Let’s see how this conventional wisdom is working out so far…

Two out of three Americans overweight or obese.

300,000 Americans dying annually from weight related health issues [according to the CDC].

Only 5% of people succeeding at a permanent physical transformation.

Why such grim statistics?

Because of self defeating concepts like “cheat day.”

Regardless of the issue, “cheat” is another word for “make an exception” without regard to the consequences.

How would it feel if your significant other wanted to have a cheat day, where they could sleep with whomever they wanted [for “psychological” reasons]?

Would you keep your kids in a school that had a cheat on exam day?

Does any recognized religion have a “sin” day, where you get to do “whatever?”

I suppose someone needs to explain to me why integrity is important, except when it comes to our health. Maybe I’m an “extremist” but I don’t see the benefit of “cheating” on the ONLY body you’ll ever have.

Nor do I don’t see why it would be prudent to “make an exception” when it comes to what’s going to influence your future more than most any set of circumstances; your health.

Let me ask you a few poignant questions:

Do you really want to be anxiously awaiting the result of a cancer screening and think “I wish I hadn’t cheated so much on my diet.”

Right now there’s multiple applicants for every job opening. Do you really want to be competing with someone that looks healthy and fit? [Yes, your burden on health care costs will be a factor.]

How did I overcome the “it’s no big deal” mentality [that made me fail here for thirty years]?

I decided to see food the way I see right or wrong. It’s black or white, there’s no grey area.

It’s either good for me, or it isn’t.

I can’t tell you how mentally liberating that is. Not only does it save time and effort, it totally eliminates countless mental battles.

What is right and wrong to eat? That question can only be addressed by you. [If you want a hint, it’s going to be things that you know you shouldn't eat, but somehow justify having.]

I know this is an unusual way to approach this issue, but here’s what I want you to see:

It’s not about the food, it’s about you seeing something in your life that’s not helping you, and doing something about it.

Regardless of how insignificant it seems or alluring it is.

This should give you a better understanding of why I say transforming your body, life, and future is a mental issue, not a physical one.

It’s not going to be which natural foods or exercises you choose that’s going to change your life…

It’s going to be developing the conviction to no longer make exceptions- in a world that uses every trick to convince you that exceptions are “no big deal” or something “you deserve” [and not because the world cares about your freedom, it cares about your money].

Here’s what the “you deserve it” crowd doesn’t want to tell you: Problems don’t go away by being avoided.

They get bigger and worse.

If you have a problem with eating unhealthy food, cheating isn’t dealing with the problem, it’s avoiding it.

Where else has this mentality brought us?

To the brink of bankruptcy as a country.

To a gigantic rise in dependent and morally bankrupt people.

Again, forget this has anything to do with food, and think about the crux of the issue:

You’re learning how to live with integrity, using one of your most powerful and exploited emotions- your health emotions- to set the standard.

In other words, you’re preparing yourself to be the type of person that can do and handle anything, regardless of circumstances or what every one else does.

Allow me to take the exception / avoid the issue mentality one step further.

At this very moment, the world is trying to figure out how to deal with a quadrillion dollars of debt.

Do you think there’s a possibility that world governments are going to need to make some “sacrifices” to deal with this reality?

[In my experience “sacrifice” always mean one thing, those in power keep their funded lifestyle, while the rest of us figure out how to make due with less.]

Mark my words, as the U.S. tells it’s citizens it’s time for “shared sacrifice” we’re going to need to become out of the box thinkers that know how to stand on principle.

We’re going to need to be people that see things as they are, and have the courage to do something about them.

If you want to change as a person, and I mean REALLY CHANGE, few things will permanently transform you like learning how to treat your body with integrity in today’s society.

Yes, the improvements in the mirror are great, but I think you’ll be amazed at the change in your strength, clarity, and personal freedom.

If this all sounds radical and extreme to you, consider what I’m really suggesting…

Eat natural food and get active once a day… so you learn now, how to hold yourself to a higher standard… so you learn now, how to be prepared for whatever the future holds.

Radical and extreme ideas? About as radical as the ideas of personal responsibility and integrity.

To your health and success, and may God bless,

Michael

New Body New Life Home Page

Does Sensa work? What about Rip Fire? Hydroxycut? Is Lipozene for real?

