Adventure is having the courage to take risks in life without the anxiety of being judged negatively or failing. If Columbus cared about his reputation, he would’ve played it safe and stuck to the theory of the flat world. And who knows when someone would have discovered the medical benefits of penicillin from bread mold. How dull life would be without adventure! 

Tollie Schmidt lived his life as the fat kid. His weight reached over 500 pounds. Losing over 300 pounds of fat, Tollie struggled with bulimia and became a personal trainer. Today, Tollie's a highly sought after International Speaker, Author, Producer and Dreamer. Today our Youth have a voice for change. 
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The "Illusion" Teen Anorexia-Eating Disorders-Depression: 
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In 1998, five breast cancer survivors and seven Princeton University women (all between the ages of twenty-two and sixty-one) climbed Alaska’s Mt. McKinley to raise money for breast cancer research. Although some of them had mountaineering experience, most didn’t—they were teachers, therapists, farmers, and tennis instructors. 


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Here I am, motionless except for the occasional deep sigh. I’m staring at the clock, watching the minutes tick by. My mom told me to count sheep. By now I have counted so many sheep that I never want to see another in my life. My brother told me to listen to my iPod. I ended up strangling myself with my headphones. My sister told me to count backward from 100. All that did was get me confused. (Read The Entire Poem and View Photo's Submitted By Talented and Passionate Teens Around The World. Also, Submit Yours Be Seen)

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Tollie Schmidt lived his life as the fat kid. His weight reached over 500 pounds. Losing over 300 pounds of fat, Tollie struggled with bulimia and became a personal trainer. Today, Tollie's a highly sought after International Speaker, Author, Producer and Dreamer. Today our Youth have a voice for change. (Empowering Greatness for a Dream-Infused Life). The "Illusion" Teen Anorexia-Eating Disorders-Depression:Tollie's Teen Empowerment Site

Men’s Fitness magazine recently asked me for 3 of my best fat loss secrets. Since most times the magazines just don’t have enough space to run my full tips, I thought I’d give you a more detailed explanation of my secrets here (plus a few extra bonus tips that I didn’t send to the magazine).

Top 5 Teen Fat Loss Tips

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Tollie Schmidt lived his life as the fat kid. His weight reached over 500 pounds. Losing over 300 pounds of fat, Tollie struggled with bulimia and became a personal trainer. Today, Tollie's a highly sought after International Speaker, Author, Producer and Dreamer. Today our Youth have a voice for change. (Empowering Greatness for a Dream-Infused Life). The "Illusion" Teen Anorexia-Eating Disorders-Depression:Tollie's Teen Empowerment Site

I have received a lot of feedback asking me to write more on actual steps to creating and achieving your dreams. So, I want to share just a couple steps which have created many of my dreams to be realized. Also, share a few of the exciting new projects and events Tollie International is launching. A simple note for teens struggling with: "depression", "eating disorders", and "body image", know you can create massive change now!

Taking your dreams from fairy tale to reality. Take action, plain and simple, most of the reasons I hear for not pursuing your dreams is due to excuses. Only you decide what you want and if you truly strive to achieve them. Many successful people really push the fact of outsourcing everything to free your time to do other activities and tasks. Many people then say they can not pursue their dreams because of a lack of money or knowledge. Today, with the Internet and wealth of resources you can teach yourself anything, and always learn and grow. No one can take away your right to education. I let the whole "lack of", illusion stop me for a long time from pursuing my dreams. What I learned over the last couple of massive growth months is this. I can do anything I dare to dream, I can create anything, and continue to grow every day.

I always used people to build my websites, create logos, create photographic artwork, take pictures etc,... I always said these are things I just can't do, I dream up the ideas and allow others to bring them into reality. Well, I couldn't afford to pay for all this stuff anymore so I had two options, quit, find a comfortable job, a comfortable life and say to myself, "I'm happy", or dream bigger. I chose to dream.

I wanted new concept art, so I started following tutorials online with photo-shop and creating simple photo's. As I used the tutorials I learned how to use photo-shop. I also, learned how much I could do, I started seeing objects and photo's in a new life. Because of this simple step of just taking action and creating I opened up even more dreams and further instilled my belief that "life is art". I saw video's and productions visualized in my head, I felt the emotions I could create for others.

