Reach Your Fitness Goal
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What’s your goal for the next month? Loose 8 pounds in four weeks, Walk your way to fitness, Tone up all over, or Run without huffing and puffing? No matter what your goal, Self Magazine has a free online plan to support you!
As I shared with you last month I am creating the body of my dreams. I started with walking a mile every day and eating a healthy diet. What I found is that I have to walk every morning, first thing. If I wait until later in the morning or during the day I will never get to my walk, there are just to many things going on. I also found that walking with a workout partner is key, it holds me accountable and it’s much more fun.
What I started to notice is that watching what I eat in my very hectic day was a little difficult. It takes planning, paying attention and avoiding cravings, all of which was proving difficult to adhere to. So when I ran across Self’s Reach Your Goal Plan my interest was immediately peaked. Best of all it seemed like fun, something that had been previously missing in my plan for my dream body and which I’m finding is pertinent to keeping myself committed to anything.
You start of by picking one of four goals, which you can make a series for achieving the body and level of fitness you want. The goals as I mentioned above are: Drop 8 pounds in one month, Walk your way fit, Tone up all over, or Run without huffing and puffing. Pick the one you want and you’ve just created your own fitness coach and accountability partner!
What I love about this program is that it gives you so many options, it’s easy and it’s free. There are great meal plans to choose from with all the calories already counted for you, just tailor them to your health and diet needs and add them to your grocery list. The workouts section has all the cardio and strength plans planned out for you with several options and you can download the video or the MP3, whatever works for your life.
What I have found most useful with this program are the food diary and the workout log! These tools are really helping me reach my goals. With the workout log you can record a workout from one of the predesignated routines or from a list of general exercises, all with the amount of calories burned already tallied. The food diary works similarly, letting you enter the designed meal plan or your own meals. It even has a search option to find the amount of calories in typical food items!
These logs have been indispensable, I can see my progress and I am thinking about and visualizing my goals every day. Now when I’m in a hurry and I end up in front of a snack machine I think, which would I rather enter into my food diary, the snickers bar or the protein bar?
The most important thing to remember is, if you have a day when you did not eat the way you wanted or you missed your workout, don’t put yourself down for it. Instead just let the program tell you where you are and give yourself credit for what you did accomplish that day. If you don’t know where you are you will never be able to get to where you want to be.
So have fun, pick a goal and make yourself over! Start looking great in all those gorgeous fall styles, four weeks of walking and I guarantee you’ll love the way you look in that Calvin Klein pencil skirt and those leggings tucked into your favorite fall boots!
(Images Courtesy Self Magazine)
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The Body of Your Dreams
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Beginning today, Monday August 6th, 2007, I am starting a regime to create the body of my dreams. Tight, muscular yet feminine, in short - a work of art I can be proud of. I’ll be working out five days a week, eating in a way my body will love, and creating an environment around me that inspires me to always live healthy, happy, gorgeous and confident.
During this journey and over the next few months I will be highlighting fitness videos, workout routines, equipment, books and healthy dieting tips that really work for me and ways you can make them work for you. I’ll give you the scoop on various types of workouts, such as Bar Method, Alexander Technique, Pilates, and the ins and outs of all the various forms of yoga.
I will also be bringing you exclusive, up close and personal interviews with experts from top fitness centers. You’ll get all their tips, tricks, and advice so you can create a body you love.
Stay tuned and create the body of your dreams along with me!
Coffee and Excessive Perspiration
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If you perspire more than the average person and you want to keep your perspiration to a minimum there is one little secret you should know: Coffee causes excessive perspiration! If you have a condition like hyperhidrosis drinking coffee will make this condition much worse!
If you are addicted to your coffee try replacing it with tea or herbal coffee. Pu-erh (poo-are) tea also makes an excellent replacement for coffee, it’s strong and flavorful, but without the sweat inducing properties. It also helps to know that it takes two weeks to make or break a food or drink habit. So take it easy on yourself and give yourself time to break your coffee habit and form a new habit.
Summertime Cleanse
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It’s hot, the clothes are minimal (especially the skirt lengths), bathing suits are a must and delicious fruit is in it’s most prime season. Time to do a fruit cleanse! Pick one type of fruit a day and for seven days eat nothing but that fruit all day long. If this is too drastic for you then eat the fruit all day long and then allow yourself a satisfying healthy dinner at night.
This fruit splurge is an amazing way to cleanse your digestive system, hydrate your body and your skin and give your system a jump start of vitamins and minerals. If you really want to jump start your health and beauty add the fresh squeezed juice of the fruit you pick to this fruit indulgence along with a healthy dose of mineral water, once you taste fresh watermelon juice you’ll be hooked. Your skin will glow, you’ll have more energy, and you’ll feel great!
When cleansing your body make sure you drink lots of water and exfoliate your body and your face. While detoxifying your body tends to slough off all of it’s impurities, using an exfoliant will keep your skin glowing and feeling soft.
Some wonderful fruit for cleansing:
Papaya: This fruit contains amazing digestive enzymes to sooth and protect your stomach, it is also high in antioxidants and vitamin C. Papaya is great for cleansing particularly if you eat a lot of meat.
Watermelon: This fruit is chocked full of water, hence the name, and is an excellent way to rehydrate yourself and your skin, a great way to thoroughly cleanse your system.
Pineapple: Like Papaya, Pineapple is great for cleansing and contains digestive enzymes. It is also wonderful to get rid of any excess water retention.
Mango: In season now and it tastes amazing! Research has shown mangoes to bring about a reduced risk of colon and cervical cancer. In addition mangoes are very high in beta carotene.
* You may experience some slight stomach discomfort at the beginning of this regimen, it’s normal so don’t worry, you’re system is just cleaning itself out.
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