Health Fitness and Weightloss Lifestyle

So you have put into practice the Medifast diet for some weeks now, and doubts are just bubbling up inside of you whether you are getting the results that you are supposed to get given that amount of  time.  The things is, if you have followed the regimen to the dot, you really don’t have to be worried about the results, because it already is in effect.  But if you want to get faster results, here is a quick tip, cardio vascular exercises.  Cardio exercises are the best way that you can add with your new found, they will let you burn down significant amount of calories in a little amount of time as 30 minutes, plus they also strengthen your body.  Examples of good cardio exercises are; running, jogging, walking and cycling.

These are exercises that you will be able to do anytime and anywhere, needing no special equipments.  Not only will they make you strong and healthy, they can also give you a fit and trimmed down body faster if incorporated with the Medifast diet. 

Today is the first day of the rest of your life and the first day of 2010!!! We’ve made it to see another year which means that we have the change to begin again. Hopefully you have already made your New Year’s Resolution and you are ready to begin living it out today. If you haven’t already made your resolution, it’s not too late to start. You still have time to get them down on paper and plan how you are going to fulfill that resolution. So if you have resolved to be neater this year, then start today by cleaning your house, throwing old papers away, getting rid of the clutter. If you know that you are going to need help in this area, hire a maid today. If your resolution is to be a nicer and kinder person, then start today by doing a nice gesture for somebody you don’t know, or doing something sweet for an unsuspecting person in your life. If your resolution is to learn how to cook, then open up a Julia Child’s cook book and get to work. If your resolution is to build more muscles, then start lifting weights and if necessary get some Human Growth Hormone to help you.

If your goal is to live healthier, pick your diet and stick with it. Get your yearly physical now and don’t wait. If you are a woman, make sure to have your Well Woman Exam. If you are a man, get your prostate checked. Check with your physician men about Super Beta Prostate to determine if it is a good fit for your body. All in all, make your new beginning count, and get started today! Happy  New Year!

Now that Christmas is over, the new year is literally right around the corner. It’s hard to believe the 2009 is almost gone and that 2010 is almost here. No need to be sentimental or ashamed of what did or did not happen in 2009 because new years always bring with them new beginnings. Many of you may have tried to achieve a healthier lifestyle and way of living in 2009 and just missed the mark that you wanted to reach. Others of you may have found that you achieved your goals for 2009, but want to set your sights higher for 2010. Either way, now is the time to begin planning. Don’t wait until January 1st to start planning what you are going to do. Do it now! Decide on a healthier diet for yourself in 2010. Pick one now that best suits your needs and stick with it. There are lots of diets to chose from and even if you are a vegetarian that needs to lose weight, there is a Vegetarian Diet for you too!

Resolve yourself to more exercise in 2010. Get that exercise machine that you know is going to get you into shape and push you over the top. Make a daily schedule of the workouts that you are going to do each day. Switch up the workout every day so that you don’t get bored, and work a variety of different muscle groups. If you need a little extra energy, get yourself some FRS Healthy Energy Drink for a little boost! So with these things in mind, resolve to be a better you in 2010!

All I want for Christmas is to wake up and be skinny without having to diet or exercise. Such is the dream for millions of Americans and if it were possible, there would be no plastic surgeons, no gyms, no workout tapes, no Biggest Loser, no Slim Fast. An entire industry would be non-existent if weight loss were only that simple and that easy. Unfortunately for us it’s not that easy. Weight loss requires a lot of hard work, dedication, motivation, and understanding of how the body moves and operates. So if you want to lose weight you are going to need to understand these things for yourself. There is one principal that every person wanting to lose weight and stay in shape must understand: in order to lose weight you must use more calories than you consume. That means that whatever you eat, whether its something from the Nutrisystem Diet or the Vegetarian Diet, you must exercise and burn up more calories than you consumes in that meal.

The good new is that diets like Nutrisystem, Medifast, Atkins, South Beach, etc… are portion controlled and optimized for you to receive the best nutrition, the best flavor, with the least calories. Say, for example you ate 1000 calories on a particular day. Then you would need to burn 100o calories or more to be in good shape. Now you do naturally burn calories just by walking, talking , breathing, and digesting food; so if you burned 500 calories naturally, then you’d have 500 left ot burn. 2o minutes on the Tony Little Gazelle and 40 minutes on an elliptical trainer machine would easily burn 500+ calories. So if all you want for Christmas is to lose weight, you now have the key to doing it!

You remember the song “Blue Christmas” by Elvis Presley don’t you? Well you’ll be having a Blue Christmas this year yourself if you don’t stop eating all those sweets and get back onto your diet and exercise routine. The holidays always have people in the mood to quit their good habits and settle for bad ones right before they make their New Year’s Resolutions to be good once more. And before you know it they’re quitting those too! So just stop right there. Put that piece of pie down and get back into the swing of things. Just because Christmas is around the corner doesn’t mean you have to lose the entire month of December to bad habits. First and foremost, get back to your workout routine. Clear the dust off of your Bowflex Treadclimber and start using it again. You know the routine, you need to be doing at least 30 minutes a day. If you can push past 40 minutes, you’ll really be in good shape.

Next, clear the cob webs from off of your Weslo Treadmills and get to running. The faster you can run the better. Intervals of fast, slow, fast, slow will work great as well. In fact, that’s the best way to do things. So don’t let the holidays slow you down. Have a Sweaty Christmas!

