired of getting nowhere despite all that spending and reading and listening, here are 6 tips for changing absolutely ANYthing in your life within a few short weeks.

If you'll really use them, these 6 are all you'll ever need.

FIRST: PICK YOUR TARGET

You can only make progress toward a target if you know what it is.

Need more money? Want a new love in your life? Wish you had a boss you could get along with? First thing you gotta do is name that desire.

Let's say you want to generate more income. First decide how much more, and by when.

Of course, be realistic. A million bucks by next Wednesday is not within the realm of reason, and your mind knows it, so it'll just ignore any bogus goals and wait for you to touch back down to planet earth.

If you will start out with believable targets, you can expand them later. But you gotta start from where you are.

Oh, and being specific is especially important. Don't say, "I want a new car." Instead, make it something like, "I want a brand new, hot pink Honda with plush pink interior." (If that's what turns you on.) It would help to go look at Hondas and check the colors available. This makes it more real and tangible in your mind.

SECOND: WHAT JOY WILL YOU GAIN?

What's your real, underlying payoff?

Hint - if your target is that new Honda, the payoff is not the car itself. It'll be some kind of feeling. If you get butterflies and thrills of anticipation when you think of all your neighbors and friends gathered around admiring it, that's the REAL benefit.

If you want to become a public speaker and lecturer, you might get the biggest emotional kick when you think about all those people whose lives you'll change. Or the crowds of faces sitting, listening to your every word.

Of course, your first thought may be of all those vast sums of money you'll be earning. Well, be warned, the money is usually a secondary benefit. It's okay to use it as part of your motivation, but it works best when it's not the primary thing you want... because it usually isn't as exciting as the satisfaction of impacting others' lives. Or the human elements of acclaim, recognition and admiration.

When I decided to get fit, I fastened my mind on an image of myself being slim, with washboard abs and great pectorals. That was my goal. I spent a lot of time running that picture through my mind. Over and over.

Naturally I didn't get all the way there in 55 days, but I made a great start, and my new eating and exercise habits are now on automatic. I don't have to do anything extra now to motivate myself. Once started properly, the motivation just keeps going.

THIRD: PILE ON MORE REASONS

Looking good wasn't my only motivation. I also wanted to feel healthier.

And not be ashamed to go swimming next summer.

Yep, that's right... I appealed to my own sense of pride and vanity. It definitely raised the emotional pitch.

In addition, I threw the program open to my subscribers, and 14 agreed to join me in the experience.

So then I had the benefit of 14 people watching me for advice and help. That ensured I wouldn't allow myself to slump midway through and just fade off target. I deliberately set it up so that I felt compelled to continue.

Those were reasons that worked for me. You'll have to find your own.

But I assure you of this... if you don't go out of your way to heap on "reasons why", you won't get very far toward your goal. By the way, my friend Peter Murphy, the NLP expert, helped me with this part of it.

But this is so important, I'll repeat it.

You need to find more reasons for achieving your target - more than you think you'll ever need - because once you get into the middle part of your journey, where the "new" has worn off and the goal still feels a long way away, you'll need all the extra motive power you can hustle together.

FOURTH: FILL YOUR MIND WITH YOUR GOAL

Now we get to my secret technique. For 30 years I had been overweight, and for all that time, I hadn't been bothered enough by my fat to try and get rid of it.

So how did I start caring enough to lose weight? I made myself a set of hypnosis CDs and listened to them at least twice a day. Simple, huh?

There are a lot of tapes and CD sets out there. The best of them are brilliant, and even the worst of them are probably good enough to get the job done for you. Or, if you already know hypnosis, you can simply make your own recordings. They WILL work.

They'll work... IF you use them regularly and persistently.

As you may already suspect, nothing's going to work if you don't use it much.

Years ago I bought some hypnosis tapes, but the narrator's voice sounded unpleasant to me. So I stopped listening.

Today, I realize what a mistake that was. The reason I bought those tapes was to get help. It didn't matter if the hypnotist sounded like a shrieking magpie. The voice wasn't the point. The words and the suggestions were the point. The help would have gotten through, if I had stuck with it and made myself give the tapes a chance. But no, I not only wanted help, I insisted on being entertained, too. Ah, what a delicate flower I was back then.

So I let myself get sidetracked by a silly little side issue, and that kept me from taking (notice I said TAKING) the help I needed.

FIFTH: OVERWHELM THE LOW DAYS

Will there be days when you don't feel like sitting down and listening? Sure there will.

And days when you don't think the materials you're using are having any effect.

And days when you're convinced that the materials won't work for you, even if they've helped millions of others.

It happens to everybody (yes, even those brilliant successes who never seem to have low times).

What do you do at times like that? Well, the usual tendency is to get depressed because "it's not working" for you. But that's not a winning strategy. Instead, I recommend irritation. Get incensed at the HABIT of getting discouraged. Get a little bit angry.

It's called righteous indignation, and it's an especially useful tool for those doubting days when you're sure nothing will ever work right for you ever again.

Yes, there are times when the intensity of anger is appropriate, and this is one of them. Dig in and pour on the concentrated effort. It's like stepping on the gas to power yourself out of a mud hole. Be willing to fight for your goal - battle those old habits that want to drag you back down.

SIXTH: UNDERSTAND THE KIND OF GOAL YOU'RE AFTER

Some goals are like a finish line in a race. You want a new car, and once you have it, that's it. You've reached the goal. Or a vacation in Paris. You'll know when you've made it there.

Other goals, however, are not races. They represent a change of direction, but without a finish line.

Think of it like piloting an airplane. For most of an airplane's flight, it's set on autopilot. Your fitness and weight habits are like this. They're set for one direction, and if you leave them alone, they'll keep you on that course automatically, without any need for you to monitor them.

You may go on a diet or take up a fitness routine (usually depending heavily on will power). But if you don't know how to reset your autopilot, you'll have only temporary success. The minute you take your attention off your new routine, the autopilot takes control back from you, and puts you back on your old course.

But if you know how to change your autopilot settings, then there's no need for you to constantly monitor your daily behavior. Now your autopilot is automatically doing the monitoring for you, keeping you on your new course to be slim and fit.

Just as your mind automatically kept you fat before, now it gives you a preference for slimming foods and lots of physical activity.

How do you reset your autopilot? You already know most of the ways. But you may not have much faith in them.

There are:
* hypnosis
* affirmations
* meditation
* sleep tapes
* subliminal (actually subaudible) tapes
* chants
* goals lists
* and many, many others
But (you may protest) you've tried some (maybe all) of them and had limited results. If you didn't get results, you didn't follow the six steps I outlined above. You left out one or more of them. You gotta cover all the bases, or you're right, it won't work.

So if it didn't work, the problem wasn't with the method. It was with how you used it.

Dig out some of those old products growing moldy on your shelf. Blow the dust off of them and try 'em again. But this time, do it right. Really go at it like you're beating a big snake with a stick. Get enthusiastic about it. Put some real oomph into it.

I guarantee you'll get great results if you'll just:

1. pick a specific target
2. identify your real emotional payoff
3. have more than enough reasons to do it
4. saturate your thinking with your goal
5. give lots of extra effort on the low days
6. identify your goal - finish line or autopilot
Does that seem like a lot of work? I won't kid you; it'll probably take some effort, even some scrambling, to get it going right. But it does lead to success.

And what about making the extra effort to listen to a CD or tape? Even on the low days - really now - how hard can that be?

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