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How to Choose a Personal Trainer

Getting Started, Healthy Fitness, Motivation 3 Responses »

Dec 212011

How is your week going so far? While I am sure you’re busy running around before the holidays with all the parties, shopping, and spending time with loved ones, I bet you are starting to think about ringing in the New Year as well. Have you decided on any resolutions yet?

Are you up for a challenge? (Directions at bottom of post)

A common New Year’s Resolution is getting to the gym more to workout. That is half the battle! But how do you make the most of your workout time at the gym?

There is no sense in wasting your valuable time if it isn’t going to help you lose weight, get toned, or just get healthy, is there? So, how do you make sure you are doing the exercises that will help you best reach your goals?

In order to get a customizable workout that takes into account your current health status and body shape, it is best to hire a personal trainer. They can run from $30+ per session, but most gyms offer a free session for just joining the gym. If you haven’t taken advantage of your free session yet, I highly recommend you start off the new year with a personal trainer.

Why would you want to work with a Personal Trainer?

They can help you meet a goal such as lose weight, run a 5k, or get you in shape for sports.
They can customize a workout for those with special health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, injuries, or women who are pregnant.
They can help you determine your current fitness status and help you improve it!

How do you choose a Personal Trainer?

Look for one with a Personal Training Certification from organizations such as ACSM, ACE, NASM, or NSCA.
Choose one with the specialization for your current health condition (i.e. pregnancy, postpartum, injury, heart disease, etc.)
Determine how many years of experience they have and any experience in your specific condition.
Make sure they have liability insurance just in case something happens while you are on their watch.
Determine the location you would like to work out at such as a gym, in-home, health center, weight loss clinic, etc.
See if the Personal Trainer has a trial session to make sure your PT is a good fit and will best help you! Remember, it is all about you getting the help you need to reach your goals.
A great Personal Trainer will devise a customizable workout plan, will help you evaluate your progress, gives you direct answers and in terminology you can understand, is a good teacher, is patient, and is someone who cares about helping you reach your goals.

The key is finding someone who fits well with you and your goals.

As you get ready for the New Year, decide on your resolutions and make sure they are doable. There is no sense in making resolutions that are too hard to reach. Make your goals short term and reachable.

For example, if you think you need to lose 50 pounds. Don’t make your goal ‘I will lose 50 pounds by March’. That is a big goal to reach and if you don’t reach it, you may become discouraged. Instead, make your goal I will lose 10 pounds in the next 6 weeks. This goal is smaller and easier to achieve. Once you achieve this goal, you will be more motivated to stick with your program and keep working your way to those 50 pounds.

New Year’s Resolution Motivation Tip: Start with small goals!

Ready for that challenge?

Let’s help each other stick to our New Goals for 2012! It’s easier to do things together than alone!

To your healthy & fit life,

P.S. If you have a question about fitness or a starting a ‘get in shape plan’, and would like to see your question answered on this blog, send your question to Amber or contact Amber on Facebook, Google+, or Twitter!

How to have Fun while Losing Weight

Tips & Tools, Weight Loss 3 Responses »

Apr 062011

Have you ever tried to lose weight but couldn’t stick with it because it was too dang boring? There are more diets and weight loss plans out there than every before.

However, there is a great majority of them that limit what you can eat or make working out so hard who the heck is going to stick with it for longer than a few weeks or even a few days?

With almost ¾ of the American population overweight or obese, and the majority of these Americans trying to lose weight, it is no wonder that practically every week there is some new “hot” diet or weight loss product to his the market.

The weight loss industry is HUGE! There is one problem: Americans are still getting fatter. These products and diets are not helping American’s lose weight and keep it off! They are setting everyone up for yo-yo dieting and not for lasting healthy results.

So, should you give up on losing the weight altogether? Absolutely not! It is important to learn what you must do to live a lifetime of health!

Are you currently looking to lose weight and be able to keep it off, but don’t know where to start? Here is a list I have put together to help you determine the best strategies for keeping you motivated and enjoying your new healthy life!