I needed to create new websites, and portals to further enhance on-going support for those teens who need support and an outlet to showcase their art, passion, and share with others. I had no idea how to do this. What I knew is I could not accept a standard site like most people have created or a template. Because of the first step and creating art and visualizing the expressions I wanted to achieve I wanted to infuse "art" and production into a website. I wanted a visually stimulating and informative place for people to visit regularly for support, inspiration, and dreams. Many web designers are great at web function and style, however the "art" was not infused.

I found a template with the layout I liked and then modified the whole thing to create my vision and ideas. Yes, I made tons of mistakes, in fact I erased the whole site while out of the country after I switched over to the new platform. Now, it's back up and still has a lot of work to be done, but it's coming together and I have learned another skill which has made me dream even bigger.

So many times I hear from people that they feel at some point in their life they have to stop "dreaming" and face "reality", and that is "your choice". People will actually have the nerve to say to me "must be nice" or "not all of us are as lucky". Well luck had nothing to do with it. I just believe my life is worth all my dreams, and I can not fall into the illusion of "comfort" and try and fool myself and say "I'm happy". Sure, this is much easier, because those around you have taught you inadvertently what reality is. You can be comfortable and find a steady job, nice boyfriend or girlfriend who makes everyone around you happy and fits the mold you have always been told is your life. You can say your happy because you have decided to give up your "born right", to dream and find adventure because it makes your immediate environment around you happy and comfortable so therefor makes you happy. Or you can wake up and those amazing dreams you had while asleep can become your reality.

 

Remember this, I went from the "fat kid", to weighing over 500 pounds. I have gone through, financial troubles, massive dept, repossessions, foreclosure, lawsuits, loss, and serious criticism. Guess what there are not enough bullets in the chamber to bring me down my friends because I made the decision to dream, and be great, and serve others. I made the decision to dream of my amazing life and create those dreams and infuse them into my life. So, now tell me whats impossible, because the truth is "YOU CAN DO IT"!

 

So because I decided to dream, and create change for others I wanted to share some of the new visions we are rolling out at Tollie International.

June, 5th 2009:

www.TolliesProject.com "Tollie's Online Nutrition and Fitness Superstore" Bringing the best brands and quality at the lowest prices.

www.TollieSchmidt.com "Tollie's Personal Website" Infusing a new artistic vision with complete comprehensive FREE support for "depression", "eating disorders" and "Personal Empowerment".

www.YouTube.com/OnlyaDreamer152 "Tollie's You-Tube Video Channel". We are now a partner video channel with YouTube. Launching new support videos which are now being syndicated by YouTube worldwide to bring support for struggling teens.

June, 19th 2009

www.TollieInternational.com "Official Homepage of Tollie International" This is something you will want to see. A Jumping off point into dreams, art, music, and video infused into a corporate home site.

www.TolliesProject.org "The Hub Of Dreamers" This will be a home for our contributing authors, artists, musicians, and video support. Their personal web pages, photos, videos, artwork, contact info.

Summer 2009:

Launching of "Journey of a Dreamer"

International release of "Unbreakable" My first book completely revised and re-written from it's original rushed-released version.

European Tour: Events and promotions across Europe.

Launching of "Dream-Infused Productions" Two new shows in production along with a feature film production.

Launching of "Tollie's Dream-Infused" Clothing line. Infusing original artwork I have designed into trademark "greatness" "tribal" designs.

This is just a small glimpse of what is heading your way. I have other appearances I have been asked to do, and when the dates are confirmed we will release those on TollieSchmidt.com. Remember this, all of this is because of my passion to "Love" and "Serve" others while making the decision to be "Great" and create change. You can also, life will always have people trying to stop you and using words to discourage you. You decide the effect of these people, you decide if you are worth your amazing dreams. I was so proud of Miley last week when she addressed nasty comments about her body in a swimsuit. She didn't lash out just to protect herself. She took a stand for all teenage girls by saying "stop", so many girls struggle with body image and you "DO NOT" have the right to make them feel insecure. I sent a message to her simply saying, "Today, you decided to be great!"

 

So, for all you, today, why not decide to be great. Show love to others and you will receive all the love in the world. Dream and take action to create those dreams into your reality. Stop looking in the mirror and seeing a depressed illusion and see life as it truly is!

