This article series and video companion is designed to help you get radical results with your body transformation. It is from knowledge and experience collected from hundreds of clients. For more information on how to succeed you can contact Omar at omar_isuf@hotmail.com.

            If you don’t have a purpose, you don’t have anything. Why work out? Why even try and transform your body? Is it to look better for others, feel better about yourself, get out of the risk of a whole host of medical issues? You must be able to clarify why you are working out. The why determines everything. It is what is going to keep you motivated when the going gets tough, when that pizza is calling out your name and your stomach feels like it is on fire.

Success Tip: Figure out WHY you want to Transform

 Why am I doing this? A little bit of my background story…

At first I was intimidated by the weights and by others in the gym. I was way smaller and less experienced. I remember hanging on the pull-up bar trying to knock out one chin-up while the guy next to me was lifting three pounds on the bench. It was shaky at first, but I kept at it. Slowly I started lifting more weights, seeing progress and results with my body. Unfortunately I was not informed about nutrition. My diet during this phase can best be described as the see-food diet; if I saw it I ate it. A regular meal for me was eight eggs, three turkey sausages, three pieces of toast and a quarter block of cheese. This was one meal of about five or six. In about nine months I gained sixty pounds (I looked pregnant- but without the baby). Mentally, I believed I was all muscle. I lied to myself when I saw my double chin and gut and tried to ignore it. The shocking reality came when I came home from university for the summer…and my mother called me fat.

Success Tip: The most important thing is to list the reasons WHY you want to transform

Mine are
1. To feel better about myself
2. To reinforce self-control and discipline
3. Relate to Clients
4. Long term health benefits

My purpose for this fat loss phase is to get the leanest I’ve ever been. The reason is because I don’t feel my best unless I’m operating at peak efficiency. I like the feeling of being lean and healthy, I like the way I look, I like that I have more energy and it just gives me more satisfaction out of life. Fat loss to me is also an inward improvement; it helps curb your animal desires of food and pleasure and lets you focus on more important things in life (like your direction and purpose). I find it clarifies my mind and teaches me self discipline

Now you must ask yourself:

Success Tip: Ask, what would happen if you don’t fulfill your goals?

You see you must determine the pain behind what would happen if you fail to succeed. Sometimes we need to reinforce the outcome of NOT succeeding to remember why we should. My results are that if I don’t succeed, I wouldn’t feel good about myself, I’d feel like I let myself down and my clients. I’d not learn to improve focus and discipline and quick honestly I’d feel like crap. I can tell you from doing this before with myself and countless clients, the outcome of succeeding is far superior to any potential pain.

So now I’d tell you to make the transformation, make the choice, decide to succeed and you will!

Week 1: August 31^st 2009
Weight: 171.4

What is YOUR desire and purpose in your transformation?