Susan had been struggling with her weight for more than thirty years. Since graduating from high school, Susan gained an average of five pounds every year. While this may sound extreme, it’s not—in fact, it’s becoming normal for those of us in industrialized nations.

At first, Susan wasn’t really bothered by this slow but steady increase in body fat. However, twenty pounds or so into the incline toward obesity, Susan started to care. Plus, just do the math: five pounds per year for thirty years. Susan was on the road to gaining over 150 pounds.

Susan started to panic, and that panic led to two decades of “dieting”.

Susan would lose twenty pounds in a few months. The weight loss was rapid, so her satisfaction was almost instant. Almost as instantly came her set-backs, weight gain, and final destination—heavier and “fatter” (literally) than when she started.

From there, depression began to set in. Again, this was gradual and hardly noticed, even by her husband Peter. However, Peter became as concerned for her mental health as he was for her physical well-being when Susan turned 40.

“I began to witness the loss of a life. My wife, who I loved, was becoming someone else. This was not the person I married, and that frightened me…as horrible as that may sound, it is nonetheless the honest truth.”

Peter went on, saying, “I loved Susan, and knew there had to be an answer. Her weight was affecting our marriage mostly due to her ever-increasing lack of energy, her loss of interest in our love life, and periods of seclusion. Her body and her mind was becoming her worst enemy, and I was at my wit’s end on what to do about it.”

Does Peter and Susan’s story sound familiar to you? Perhaps not to you personally, but does it remind you of a friend or loved one?

If you know someone who needs some
answers to fat loss at any age…answers that offer
more than hope…you have my full permission to
forward this Special Report to them

The wonderful news is that Susan, like thousands of others, found her answer. She’s living The Fit Over 40 Lifestyle, and enjoying every minute of her journey. Like all of us, she still has her ups and downs (yes, I do as well), but the ups far outweigh the downs…and the progress is steady, not ”perfect“.

However, the results are lasting.

Best of all, the Dieting Demon is no more! Susan, and so many others, replaced ”dieting“ with a new way of looking at food. She replaced inactivity with ”fun fitness“, and began the process of role modeling (the lifestyle technique from which Fit Over 40 is based).

She is now back to the weight of her senior year of high school, and far more fit than she’s ever been.

Today, I felt a desire to share some of my favorite lifestyle fat-burning strategies with you. I trust you will find these tips and techniques helpful in your own quest for a fit, energetic, leaner you.

Secret Number 1 To Burn Fat Forever:
Think Like A Thin Person!

People who struggle with their weight have specific thought patterns toward food, social activity, and their ability to manage their environment.

Think about it. Have you ever met anyone whose only problem was that they could not control their weight? If you dig deeper, you will usually find patterns of thought that reveal themselves.

A study published in the July 2006 issue of Archives of General Psychiatry found that depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders were about 25 percent more common in people who were obese.

Now, the question we must ask is this: is the obesity causing the depression, or vice-versa? From a guy who went through the worst form of depression, I feel I can speak with some insight on this matter. I am beyond convinced that my obesity in my thirties vastly contributed to the onset and severity of my six-year battle with severe depression.

I am not saying it was the only factor–
merely the most important.

One of the reasons I feel this way is the fact that I’ve seen what a change of body and mind can do for a person with depression. Remember, the vast majority of diagnosed depression is referred to as “mild” depression…yet it is becoming more and more common to treat even mild depression with drugs.

About 3% of the population will experience a more severe form of depression known as dysthymia. Dysthymic depression can lead to “severe” depression, and at that point medication is usually demanded.

Notice that there is usually (not always) a progression from mild, to dysthymic, to severe depression. This is the pattern I followed, and the pattern usually observed by therapists. Yet study after study shows a strong correlation to elevated blood sugar and mild to moderate depression.

