Melinda F 
"I want jaw dropping beautiful muscle with vascularity that makes me salivate at just the thought. I will have it--I will love it--and I will totally enjoy every minute of making this delicious body know exactly who is in control."
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Archive for July, 2008
Monday, July 28th, 2008
What is it that you really want in your life? Money? Status? Success? A Prosperous Business? A Loving Relationship? Now let me ask you a super blunt question: Why don’t you have it yet? A few months ago I attended a seminar. One of the speakers began his presentation with what I initially considered a very confrontational remark. He paused very dramatically and bellowed… "What lies do you keep telling yourself?" Although the room fell deafly silent, we all knew that his question truly touched a nerve. That question has echoed in the hollows of my mind ever since. "What lies do you keep telling yourself?" "You’re calling me a liar?" "All the lies?" "How much time do you have?" "That’s not a lie, that’s the truth!" The responses that were firing up to that question were racing through my mind at the speed of light. In Life We Can Have Results or Reasons. If you are not getting the results you want, your reasons are the lies that you keep telling yourself. You can try to argue with that statement but its kind of like wrestling with the wind, it will keep you real busy but you really won’t get anywhere. Lies create the idea that we are powerless to make things any different than the way they are. I hate to admit it but we are all liars. We love our reasons and will go to extreme lengths to hold onto them. After all, our reasons are our stories, which define us. Those experiences "made us who we are today!" It’s just the way things are…….. Results or reasons. Which do you have more of? If you answered reasons, its time to analyze the lies. I speak from experience. I spent the first thirty years of my life studying what I should believe in. Studied all the great reasons. Read all the great philosophers, not once did anybody ask me….."What is it that you want to experience with all these ideas?" So I got a little top heavy on reasons and a little short on results. The problem with having so many reasons is that eventually these reasons create a logic of limitations. They are like a virus that creates "a story" that runs in the background of your minds hard drive. Whenever we see something that we want to create, the first thing we bump into is these beliefs (reasons) that have shaped our experience thus far. And so the battle ensues. Possibilities vs. Limitations. The Grudge Match. Its like a counterproductive stealth message has been implanted in your mind, "You never seem to really win at anything, so don’t expect much here!" This message brought to you by your sponsor, "limiting lives is what we do!" We all search for meaning in life. However sometimes life is meaningless. It just "is." The critical moments that shape our lives are when we define our experience and declare…."what this means is (fill in the blank)." If the statement that we make at this crucial moment, in filling in the blank, even mildly disempowers us, we empower the logic of limitations to control our perspective from that moment forward. Don’t believe me? Here are some famous examples for you to try on for size: Oprah Winfrey was fired from one of her first jobs as a television reporter and told that "She wasn’t fit for TV." How do you think she defined that moment? After his first performance on the Grand Ole Opry, Elvis Presley was banned from returning and told, "You ain’t going nowhere son!" At that crucial moment do you think the King of Rock created a message of possibility or limitation? Life just is. Sometimes when we look for meaning we might want to remember that. What’s your story? Have you ever been fired, rejected, heartbroken, mistreated, insulted? How did you define the moment? I only ask, because that agreement has shaped your reality. Be Careful What You Agree With! The Results Can Be Lethal. Now what did you say you really wanted in your life? Listen carefully and you’ll hear those reasons whispering their logic of limitations! It’s no big deal if you hear the "stories" from time to time. The question is what are you going to do about it? Mark Twain once commented that "life does not consist, mainly or even largely of facts or happenings. It consists mainly of the stream of thought forever flowing through ones head." Our REASONS create our definitions and create the energy of our life. Change our definitions and you change your experience. Change your meanings you alter your destiny. Life does not give us what we want. Life gives us whatever we expect. Life just is. The meaning that we attach to the events of our life defines our experience and creates the thoughts that allow us to create abundance or limitation. When I was a kid I absolutely loved to read the cartoons and comics in the back of the newspaper. They made me laugh with glee. Now those cartoons were essentially a picture being defined by a clever or witty caption. One day I got the bright idea that I was going to change the captions on those cartoons and see if I could make them funnier. Isn’t life the same way? Your pictures are your experiences. Your captions are your beliefs. Do you have the courage to change your own captions? It’s your life after all. The only limitation we possess is the idea that there are limitations. Did you write your own captions or did you allow someone else to write them for you? We all have a huge investment in what we have come to know. However, sometimes what we know has nothing to do with what we need to know to be successful. Sometimes what we know has nothing to do with what we need to know to be happy! To change all of that you need to locate your limiting beliefs