Try Something New

The key to having fun while getting healthy and losing weight is to try something new. Have you tried that new workout class at the gym? What about joining a sports league in your community? Have you considered experimenting in the kitchen with whole foods?

By trying something new, you are opening yourself up for a healthy and enjoyable life. Losing weight and getting healthy does not have to be boring. Health food does not have to be gross. Experiment! By trying different things, you will find areas of healthy living that you didn’t realize you enjoyed so much. When you find something you do like and have fun doing, you will be more motivated to stay healthy! You never know if that new workout class will be your favorite thing to do during the day!

Meet New Friends

There is nothing better than getting social and meeting new people. You can learn so many things from people and they can help keep you motivated. Some of the people I have met at the gym have proven to be the best motivators and encouragers. They have also shared some great tips that have helped me take the next step to getting healthier!

Get Support

In addition to meeting new friends, look around you at the people you are surrounded by on a daily basis. In order to best reach your goals, it is important to get support. Find a friend that will help keep you motivated and on track to reaching your goals. It is so easy to get distracted and make excuses, but if you have a friend to hold you accountable, it is very difficult to not reach your health or weight loss goals.

Have you ever tried using a friend as a gym buddy? This will help both of you stay accountable by working out together. Who wants to let your friend down by skipping out on a workout?

The best support and motivator is a weight loss community! They have so many resources and tools and people working to help each other be successful!

Support a Good Cause

Whenever we are working toward our goals, it is always a great thing to be able to give back to the community or to a great cause. Look for community activities such as a run/walk that will keep you motivated to train for and will support a great cause.

Set and Track Goals

There is no successful person who has not set goals. You have to know where you want to be in order to get there. How much weight do you want to lose? When will you lose it by? Write it down and keep it somewhere you will see it often.

Meal, Fitness, and Progress Trackers

Trackers are great for keeping you honest about carrying out your action plan that will lead to your ultimate weight loss. This way you can look back and see how you are doing and how you can improve in order to reach your goals.

BMI and Metabolism Calculators

Calculators are great tools to determine where you stand and what you must do in order to reach your ultimate health. A BMI calculator gives a general guideline of what your goal weight should be to decrease your risk for chronic diseases.

Metabolism calculators are great for helping you determine about how many calories you burn during the day which can help you determine how many calories you should be eating during the day in order to lose weight! Remember that 3,000 calories equals 1 pound.

Reward Yourself

When you have been great at working so hard toward your goals, it is important to reward yourself for being successful when you hit certain mile markers. However, this does not mean reward yourself with food which would derail your weight loss goals. This means setting up rewards such as a new book, clothes, or a massage. What will be your reward for reaching your goal?

Prizes

Any weight loss transformation is not complete without awesome prizes! There is no greater motivator than awesome rewards for reaching your goals.

Community

Joining a weight loss community is probably the most beneficial way you can reach your weight loss goals. It provides the weight loss support, prizes, trackers, planners, weekly success calls, recipes, weight loss success products, and fun times that will help you become successful!

Look for a community with a great cause you can support while you are reaching your goals!

To your health, life, and prosperity,

How to be Successful: Lessons I learned from Sports!

Motivation, Tips & Tools, Work from Home 2 Responses »

Jan 272011

Sports have always been a big part of my life. I grew up being involved with everything from dance and gymnastics to softball, basketball, volleyball, and even golf. There is not a better feeling than being a part of a team and working with other people to reach a goal: win!

Although I have grown up since then and the availability of sports teams to be a part of has diminished, my love for playing the game has not changed and the lessons I learned will stick with me for the rest of my life.

How to be Successful: Lessons from Sports

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This past week I was thinking back over my glory days of being MVP or making All-Tournament Team to those days without awards where it was just fun to get out there and play! I truly miss being a part of a team and playing a game that I love.