The questions I’m asked about diet and weight loss products are never ending- because the products and pitches are never ending.

[It doesn’t end with diet products, Reebok was just fined 25 million for falsely advertising it’s “butt toning shoes.”]

I must be getting smarter in my old age, because now rather than explain why these things don’t work, I answer these questions with my own two questions:

If it did work, why would 2 out of 3 Americans be overweight or obese?

If you couldn’t keep weight off before you started using a product, why would you be able to keep it off after you stopped?

Instead of trying to figure out if a diet product “works” here’s all you need to know:

The truth has no agenda.

Without exception, the way to tell if something is going to work is to ask yourself one simple question:

Is someone trying to sell me a product?

If the answer is yes, then it’s not going to work.

It’s impossible for diet and weight loss products to work permanently, because the only solution is in the mirror.

[Note I’m not talking about legitimate diet and exercise information. Honest food and exercise information can help you, products cannot.]

I don’t care what the product is. I don’t care what the advertising says it can do. I don’t care how many testimonials they have.

The only thing that will ever work is seeing unhealthy, damaging, and controlling choices- and changing them.

And no pill, sprinkle, tea, herb, berry, shake, juice- whatever- can do that for you.

I know a lot of people don’t want to hear that- and that’s why 95% of people fail at a physical transformation.

But it’s the truth.

And the truth doesn’t have an agenda to sell you anything.

All the truth requires is that you eat natural food and challenge yourself physically on a daily basis. [Notice how you don’t need to buy anything to do that?]

As they say “The Truth Will Set You Free.”

That’s because “seeing” what’s stopping you from eating natural food and getting active requires removing a lot of self imposed anchors from daily life.

That’s why they also say “The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Make You Miserable.”

The “Miserable” part is where you confront the old habits and choices that stand in the way of your best body and life- and do something about them.

See what I’m saying? Food or exercise isn’t what transforms your body, life, and future into what you want them to be…

It’s having the courage and conviction to live the truth- regardless of how deep the old choices have dug in.

What exactly do I mean by “live the truth?”

It’s choosing an apple over a donut, because the truth is, your body was created and designed to run on natural food.

It’s going for a walk instead of sitting on the sofa, because the truth is, your body was created and designed to be active.

What’s great about the truth is it’s compounding effect. If you develop the ability to choose the apple over the donut, you can develop the ability to go for a run instead of sit on the sofa.

Before you know it, you’re being totally honest with yourself in all parts of life.

The best part is, the more truth you live, the easier your life will be. Live the truth enough on a daily basis and soon your body will do the physical transformation “work” for you [and a lot of other problem areas of life will fix themselves as well].

A pill can’t give your body the energetic, lean, and healthier look it so desperately wants to have.

That’s something only living the truth can do.

A herb or berry can’t set you free from the countless unhealthy products sold to you 24/7.

Only making choices in your best interest can do that.

Living the truth- since the truth has no agenda other than what’s best for you- is what enables living with a clarity and freedom that few people ever come to imagine.

Don’t over-think this. You don’t need to “diet” or start marathon training. You need to take an honest look at what’s standing in the way of the body and life you deserve.

The truth is right there, staring us in the face everyday of our lives, patiently waiting for us to live it.

The truth doesn’t hide in the shadows or try to trick us with slick advertising. It doesn’t ask for our money or time. It has no agenda.

Other than to set us free to live lives of incredible health, clarity, and freedom.

Eat natural food and challenge yourself physically once a day. That’s all you need to know.

How to do that in a world that doesn’t want to tell you the truth is what you need to learn.

I hope you found this “truth seeking” article helpful, because when you get right down to it, knowing- and then living- the truth is the ONLY way to permanently transform your body AND life…

Which is what the New Body New Life Program is all about [that’s why it’s called New Body New Life, not New Body Same Life :]

If you think it’s time to see what living the truth will do for your life, click here to order the program right now [it’s a digital download, so you can get started on your best body and life today].

If you don’t agree it was the best $67 you EVER invested in yourself, just ask for a refund, no questions asked.

To your health, success, may God bless, and seize the day.

Michael

The truth.

The truth is, there’s no tricks or secrets to transforming your body. The healthier the diet, the more challenging the workout, the better your body will look and feel.

