Simply Fit

It’s the New Year (happy new years!).  You are determined you are going to start living a healthy lifestyle by changing your diet and exercise.  You’re going great!  You are so strong!  But then, uh-0… a bump happens.  Maybe you went out to dinner and ate 3 baskets of chips and salsa. (I just busted myself out!) Maybe in the market, you saw a bag of your favorite chips which you could not resist.  You bought it, took it home and ate the whole bag and went back to the store for more.  How do you feel about yourself?  Like you failed.  So, you start again and are doing great for 2 to 3 days, and then you sit down in front of T.V. and here comes a commercial advertising your favorite ice cream.  All you do for the next hour is crave it.  It over comes you, and your back at the store buying a gallon of it.  You eat it, and once again, you feel failure.  Finally you come to the conclusion that why even try?  You start off great, but then temptation comes along, you give into it, and then you feel worse about yourself cuz you failed again.  So, you dump the whole “living healthy lifestyle” cuz to tell the truth, at least you will not have to go through the pain of failing again. 

If you think about it, we deal with failure in many parts of our lives.  With our work, families, friends, finances.  It seems like all of life is a swim upstream.  However, swimming upstream builds muscle.  So, what is the correct way to deal with so called failures?  View them not as failing, but as a little fall.  When a baby is learning to walk, he falls over and over again.  He doesn’t just lay there and say to him (however babies talk to themselves) “I fell down again!  I will never walk.  I mide as well just lay here cuz it’s  hopeless!”  If that’s the way babies think, all of us would still be laying on the ground! 

Changing from an unhealthy lifestyle to a healthy one is going to be the same thing.  You will fall.  Get back up.  Fall.  Get back up.  Keep getting back up.  Pretty soon, you will not fall as much.  Then, you will be running and hardly falling at all.  Never give up.  At the end of the race you will be proud and see that, yes!  You indeed DID conquer!

Laurie Jones offering in home personal training

Lauriesimplyfit.com     530-370-8228

                             NOT GETTING RESULTS????

Do you feel that you are working out hard and sacrificing in your diet and not getting the results that you want? 

I just started training two ladies the other day.  They currently had been walking on the dam together and had pretty good results for awhile.  The results came because before they had been inactive.  So, even a little bit of activity provide results…up to a point.  They both had become frustrated cuz they were stuck at their current weight and their progress had stopped.  The temptation to quit then comes into play cuz they (and all of us) start thinking “Why should I continue this sacrifice when I am no longer seeing results?”  And then the disaster of that thinking sends us back to previous habits and we pack the weight back on thus canceling all the hard work and sacrifice we made previously. 

So, as partners, they hired me.  During their first workout it became very clear to them why they were not getting results on their own.  When working with clients, I believe in short, intense workouts.  By the time we were finished with our hour together, they were sweating, beat, but convinced.  They recognized they were not pushing themselves and why they were stuck where they were. 

Is personal training expensive?  It depends on how serious you are.  Are intense work-outs hard?  It depends on how badly you want results.  By hiring a GOOD trainer, you should be able to get to your goals in half the time it would take you to be on your own. 

My girls have not stopped their walks on the dam.  However, they are incorporating what I am teaching them into their work outs now.  If they continue, they will be very satisfied in half the time and will always want to keep it part of their lives. 

Laurie Jones offering in home personal training

Lauriesimplyfit.com   370-8228

                                                FITNESS TIPS

While trying to stay on a lifestyle of fitness, it is always good to have some tips to remember and help us through the process since it is so very easy to slip.  Not that little slips are bad, but they can lead to landslide falls if we don’t watch it!  So, here are some practical tips that will help you keep on track.

#1.  Place your food on pretty dishes.  Since you are trying to eat healthy, it is more enjoyable this way instead of eating on a paper plate.  Prepare foods elegantly, and try different recipes.

#2.  No food is off limits.  Use portion control.  For quick weight loss, eat half of what you normally would, and then eat the other half in a couple of hours.

#3.  Drink a glass of water before eating.

#4.  Treat yourself after a successful week with something special such as a facial, manicure, new dress, ect.  Try not to use food as a reward. (And never teach this to your children).

#5.  If you over indulge one day, under indulge for the next 2 days.  Cut those calories back.

#6.  Light candles, play relaxful music, and read fitness magazines. 

#7.  Buy a cute item of clothing in the size you wish to be in.  Try it on once a week.

#8.  Change up your exercise routine to avoid boredom.

#9.  Spend time in the health food and produce sections in the grocery store and try something new. 

#10.  If you think you need to give up one of your favorite foods, but you keep failing, don’t give it up.  Cut your portion, then try to skip one day without it.  Pretty soon it will become a habit. 

Ok, there’s 10 tips and I have plenty more but no more room to write!  And you readers can e-mail me on my website with your special tips and I will share them in upcoming articles!

Laurie Jones

Offering in home personal fitness training

Lauriesimplyfit.com    370-8228