and say goodbye to them. Change the captions of your life. Reasons or Results. Marilyn Voss Savant writes a weekly column for Parade magazine. She is acclaimed as the person with the highest IQ on record. When she was asked by one of her readers about life, she responded with ""Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do!" True poetry. To that I would simply add, be careful what you agree with it’ll mess up your focus. Consider this for a second: How many beliefs were you born with? How many beliefs do you have today? Along the way you have acquired a lot of baggage that is weighing you down. The problem most of us run into is that we believe in things that are "just not so", but we lead our lives in alignment with those lousy definitions and experiences to make them "so." It might be BELIEF-ECTOMY time. One of the central tenets of the personal development movement is that we become whatever we focus upon most. Fifty years ago Earl Nightingale published his bestseller "The Strangest Secret" and made us realize that our focus creates our destiny. Web poet, adventurer and philosopher Mike Dooley of www.tut.com has eloquently modernized and improved upon this statement when he states, "Thoughts Become Things. Choose the Good Ones!" Most people don’t get what they really want because their focus is fuzzy at best. Do you really know what you are focused on? Before you answer that question too quickly recognize that your focus has been responsible for creating your life up until this point. Your agreements shape your reality…. so be careful what you agree with. So what is it that you really want? My advice is simple. Be Careful What You Agree With and Then Focus, Focus, Refocus and Refocus some more. And when you think you are through focusing, focus again. You wouldn’t drive to your destination fixated on the rear view mirror! Reasons or Results. Be Realistic: Create A Miracle!
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20.00 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, “Who would like this $20 bill?” Hands started going up.
He said, “I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this.” He proceeded to crumple the $20 dollar bill up. He then asked, “Who still wants it?” Still the hands were up in the air. “Well”, he replied, “What if I do this?” And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. “Now who still wants it?” Still the hands went into the air. “My friends, we have all learned a very valuable lesson”, he said, “No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20.
Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value. Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless…. and especially to those who love you.
The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or whom we know, but by WHO WE ARE.
“You are special - Don’t EVER forget it.”
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
1. Don’t think of problems as difficulties. Think of them as opportunities for action.
2. After you’ve done your best to deal with a situation, avoid speculating about the outcome. Forget it and go onto the next thing.
3. Keep busy. Keep the 24 hours of your day filled with these three ingredients: work, recreation, and sleep. Don’t allow yourself time for abstract thinking.
4. Don’t concern yourself with things you can’t do anything about. Armchair generals don’t win battles, but they do have nervous breakdowns. 5. For the time being anyway, eliminate daydreaming completely. Stop building air castles.6. Don’t procrastinate. Putting off an unpleasant task until tomorrow simply gives you more time for your imagination to make a mountain out a possible molehill. More time for anxiety to sap your self-confidence.
7. Don’t pour woes and anxieties to other people. You don’t want their sympathy - it’ll merely make it easy for you to feel sorrier for yourself.
8. Get up as soon as you wake up. If you lie in bed, you may use up as much nervous energy living your day in advance as you would in actual accomplishment of the day’s work.
9. Try to arrange your schedule so that you will not have to hurry. Hurry, a blood brother to worry, helps shatter poise and self-confidence, and contributes to fear and anxiety.
10. If a project seems too big, break it up into simple steps of action. Then negotiate those steps-link rungs in a ladder…one at a time. And don’t allow yourself to think about the difficulties of step number two until you’ve executed step number one.
What were you worried about this time last year?
Can’t remember?
I have your dad in my prayers–promise to stay smiling….
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
 Never stop believing in yourself.
When others doubt, don’t you.
Do what you love to do,
No one knows better than you.
Life is too short to live others’ dreams
Follow your own dream
Push yourself to reach your goals
And live the life you once dreamed.
Trust your instincts.
Be true to yourself.
You know what is right for you.
Never give up or give in.
Forget the words “I don’t know how”.
You can learn,
You can research,
You can do.
Your mind is powerful.
When you believe you can.
You will find a way
You won’t waste a day.
Persist and persevere
Do not fear
Because if you believe in you
You will find dreams can come true.
May all your dreams turn into goals,
Believe in yourself.
And remember, all of life is a choice.
The decision is up to you.
Wonderful blessed day to all–may this week bring you much inspiration and motivation to live your very best life…
Follow your bliss and the Universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.(Joseph Cambell(1904-1987)
So you –doors will open for us..
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Everyone wants success, and yet they often
don’t know when they have it.
For most, it is the maddening chase toward a better
way of life or more of something.
