Over the last 14 years, I have had the pleasure of working with a wide variety of people with many of them wanting to lose weight. With all of the weight loss clients that I have worked with, one or more of the 10 Rules for Permanent Weight Loss were implemented to achieve long lasting results. If you can implement just one of the 10 strategies that you will learn in this report, you will greatly improve your chances of maintaining a healthy and ideal body weight. We will go through the rules in David Letterman style starting from No. 10. So let's begin the countdown.

10) Establish your principles

It is important to approach weight loss with the correct mindset. Your mindset will help create your personal principles for achieving your goals. Your principles create the standard that governs your actions. It determines the line that you can approach but will not cross. It will be your law. You will not go to jail if you break your personal law but it may take you a bit longer to achieve your weight loss goals. This can be just as brutal as going to jail for some as self imprisonment is often times the most difficult to escape.

Principles create confidence and peace of mind. It keeps you centered in your own universe and protects you against outside influences that try to throw you off balance. Once this standard is set, maintain integrity by staying within your standard.

So how do you set your standard? It's very simple. To create a personal standard, simply make an agreement with yourself and then honor it. For example: I will eat breakfast 5 of 7 days a week. Or I will only have alcohol on the weekends. I recommend that you start small. As you become good at keeping smaller agreements you can then start to increase your personal demands. For example: I will stay within 5 to 7 pounds of my ideal bodyweight.

This skill of making and honoring agreements is simply exercising Integrity. This is a very powerful activity and I encourage you to use this exercise to help you lose weight but also in others areas of your life.

Here are some examples of principles that you can use:

• I will lose weight one pound at a time. Small and consistent steps are the key to long term success.

• I will follow the 80/20 rule. Eighty percent of my lifestyle and nutrition efforts will be directed towards my weight loss and the remaining twenty percent will not.

• I will approach my weight loss goals with a long term view. There will be ups and downs but as long as I stay on the path I will achieve my goal of permanent weight loss.

9) Prioritize your effort

Weight loss is very multidimensional as there are many reasons people gain weight. The chemical, physical, and mental aspects of weight loss must be considered.

• Chemical: there many prescription medications that directly and indirectly cause weight gain i.e. birth control, anti depressants, anti-inflammatory drugs. If you are currently on any medications, consult with your doctor about how they may affect your weight loss efforts.

• Physical: you may not be getting enough exercise or may have a physical problem that prevents you from exercising effectively. If this is the case, I recommend that you schedule a lesson with a certified Russian Kettlebell Instructor. They will take you through an exercise program that has been proven to produce dramatic fat loss.

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