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by Chhoda Nitin, Chh

They say a picture tells a thousand words.

When it comes to quick weight loss, nothing strikes you more than a remarkable ‘before and after' transformation. It's the best way for promoters of weight loss pills and exercise gadgets to sell their products. Its a great advertisement, but the line between reality and trick photography is thin. Granted that the pictures are genuine in most cases, many are surprised to learn that the same person can look like a ‘before' and ‘after' in the same day! I don't believe in gimmicks, and would like to help you identify hype.

You are about to learn some amazing secrets that advertisers use to ‘enhance' the effects of these transformations. This strategies will help you to spot the fake ‘quick loss' schemes. The average person is not able to see these nuances, which makes it important to critically review a TV / radio ad before you decide to invest in the product / service.

TRY THIS LITTLE TEST

You can see for yourself how easy it is to make photos even taken on the same day look drastically different. As soon as you wake up go stand in front of the mirror. Stick your tummy out and slump your shoulders. Snap - there's your before picture.

Now after you take a shower and are fully awake it's time for the after photo.

Get in front of the same mirror with your hair neatly combed and stand up straight, tighten your abs, hold your shoulders back, look forward and slightly up and smile. Click, there's your after photo. Quite a change. Now throw in a tan and a little dieting with some professional photo work and you'll look like a different person.

The following features are common to all ‘before' photos. The before photo is posed and taken under conditions to make the person look grossly out of shape. Their hair is messed up. Posture is poor with shoulders slumped forward. The light used in the photo washes out any appearance of muscle tone. Most times, the subject intentionally protrudes his / her tummy out. They always have a very unhappy look on their face. The ladies have no makeup on and the gents are usually unshaven. Lastly, it looks like they just woke up.

In the ‘after' photo, the subject is make to look as appealing as possible, using make-up. Their posture is perfect and it's usually in some sort of pose. They are tanned and clean shaven. Their hair is neatly styled, and they pose in a manner to accentuate the good points and hide the bad. The background of the photo is such that it makes them look good. The lighting in the photo is perfect and set up to highlight muscle tone. The subjects pose as if they were professional models. Finally, all of them have expressions on their face as if the just won the lottery! So don't be fooled by these, and several other marketing techniques. Be an educated consumer, and make decisions based on your judgment, professional advise and sound scientific principles. Remember – the power to create a ‘before' and ‘after' picture of yourself lies inside you, not in the pages of some commercial.

"You are what you eat." Well, this statement is quite true if you do not take it literally, of course. After all, I eat cucumbers and I am not, I repeat that I am NOT, a cucumber. Really, I am not! Nor am I the chocolate covered marzipan I ate last week or the bottled water I am ingesting right now. You get the picture, right?

Figuratively speaking, "you are what you eat" means that if you make smart choices about your food and eat healthy you are well on your way to acquiring a healthy body and a smart lifestyle. Conversely, if you consume lots of fatty foods you are eating your way toward gaining weight and all the health problems that accompany obesity.

There are a few other truisms that I would like you to consider, contemplate and analyze: "you are what you think," "every action begins with a thought" and "every action has a consequence."

"You are what you think" - Regardless of how you look at the moment and how much you weigh, train your mind to think of yourself as being beautifully slim and healthfully fit. Visualize yourself inside the thin and trim body of your dreams. Focus on these thoughts and visions as hard as you can and do not ever allow yourself to be dissuaded from them. Believe what your mind is telling you and your unwavering faith will also seep into your subconscious thought processes.

To help you along this process you might want to adopt a mantra such as "I am slim and healthy" and repeat it often.

"Every action begins with a thought" - every choice we make and each deed we perform is propelled by a thought or a series of thoughts. We are consciously aware of many of these thoughts yet some of them are subconscious. In either case or whether we recognize them or not, thoughts are the driving forces that precede each and every one of our actions.

"Every action has a consequence" - each of our actions leads to an end result and a consequence. Good and positive actions lead to good and positive results while bad actions end with bad results. It never fails regardless of our intent.

Now let us combine the three truisms that we defined above and examine their application to the subject at hand: "Picture Yourself as a Lean, Slim Person."

Think of yourself as being slim and lean and believe it with all your heart. Your focus on the slim and lean you will encourage you to take actions to support being slim and lean. Actions that supports being slim and lean ultimately result in an actual and true-to-life slim and lean you.

I encourage you to focus on the picture in your mind of being slim, lean and healthy.

Stop Dieting and Struggling!

Are you fed up of battling to lose weight?

You have probably felt like this for a long time - you keep trying diets but they don't work. They're full of empty promises and disappointing results.

Let me share with you . . .

Losing weight doesn't have to be hard work, eating foods you don't enjoy and boring exercise. Restrictive diets aren't the way to successful weight loss.

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