More fame, power, recognition, money, or material stuff.For some, it is the understanding of a loving partner, the love of their child, or the people that they can count on when life throws them a curve.
I am coming to believe that success is not more material wealth, but peace, happiness, contentment, and love.
Most of all love.
Real success is not to be sought after in the outer world, but discovered in your inner world. I am not condemning the stuff of life. We all want the things that life offers.
But we don’t need as much as we think we do.
Sooner or later you will discover that real success is friends, strangers,
and anyone who crosses our path.
It is kindness shared, support given and received, listening,
giving, and caring.
These will endure while your car rusts, your toys break, and you tire of the temporary gratifications that bring you what you think is real.
What matters is people.
What lasts is love.
What counts are true friends, and if you treasure these
you can count yourself a success.
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
The people that really succeed in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive.
The great opportunity in your life is where you are right now.
Properly perceived, every situation becomes an opportunity for you.
Your destiny is not a matter of chance, it’s a matter of your choice.
It’s not something you wait for, but rather something you achieve with effort.
Things won’t turn up in this world until you turn them up.
You develop opportunity by applying persistence to your possibilities.
Opportunity is all around you.
Look for it, and you will find it.
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit. All the other frogs gathered around the pit. When they saw how deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as dead. The two frogs ignored the comments and tried to jump up out of the pit with all of their might. The other frogs kept telling them to stop, that they were as good as dead. Finally, one of the frogs took heed to what the other frogs were saying and gave up He fell down and died. The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again, the crowd of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and just die. He jumped even harder and finally made it out. When he got out, the other frogs said, “Did you not hear us?” The frog explained to them that he was deaf. He thought they were encouraging him the entire time.
This story teaches two lessons:
1. There is power of life and death in the tongue. An encouraging word to someone who is down can lift them up and help them make it through the day.
2. A destructive word to someone who is down can be what it takes to kill them. Be careful of what you say.
Speak life to those who cross your path. The power of words….it is sometimes hard to understand that an encouraging word can go such a long way. Anyone can speak words that tend to rob another of the spirit to continue in difficult times. Special is the individual who will take the time to encourage another.
Be Special to others.
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
I think most lifters know this guy, he last competed in the Arnold Classic 1996 - I think..well thought his physique was awesome…he died twelve days after that Arnold classic and I read an article about some of the steroids he was using and thought it may help those considering the crossover…
This was his daily cycle out of contest:- ephedrine, AN , Captagon, Aspirin, Valium and Clenbuterol.
This was his cycle 6-10 weeks before competition:- 2 injects Testoviron at 250 mg, inject parabol, 30 tablets halotestin, 30 tablets metandienone, 20 IE STH, 20 IE Insulin.
Daily cycle 3-5 weeks before comp. was 2 injects masteron, 2 injects parabolan, 30 tablets halotestin, 50 tablets stromba, 2 injects stromba, insulin, 24 IE STH., 1-2 weeks before comp. it almost doubled. and he also added Aldactone and Lasix.
So I did some research..
Ephedrin…steroid derivative that raises the metabolism and burns fat. AN 1 is some kind of androgen receptor developed from rats and it helps steroids lock onto the muscle cells to stimulate growth, Captagon is a brand name oral stimulant that resembled methamphetamine, aspirin thins the blood and kills pain. Valium is a proprietry diazepam that prevents siezures and muscle spasms, Clenbuterol is an oral beta 2 sympathomimetic that acts like a steroid promoting muscle growth and increasing fat loss. It raises the body temperature increasing the effectiveness of other steroids, has a strong anti catabolic effect decreasing the rate at which protein is reduced in the muscle cells thus prolonging growth. Testoviron is apparently very popular and is a long lasting injectable steroid with strong anabolic effects less harmful to the liver. Metandienon is a variation of dianabol apparently once called the worlds biggest black market drug noted for instant muscle gain. Parabolan is a potent anabolic streroid, 3 times more effective per milligram than testosterone. Halotestin increases muscle hardness and quality without large gains. Shromba is a cutting steroid, Masteron reduces water but increases aggression and power even as calories are significantly lowered, Aldactone is a diuretic that flushes excess salt and water. Lasix does the same. Those were the drugs that gave Andy that ripped, dry dust free look.