If you want to PERMANENTLY – and I do mean PERMANENTLY- transform your body, life, and future; you need to do something few people have the courage to tell you to do:

Get good at telling yourself no.

That’s because regardless of the diet or exercise program, it’s going to require saying no to the old choices that resulted in the body and life you’re fixing.

First time you’ve heard it said this plainly?

You should consider that a good thing, because if 95% of people fail miserably at controlling the shape of their body because they’re trying to go about it all touchy feely…

You’re going to want to do the opposite of the failures.

I know it may sound unpleasant at first, but wouldn’t you rather hear the truth? Wouldn’t you rather know what to do- and succeed- rather than have me shine you on with useless stories about “fat busting hormones”?

Note I’m not telling you to deprive yourself. I’m not telling you to say no to eating. [When you know what to eat and when, you can pretty much eat however much you want.]

I’m telling you to say no to all the unhealthy processed junk that’s making you fat, ruining your health, and screwing up your future.

That’s not “no longer having fun.” That’s removing unhealthy the “anchors” that you’ve become enslaved and beholden to.

A healthy and successful life requires hearing no on multiple levels. Too few no’s will only lead to a life of misery and slavery.

Not telling ourselves no has brought skyrocketing obesity, untold health issues, and needless personal suffering.

What’s the fastest way to ruin the life of a child? What leaves them spoiled, selfish, and unable to cope in the real world?

Never telling them no.

How do you prevent the people in an entire nation from becoming resourceful and independent?

Never tell them no. Give them more and more until they’re lulled into complacently and totally beholden to those in power.

Telling people yes is easy. Telling yourself yes is easy as well. Telling people no can be unpopular. Telling yourself no feels depriving.

However, not enough no’s has brought us to the most challenging time in our history since the civil war.

Our country is deeply divided and buried in debt.

All it took was two generations that voted to hear yes more than they heard no.

When it comes to your health, do yourself a favor, shift your thinking. Realize that no isn’t depriving. No is empowering. No is you taking control. 

No is you telling everyone that wants to exploit you that you’ve decided your body, life, and future are too important- and you’re taking them back.

When it comes to your way of life, do yourself another favor, realize there’s only two ways to handle massive debt: Massive taxes and massive austerity. Which comes down to two things for most of us:

Paying more and getting less in return.

Prepare now to live with more no’s. That way when you have to, it won’t be a shock. That way- if you want to live with freedom- you can still make rational decisions.

I don’t know how to say this except to come right out and say it.

The answers to our most pressing personal problems will not be found in products… the answers to our biggest national problems will not be found in our leaders…

The answers are in the mirror.

Don’t make this complicated. Simply acknowledge when it comes to old unhealthy, damaging, and controlling choices, saying no to yourself is saying yes to a brand new body and life.

When in comes to the future of our children, simply acknowledge the more no’s you hear now, the better the future will eventually be for all of us.

To your health and success, and may God bless,

Michael

New Body New Life Home Page

Allow me to quote what I wrote in New Body New Life three years ago:

“Of this I am certain: We will never change our future, our children’s future, or the future of this nation… until we first change ourselves.

Taking back our lives to the principles and values that will enable us to be truly free is not going to happen with the help of government… a society where apathy is expected to be rewarded cannot possibly hope to progress and prosper.

One person, one house, then one community at a time, we can return our nation to the virtues it was founded upon.”

I repeat, we can’t hope to change the future until we first change ourselves because those in power don’t seize it, we put them there.

Having age and IQ in the double digits is not as bad as it sounds, because it gives the advantage of learning what works through experience, albeit in the simplest manner possible.

One day it finally dawned on me that the universe has rules. Obey the rules, and life becomes one of blessed synchronicity. Ignore, bend, or break the rules, and the universe is going to stick it to you [and it's not a question of if, just when].

What universal rule never yields?

You can’t make an exception- and get away with it. [Which is just another way of saying you can't compromise your integrity and not expect negative consequences.]

When too many people- and thus a nation- make too many exceptions, existence is robbed of it’s true potential. And while it is possible to muddle on for a time, the laws of nature dictate that eventually you reach a tipping point. [Meaning a life- or nation- can only take so much backed up waste in the form lies and denial until it dies- OR is "cleansed out" to survive.]

