You find reasons why you can or excuses why you can’t. In other words, you happen to life or it happens to you. -Zach Marcy

Can you believe how poorly people eat around you?

I remember back in 2002 when I was getting ready for the Mr. Georgia bodybuilding competition I had to watch every single calorie that went into my body, especially refined sugars and complex carbohydrates. At this time, right out of college, I had a daytime job as a web developer working in a major telecom 911 call center. As I started on this path my mind played tricks on me as i was walking by everyone eating fast food breakfast, sugary snacks and fried food lunches. It seemed the more strict i was the more people found comfort excuses to share crap food with one another and celebrate. It also seemed like people made more excuses for me to join them and for reasons why they could eat the food.

At this point in my young life I got very stressed out having to deal with this issue. I awoke one morning with a tremendous amount of anxiety about being able to deal with turning down all of the offers when I went into work and I HUGE calm came over my body and mind. I sat up in bed, grabbed my journal and started reviewing the 16 week goals I set for myself related to my mindset and my physique. This was a HUGE turning point in my own and my clients lives.

The Ultimate Weight Loss Fail: Your Mindset
Let me repost my quote from the very beginning:

You find reasons why you can or excuses why you can’t. In other words, you happen to life or it happens to you. -Zach Marcy

I realized on this very morning that it simply came down to knowing me and knowing what I wanted in order to over come short term temptation. Essentially after meditating I came up with the very first step in our Synergize Seven steps to Life Transforming success; decide to change and commit. With that commitment came a brutal and honest assessment of where I was and where I wanted to go.

Here is the fact, I was 220lbs (started at 230) and I wanted to be 175lbs to make middle weight. My body fat was 16% and I needed to get to around 4% to be competitive. I had 16 weeks (14 at this point) to get there. My task ahead of me was HUGE, but I knew that only me, myself and I were going to get me there. In order to make this process a success and as less stressful as possible I set my mind to task and it became so clear. *NOTE: I do not recommend ANYONE take on this drastic of a cut over such a short period of time. This was a drastic cut and we are able to have people lose over 80 – 100lbs in a year to a year and a half time frame in a safe manner.

So many people start this process the backwards. They jump into the gym for a few weeks, they drastically reduce their calories for a few days and find themselves starving at work or after the gym. A few days or weeks down the road when the newness wears off they find themselves shoveling garbage into their mouths. Does this sound like you? What if you take a better approach and start by taking ownership. I highly recommend reading this blog post first: Set Rules, Not Resolutions Part 2. After that print out my beginning quote and read it morning, noon and night until you believe it. Then…

How strong are you goals, how bad do you want it?
Once you take ownership and realize if you aren’t in control then someone else will be it’s time to set your goals. In general it’s best to make them very specific, able to be measured, put a date on them and then share them with an accountability partner. Write down your goals and review them, along side the quote I posted at the beginning, morning, noon and night.

You can feel free to post your goals at the bottom of this post in the comment section and I PROMISE to hold you accountable to them if you give me consistent updates on your progress. As you can see I make sure you take ownership over them and i’m not held responsible.

You know how others eat, so prepare yourself
Imagine how much stronger you are going to be going into your temptation environments armed with these mental weapons. On top of the mental attitude, i recommend preparing your food and having all of your meals and snacks readily at hand. If you are in a job or life situation where you can’t actually eat a meal, I recommend getting nutrition shakes that you can grab in a pinch.

During this time period I had meeting after meeting after meeting about projects. I drank shakes and ate almonds if I was hungry or the 3-4 hour time window had elapsed. I didn’t put the responsibility into anyone else’s hand, but my own. Because of that, I went prepared every day while keeping my rules and goals in mind.

If I can do it so can you

So how did i fair in the contest? I finished 3rd in my weight class out of 8 other competitors. The guy that won my weight class went on to win the whole show. See the results for yourself:

There is no special super power that i have over you reading these words right now. Everything that I have put together was because I wanted to succeed and I figured out how to take control over it. Then i made it as simple as possible and started sharing this way to life with thousands of clients. Would you like a 30 day jump start that take the guess work out of this? Try our Weight Loss Plateau Buster program…

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Do you need more personalized Help? Reach out to me for Coaching!
I’ve opened my coaching program back up. If you want more details, simply send an email to zacharymarcy@gmail.com. In the title put “coaching inquiry” and in the message put, “please give me more information”. I’m ONLY taking 14 people and I close this window by Feb 1st, 2012.