Look Like A Million Bucks!

I recently stumbled across a “diet” book with a rather interesting premise: the same characteristics that help people achieve financial goals also help them reach weight goals. The book is How the Rich Get Thin by Jana Klauer, MD. She has many tips and techniques that she includes in her book, along with the diet plan which is based on five “non-negotiables:” exercise daily; include protein in every meal; add calcium to your diet to boost your metabolism; conquer your food cravings; and eliminate all processed food. I’ve separately addressed each of these topics in the past, but the overall concept of this book is one that I find compelling.

How do the “Park Avenue princesses,” as they’ve been called, actually get those great bodies? Of course not all “rich people” are thin, but for those who are, there is a common thread: they treat their health goals the same way they treat other goals in their lives, with purpose and passion. They are motivated and driven. They schedule their exercise sessions as they would any other extremely important “meetings.” They eat the right foods, in the same way as they put the appropriate fuel in their sports cars. They see themselves as the people whom they want to be: achievers. With regard to their health and appearance, they see themselves as people who are healthy and fit, and so they live each day as do people who are healthy and fit.

Of course, we are comparing the techniques for achieving health goals to those needed to achieve career success and wealth, but in fact the same tools and techniques can be applied to anyone at any place in their lives. And all people who have achieved success in their healthy lifestyles have had to implement these techniques in one form or another: schedule your daily workouts; eat real food, as I like to call it, or in other words non-processed, whole foods; set goals for your weight and your fitness. Plan how to achieve a healthy lifestyle, and then actually do it. Treat your body as though it is worth millions of dollars... in truth it is priceless!