However, through this reflection back on playing sports, I noticed all the lessons I learned that prepared me for success in life. These lessons are what allowed me to get where I am today.

5 Strategies to be Success in Sports & 5 Strategies to be Successful in Life

After pondering these lessons for a little while, I came up the top 5 success strategies that I learned from sports that can help you achieve your goals in life. Whether your goals are for business success, weight loss success, or success with just plain living a healthy life, they can be achieved. Here are the 5 I came up with as the most important for success followed by how you can translate all this sports talk into your personal success in life and in health.

Planning is First Key to Success in Sports

First, anyone who has ever been successful has had to plan for their success. In basketball we would plan by coming up with plays and various strategies that would allow us to beat our opponents. In dance or gymnastics there was always a routine to plan. Softball planning didn’t necessarily include plays or routines, but it did take strategic planning for the pitchers and what type of pitch they would throw in certain situations in order to be effective.

Planning is not limited to plays or routines or pitching lineups, but also involves having the right gear, the top players, and time to practice. Planning also requires setting goals and determining a plan of action for the team which usually revolved around being at practices and games, giving 100%, sportsmanship, etc.

Without the goals understood by all involved, it would make for lots of confusion when it came time to execute the plan. No one would know what needed to be done in order for the team to succeed. There would be no direction. For any dream of success, there must be direction! It is vital to have a vision, some goals, and a plan of action.

Picture Your Success in Sports

The importance of visualization in sports can sometimes be overlooked. It usually is not the first thing one thinks of when determining how to be successful.

However, in basketball what will every player tell you about the key to making the perfect shot? They will say you must visualize the motions in your head of how to execute effectively because when you do get the ball, your body knows exactly what to do to make that winning basketball shot! Imagine being at the free throw line. When a player is in this high pressure situation, they are taking a few seconds there to take a breath and visualize the basketball going through that net.

Swoosh!

Underestimate the vital component of effective visualization in your road to success, and you may find you have an air ball!

What about in the sport of golf? Getting that hole in one involves setting up your position to the side of the ball perfectly, lining up your club perfectly, checking out the hole, visualizing how that little white ball will get from in front of you to that hole, and then following through with all those motions you just visualized.

Softball or baseball is the same concept. When I would play shortstop, while the pitcher was getting ready to throw her pitch, I would be visualizing what I would do if they ball were coming right for me. I would be thinking about that awesome back handed dive I would make to win the game or if it was a ground ball, how I would scoop it up and in one fluid motion I would throw out that gal on first!

When you are batting, you are thinking about that ball coming right over the plate and the motions your hands on the bat would take in order to make contact to for an amazing hit. No matter which position in this sport that you play, there are thousands of things to visualize being successful.

Believe in Yourself in Sports

Behind planning and picturing success comes the importance of believing in yourself. There is nothing worse than playing on a team with someone who thinks they are a terrible player! When someone has no confidence in themselves, they are more likely to play terrible.

In basketball, negative thinking about your skills translates into that missed lay-up or that missed free throw that would have won the game. Having no confidence on your ability to play great will lead to that turnover or the opponent stealing that ball right out of your hands.

Negative thinking in softball doesn’t fair much better. In softball you have the embarrassing ball that rolls softly through your legs syndrome. What about the swinging at a ball in the dirt? How about missing that routine fly out to left (and hitting you on the head)? These are not always due to lack of confidence because it still happens in the major leagues. But, when you do lack the confidence for success, you will find these events occurring more frequently when you otherwise have the skill to perform effectively.

Now how about this strategy of belief playing out in golf or tennis? Ever swung at air and totally missed the ball? Well, when you are always thinking you can’t, you get can’t results!

Negative thinking about the ability to play the game you have worked so hard to develop the necessary skills to succeed in, will just lead to more embarrassing moments that are not the kind to enhance your self confidence. Lack of self-confidence may even lead people to quit because they think of themselves as a failure!

Work Hard for What YOU Want in Sports

No one reached success in life or in sports without working hard! Those major league players worked years and years to get where they are!

