If you don't take time for your health now, you'll have to take time later.
Here are just a few of the positive benefits:
Weight Management: Helps maintain a healthy, appropriate weight for your body type. Helps regulate your appetite and you have a better chance of maintaining that optimal weight for life. Weighing less also helps you avoid back and knee issues.
Disease Protection: As we get older we are more susceptible to a myriad of diseases, and for women, osteoporosis. You can help prevent cancer and heart disease, lower blood pressure, improve cholesterol and reduce your risk for type 2 diabetes.
Good Mood: Exercise releases endorphins in the brain - - these are chemicals that improve your mood and self image, and help decrease the amount of pain you might be feeling. That trigger of endorphins leads to an overall better mood!
Relieves Stress: Taking time off from a difficult or stressful situation to exercise can help. After you exercise you might find a new solution to that problem that’s been bugging you, or you might work it out in your head while exercising.
Stronger Brainpower: Not only does your body benefit from exercise, but exercise can improve mental strength and acuity. Research shows people who exercise regularly have improved memory and a decreased risk for dementia and Alzheimer's (by as much as 40%!) That's a good reason to workout!
Your exercise for today:
Go for an hour of cardio! Even if it's a light jog, power walk, biking, walking the dog, cleaning the house, playing with the kids, putting on some music and dancing or a combination of any...just get your butt moving.
OR--Go back and do one of the workouts or videos* that you liked. Try a new class--Zumba, yoga, or a boot-camp class.
Links to videos* are listed above at the top of the page.
Your pre-made meal for today:
BREAKFAST: An egg-white omelet stuffed with veggies. Fresh squeezed juice.
SNACK: Fruit salad.
LUNCH: Lean turkey or vegan protein, lettuce, tomato on *bread. Green salad.
SNACK: 5-6 wheat thin/triscuit crackers with veggie cream cheese/fake cheese.
DINNER: Vegetable soup/chili, small piece whole wheat bread, green salad.
Tip:
Don't forget to take care of your skin. Once a week use a natural loofah or dry bristle brush, brush your skin (removing the dead skin cells) before you soak in a hot tub. Add two cups of Epsom salts and a few drops of essential oil (lavender is my favorite) to the water.
Recipe:
Roasted veggies with lemon-olive oil
Use asparagus, brocoli, green beans, brussel sprouts, etc.
Spread on a roasting pan/sheet and sprinkle veggies with a little olive oil, sliced garlic and salt and pepper. Roast at 350 degrees until they get a little crispy then take them out and squeeze fresh lemon juice and a little parmesan cheese (if you like.)
This is easy, cheap, quick, healthy and delicious!
Your exercise for today:
Go for an hour of cardio! Even if it's a light jog, power walk, biking, walking the dog, cleaning the house, playing with the kids, putting on some music and dancing or a combination of any...just get your butt moving.
OR--Go back and do one of the workouts or videos* that you liked. Try a new class--Zumba, yoga, or a boot-camp class.
Links to videos* are listed above at the top of the page.
Your pre-made meal for today:
BREAKFAST: An egg-white omelet stuffed with veggies. Fresh squeezed juice.
SNACK: Fruit salad.
LUNCH: Lean turkey or vegan protein, lettuce, tomato on *bread. Green salad.
SNACK: 5-6 wheat thin/triscuit crackers with veggie cream cheese/fake cheese.
DINNER: Vegetable soup/chili, small piece whole wheat bread, green salad.
Tip:
Don't forget to take care of your skin. Once a week use a natural loofah or dry bristle brush, brush your skin (removing the dead skin cells) before you soak in a hot tub. Add two cups of Epsom salts and a few drops of essential oil (lavender is my favorite) to the water.
Recipe:
Roasted veggies with lemon-olive oil
Use asparagus, brocoli, green beans, brussel sprouts, etc.
Spread on a roasting pan/sheet and sprinkle veggies with a little olive oil, sliced garlic and salt and pepper. Roast at 350 degrees until they get a little crispy then take them out and squeeze fresh lemon juice and a little parmesan cheese (if you like.)
This is easy, cheap, quick, healthy and delicious!
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