How To Get Rid Of Belly Fat - By A Guy Who Has Totally Mastered Fat Loss

Tom Venuto, author of the best-selling Burn The Fat, Build The Muscle did not arrive at his conclusions about the best way to approach a weight-loss regimen overnight. He spent 14 years perfecting his dieting and exercise plan. At the end of this period he sat down, pulled out his notebooks, and went to work distilling the hard-won lessons he had learned from years of experience. The result was his 337 page e-book Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle, which went straight to the number one spot in ClickBank's Health and Fitness category, and has NOT budged since.

Now, unlike the authors of a lot of fitness and weight-loss products that can be found on the web, this guy truly is the real deal. Behind the book you'll find that Tom has a real business that revolves around helping people to reach their weight-loss goals. I have personally corresponded with Tom and he's not only exactly the kind of person you want to receive weight-loss information from, but he's a nice guy too.

The bottom line is that, if weight loss is your primary goal, you cannot go wrong with this product. Seriously, there simply isn't a better product on the market than Tom Venuto's Burn The Fat, Build The Muscle.

Tom Venuto was kind enough to let me to share this motivation/mindset question and answer set that he recently answered on the Burn The Fat Inner Circle member forums. He thinks that self limiting beliefs are an issue that many people deal with and it's one of the reasons people start to falter after setting fat loss goals.

QUESTION:

"Tom, I've followed your guidelines by writing down all my goals, and I've also identified all my self-limiting beliefs (and believe me there were a lot, including a belief that I didn't deserve it).

Ok, but what do I do now? Do I visualize my goals or work on repeating my new beliefs? I also took the list of limiting beliefs and made a new list called 'self enhancing beliefs'. This is the list of beliefs that I am wondering if I should affirm everyday until they sink in.

Should I do this BEFORE affirming my goals?

TOM VENUTO ANSWERS:

We could break this down into 2 major steps, 2 quick questions and 4 ways to challenge a limiting belief.

STEP 1: IDENTIFY LIMITING BELIEFS

We're well aware of some of our beliefs because beliefs about spirituality or politics or animal rights any other topic are the types of beliefs that are usually conscious.

But the beliefs that affect us the most in our physical development are NOT conscious. They are unconscious.

So the first step, which you've already done, is to make sure you've flushed them all out. For our readers who haven't done this yet, here's how:

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2 Quick Questions Will Draw Out Your Beliefs
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It pays to do this as a formal "exercise" with serious quiet time and pen and paper.

Question #1. What causes me to be overweight (or unhealthy, not having body I want, etc)?

Question #2. What's preventing me from getting leaner?

Spend some time with it.

Consider the answers; what you may come up with may be legitimate issues that you can deal with or which you have no control over, but either way, you will also see limiting beliefs flushed out through this questioning process.

Example: "I can't because I have no time, I'm too old, I can't stop eating, I hate exercise, You just can't do it when you have 4 kids, after a hip replacement, it's impossible...
And so on....

Thing is, those are not accurate facts. Those are beliefs (negative thought patterns) that hold you back.

STEP 2: CHALLENGE THOSE BELIEFS

How do you challenge a belief? 4 ways:

(A) Challenge it directly: is it even valid at all? See if you can find a counter example. For example; you think that when you've had 3 or 4 kids you cant get a nice flat stomach, meet Maxine or Bonnie, or any one of our other super fit moms who have been profiled within the Inner Circle.

Now... if they did it, then how could this belief be valid?

Answer: It WASN'T valid! Your belief wasn't true. You were believing in something false and inaccurate and it was holding you back!

Out of all the psychological techniques that we can apply to create belief change, I have never found a way easier or better than finding role models that are counter-examples, therefore dis-proving a limiting belief.

(B) Challenge the source: is it your belief, or have you been living what someone else handed down to you? Just the realization that a belief wasn't yours to begin with is enough to shatter it.

(C) Challenge the usefulness of the belief. Ok so you believed something before, does still believing it has any usefulness today? Does it help you move closer to what you want in your life?

(D) Challenging the belief by weighing the consequences. If you keep this belief what is it going to cost you? what will the pain be like? What will you miss? And what will these consequences be if you don't change it NOW?

Last but not least, You're RIGHT about "deservability." So start with an affirmation every day that "I deserve it."

