Tiffiny Hall - Weightloss Warrior: How To Win The Battle Within

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weightloss

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HOW TO WIN THE BATTLE WITHIN

tiffiny hall

Published in 2011 by Hardie Grant Books

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Copyright text Tiffiny Hall 2011
Copyright food photography Mark Roper 2011
Copyright photography of TIffiny Hall Peter Collie 2011
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Weightloss Warrior: How to win the battle within
ISBN 978 1 74270 134 9

Design by Tanya De Silva
Photographs of Tiffiny Hall by Peter Collie
Food photography by Mark Roper
Styling by Georgia Young
Food by Michele Curtis, Lucinda Macdougall and Peta Gray
Colour reproduction by Splitting Image Colour Studio
Printed and bound in China by C&C Offset Printing

With thanks to Market Import, Safari Living, Carina Sherlock

Contents

Welcome,
Weightloss Warriors,
to my dojang!

Train the mind and the
mind will train the body

Lasting weight loss is not really about weight loss at all; its about health. The healthier you are, the better you will lookand the happier you will feel!

Health, like martial arts, is about the balance of four elements: earth (nutrition), wind (movement), fire (metabolism and muscle) and water (fluidity of mind and body). The first thing anyone who joins my warrior tribe learns is the importance of healthy thinking. Warriors are not forged in battle but created in the mind. Train the mind and the mind will train the body. If you only exercise the body, weight loss will be temporary, but if you exercise and retrain your mindset, you will ultimately find it impossible to put on weight.

As a warrior, you must live a life of passion and have respect for your mind and spirit, as well as your body, just as you have respect for other people. Wherever you go, go as a warrior. I am a warrior in the dojang, a warrior at home, a workday warrior, weekend warrior and a ruthless warrior in pursuit of love and happiness.

You must first believe you are a strong, powerful warrior before you can live as one. Your ultimate goal is not to wear a black belt around your waist, but to have one encircling your mind, which will be your strongest self-defence against bad habits and destructive energy.

When I lived with my Biggest Loser family they were shocked to discover that the journey of physical transformation begins with mental renovation. Negative thoughts and beliefs are emotional baggage weighing you down. They must be dismantled and rebuilt into modern mantras that empower you to think healthy. If you think toxic then pernicious thoughts will harm your choices, actions, reactions and life habits. You cant win a weight-loss battle with a defeated mind.

Both taekwondo and weight loss require the power of positive thinking: the more you practise mental training, the better at both you become. Youve already started by picking up this bookin your hands you hold the keys to my dojang. Turn the page and prepare to enter the Gym of Life! From white through to black belt, one ninja move at a time, Im here to help you renew your mind, refresh your energy and reinvigorate your whole person to become your own best warrior: primed to win the battle within.

The world needs
warriors

Being a Weightloss Warrior is about learning how to react, controlling your reaction to food choices, as well as to emotional turmoil, stress and activity. Today more than ever we are constantly assailed by toxic food, toxic people and toxic environments.

Weightloss warriors empower themselves through quality choices and dont guilt themselves into binge exercising or extreme fasting. A weightloss warrioras opposed to a fitness soldierunderstands the personal journey they are on towards a healthy body and mind. A warrior makes conscious choicesunderstanding how each will affect their metabolism, their hormones and their happiness. They dont beat themselves up over stray kilos or unrealistic goals and they never exercise out of guilt or shame themselves into deprivation. And they certainly dont mindlessly follow a fad diet, someone elses gruelling training regime, or allow others to dictate a course of action without listening to their own body!

I live by the ancient philosophy of hard training, easy combat. Like challenging yourself in the dojang: genuinely taking on your emotional enemies while training means the mind is prepared for the challenge of combat, and everything in life becomes easier. The battle is over before its begun. And you are the winner!

But the only one who can unleash this awesome inner warrior is you (with a little of my help, of course!). No one is born a warrior; instead, you become one through small private victories that eventually lead to overcoming great challenges.

WARRIOR WEAPONS

Health is your armour: Physical and mental health, as well as emotional fitness, will protect the warrior on their weightloss journey.

Your tribe is your support network: The warriors greatest asset is their tribeyour family and friends. You must support them in order to be supported by them. A healthy YOU is a healthy family; a healthy community means healthier choices for the healthiest planet.

Passion is your weapon: Find your passion; then live for it. Your passion should be your compass that navigates your journey through life. It is your purpose and will protect you against all enemies, all defeats and all challenges.