New Year Weightloss Tips

Tammy, a new client, told me she had followed the NutriSystem diet two years ago and lost 40 pounds, but when she stopped ordering and eating the plan's food, she regained all the weight. She came to me in December wanting personal training and a nutrition plan. She asked "What do I have to do? I'll do it, just tell me."

Have you felt like Tammy? I know I did. I've followed every diet, taken diet pills, and every weightloss trend since the 1980s!! I've deprived myself of food, restricted calories, and banned entire food groups. Each time I stopped the prescribed diet, I would gain back the weight. This happened through my 20s, through my 30s, and halfway through my 40s. 

Three years ago, I said "ENOUGH" to all of this. I ditched the diets. If a specific diet works for you, great. If you can continue on it, and eat the prescribed diet long-term, if it's sustainable for you and your lifestyle, then continue. You don't need to read anymore. 

However, if you're looking for a sustainable way of eating, that can support weightloss efforts, then check out these tips below. These are a beginning. I started slow, because I didn't know what I should eat, or what I should do. Here are the FIVE TIPS I started with: 

1. Drink Water: you know this. This is not magic, but I know I feel better, my digestion is better, my skin
is better when I drink water. How much? It's individual for all, but start by drinking half your weight in ounces. I weigh 135 pounds, so I drink 67.5 ounces each day. Sometimes lots more, sometimes a bit less. If half your weight in ounces seems like too much, then just start by ADDING more WATER to what you drink. Set an alarm to drink a few sips each hour; or drink a glass of water after each time you go to the bathroom; or drink a glass before eating anything. 

2. ADD a CUP OF VEGGIES (if possible make them green leafy ones) at EVERY MEAL. Yes, that means breakfast too. Add frozen cauliflower to a smoothie (you won't even taste it), add some spinach to scrambled eggs, or make a mushroom, peppers, and onions omelet. Make sure it's a vegetable you enjoy eating. Eat veggies as snacks and have a cup at lunch and dinner too. This is not about forcing down plain steamed broccoli as punishment for what you ate over the holidays. 

3. MOVE: You know this one too! But don't think of it as punishment or pummeling your body into
submission. Instead ADD movement you LOVE! Go for a one mile a day walk, dance, do some stretching or yoga. Anything that you enjoy. It doesn't have to be running, weightlifting, or a plyo workout, unless you enjoy those workouts. Stream free videos on YouTube, check out my free workout videos on my InstaGram Highlight reels or on my TikTok profile. If you want or need more help, you can hire a personal trainer. I do virtual personal training sessions with all my clients during this COVID quarantine. There are so many fitness and movement options. ADDING loving movement, treating your body to movement, benefits digestion and helps to raise energy levels. 

4. ADD patience: Whatever weight you want to lose, 10, 20, 30 pounds or more. It didn't take one day or one week to gain this weight. It's going to take more than one day or one week to lose it. Aim to lose one to two pounds a week. This allows me to enjoy my food (I LOVE food, and I don't want to be deprived), and allows me to enjoy my life.

5. Change the PERSPECTIVE: If you notice tips 1-4 above all mention ADDING to your daily routine. None mention depriving yourself. None of them mention restricting calories, restricting food groups, or any other restrictions. ADD to your life, instead of taking away. 

Please reach out if you need more help or tips. My goal is to help people feel good, and live confident, healthy lives. Love you guys!

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Resolutions into Results

Is it because you can get a cheaper rate on a gym membership? Or maybe because you've gained an extra ten holiday pounds on top of the ten pounds you wanted to drop anyways? But a study conducted by the University of Scranton found that in 2015, the number one New Year's resolution among Americans was to lose weight. It beat out "getting more organized", "spending less money" and "enjoying life to the fullest" - yes, that is right, losing weight came before living life to the fullest...

Yet, the same survey revealed that only 8 percent of people are ever successful in achieving their resolutions, and only 46 percent of people maintain efforts towards their goal past six months after making a vow... How discouraging is it to know that even before you make that resolution, your chances of being successful is less than 10 percent???? And on top of that, your chances of maintaining you goals is less than half??? OUCH!

A recent Consumer Health and Fitness Index poll conducted by interactive fitness company Blue Goji found that while 52 percent of the 2,652 participants polled said that losing weight and exercising was a top concern for 2015, more than two-thirds said that they didn't maintain the health goals they had set in 2014.

So what the heck is holding so many people back from reaching these goals that they set for themselves year after year?

• Honestly I think it is a lack of thought and planning than most of us would probably like to admit. Put simply, whether you're aiming to lose weight, increase your fitness or even if you have a goal that's completely unrelated, you can't just make the decision that you're going to change and expect it to happen overnight.

You need a plan of action.

Have you vowed every New Year's to drop those unwanted holiday pounds, but never achieved results? Are you ready to succeed in 2016?  But how???
How are you going to make this year different and beat the odds?

Planning. My challenge group will show you how to schedule 30 minutes of exercise a day, create a meal plan to fit your lifestyle, provide accountability, support, motivation, clean eating recipes, meal planning help. The group takes out all of guess work for you!

Do something different this year!!! Join my next challenge group starting January 4! Let me and my team of amazing coaches help you get your the results you've been wanting for all these years! Let's face it, if you do the same thing you did last year - chances are, you will get the same results you got in 2015... Let's do this together!

I am looking for 10 people who are ready to get serious about their weight loss! Who is ready???

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