Exceptions are easy to spot. It’s any area in which you try to ignore reality- and not live with honesty and integrity. Make no mistake, you can’t be selective about integrity [because laws of the universe are universal]. Integrity has to be applied across the board. Sorry, no exceptions, whatever area you try to make exceptions in, will suffer.

What does this have to do with our collective future?

It’s simple. Successes occurs when you do the right thing, and failure eventually occurs when you lie to yourself, or someone else lies to you [but you can't see the lies because you're too blinded by the delusion of wanting to get something for nothing].

Don’t get me wrong, I love America, but anyone who can see things as they are, knows we are drowning in lies, corruption, waste, fraud, and greed- and drowning for so long and in such a massive scale that there’s no way out, except for one GREAT BIG cleansing.

How will this cleansing manifest itself?

Since there’s so much we can’t see and so many countess variables, there’s no way to know.

That’s why I urge you to prepare as a person now, in advance, while there’s still time. Cleanse the waste, lies, and delusions out of your life, first. Then you’ll be able to see things as they are in reality, and take whatever steps are necessary to become beholden to nothing or no one.

I repeat, I don’t know what the future holds, but I do know this: When a majority can see what is truly best for their long term liberty and happiness, the country will follow.

The key is clarity. Clarity is a result of integrity. And the best place to start living with integrity is your health- because the results CANNOT be hidden- and it takes controlling powerful and relentlessly exploited emotions that want you to compromise your integrity.

See how that works? To succeed, you’re required to do what’s best for your future, in a world that constantly wants you to make an exception and feed your short term gratifications.

Few people ever realize this because the pressure to do the opposite is so crushing, but when you can see something as powerful and relentlessly exploited as your health choices without lie or delusion, you have the clarity to see things in life as they are and in such a way that you can plainly see what is helpful or harmful to your future.

I know it feels overwhelming, with so much to do, it’s hard to know where to begin. I repeat, get started with YOU. Apply integrity to your health, and you’ll soon discover a new level of personal freedom- and the clarity to prepare for whatever the future holds.

It’s not about how many calories are in an apple, pear, or banana.

It’s not about what’s better- free weights or kettle bells.

It’s about being enslaved or free.

It’s about seeing forces that every moment of every day want you to “make an exception” with your most precious gifts- your health and freedom- and removing them from your life.

If you want to transform your body, life, and future in more ways than you can imagine, here’s all you have to do:

Eat six to eight meals a day of natural food.

Challenge your heart or muscles once a day.

That’s it.

If you want to look and feel half you age… if you want those “six pack abs” or that “flat sexy tummy…” it’s not the specific diet or workout that’s going to transform you- any sensible one will work fine.

That because any natural foods will improve your health, any challenging activity will burn fat. It’s not a question of do I eat apples, grapes, or bananas… it’s not a question of should I run, swim, or use a treadmill…

It’s a question of being the one in control of the powerful and relentlessly exploited emotions that govern how your body is treated.

It’s the “seeing” of what you’re beholden to- and setting yourself free from it. Regardless of what it is.

If you can’t go for a walk because the TV is on, you don’t own that TV. It owns you.

If you can’t give up junk or processed foods, they own you as well.

See why the changes you’ll see in the mirror are the least significant ones that happen? Sure they will say “I eat right and get some exercise.” That’s obvious. Here’s what they’re really going to say:

I’m the one in control of my life. Everyday I face down countless businesses that want me to make an exception, that tempt me in every way possible, that place barriers to my best body and life everywhere I go…

And I tell them no.

I tell them you can’t have your way with me anymore. I tell them my body, life, and future are too important…

And I’m taking them back.

It all comes down to the countless small decisions you make everyday- starting with breakfast. Will it be what you’re designed to eat [natural food] or what someone with an agenda wants you to eat [manufactured food]?

Will you do what you were designed to do [challenge yourself physically] or what someone with an agenda wants you to do [watch TV or play on the computer so they can sell you something]?

Your body is so amazing and resilient that if you just remove the agendas and what you’ve become beholden to, it will heal and repair itself on auto-pilot in the background.

It just can’t do it without your help.

A body and life to be proud of… or excuses.

Doing what’s best for your future… or beholden to what everyone wants to sell.

It’s your choice.

To your health and success, and may God bless,

Michael

New Body New Life Home Page