A Western diet can elevate blood sugar dramatically, as well as insulin (also connected to depression) and serotonin (a ”mood“ neurotransmitter.) So, we see some cause and effect: a poor diet can set up the biological conditions that will foster the onset of depression in those genetically susceptible to it. Even in those without such predispositions, poor diet and lack of exercise alone can cause serious depression.

However, we seek to go beyond “depression”.

We want to look at how thin people think —
not only about food, but about life itself.

Here are the top eight mental strengths, as noted by psychologists, that people with healthy bodies and clinically normal body weight exhibit:

• A decreased reaction to social and environmental changes; more excitement and less fear;
• A sense of adventure and possibility for their lives;
• A feeling of being sexually desirable and capable;
• More apt to take acceptable risks;
• Socially comfortable (I refer to this as being comfortable in one’s own skin);
• Less likely to demonstrate self-destructive behavior;
• A feeling of acceptance around younger people (i.e. they feel young themselves);
• And, perhaps most important for our goals: a tendency to bond within healthy and animated networks

That last one was a bit tricky for me, too…but it’s important. Basically, this refers to a mindset that finds comfort in bonding to people, not food or drink. The bonds a healthy person forms tends to be with other healthy people, not with inanimate objects, be they food, video games, or constructs of their imagination. Again, these are tendencies, not hard and fast rules…but the patterns are noticeable.

Now, all this is fine and dandy, but how do we go about applying these patterns of thought to our own lives…especially if we happen to be currently overweight or obese?

Here is the very best way to being, starting today, to “think like a thin person”. I cover dozens of other ways to “think thin” in my book, Fit Over 40.

Let’s start with one simple exercise. I want you to take five minutes, three times a day, for the next 30 days, and read something to yourself. This is something that you are about to write.

I want you to take out a sheet of paper, and write down the things you “wished” you said to yourself every single day.

These may be things like:

“I feel wonderful about my body and the way I take care of it!”

“I am really looking forward to a lean and healthy meal tonight.”

“There is nothing I cannot do…the world is an open canvas on which I can paint my own reality!”

“I enjoy food…but I LOVE my family and friends.”

Do you see the pattern shifts?

People who struggle with their weight say things like, “I LOVE ice cream.” You do not love ice cream…and, if you try to say that you do, I will suggest you marry ice cream tomorrow in a formal wedding ceremony. Prove your love to the world!

Now, thin people may say, “I love burgers,” or whatever…but you do not have the luxury of taxing your subconscious mind with literal lies.

This exercise teaches you how to think truthfully. If you commit to this exercise for just five minutes a day, morning noon and night, for thirty days, your mind and your body can be empowered to change forever.

Trust me…I did it myself. I went from obese and depressed to medication-free and lean, and continue to progress every day. And, I’m about to turn 43 this week (October 14), so no excuses about “age”! My book blows all that away.

I lost every excuse I ever had for being super-fit at any age when I read Pax Beale’s story. At 74, Pax looks better than I ever have…yet in his 60s, he had two massive heart attacks and bypass surgery, costing him 75% of his heart! He literally “rebuilt” his heart and his health…and he tells you the story in his own words in Fit Over 40.

Secret Number 2 To Burn Fat Forever:
Don’t Treat Your Body Like A Machine!

We’ve all heard the expression, “That guy (or gal) is a machine!”, whenever someone does something “super”. In reality, we’re not machines. We’re far more complicated and dynamic than any machine that will ever be. And, you must honor this “dynamic” and fluid system of yours when it comes to how you eat and how you exercise.

Again, I give dozens of strategies for this in my book, Fit Over 40, which you can get at http://www.fitover40.com/go/fitover50

 

However, this is one of my favorites — you must adopt what I call a “fluid cycle” when it comes to diet and exercise.

One way to do this with your diet is to cycle your carbohydrate intake throughout the week. This serves many purposes. First, it creates “caloric staggering”, or consuming higher and lower calories in a given period of days. This tricks the metabolism into thinking it’s “not on a diet”…and in reality you are NOT dieting. You’re consuming far more healthy, energy-producing food.

