How many people would pay for a can of motivation to get & stay healthy & fit?
Health and Fitness is high on everyone's bucket list. Obesity runs rampid today, and highlighted in the news daily as well. Diagnosis of pre-diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol are all on the rise. And popular answers are making pharmaceutical companies fatter and fatter! There's got to be a better way.
It's all easy, right? Wrong!!! Why?
MOTIVATION MOTIVATION MOTIVATION MOTIVATION MOTIVATION MOTIVATION
I swear if we could bottle MOTIVATION we'd make a Fortune!
You're motivated, you say? Awesome!
And, you are now healthy and fit, or well on your way and journey
What finally motivated you? Do you know what others would pay for Motivation?
You're struggling with Motivation? What does Healthy and Fit look like to you?
What would you pay to get healthy and fit? We certainly know you will pay if you don't get there.
Many train of thoughts exist on BEST PRACTICES for HOW TO lose weight but it gets confusing and hard to follow:
- Weigh in NO Don't Weigh in
- Check your BMI, NO Check your BMR
- Measure inches NO Measure fat NO Measure both
- Eat Wheat NO Don't Eat Wheat
- Eat Gluten NO Don't Eat Gluten
- Don't Eat Sugar No Eat Pure Cane Sugar
- Drink Coffee NO Don't Drink Coffee
- Eat 5 meals per day NO Eat 3 meals a day
- Eat before bed NO don't eat 3 hours before bed
By now you're screaming "HELP!, This has to be easier!"
The good news is that there is ONE simple answer to remember -
The Formula: Calories in vs Calories burned = Weightloss or Weightgain
500 calories burned or decreased per day will result in ONE POUND lost per week
Likewise, eat more calories than you burn and it will result in a weightgain.
That's it! Simple yes? Well sort of...you have to keep in mind the types of calories you're consuming.
Here's what we are doing in our home that works:
- Setting small achievable goals
- Weigh in once a month
- Eating Healthy and Clean (what does that mean?)
- 2 portions of fruit daily
- Unlimited veggies daily
- About 3 oz of Protein the size of a deck of cards twice daily
- Limited carbs to 1/2 cup at lunch and dinner, however make them good carbs
- Two healthy snacks daily (stay away from 100 calorie bagged snacks)
- HYDRATE WITH H2o; drink 1/2 your weight in ounces of water per day!
- Exercise daily and the latest train of thought is that muscle confusion works best
- Lastly whenever possible make your food choices Organic Why? Processed and chemically treated food is full of addictive and carcinogenic elements. (More on this in a later blog) A great book to read on this is: The Blood Sugar Solution by Dr. Mark Hyman
You say you aren't a lover of Veggies? Fruit? Or Both?
There are answers for that as well! Feel free to ask me what we use. I'll be glad to share. It takes care of all those daily requirements and more.
So there you have it, the formula and best action items for mapping your way to health and fitness. And now you say "But Val, I still can't find the MOTIVATION" You need an 'AHA MOMENT' one that will last and get you going to the next step. Here's my first step to getting there:
Remember, we are creatures of habit. Habits are formed over 21 days. It has been said that if we "Do the same thing over and over again and get the same results it is Insanity" Well that same thought applies to Good Habits! My fav phrase to drive me in the right direction is:
"ZERO TO ONE"
We love the sense of accomplishment. It's healing, It's gratifying, It's MOTIVATING!
ZERO TO ONE is about making a commitment to make ONE MOVE today, any one move. For instance determine to Drink All Your Water today, OR No Sugar today OR take a walk today, OR whatever it is that you know you need to do to start the process, just make ONE MOVE towards that, GET IT DONE right now. The result? Amazing, it will set off a sense of accomplishment that will feed your brain with 'feel good' 'motivational' vibes to want more, I PROMISE YOU this will happen. So commit today to ZERO TO ONE, Get the Job Done!.
I have several fitness groups I run on Facebook and from time to time we do a challenge. It starts with everyone willing in the group to commit to getting up the next morning and making that move right out of bed, then report back to the group for accountability sake. IT WORKS! And we get excited about the results too!
Join me on my journey to Health and Fitness! Comment below if you are in and I'll help you with your next steps!
Make today your tomorrow before it gets here, we have no promises for anything further AND we can't change our yesterday. I'm so excited to see you get started!
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