I heard stories of my cousin who made it to the big leagues and all the work and dedication he possessed the majority of his life to finally reach success. He would arrive early to practice and be the last one to leave. He would give 110% even when he didn’t feel like it all because he wanted to be successful and reach his goal of seeing playing time in Major League Baseball.

No matter which sport you are apart of, whether you are a dancer, gymnast, or play softball or tennis, you must work hard to be good.

I don’t know of anyone in history automatically walking out there and being the MVP without some sort of effort beforehand. All those inspirational stories of success focus on one major theme: hard work pays off!

I didn’t fully understand this during my sporting days but have sense come to realize the importance. I wish I had known then what I know now. I worked hard. I just didn’t give it my all. The difference between mediocrity and success is the dedication to work hard for what you want to achieve and never take no for an answer!

Get a Coach in Sports

The final strategy that all successful athletes know is the importance of getting a good coach. There is always a great coach behind a successful athlete.

If you are a golfer, you have a coach there training you and helping you improve your game all the time! In softball, basketball, volleyball and other team sports, there is a coach that leads the team to victory. Without a coach, there is not a support system, a cheerleader, a teacher, an encourager, a guide, or a drill sergeant that will lead the team to victory. A coach is necessary to motivate, inspire, teach, and help the team develop the skills and push them to actually achieve the goals they need to achieve.

A coach is the backbone to success. Without it, there is no one helping the athlete do everything they can to reach their goals.

No one can be successful alone. There is always a person or a team behind their success.

So, never give up and just get out there, work hard, get help, and do it!

You Reaching Success in Life

There is a point to all this sports madness! These 5 strategies that were mentioned above are critical not only for the athletes’ success, but also for the personal success of you! If you are struggling with achieving what you want in life, whether that be business success or losing that weight and keeping it off, there are 5 common denominators that will determine the level of success you can and will achieve!

Planning in Life

In order to reach any dreams, you must plan your path of reaching that dream. The first order of business is to sit down and really think about what you want to achieve.

Why do you want to achieve it?

Do you really want that or is it someone else who is wishing you would achieve that?

You must have a big enough “why” to keep you motivated and it must be something that you want to do for yourself.

Next, write out some goals you would like to achieve in order to reach that dream. Make sure the goals you come up with are measurable (you will know when you achieve it), have a time deadline, and are not overwhelming. It is important to start with small goals first which sets you up for more success than one big goal that seems very overwhelming. A goal that is too big will burn you out before you have a chance at success.

Finally, you will need to figure out your course of action in order to reach those small goals. What steps do you need to take right now in order to achieve that? What will have to change in your life to meet those goals?

Example:

Vision: I want to be thin and healthy with lots of energy and free of disease.

Goals:
• I will join a gym by Friday, January 28th.
• I will eat more salad by Friday, January 28th.

Plan of action:
• Look up some gyms in your area. Visit the gyms that look like they will be best for you. Sign up for a gym membership.
• Look up different salad recipes. Find some that look like they will taste good. Plan one salad per day. Go to the grocery store and get the ingredients necessary for the salad. Fix the salad everyday.

Picture Success in Life

Visualizing success with your personal goals is very similar to picturing the success with sports of making the goal, basket, hit, etc. It is important to think about what you must do to achieve your goals. What will you do to get there? Visualize yourself going to gym, doing your specific workout, and enjoying getting healthier if that is what you must do to accomplish your goal. If you want to be successful in business, visualize what needs to be completed and the steps you will be taking in order to reach your goals.

Take a look at your goals and your plan of action. Visualize you following through with your plan of action and being successful in taking one step closer to reaching your goals. Visualize what you will be doing to reach your ultimate dream and visualize it often!

Believe in Yourself in Life

The importance of developing the confidence to be successful and believe that you can achieve success can not be stressed enough. Right now make the decision that you can achieve weight loss or you can get that job promotion. Think positive about yourself. You have many gifts and talents that will help you be successful.

