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A Personal Trainer’s 2012 Wish List
As the new year approaches, gyms start gearing up for the onslaught of seasonal exercisers, while diet programs click their heels in glee, the money season is upon them, CHA-CHING! They are grateful for the over-imbibing, procrastinating, excuse-making, will-powerless customer. Magazines hope for record breaking sales as the latest fad diet or successful weight loss…
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A New Year’s Promise with Staying Power
I’ve been involved with the health and fitness industry since 1979. For some that was a hundred years ago, for others, it seems like yesterday! I got involved with the industry after losing 50 pounds that found its way on to my unsuspecting body. I had always been a “toothpick”. My sister used to say…
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Rethink Your Motivation for Healthy Living
With the proliferation of weight loss programs over the years, you have been “trained” focus on results before anything else. Think about it. when you start a diet, the motivation is the visual you have in your mind of being thinner, stronger and feeling like a new man or woman, right? But the natural course…
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Listening to Your Body for Better Health!
…..the reality was my body had been trained to crave what it needs not what I wanted. I realized at that moment, it’s all about listening to my body, NOT my “diet head”, it’s about being healthy.
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An Ode to Holiday Indulgence!
A bit of some pie, a slice of the cake, January’s coming, resolutions I’ll then make. I won’t worry now, what time I would waste, I won’t eat that much, simply a taste. I promised myself, I’d diet next year, I promise I will, you’re reading it here.In the scheme of things, what’s a pound…
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Give Up Resolutions. Find Solutions.
As we shift in to the frenzied holiday season, healthy intentions are left behind. Once the chaos of the holidays takes control of our lives, January 1st is the day of salvation. But you know, and I know, New Year’s resolutions rarely have lasting power. Granted, we’re far away from January 1st, however many people…
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Taking the Time to Be Healthy
“The reality is this, if you focus on living a healthier lifestyle, the weight will be where it needs to be. In fact, my clients that focus on changing their lifestyle, are the most successful at achieving a healthy weight that is lasting.”
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Diet Trends Come and Go, Home Cooking is Always There.
We are such a diet obsessed country. We no longer place value on healthy food, simply on calories. We’ve lost sight of the importance of creating meals at home as well as sitting around the table sharing a meal with family and loved ones.
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Fall Brings an Opportunity to Set New Goals!
“Though I look forward to the changing leaves, and gorgeous fall scenery, it’s important to consider exercise plans for the fall/winter season. After all, as the seasons change so does our lifestyle.”