The 5-minute technique to shedding fat without dieting. by Alex Mensah

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Like you, thousands of other weight watchers believe that they have to strap on a diet in order to lose weight. So they get started trying to find the right diet, sometimes even spending hundreds of dollars to so called experts to give them exactly what diet plan they need to be successful.

Losing weight is not some mystical thing that can only be attained by the learned and highly educated. Weight loss can be so easy and so simple so why try and complicate it. Dropping ten pounds, twenty pounds, heck even thirty pounds doesn’t mean you have to skip out on your favorite foods or even your favorite fast foods.

You can actually lose weight just by exercising. I mean sure, on the days that you eat a little more or eat a little fatty you will have to exercise a bit more but that doesn’t mean you have to let go of foods that you like. I’ve seen some people go on diets that even farm animals will not touch with a ten-foot pole. I’ve also seen weight watchers fight themselves and be bitter towards weight loss because they were told that in order to lose weight successfully they would have to skip their favorite foods.

By exercising you can actually still eat the same great tasting foods that you love without having to worry about dieting. Now you may ask, but what if it’s hard for me to exercise, what if I find it hard to get in the mood to even exercise in the first place? Well, let me show you a simply technique that will actually trick you mind into exercising. I’ve used this technique over and over again, even this morning, to get me on my Ab machine. Like you, I also wake up dreading the thought of exercising…it’s the body’s response to physical labor. But there’s a simple way to make your body believe that exercising is easier and even want to do it. Okay, I’ve delayed it for long enough, let me tell you how to force your body to exercise.

This technique can be called the five-minute technique. I not only teach it to people wanting to lose weight but also to people in different areas of life that are trying to accomplish something that their body does not really want to do. Here’s what you do. Instead of thinking about exercising for 30 minutes or even 10 minutes tell yourself that you are only going to exercise for 5 minutes. For example, let me get on this treadmill for 5 minutes, or let me go for a quick 5-minute jog around the block. By reducing the perceived capacity of your exercise this will convince your mind to believe it is really easy, after all…its only five minutes. By the time that 5 minutes is up your body will actually get in the zone. When this happens your mind will begin to say let’s go to the next block or let me run this treadmill for just another 5 minutes. By the time you get off that treadmill or finish that jog you would have been surprised with how long you did it. Maybe you would have convinced your body to go an extra 5 minutes, maybe even an extra 10 minutes. You will find that as you keep putting this technique to work the duration of your workout will be longer each time.

The 5-minute technique is not only limited to weight loss and exercises but you can extend it to other things as well. This technique is phenomenon, I used it myself and it works great. Maybe, you can even use it to get your kids to clean their rooms. The possibilities are endless.

About the Author

Author Resource: Zeze Mensah is a health and a weight loss researcher for http://www.weightsmasher.com/loseweight.html. He writes about top Weight Loss Programs and shares his knowledge at http://www.weightsmasher.com/loseweight.html where he coaches others to successfully lose weight.




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