(If people worded it like that, don’t you think there would be far more successful “forever fat-burners”? I certainly do!)

Obviously, you have to begin with a healthy diet. “Healthy” will vary depending on your metabolic type, as covered in Fit Over 40).

The good news is that I have a tip on
how to start if you’re currently eating a
diet of fast food, or simply wish to
tighten things up a bit.

Don’t rush: just find one recipe you like and add it to your menu every other day for a week. During the week, locate a second recipe (think simple) that’s comprised of lean protein, vegetables, and healthy carbs, and consume that on three alternate days.

You now have one super-healthy, fat-burning meal in your schedule every day except for one. (We’ll take that one day off and eat freely…just don’t overdo it.)

Repeat this process for three more weeks, and you’ll have a great menu of foods you can choose from — and you don’t have to dive right into a “diet” (a healthy meal plan, in our case.)

Remember: you didn’t learn to drive in a day. You didn’t learn to type in a day. Why are you trying to learn how to eat in a healthy, fat-burning way in a day? Sure, read my book. Read a lot of books. But take your time. You didn’t arrive in your present condition overnight, so let’s stop expecting to change it overnight.

Most people will stop their healthy eating habits or workout plans if they’re too stringent or severe.

Ease into it, but ease with a pattern.

Once you’ve got at least three healthy meals per day, six days per week, under your belt, you can begin to apply the principle of the Fluid Cycle.

Simply choose to begin your week with two days of low carbs. Some people do great on very low carbs (under 50 grams); others will need closer to 100 grams. Choose these carbs from unprocessed sources like vegetables, brown rice, yams, and whole grains.

On days three through six, increase your carbs to “moderate”. This is your baseline meal plan. On day seven, eat freely (an “off” day.)

Look at the options that are now open to you! Two days per week, you can enjoy some fattier sources of protein (say, beef or lamb.) For the middle of the week, you’re eating lean proteins, moderate amounts of healthy carbs, veggies and healthy fats. (Always drink plenty of water…on every day of the week.) Then, at the end of the week, you have a “free day”, where pizza is just another food you consume. It’s part of the plan.

(Note: if you’re a vegetarian or vegan, no problem. I have alternatives in Fit Over 40 from role models who are living a vegan and/or vegetarian lifestyle.)

Using this structure, virtually no foods are off-limits. The timing is everything…and by using this cycle, you will never feel deprived, knowing a change of pace is due up in just a matter of days or hours.

This respects the fluid nature of the body. Trying to eat the same things day-in and day-out is enough to make most people run for the hills. Exercise is the same — and that’s why most people fail to stick with a plan that works.

I cover how to do this with exercise, the critical component of any life-long fat-burning plan, in my book, Fit Over 40.

I’d like to share just three of the hundreds of tesimonials I have received over the past 5 years…

“The Fit Over 40 e-book makes a mockery of the ‘experts’ who continually say that once you’re over 50 you’re on the scrap heap! How many lives could have been saved and improved if the truth had been known?”
— Margaret Norman, Central Australia

“I have downloaded your ebook and may I say, there is enough inspiration and advice in there to last me forever. Roll on the years, I don’t care. I will just keep pushing back the ages!”
— Chris J Smith, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

“Jon, your book is going to have a huge positive impact on a lot of lives. At age 73, I embarked on a body restoration program using the approaches you and Tom Venuto espouse. I intend to promote your message of hope that says to me: It is never too late to reverse aging.”
— Frederick Colbourne

Secret Number 3 To Burn Fat Forever:
The Magic Of “2 and 20″

This is short and sweet — and it’s a secret I’ve shared with thousands to get and stay lean.

Every morning, before you do anything short of what nature calls you to do, I want you to drink TWO 10-ounce glasses of pure water (cold is best), and follow that with TWENTY minutes of brisk motion. Brisk walking, a small in-house stepper, rebounding, biking — anything that gets you moving for ONLY TWENTY MINUTES.

