If I’m going to eat clean, I’m going to have to eat something GOOD!!! Just as we delay gratification to obtain a higher quality in other areas of our lives, it is good for us to appreciate what kind of food we are choosing. For Pleasure or Performance? If you start too sweet or end too sweet, you may feel sluggish all day. All week! If you withhold eating until late in the day, you tend to eat more and burn less because you have hardly given your metabolism any rev up for the day. If you save your indulgences for the weekend, you might not indulge all the time. …eh! That’s up to you, clearly! During your work week, choose performance foods. For example:
When you make the decision to change, focus on your goal and just GO FOR IT! I am sure everyone has been following the Olympics whether intentionally or by accident. Anyone striving for better fitness cannot help but be inspired by watching these determined Olympians compete. These elite athletes train for years and push their bodies to the brink of their genetic physical potential. Each must overcome “I can or cannot do it” with every next televised meet. They break records! They stumble. They qualify. Some give up and some actually get out there and break a leg! Ow! Endorsement offers ensue! Finally, there are those who just keep on coming back to the next Olympics. Extraordinary. So… What about us?
Happy New You! So it is that time of year again when those wishes we toasted to the sky with our friends on New Years Eve night have started to fade into the ‘Whatever, Whenever” of the next day and on to the next. Excuse me, Shakira! I’m trying to talk about something here! There she goes… Today I would like to share a plan for setting a new template in one’s own mindset to restore fit living from hard to break habits we have acquired during a break, a personal off-and-on rut as well as provide stepping stones for those who never realized what habits were keeping them from a fitter physique. overflow:hidden;