Tip of the Day

WATER -

The miracle weight loss secret. Seriously! Drinking water can help you lose up to 20 pounds in just a few weeks. You see, our water retention process is a reverse process. You retain more water the more dehydrated the body becomes. This is because the body fears water being scarce, like in a drought. This makes you put on the pounds. The body fears the lack of water -because then you'd die. So in the face of minimal fluid intake the body stores every ounce of water as it can squeeze from food and drink. When you continually drink appropriate amount of water, then you don't store as much water. This means you don't have that poundage. Carbohydrates are the tool the body uses to regulate hydration. SO, when people go on those carb-low diets, they tend to lose about 20 pounds relatively quickly because their body is incapable of retaining any water...but this is also not good because our body needs water to function normally. The best you can hope for is balance. When you're in taking enough water then you don't store water, you don't have all those extra water pounds, BUT (with a carb balanced diet) you also have plenty of HYDRATION so your muscles can work to burn the fat...
Water will also help you feel full, which will keep your portion sizes under control. Water, the truly amazing diet aide!!!!

Tip of the Day

It's rainy, sleety, snowy outside. It seems like the perfect day to sit around in my PJ's with lots of hot coco and chips watching movies......er, what? This is the perfect to for me to clean my house, or try out one of the exercise video's gathering dust, or even getting out of the house to go shopping or to the gym.

The hardest part of each day is deciding to MOVE to EXERCISE! Once you're at the gym or on the treadmill at home, then you have no worries, but each day you'll face roadblocks from the weather to the kids that make you want to stay home.

My advice?

• Plan ahead. If you know you'll be less likely to want to leave the house, then set up several alarms, so set goal pictures on your cabinets / refrigerator. This way it's you inner voice nagging at you.
• Get a buddy. I can't tell you how much having a support structure is important. Having a workout buddy will push you to exercise on those blah days. Having someone asking you how things are going (without judgement) will also help push you on.
• Get a trainer. There really is a major difference between exercising on your own and exercising with a trainer....you would think that as tired as you are after exercising on your own, or taking a Spin class, that that would be it...but there really is no comparison. Even if you only work with a trainer a couple of times a year, it really is worth it!

I'm Baaaaaack!

Well, I took some time off to get things situated with the fam...mostly to get the homeschooling going, and setting up my websites....whew, I've been busy...

But I'm now ready to dedicate this blog to being the best fitness / wellness advice column around!

Let me know if there's anything you'd like to see of if there's any advice you want to ask....comment away!!!