(Now, if you choose to go longer…say, thirty, forty, or even sixty…I won’t put up a fuss. But twenty is your goal.)

That’s it — you’ve just done your fat-burning exercise for the day. The only other exercise you have to do is “anabolic”, or exercise to build lean muscle. That gives you the sexy shape we all want.

The good news is I have a system that allowed me to develop a fitness model physique (not to be a braggart, but it’s a fact) by training only two to four days per week in the gym. That’s all you need. Granted, this is not your “typical” workout, but it’s one that anyone can build up to fairly quickly.

There’s too much to cover in this Special Report to go in to great detail, but this workout, along with literally 50 others, is in my book, Fit Over 40.

If you own my book, re-read my first five chapters as “homework”. Recall where I came from (obese, nearly dead, depressed, etc…), and refresh your mind on what I did to overcome it to reach my peak shape at 40.

Then, read the 52 stories of people ages 40-80, and see how they workout. You’ll notice most (not all) of them train only three-five days per week in the gym. I managed to do even less — and get stellar results. I tell you how in my book.

Conclusion

I truly hope this Special Report has helped inspire you, and give you the push you need to make the changes in your life you desire to make. I also hope you’ll share this with friends — I don’t care if it gets passed around. Perhaps a few people will buy my book…some will not, and that’s fine. I have a passion for helping people, so it’s all good.

Just know this: you can think, eat and train like a lean, healthy, vibrant, muscular person at absolutely any age, period, end of story! No one, repeat no one, has ever read Fit Over 40 and doubted that — and I don’t see how anyone could, given the fact these are people just like me and you.

Some are genetically “gifted”, but most are not — in fact, many were worse off than I was when they started, and older, too!

Don’t let age or “past failures” stop you from living this life, the only one you have, to the absolute fullest. My friend, you cannot do that if you don’t feel great about your body. This is not an issue of vanity, although we all want to look nice — this is an issue of energy, freedom, and responsibility.

We owe it to ourselves and those who love us to have the energy and the mindset to live for the ages. Your children, loved ones, friends, and even those you may never even meet, will all thank you for it.

Start burning fat forever — and start today.

Sincerely,

Jon Benson
Creator/Co-Author, Fit Over 40

P.S. I wanted to share one more fabulous story with you from a reader of my Fit Over 40 newsletters. This is shared by permission…

Jon…I must say that I’m really enjoying your newsletter and I can’t wait till I can get your book. I was so inspired when I first saw the article about getting fit and healthy when you are over 40 especially the section about a man with MS, I’m just 51.

The reason I say this is because I was diagnosed with MS about 2 1/2yrs ago. This is a sickening disease but made even more frustrating when you know my physical history. My life has always been about fitness and health, I’ve done nearly 1000 skydives, I was an active hang glider pilot, a SCUBA diver and a qualified pilot this was my life before being diagnosed after experiencing changes in my fitness and coordination until physical effort was impossible.

Several months back I was so inspired by the article that talked about your book that I started working out although the effort I was able to make can only loosely be called working out.

I’m determined to get back what I’ve lost although the medical profession will say that’s not possible.

The effects of MS became so bad that I lost my job but as my fitness has improved so much in the last few months I’ve now started a new job (software sales) and no-one at the company realizes that I have a serious illness.

I now work out with a genuine intensity (I actually sweat with effort!) I daily ride 10 or 20 miles and use free weights, not quite the poundage that I used before but not that much less and I’ve lost 22lbs since January.

I can honestly say that your article inspired me so much, I’ve also improved the alkalinity of my diet so my pH balance is a healthy 7.3 which is a world away from the 6.0 when I first tested 9 months ago.

Thank you Jon for your inspiration and guidance.

— Stefan C.; Colorado

 

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