Christmas is the one time of year that we spend trying to find the perfect gifts for the ones we love. It’s not like a finding a gift for a birthday, because usually there is only one birthday person and therefore one gift to find. Christmas involves finding multiple gifts for mulitple people all at the same time. We often times get caught up in the hustle and bustle of Christmas, trying to make more money so we can buy more stuff for other people, that we rarely remember to take a moment for ourselves. When is the last time you heard someone telling you about what they bought for themselves for Christmas? It’s probably been a while if at all. When’s the last time you bought yourself something for Christmas? Really. Well, this year make a change and do something nice for yourself, and there is not better gift for yourself than the gift of good health. Get in the best shape of your life with a few special gifts for your health. You can start by getting yourself some of those Bodylastics that workout your entire body and give you the good scultping that you need.

You might also consider investing in another hot item, the Ab Rocket. It is geared toward getting that muscle tone in your stomach just right. So this year, get something extra for yourself. Make an investment in your health so that you can enjoy many, many Christmases to come in the best health of your life!

Today is the day after Thanksgiving, also known as Black Friday. Everyone knows that this is the biggest shopping day of the year. Everybody and their mother is going to be in the streets shopping, trying to get the best deals on the best products so that their families will be outfitted with the best gifts on Christmas Day. Thanks to all that shopping, The Day after Thanksgiving has become the best exercise day of the year. You definitely get in more than an hour of cardiovascular activity while you are strolling through the malls, and if you are buying anything you are definitely walking around with bags which means strength training exercises. That’s right, the more you buy, the more strength training you are doing. A full day of shopping, in fact could be equivalent to a workout on your Smooth Fitness machine.

A full day of walking through the malls could be enough to not only burn off the food that you ate the day before on Thanksgiving, but enought keep you from having to get on that Healthrider until next week. So do your part, contibute to a healthier you and a healthier economy and get out and shop today!

So much has been said about what you can’t eat on Thanksgiving Day, so we thought we’d add a healthy and delicious Frozen Pumpkin Mousse Pie Recipe that we found at eatingwell.com.  It has 80% of the amount of Vitamin A that you need in a day so it is a healthy little treate. Hope you and your family enjoy it!

Ingredients
Crust: 30 small gingersnap cookies, (about 7 1/2 ounces), 2 tablespoons raisins, 1 tablespoon canola oil
Filling: 1 cup canned pumpkin puree, 1/3 cup packed brown sugar, 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger, 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg, 2 pints (4 cups) frozen low-fat vanilla ice cream, softened.

Preparation
First, preheat oven to 350°F. Coat a 9-inch deep-dish pie pan with cooking spray. Next, prepare the crust: Combine gingersnaps and raisins in a food processor and pulse until finely chopped. Add oil and pulse until blended. Press evenly into the bottom and up the sides of the prepared pan. Thirdly, bake the crust until set, about 10 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Fourth,prepare the filling: Combine pumpkin, sugar, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg in a large bowl and mix well. Add ice cream and stir until blended. Spoon the mixture into the cooled pie crust. Freeze until firm, at least 2 hours. Finally, let the pie soften slightly in the refrigerator for 20 to 30 minutes before serving. Happy Thanksgiving!

Okay so we know that Thanksgiving is all about the food, as was mentioned in a previous post.  However, that is not going to keep us from giving you the facts. Take them for what they are worth, but don’t let them keep you from enjoying your Thanksgiving Day meal. #1: Potatoes. Potatoes may be delicious in your mouth, but they are the quickest and easiest way to lay on the pounds. Potatoes are starchy and don’t give you that much nutritional value. #2: Cornbread anything. Cornbread is another one of those starchy items that will have you fatter than fat in no time flat. The only problem is that cornbread is what a lot of people use to stuff the turkey with so how you are going to avoid eating it is unclear. #3: Cookies. Unless you are on the Cookie Diet, you do not need to eat lots of cookies on thanksgiving. Sugar is a no no on Thanksgiving especially since you aren’t likely to do anything to burn the calories that sugar creates.

#4: Soda. Soda is one of the worst things you can put into your body and for some reason people think that Thanksgiving Day is the perfect time to cram 5 or 6 sodas down their throats in one afternoon. Not ok! Soda is packed full of sugar! It’s diabetes waiting to happen. So If you don’t want to be on a Diabetic Diet, don’t do it.

Thanksgiving is just about 2 and 1/2 weeks away and people are already beginning to get ready for the food fest that is going to take place on that day. Truth be told, there is nothing overly healthy about this day. People are going to be eating all kinds of stuff all day long: turkey, dressings, mashed potatoes, gravy, yams, corn on the cob, green beans, casseroles, pumpkin pies, sweet potato pies, and more. Not to mention the beverages of every kind that are going to be had on this spectacular day dedicated to family and food. The only working out that will be going on won’t be on a Freemotion treadmill or on  Bowflex machine, it will be a working out of the mouth and men and women alike sit around the dinner table, around the television screen for the big football game, and in the kitchen chatting about every topic imaginable.

In fact, the healthiest part about Thanksgiving Day has nothing to do with food, with diet or exercise. The healthiest part of Thanksgiving is the fact that it’s a day spent with family and friends. It’s a day spent in the company of those we love and care about most. It’s a day to sit back and relax, to break bread in good company, to socialize and enjoy being with the most important people in the world. So take a day off from a healthy physical lifestyle on Thanksgiving day. Don’t do any workouts on your Total Gym. Enjoy the gifts God has given us. Happy Thanksgiving!