You must banish negative thoughts from your mind. When you find yourself feeling down about yourself, take a deep breath and think positive. Tell yourself that you can and you will achieve success. Stop listening to that inner gremlin trying to keep you at the status quo! In order to achieve anything you must break the status quo and your inner gremlin definitely does not like that! Get thinking positively and reach your dreams!

Work Hard for What YOU Want in Life

The steps leading up to this point all involved planning and laying the foundation for your success. Armed with the confidence that you can achieve your goals, you must now have the dedication to actually achieve them! Working hard is vital to your success.

However, you can think positive until your brain hurts but the only thing that will allow you to be successful is if you actually put everything into motion! You must take action!

Take action right now to put your plans into motion and achieve your goals. Then work as hard as you can with all the dedication you can muster in order to actually achieve them! Get down into the trenches if you must, but do everything you can to reach your goals. The going may get tough, but the tough keep going! Success does not take quitters!

Example: (Vision: to be a fitness model)
For you to reach your goal of a fitness model physique, you must work hard to actually achieve it. No sitting around positive thinking all day about how great it will be to achieve it. No sitting around visualizing success! You must get off the couch and actually work hard and be dedicated to put in the effort and pain necessary to get that body you desire.

Get a Coach for YOUR Life

Lastly, we come to the importance of getting a coach to achieve your goals. When it comes to the importance of a coach for sports there is no question that success lies with a great coach. The same is true for your life. There are many different coaches available and the number has grown over the past few years. The type of coach’s range from life coaches, business coaches, marketing coaches and relationship coaches to health coaches. There are coaches out there for pretty much any niche you can think of who are ready to help coach you to success where you need help. Whether you are ready to start a business, lose weight, repair relationships, improve your job, or even raise your child, there is a coach able to help you.

Make sure you look for a coach that is actually trained and has experience in their field of expertise because there are people out there who have found success in that niche but never received the training that will actually help YOU succeed. It is like the sports coach who never played the sport personally. It just is not as effective.

True success lies in finding a coach who will support, encourage, teach, and coach you to success. This coach does not tell you what to do and then you must do. A successful coach will help you determine what fits best for what you want to achieve. They customize their coaching to help you find how YOU can best be successful, not how they were successful so it will work for you.

There is nothing that will lead to your greater success than finding the right person to coach you and support you along to your dream. Stop trying to do everything alone, and find the person who will guide you find the right path down to reach your dreams!

So, in order for you to reach your dreams and find the success you are looking for, it is vital that you plan, visualize your success, believe that you can be successful, work hard toward your goals, and get the support and help that a coach can offer you. Stop trying to get there alone!

Get out there and use what we learned through playing sports about becoming successful in life!

To find how a health coach can help you lose weight, increase your energy level, eat healthy, or get healthy, visit my health coaching page for more information: http://amberkeinath.com/rn-health-coaching

Leave me a comment below and let me know what sports you use to play or are currently enjoying!

To your health journey success,

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The “How Get Started with Healthy Eating” Blueprint

Getting Started, Healthy Eating, Nutrition 101 4 Responses »

Jan 192011

Eating right for ultimate health is a must!

By going back and reading all the nutritional literature there is out there on what diet best leads to ultimate health has shown that the more plant based diet you consume, the healthier you will be.

However, it can be difficult to start eating in a manner that is so radically different than the standard American diet of processed foods and lots of animal products.

So how do you start on the road to eating for your health so you can be most successful? Check out this video to see the step-by-step blueprint for your healthy eating success:

Determine your “why”. Why do you want to eat healthy and what do you hope to achieve out of changing your diet. This will help you stay motivated even if it gets tough.

Start out with small changes to your diet. Start with one meal or snacks and work your way up. Don’t overwhelm yourself.

Learn about your food. Research everything you can about fresh whole foods and how to buy them, store them, and prepare them.