Keep in mind that affirmations alone won't do it in the case of having feelings of unworthiness. You MUST take massive action. The more action you take, the more you will feel "worthy" of receiving.

That's why it's harmful to seek something for nothing; you can't get something for nothing in the long run anyway, but even if you could, you would not feel worthy.

There would be an incongruous feeling inside you and you'd sabotage yourself... kind of like those lottery winners who win a million dollars overnight, but they never became millionaires (in their mind/self image), so they blow the money faster than
they got it...

You can create affirmations about all kinds of things and work on them at the same time - things you want to change, get, improve, attract. Goals get turned into affirmations. Beliefs can be written as affirmations.

Affirmations are simply stating your goals or your desired empowering belief in a way that your subconscious mind is receptive to.

The difference between a belief affirmation and a goal affirmation is that goals all have end points. Beliefs don't. Most of your empowering beliefs you will want to keep. But when a goal is achieved, you have to set new ones.

So when you've found that belief that you know is limiting you, write an affirmation for what belief you would want / need to hold instead. Read it right along with your goals every day. Keep it up until you start to see your behavior change and your results fall in line with what you want.

If you're diligent, you will see changes in attitude and behavior with 21-30 days. It may take longer if you've carried deep, lifelong, life-impacting limiting beliefs, but the roots of the new pattern will be formed.

Then you can move on to another goal or belief you want to work on... and the effect of changing a few beliefs one after another can be nothing short of life-transforming.

Train hard and expect success,

Tom Venuto

Author of Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle. Check out Tom Venuto's web site.

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There have been countless studies performed on the role of protein in the muscle growth process to try and determine exactly how much protein you should consume to build muscle mass. Recently, several studies have looked at the role that dietary protein plays in helping you lose fat, and more importantly, helping you keep it off!

One thing scientists have discovered is that eating lean protein foods is important for regulating body composition because it decreases your appetite.

In a 2003 study reported in the journal, Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition And Metabolic Care (2003; 6(6): 635-638), protein was shown to be more satiating (made you feel fuller) than both carbohydrate and fat both in the short term and the long term.

Eating more lean protein foods has also been proven as an effective strategy to help you burn fat and keep it off because of something called, "dietary thermogenesis" (also known as the thermic effect of food).

In a study published in the British Journal of Nutrition in 2005 (93(2): 281-289), researchers followed a group of 113 overweight subjects after 4 weeks of a very low calorie diet, through a 6 month period of weight maintenance. The subjects were divided into a protein group or a control group. The protein group was simply given an extra 30 grams of protein per day on top of their usual diet.

The researchers found that during weight maintenance, the group with the higher protein intake was less likely to regain the lost weight, and any weight gain in the protein group was lean tissue and not fat. The results were attributed to higher thermic effect and a decrease in appetite.

Although calories will always be the bottom line when it comes to fat loss, studies such as these are confirming what bodybuilders have known for a long time: That calories are not the only factor that can influence your body composition. Your protein intake and your ratios of protein relative to carbohydrate and fat can clearly play a key role in helping you lose fat and keep the fat off.

None of this is news to bodybuilders or to anyone who is already familiar with bodybuilding-style nutrition programs, but it's interesting that such positive results were achieved in studies where protein was increased so conservatively - as little as 30 additional grams of protein per day or a 20% increase above traditional protein recommendations.

Many bodybuilding-style diets call for as much as 30%-40% of the total daily calories from protein and some competitive bodybuilders crank up the protein (temporarily) to as much as 50% before competitions.

I'm curious to see if any research is ever conducted with these more aggressive protein intakes. If so, my guess is that we will find once again, that the bodybuilders are ahead of the science when it comes to the manipulation of diet for improving body composition.

The take home lesson is simple: If you remove some carbs and put in some protein - nothing too radical; even as little as trading 30 grams per day of carbs for 30 grams of lean protein - this small change in your diet may decrease your appetite, decrease your body fat and help you keep the fat off after you lose it.

Tom Venuto is a natural bodybuilder and author of the #1 best selling e-book, "Burn the Fat, Feed The Muscle," which teaches you how to burn fat without drugs or supplements using the little-known secrets of the world's best bodybuilders and fitness models. Learn how to get rid of stubborn fat and turbo-charge your metabolism by visiting:

http://www.burnthefat.com

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