Why is it that, despite the fact that we have a pretty good idea of what we should be doing to be healthy and lose weight, most of us just end up feeling like this:

“I just guess I need more willpower.”

I guess I need to have more willpower. I know that I’m not lazy, but I feel lazy when I have to go to the gym or when I think about to start a new diet or so. But don’t know the cue that make it start, or dont have paid attention. – Laura T.

“I know that my lifestyle of bad eating habits, lack of movement in my job and lack of sleep contributes… but the longest I stayed on one diet was four weeks… and then went back to my old ways.”

I know that my lifestyle of bad eating habits, lack of movement(outside my job; I have a moderately physically job at UPS), and lack of sleep is contributing to my poor health. However, I tried to change my eating. I tried Paleo, low-carb, conventional diets. The longest I stayed on one diet was four weeks, and fizzled out and went back to my old ways. – Sarah, G.

“…I basically fall into the failure-doomed cycle of wanting to lose weight, making up my mind to exercise more and eat less…and after a few weeks get discouraged and say ‘screw it’. And then start all over again.”

So I basically fall into the failure-doomed cycle of wanting to lose weight, making my mind up to exercise more and eat less, creating a regimen and vowing to stick to it, succeeding for a few weeks or possibly months, seeing little to no results, getting discouraged, saying “screw it,” and then starting the cycle all over again a couple weeks later.  – Mark, J

How did it ever get this bad then?

You know all the typical suggestions that websites and tv shows have – eat less, move more, eat more plants. But despite knowing the obvious… it’s still so difficult to turn that into a reality.

How come?

But think about this: Does it have to be this way?

What if life was different?

What if you could be healthy enough that it meant not worrying every day that today is the day I’ll have a heart attack, or today is the day my diabetes will kick in. What if it meant you could play with your kids and keep up with them, without getting so out of breath that you need a ‘break.’

Or what if it simply meant getting your life back! Living with a clear head, feeling alive, stronger, and not having the nagging anxiety that something might go wrong (and soon).

Or being healthy enough to have the energy to do what you want – being able to walk and dance without your knees hurting, having great numbers on your blood work for cholesterol. Feeling great, sleeping well, and having zero anxiety around your weight.

Maybe it’s just as simple as being able to walk places without feeling tired, being able to see (and touch) your toes, with normal blood pressure and cholesterol – and being medication FREE.

What if food didn’t control your life?

In fact, when you follow a few key habits, success comes naturally.

Many of my clients started out as near-hopeless cases. One client was a 47-year-old mother of 3 and busy professional as an operations manager in the Midwest who not only had a high-pressure job, but had a husband who wasn’t too healthy, AND kids to take care of.

Her typical day involved being overworked and stressed out at work (thanks to the pressure of her boss), coming home and Craving a minute to just sit down for half a freaking second – decompress, and relax – often with a piece of pie or some cake – and then trying to take care of everyone else in the spare minutes she had. She had way too many other people to take care of before she took care of herself. When she reached out to me, she had tried it all – atkins, paleo, weight watchers – you name it.

There was a lot of confusion around “what really works” – since she had literally tried it all. The result ultimately was the same – progress for a few weeks, then back to square one once life got too stressful and overwhelming.

That was quickly followed by the guilty feeling (“I messed it all up again”) followed by a prolonged depression. “Why bother trying again if I’m just going to fail? I might as well eat all the good stuff and just die happy.” No joke – her exact words.

After a few months of going through this Dream Body habit change process, she started seeing results – and they stuck around – for the first time in a very long time. She realized that certain emotional, work, and stress habits were really the origin of her weight – and not her diet.

For the first time in a very long time she told me what it felt like to be “free of food” – which used to control her life, and was her go to “best friend” when she had too much to do at work, or at home. She came up with smart systems I know that if SHE could do it, you probably can too – no matter how many times you’ve struggled or failed before.

Not only do I have hundreds of successful students and clients, but I’m going to share with you what I learned studying a dozen people that lost 100+ pounds in a healthy way (without fads), in less than a year, and most importantly, kept it off years later.

I’m going to share their exact strategies and more shortly, but before we do, I realized that a big barrier to my clients being successful was NOT food… … But their own psychology. I want to share their best-kept secrets, techniques, and methods with you right now.

My client Sarah didn’t want to wake up, meticulously weigh her breakfast, count the calories, and then eat a meal half the size of what was filling.

She didn’t want to carry around her phone all day with the MyFitnessPal app tracking every freaking thing going into her mouth.

She didn’t want to eat massive amounts of boring, bland, cardboard-tasting health food that was five times the price of regular food.

And she didn’t have to.

To prove to her that changing simple habits, without fads, calorie counting, or obsessive workouts could produce startling changes in health (and weight), I told her about dozens of people I interviewed and studied, ones that lost 100+ pounds in a healthy way, and kept it off, and the key daily habits they practiced.

It can be really hard to relate to the people you see on the covers of magazines and in these silly “fitspiration” ads.

I mean, if I have 20, 30, 50 or 100 pounds to lose… looking at someone insanely fit on a magazine cover isn't inspiring at all, it just seems like more of a goal I can't reach.

But what If I told you that I have dozens of case studies of average men and women from all different walks of life that started off 75, 100, 130, or 150 pounds overweight – and just a year or two later they were living in an entirely different body.

Single parents, busy professionals, women over 40 – and everything in between.

Going for walks without being out of breath – for the first time in a decade.

High blood pressure – gone.

GI problems and IBS – gone.

Bowel issues, gone.

One person even went from over 300 pounds… to six pack.

Imagine that: just two short years ago, these people were clinically obese – heading down the road to an early grave. And in less than a year (for many of them) they were 100 pounds lighter.

How?

They didn’t have any shortcuts you don’t have.

No secret pills, new diet fads or surgery.

In fact, they tried a lot of the stuff you probably tried or are trying.

They tried:

Calorie counting.

Paleo and other popular diets.

Eating less and moving more.

Actually – there were just a few key principles they ALL embodied. And it became more and more interesting, the more I interviewed these success stories, the more I noticed the same trends, these same principles over and over and over again. In fact, it was so obvious it was almost a slap in the face.

Now fast forward to today.

On person, Daniel, told me he went from spending 3 hours a day on the toilet (yes, you read that right) to less than 30 minutes.

One woman, Amanda, went from taking almost 15 pills to help her GI tract functional properly… to being on virtually none.

And another person went from hypertensive and prediabetic… to almost perfect blood work.

And these were all the result of just a few daily habits in particular.

But I found 6 common reasons, the biggest barriers, holding us back from the health and healthy weight loss we want.

I bought your course and I have to say… it’s awesome. You go into much more depth than many other diet books or programs by discussing the psychology of losing weight. I think that the mind is 90 percent of the battle, because the body will respond to any change a person makes.  For example eating a good, clean diet will help the body while eating a diet devoid of nutrition( like junk food) will harm the body. Unfortunately, I can talk from experience because my body has seen the effects of a junk food diet. I am only 23, but I feel so old. My body is always sore, especially my right shoulder which I injured at work( I have a part-time jobs a UPS where I load trucks with boxes) and right side of the hip. I can’t remember that last time I woke up rested from sleep, probably when I was a baby. I for a long time I didn’t make a health a priority. But, now I am realizing that my health should be number one because if I don’t have my health at good levels, I really don’t have the energy to to anything else in my life.

- Stephanie, M.