Clean the Slate

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” Maria Robinson

You’re tired all the time, you want to lose a few pounds quickly, and are ready for change. Enough is enough. Your body blueprint is not sending the messages you want it to, and you are ready to start over. Time to clean the slate!

There are four areas of your life we will concentrate on to create a fresh start: your body, physical environment, emotional baggage, and current relationships.

Start with the first area!

Are You Wasting Time With Your Exercise?

Believe it or not, a lot of my clients both in person and over the phone are people who are already exercising regularly but are NOT seeing results.  One of my favorite clients above, Michael Schapa, was one of those very diligent people who exercised 4-5 times a week consistently.  But he wasn’t seeing any results in terms of muscle building, increasing metabolism or weight loss.

Read the rest to find out how to get the results you want!

How Fitness Helps Survival

With over 300 muscles and 200 bones, it’s obvious to most people that fitness is necessary to keep our bodies active, strong, lean and healthy-the stronger last longer and have a better chance at survival.  In our modern society, we have a need for more exercise because daily living has eliminated most physical labor.  Computers, cars, machines and technology do most of the work for us with the touch of a button.  Now more than ever, we need fitness and exercise to keep our bodies healthy.

Exercise is also good for your head – find out why!

Why are you walking with weights?

a woman walking the beach with weightsI am taking a break from writing the book to share something that happens every time I get a workout in outside in a public area.

This is something I have watched and silently conversed about in my head for YEARS. When I was rollerblading last week it dawned on me to share my internal dialogue so I could share this with you and explain some basic exercise principles.

What are these basic exercise principles?

Going Raw

Raw foodWhat started out as an experiment 3 years ago has turned into the preferred way of life. One month before my wedding, I decided to eat gluten free to see what effect it had on my body. In 10 days, I was down 4 pounds. Knowing this was water weight only, I was intrigued by the thought that my body was holding onto extra water because of gluten. I pretty much decided on the spot that I didn’t need gluten and I could live without it just fine!

Find out what it takes to go RAW

Food Vs Exercise

Food Vs ExerciseThis past weekend we had a local church putting on a Greek Food Festival. For those of you who do not know, I am Greek (and Italian). I grew up in the Greek Church for 13 years and we also put on a food festival every year. So I know and love this food…..

However, it’s not gluten free and it’s mostly high fat, high calorie dishes. So what did I do?

THINK and LOSE WEIGHT

Since our 6 Week Beach Body Program uses MIND TOOLS such as EFT, hypnosis and meditation, I wanted to share with you WHY and HOW you can lose weight by changing the way you THINK.

For some of you, the idea of hypnosis is being told to act like a chicken.  Wrong.

This article was written by Susan French, C.Ht.

Hypnosis is a powerful tool but exactly HOW does it work? The real magic is that hypnosis works as both a “magic wand” and as a “snowball gathering snow.”

Let’s take a look at each separately and then how they work together.

Tips for Making Healthy Lifestyle Changes

Yes.  Life STYLE change.  What you are doing now got you to where you are.  If you were happy with that, you would not need to read this.  This is a learning process.  If “fast and easy” worked, we would have stopped looking for new ways. Lifestyle means the foods you eat, the kind of stresses in your life, the kind of exercise you do, your habits….about anything relating to food and exercise.  Or lack of it…  Do you want to take care of your body?  Are your body and health important to you?  If you answered yes to your body being important, what are you doing on a daily basis to take care of it?  If you are doing nothing, then why not?  These are the MOST important questions you need to answer before getting started.  If exercising isn’t YOUR idea, you might not stick to it very long.  And if you are looking to get motivated, ask yourself who gets affected when you get sick or aren’t here anymore.  Are they important enough to you for you to take care of yourself? List for yourself 5 reasons your body and health are important.  Then list 5 things you are doing to take care of it every day.  Most people can’t do a life makeover in 48 hours and have it last long term. Follow these steps to start making a permanent change- now. [Read more...]

When is it Time to Walk Away?

Step number 1 in my new book, Fit 2 Love, is about cleaning the slate. I outline a few different areas of life to do that: physical body, physical environment, emotional baggage, and current relationships.

I am going to focus on the last one, current relationships, and use a personal example from my own life.  Current relationships can be any person, group or environment you are currently participating with.

In my case, it’s a group.

About 6 months ago, a client of mine invited me to check out a group that offered support around the areas of allowing, accepting and trusting in a higher power.  It was exactly what I needed at the time.

Why I did I need to go? [Read more...]

The Answers to Why You Overeat

Why You OvereatWhile I titled this post “The Answers to Why You Overeat,” I could have titled this “why you drink”, “why you take drugs”, or “why you neglect yourself” because it all applies.

There is a root, whether you want to look at it or not, that causes these feelings we have inside of us that we want to run away from. And after watching a 20 minute video this week about it from a true “researcher”, I am more passionate than ever about helping you find a solution to get OUT OF IT.

This is one of the reasons I created the Fit 2 Love 2 Day Workshop so we can get to this root and start to dig it up. It is not serving you and you have the ability to change it. We all do.

Learn The Answers to Why You Overeat