 

We owe ourselves and our children the opportunity to fail at things...and thus the opportunity to learn how to wildly succeed. Remember this, and dream BIG - the world needs dreamers!

© Tollie International "Creating A Dream-Infused World"® 2009

Tollie lived his life as the fat kid. His weight reached over 500 pounds. Losing over 300 pounds, today Tollie's a sought after International Speaker, Author, producer and dreamer.

Today our Youth have a voice for change. (Empowering greatness for a Dream-Infused Life).

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I have been asked what exactly it is that I do? So, I wanted to share just a glimpse of this dreamers vision.

As you probably know from my past I grew up as the fat kid, my weight consumed my life reaching over 500 pounds. So, after all this I strived to help others overcome their weight issues. I was asked to speak and become a motivational speaker on youth obesity. I was being groomed to become an International speaker on obesity. However, these mentors were great speakers and great talent managers. The problem was they never were fat, they never dealt with body image issues, deep depression, constant verbal attacks, living their life in the dark. I could not go on a stage and speak and motivate teens for change and then just leave when I knew all I did was light a fire which would burn out. I knew the fire would burn out because I personally remember the environment and illusion they are living in.

I took everyone's advice and wore the leash for a long time, just trying to "make it", however, I knew I could do so much more, and felt my purpose was to create a global change. Our culture is saturated with false rules, and pre-conceived notions of what life "is". How can you go and tell someone to love them-self when the don't even know what true love is? How do you go and motivate someone to lose weight who has already tried every "fad diet" and has failed to do it again for they further instill the word "failure" into their life?

How do you go and tell someone to dream, and then their environment tells them to take the same path as them because in the "real world" this is how it works? I can do so much more, these issues have been coined "impossible", well then crawl back in your comfort zone or box, because NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE!

My vision is a world where these issues become irrelevant, where they become non-existent. I see people living their life with passion creating their own true reality by infusing their dreams into the world creating a ripple effect. Allowing artists, musicians, actors, poets a outlet to unleash their amazing talent on the world. I see films created that show how life truly can be, while also showing how every person can create all the changes in their life when they decide they are worth only the best. I see shows showing a new side of the human spirit a true side of greatness, same as some of histories greatest visionaries.

I wish I could go into details with what we are creating and soon my dreams for everyone will be unfolding. I used to be the fat kid, however I killed the fat kid because I am something greater now. I am the guy who will accomplish my dreams and watch as walls fall. I am the guy who is taking a stand and will not falter in my vision. I live to serve and create lasting feelings to re-instill the greatest passion which, dreamers had in the past and must be reinstated as all people across this amazing global landscape move forward.

I'm an artist because life imitates art, I live with passion and anyone I am around I strive to create great feelings for them. I have created a life where I have more time to spend with loved ones, and when I have a family where I have all the time to spend and dream with them as we travel the world creating dreams for others. This was my dream, I wanted to create live events, where you felt every emotion and when you left all you felt was passion for life and saw dreams. My dream is when they left these live events we had outlets and systems set up for they could showcase and create a career for their passion which they now decided they are worth pursuing.

My dream is to create a new entertainment where you would leave inspired and filled with truth about your true character and abilities. Where you would leave and rather than go home and look in a mirror and see only flaws because you did not fit the image on screen you picked up a camera and saw life as art. Where you saw beauty in love, where you saw only possibilities and infinite creation.

My dream was through art, entertainment, programs, and books anyone struggling with weight could walk out with complete empowerment and a solid foundation and support system where they knew only success. My dream is they will look in the mirror and realize once their mind tells their body they are no longer fat they have the tools to physically transform their bodies into who they now are inside.

My dream is for people to see beauty for what it truly is. Not a physical characteristic because I have yet to meet the person who can look at a photo of Mother Teresa and say she was an ugly person. Because, when they look at her they see beauty and love and passion because she was unreasonable and made the decision that all people matter. Because of these unreasonable people a ripple effect started and love was felt.

Today these dreams are being held and carried forward. These dreams like a fire will never be snuffed out as long as a dreamer is out feeding the need. Today, we make a stand, I made the decision to be great, and only except excellence in myself. Am I unreasonable, am I outrageous at times, unpredictable, YES, and I will create passion and dreams for others because my love is carrying the truth that "All People Matter"!

Tollie...

"Empowering Greatness For A Dream-Infused Life!"

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