Get a great recipe book that will help you get ideas and recipes for healthier meals.

Get the right kitchen equipment. For a video I did on some kitchen equipment you might need when you switch to a more plant-based diet, visit my Healthy Kitchen Equipment 101 video.

Stock your refrigerator and pantry with fresh whole foods and get rid of the processed foods.

Remember to eat lots of fresh foods! Just keep eating!

Eat a variety of foods! There are so many different fresh whole foods out there that boredom shouldn’t be possible!

Don’t let yourself get hungry! There is no excuse! Just keep eating all the fresh fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and whole grains you can because they are all so low in calories for the nutrient punch you
get. With this way of eating, counting calories and deprivation are no longer in your vocabulary!

Finally, experiment with your food! Get creative and have fun trying new foods and recipes and just enjoy how this healthy way of eating makes you feel!

You can achieve great health by switching to a plant based diet! Go out there have fun and get healthy! If you need a little help getting started, check out the free gift I have for you on my blog: Get Healthy with Amber Food Guide and Shopping List.

Leave me a comment below and answer this question of the day: What is your favorite healthy meal and why?

To your health journey success,

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How to Stick with Your New Year’s Resolutions

Motivation, Tips & Tools 2 Responses »

Jan 052011

Happy New Year! With the New Year come all those New Year’s Resolutions!

The latest statistics I’ve heard are that close to 75% of those that make out New Year’s Resolutions quit by February! How can we make sure you don’t fall into that category this year with your exercise or healthy living goals?

Start out with small goals. Small goals are easier to reach and will keep you motivated with each small success.

Another great tip is to take your calendar that you have hanging in your house and block out your workout schedule. I like using lots of different colors with markers or colored pencils.

For healthy eating, plan out your weekly menu, make a grocery shopping list, and stock your pantry and fridge. This will make sure you have all you need to succeed.

Another great tip is to have a dry erase board on your fridge and writing your schedule on there so your whole family will see and keep you accountable.

This leads me to the fact that telling your family and friends will help keep you accountable and motivated to stick with your goals.

Don’t forget to track your progress. This way you know all the progress you have made and how awesome you really are doing! You can do this!

Finally, get outside help or support. If you join a gym, take advantage of the personal trainers there! They are a great resource and motivator. Another option is a health coach. Click the link below to learn more about support options!

Leave me a comment below and answer this question of the day: What is your New Year’s Resolution and what strategies are you using to stay motivated?

To your health journey success,

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Top 5 Mistakes People Make at the Gym

Getting Started, Healthy Fitness, Workouts No Responses »

Dec 302010

So, you are going to start back at the gym with your New Years Resolution? Great!

Here is a list of the top 5 mistakes people make at the gym. Make sure you don’t do these!

#1: Not drinking enough water during your workout! If you are thirsty you are already dehydrated. Make sure you are drinking water throughout the day!

#2: Eating energy bars or drinking sports drinks! These are great when you are running a marathon, but when you are just doing a moderate workout session, they add extra calories that you just don’t need to deal with. Stick to water.

#3: Not stretching. Make sure your stretch just after your cardio workout because your muscles are warm and stretching will help prevent injury.

#4: Not warming up enough. Your body needs to ease into a workout. Start slow and then increase your activity. Let your muscles warm up!

#5: Not cooling down after your workout! Your muscles are warm and need this time to stretch and your heart rate to come down. This will help your body be ready for your next workout!

Make sure you don’t find yourself doing these 5 things at the gym and you will have a much better workout and your body will be ready to go for your next workout!

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To your health journey success,

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5 Top Tips for Losing Weight and Maintaining a Healthy Weight

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Dec 292010

One of the main questions I am asked a lot from my blog readers and video watchers is ‘what do I need to do to lose weight and keep it off?’ Well, there is not just one right answer for this.

In order to answer this question, I have put together a list of my top 5 tips for ultimate weight loss and being able to keep it off!

