Pick up a fitness magazine or any weekly rag at the checkout counter (or just tune into one of those late night info-mercials) and you’re likely to see one of these headlines:
- “Secret Workout Of The Stars Revealed”
- “No Time—No Problem. World’s Fastest Workout”
- “Banish That Belly With One Simple Exercise”
- “Blast Fat Fast!”
Do you remember when you were a kid?
Of course you do!
We ran around all day, played catch, swam, danced around, rode bikes, skateboarded and bounced off the walls until we were told to stop.
Back in those days, we called what we did ‘play’ and we loved it.
You might as well refer to yourself as “Scrooge” if you’re giving up on your exercise routine this time of year. It sounds harsh, but let’s face it, by not exercising what you’re essentially doing is ‘bah, humbugging’ your weight-loss success.
I hear you—you’re busy, stressed and tired. Each of these barriers on their own can make it difficult to stay focused on your eating and exercise plan. I promise you this though, especially when it comes to exercise —- Sticking to your regime will give you more energy, reduce your tension and can counter-balance some of those extra PointsPlus values you might be consuming.
Do you remember playing “Telephone” (sometimes called “Grapevine”) as a kid?
It’s a game where you’d whisper a message in a friend’s ear, that friend would whisper it to someone else and this continued on and on, from person to person, until the final message was comically distorted by the time it reached the last person
What might have started out as, “My favorite flower is a rose,” became something like, “My father has no nose,” by the time it reached the last person.
Weird things happen when we move information from person to person. The messages can get garbled and have no bearing to what was first communicated.
An obsession is a persistent, anxiety-provoking thought that intrudes into our everyday lives and cause feelings of distress.
Hearing this definition, would you say that you have ay obsession with the scale?
Hiking, rafting, and mountain climbing are all adventurous ways to get a workout. Unfortunately for those of us who live in more metro areas, speed bumps can’t compare to mountains and open fire hydrants have nothing on a pristine lake.
So what are the urban versions of fun exercise? Well, let me tell you, there are a lot! Put on your “kid” helmet and get out there and play!
When your social schedule begins to expand during the holidays, so does your waistline. “Most people attend tons of festive events—and nearly all of them center around fattening food,” says Michelle May, M.D., author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat. Add seasonal stress and zero time to cook or hit the gym, and you have a recipe for holiday weight gain. Well, not this year. Here’s a plan for dodging diet pitfalls—everything from thousand-calorie eggnog lattes at the mall food court to button-popping family dinners.
Who doesn’t want to feel their best and look their best? After all, those are the 2 main reasons we work hard at maintaining a healthy weight. Sometimes, though, we make excuses figuring we’ll work on losing weight tomorrow, next week or when the new years rolls in. We become experts on “buying time.” Remember, “someday is not a day of the week.” When tomorrow, next week or 2011 do arrive, you’ll wish you had started today. I know this from experience and I think you do, too.
You can start by making small changes to improve your health and quality of life, but just start. The only way to get anything done is to begin.
…Now That’s What I Call a Hot Deal!
All it takes is 30 minutes of physical activity a day for most people to maintain a healthy activity lifestyle, but we all know that staying active and on a regular workout schedule during the holidays can be tough. Follow these tips from the exercise experts at Life Fitness to turn your holiday shopping trips into festive fitness sessions.
Whether you are hitting the gym, running the treadmill, walking or just dancing around, when it comes physical activity it’s fun to break the monotony. Creating a random, funky, yet fun, playlist for your Ipod or mp3 player may just do the trick. It always does for me!
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