When it’s time to take your fat loss to the next level you need to skyrocket your motivation in order to help you overcome any obstacles, challenges or setbacks that you may face along the way. If you have been following my current body transformation and mission to lose fat and gain muscle, you already know that this has been a very amazing experience for me where it has felt effortless for me to put forth great effort. I still feel this way after 35 days, but I know that I can dig even deeper and find even greater motivation that will drive me toward achieving my very best.

I have been incredibly happy with my fat loss progress and muscle gains during the first 35 days, especially considering all the junk food that I have indulged in, including the 8 slices of pizza, chips, cookies, kielbasa, and boxed cereal that I ate this weekend.

Despite being far from perfect, here is what I look like after 35 days of my body transformation journey…

We have all said it before, “I’m finally ready to make a change and whip my body into much better shape”. It all sounds good, but just a day or two later you end up right back to your old bad habits. This has certainly happened to me. I went into some detail about this in the Transformation Fascination report about how I went through this same drill for six to seven months, reliving the same scenario, just like the movie ground hog day. My workouts were great and I was gaining some muscle, but my nutrition was far from up to par, which resulted in some fat gain.

But 4 weeks ago this all changed. Frankly, it changed in an instant. This has completely intrigued me and has sent me into deep thought and reflection as to how this instantaneous mental shift took place.

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If you aren’t getting 7 to 9 hours of QUALITY sleep each night and you are stressed out, it will be extremely difficult to lose fat and gain muscle no matter how hard you workout or how great your diet is.

When I analyze my personal training clients fat loss journals and pick apart why they are not experiencing the fat loss results that they were hoping for, many times it boils down to lack of quality sleep and they are not managing their stress very well.

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Are you ready for an update from my body transformation? It’s been 21 days of my Transformation Fascination journey and the results have been pretty awesome, especially considering all the junk I’ve eaten, having been away on vacation, and going out to a party and getting very tipsy off of wine. But, you be the judge of my results…

Well, do you see some progress there? Can you believe that I achieved those results without counting calories and eating all this junk…

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Since the age of 14 I have been completely fascinated with our ability to totally transform our body. This fascination is now at an all time high, igniting a fire within me to take my own personal body and life transformation to the next level. In the process it is my hope that you will also become fascinated with the human body and experience a fire lit under your butt to embark on your own personal transformation.

The Transformation Fascination report is a growing documentation of my ongoing body transformation. Within this report you will see exactly what I eat and what workout I’m following. You will see daily pictures of my progress to see how my actions are impacting my physique. You will also hear my deepest thoughts about my progress, my body, and how it’s impacting my life.

My plan is to ease into this transformation. I’m not doing anything extreme. I’m not following any particular diet plan and I’m not counting calories. I will have a relaxed approach in the beginning and as I build momentum I will tighten things up.

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My goal this week has been to consume more vegetables each day. There have been 3 vegetables in particular that I have consumed a lot of, simply because I know how healthy they are for me. But it wasn’t until I read an article from my friend Mike Geary, that I realized that these vegetables play a powerful role in your ability to burn stomach fat. Here’s the belly fat burning article that I’m referring to…

3 Vegetables That Fight Abdominal Fat

A unique way that a few specific vegetables can actually stimulate the burning of abdominal fat…

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Have you ever fallen victim to misleading advertising for a fat loss or muscle building product? I know that I have. I’ve spent my hard earned money on muscle building powders as a young ‘hard gainer’, because of the claims that I read in the fitness magazines. All they did was make me fat and broke. I spent my hard earned money on fat burners when I was young and naive, hoping to get the beach body that was displayed across the billboards.

Although I am a fitness professional, I’m still a customer just like you. I’ve been persuaded to buy fat loss crap, because the marketing angle was so convincing. Now I can laugh at the crazy infomercials that I see at night, because I am well aware of the marketing tricks that they are using in their advertising. They pay really buff models to demonstrate their equipment, pill, or workout, leading you to believe it was their gadget or gizmo that made these people look the way they do. Some companies will even get a big name doctor to stand behind their product, making it look even more credible, when it’s really useless and sometimes harmful.

It’s upsetting for me to see an industry that I am so passionate about, become so consumed with greed, while throwing all ethics out the window for the sake of the almighty dollar.

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We just returned from a fun and active family vacation to the Kalahari Resort in Sandusky Ohio. During this trip, the most common phrases uttered from our friends were, “Check out Angie’s abs!” Upon returning home and uploading some of our pictures to Facebook for our friends and family to see, the comments began to roll in… “Holy Abs Angie!” “Great Abs Girl!”

Of course, the most frequently asked question has been, “How did Angie get those amazing abs?”

Contrary to what some people may think, it’s not a result of amazing genetics. Like me, Angie gets rather offended when that comment is ever brought up, because it down plays the effort that we put into transforming our physiques. We get fat just as easy as anyone else. There have certainly been times throughout our life where we proved the case.

Since Angie’s abs have been the topic of discussion I thought it would be appropriate to share some of the key factors in how Angie maintains a sexy six pack…

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Before I dive into this topic, I must make it clear that I am by no means an expert in dealing with menopause and I do not have any formal education on the subject matter. However, I do have 12 years of experience as a Certified Fitness Consultant, where 90% of my clients have been women who are either experiencing symptoms of premenopause or were currently going through menopause.

All of these amazing women had the exact same concern and fear about the “inevitable” weight gain that was about to unleash itself on them. These thoughts and concerns would dominate their conversations. It was amazing to hear their stories about how their lifestyle had changed since these thoughts had taken over their life. Many of them began to eat unhealthy foods that they rarely ever ate before. It’s as if, since they believed it was inevitable that they would gain weight, they gave in and decided that they may as well eat junk.

So the very first exercise that I had all of these clients do, was to

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If I had one wish for you, it would be that you discover the joy in your body transformation journey. Fitness is meant to be fun. Stepping outside of your comfort zone, testing your limits, and tapping into your true potential should be incredibly exciting for you. Embracing this journey and finding happiness in this body transformation process, will create a positive environment within your body, to burn fat and build muscle.

On the other hand, if you’re stressed out and overwhelmed with all the details that are required to transform your body, you will create an internal environment that makes it extremely difficult to burn fat or gain muscle.

It’s for these reasons that I have decided to make today’s article all about my top strategies for reducing stress and putting it in an optimal state for an amazing body transformation.

7 Tips To Reduce Stress

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