#1: Take inventory of your health and record your diet and exercise. Write down your pains such as back pain, lack of energy, or just plain don’t always feel good. Also, keep track of what you eat, when you exercise, and how you feel with each.

#2: Step on that scale regularly. If you are trying to lose weight, you are going to have to step on that scale and keep track of your progress.

#3: Wait before you take a bite. Are you really hungry or just bored and want to graze. Eat when you are hungry. Don’t eat because that’s what you usually do when you are on the computer or doing whatever.

#4: Don’t got hungry. Eat regularly throughout the day. Don’t skip meals. Eat as much as you want of vegetables and fruit!

#5: Gotta workout regularly. By increasing your muscle mass you increase your metabolism which helps you burn more fat!

With these 5 tips you will be losing weight before no time and keeping it off in the long run! How great will that be?

If you have any other tips to add to this list or comments for me, leave a comment below and let me know! Don’t forget to share this video with your friends!

How to Lose Weight by Eating More

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Dec 282010

Did you know the trick to weighing less is to eat more?

Your get healthy with Amber tip today is all about eating and enjoying more food in order for you to weigh less.

This all works by eating more whole foods and less processed foods. Processed foods are full of calories with pretty much zero nutrition. Even when the labels says its healthy, it still has a lot less nutrients for your body than whole foods.

Make half of your meals fruits and vegetables, one quarter protein, and one quarter whole grains. Drink lots of water. Get rid of the soda and fruit juices (unless the fruit juices are 100%). Soda actually dehydrates your body. It also has chemicals in it that interfere with the hormones in your body and makes your body think it is getting something healthy. It also can make you more hungry leading to you eating more. So drink water.

Pay attention to the type of calories you are getting. You don’t need to count calories in order to lose weight. You just need to always make the choices where there are the most nutrients for the calories you are taking in!

Slow down and enjoy your food!

Higher nutrient content fills you up and actually gives your body the nutrients it needs to thrive. This will then allow your body to finally feel it is getting the nutrients it needs leading to it shutting off its hungry sensors with less food.

Give your body what it needs! Eat more whole foods! There is an endless variety! Experiment and eat the colors of the rainbow (whole foods not skittles!).

Leave me a comment below and let me know what you think of the above weight loss plan. Do you think you could handle it?

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To your health journey success,

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The Secret to Conquer 80% of what is keeping you Fat!

Weight Loss No Responses »

Dec 232010

Did you know your brain has the power to control 80% of what is keeping you fat?

If you don’t have the desire, willpower, and steps in place in your head to be healthy, you are going to stay fat or even gain more weight.

If you are unhappy with your current weight, sit down and think about what you keep telling yourself.

Determine what your ideal body would be. How would your life be better if you were your ideal weight?

In order to finally change your body or find that total body confidence, you must decide right now that achieving that goal with a little changes in your lifestyle will not be as painful or hurtful compared to what you are going through right now by not being confident in your own body!

Let’s put everything aside right now and let’s work together to finally find that awesome and confident person inside of you!

It’s time you get down to business and take the steps you need to be the most successful with your weight loss. Check out how a health coach is what you are looking for to help you lose the weight once and for all!

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Workout Motivation Tip

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How many of you wanted to work out more or to get physically fit? How many of you have tried and failed to keep at it? So, how can we change that?

Join a workout class with a friend!

You are motivated because you paid money, you are accountable to your friend, you enjoy going to workout with someone, you enjoy working out, you will stick with working out!

Some workout ideas:

Zumba

Yoga

Pilates

Spin

Core

Strength Training

Cardio

The workout class possibilities are endless! What do you enjoy? What would you like to accomplish?

Stay tuned for future videos where I will cover more workout idea possibilities!

Leave me a comment below and let me know if you have any ideas for workout classes you enjoy or different workout options you recommend!

To your health journey success,

P.S. If you are ready to learn more about how to create a life of health and wellness, join me by Clicking Here! Find and connect with me on my Facebook fan page and on Twitter!