Here the other effects - well in my eyes the important effects…
Ephedrine has been shown to raise blood pressure and cause gastrointestinal distress, malfunctioning androgen receptors have been linked to tumour growths, especially in prostate cancer. Captagon is used to treat deficit disorder and is highly addictive., aspirin in excess can detroy the stomach lining - remember reading about Dorian Yates experiencing this. Valium is addictive and depressive. Parabolan cause roid rage and kidney damage.Clenbuterols muscle gaining properties are repudiated by many bodybuilders, the eviddence for its effectiveness coming from trial wher it was used on livestock, bulking up champion bulls.Halotestin can place extreme stress on the liver, causes acne, nasal bleeding headaches, staomach pain and heightened aggression. Stromba is instantly toxic to the liver. Metandienon increases water retention, blood pressure, gynaecomastia, acne , liver damage and aggression.Masteron causes hair loss, agression, seizures, coma and death. Aldactone can disrupt kidney function, cause gastrointestinal pain and dizziness. Lasix causes dizziness, circulatory collapse, diarrhoea and fainting and severe organ strain.
So curiosity lead me here and its just sad that such a phenomenal body was robbed of a full life…side effects of steroids are so not worth it.
"Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at the nver ending thoughts that come back to you of more things to be grateful for. You have to make a start, and then the law of attraction will receive those grateful thoughts and give you more just like them. You will have locked into the frequency of gratitude and all good things will be yours."
I am truly grateful for you…
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them… That is why you pay ‘them.’
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. ‘An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.’ And the devil’s name isAlzheimer’s.
4. Enjoy the simple things.
5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it’s family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
8… Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
9. Don’t take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.
10.Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity. AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,but by the moments that take our breath away.
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Your body chemistry changes fundamentally every time you react to stress. Stress starts in the mind. We perceive a situation as requiring our immediate attention, car driving too close - hostile reaction from a colleague, financial crisis or impossible deadline. Rapid signals stimulate the adrenalin glands produce adrenalin. Within seconds your heart is pounding, the breathing changes, stores of glucose are released into the blood, the muscles tense and the blood thickens. You are ready for fight or flight, this is a representation of how much glucose is released, mainly by breaking down glycogen held in the muscles and the liver. To get fuel in to the body cells such as muscles, your pancreas release two hormones, insulin and glucagon. Insulin aided by a substance released from the liver, glucose tolerance factor, helps to carry this fuel out of the blood, glucagon tops up the blood sugar level if it gets too low. All this happens as a result of a stressful thought! You may wonder where all this extra energy and increased alertness come from, well the energy is diverted from your body’s normal repair and maintenance jobs like digesting, cleansing and rejuvenating. So every moment you spend in a stressful state you speed up your aging process. Prolonged stress is even more insidious than that - like a car driven too fast the body goes out of balance and starts to wear out. Cortisol levels rise and before longyour body cannot respond to stress like it used to. As a consequence your energy levels drop, you fall asleep after meals, cannot sleep, wake up too much, sweat too much, get headaches and in an attempt to regain control you turn to stimulants, coffee, chocolate, nicotine etc and of course it becomes increasing difficult to relax with these stimulants - the thing is that most become addicted to stress, its like they try to take holiday, head for the beach but pick up a paperback thriller at the airport and try to find other thrill seeking adventures to keep that adrenalin pumping because without this stress they come crashing down to reveal their true state of adrenalin exhaustion. This is why some people feel ill or exhausted when they take time off. All stress consumes our energy. It means that our body cells are starved of fuel nutrients like B vitamins, Vitamin C , calcium and magnesium. Research states that you double your need for vitamins when you are in a stressful state. Stress levels are directly linked to ones diet..fast releasing sugars create a state of stress in the body, stimulating the release of cortisol, so avoid eating things like white bread, sweets and breakfast cereals(processed kinds) - slow releasing carbs on the other hand provide an even keel of consistent energy. Energy nutrients important in a diet to control stress would include Vitamin B6, zinc, Vitamin B3 and chromium now available as a complex called cromium polynicotinate. Others would be Vitamins B1,B2, B3,B5, co enzyme Q, vitamin C, iron, copper, magnesium, B12 specifically is required to make adrenalin. Choline is another excellent addition that I add to my childrens diet and is an excellent addition to all lifters diets as it reduces stress levels and cortisol deposits,enhances memory funtionality ,breaks down fat in the liver and drastically improves immunity, I give it to them in the formof crushed lecithin, but you can also derive choline from eggs, soybeans, peanuts and fish — research does state that lecithin is best for its high absorption rate.
Wonderful day to all…
"See the things that you want as already yours. Know that they will come to you at need. Then let them come. Dont fret and worry about them. Dont think about your lack of them. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession."Rober Collier (1885-1950).
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