Thursday, April 26, 2012

The secret to getting success with diet and exercise does not start with your diet and your exercise plan. It starts with your mind. You have to first get into the mindset of someone who lives healthy.

You have to next prepare yourself to stay consistent and dedicated to your program. And last but certainly not least, when it comes to fitness, you MUST stop focusing on the following 10 most popular things people pay WAY too much attention to... and instead focus on just ONE thing that will change your body faster than ever before.

You want to make all your hard work pay off? Stop focusing...
1. On how many calories you are burning.
2. On what you should wear to the gym, to workout at home, or outside.
3. On how you look while working out (unless it is to watch your form).
4. On buying all kinds of fitness equipment.
5. On socializing at the gym.
6. On what's better: working out at home or working out at the gym.
7. On whether you are going to be sore or not after a workout.
8. On doing excessive cardio.
9. On trying to improve one (or more) parts of your body (you workout to improve your WHOLE BODY).
10. On ab exercises (THEY DO NOT REMOVE BELLY FAT)!

The secret to getting success with your fitness goals (and actually many of life's goals as well) is to...
Focus on breaking your comfort zone and challenge yourself with every workout! The one thing to remember is that your body is not going to change unless you are challenging yourself with fitness. If you are not sweating, if you are not feeling exhausted, if you are not breathing heavily... you are not challenging yourself!

Your body DOES NOT like changes! You have to tell it to shut up, wake up, and be prepared for something amazing that is about to happen!

Bottom line, when that moment arrives during your workout when you feel like quitting, when you are battling voices in your head telling you to stop, when you feel like you would do anything to catch your breath, when you are sweating so much it looks like you went swimming, when you are breathing so hard you can't talk, and when you have to give everything you got for that last repetition, the last mile, the last minute, etc., then that's when you WILL... SEE... CHANGES!

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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Who am I to you and why should you listen to me?

I am the person that had self destructed for years and overcame it. I could eat an entire large pizza followed up with a sleeve of girl scout cookies.

After that I would just...hate myself! But a cigarette always made me feel better.

Some days I would eat so much I would try and manually get it out of me....not sure how I did not end up with an eating disorder.

I kicked addiction to food and smoking both extremely HARD additions!

It was a definite process but exercise helped spark a positive direction for me.

You have to start somewhere! Here are a few starting points.
  • 8 glasses of water a day (healthy habit)
  • 4/5 servings of fruits/vegetables per day (curves appetite)
  • stop smoking aid e.g. patch (gets the ball rolling)
  • walking for an hour (good starting point)
  • talk yourself through a cigarette craving, they usually last about 10 seconds then they go away (start getting used to the feeling of not having them)
Please post other thoughts and ideas!