How much of a challenge do you need?
I wish I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard someone says “my workout isn’t challenging me enough”. But just how challenging do your workouts need to be. I've seen personal trainers work new clients until they are so sore they can barely move the next day. Is this really what most people should be striving for?
Whenever you start a workout program you may want to feel that your exercising is making you work a little hard, making you sweat, and making your muscles feel a little tender. You’ll probably feel parts of your body that you haven’t felt in a while, and that’s OK. But the idea that you continually need to push yourself to newer heights is not necessarily what most people want or need.
If you are trying to improve your health and change your lifestyle, in a period of maybe six months, you should be able to reach a level of health and fitness that allows your workout to be quite easy for you to accomplish on a regular basis. If you have achieved your health goals there is no need to be constantly pushing yourself harder. When you get to this point the only good reason to change your exercise routine is to keep it from becoming to boring.
So unless you want to be a bodybuilder, a marathon runner, or a mountain climber, find and exercise regiment that fits your lifestyle and helps you maintain your health and activity level and don’t worry about continually challenging yourself.
Hey, we know it’s a struggle, but we also know there are no quick fix, no magic pill, no more counting points, and no bad tasting pre packaged mail order food. When everything else has failed, you know it’s time for a lifestyle change. Inches A Weigh is a lifestyle center exclusively for women that combine nutrition counseling, and state of the art toning beds and fitness programs in an atmosphere where you’ll never feel out of place. Inches A Weigh lifestyle centers exclusively for women in Appleton, when you are finally ready to make a lifestyle change.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Protein bars can be a good tool
I had a nice chat this morning with one of our members. She told me how happy she was with her success losing weight so far. She said that eating better and exercising has also helped her regain the kind of energy that she used to have. One of the tools that she said helped her was the protein bars.
Not all protein bars are created equal and the Healthsmart bars we use at Inches-A-Weigh cover four important bases for our clients to help them succeed with their lifestyle goals.
One, they have 10 grams of protein. This helps our members get a protein boost any time of the day that they think they need it. Protein is an energy source that doesn’t make you tired a short time later like carbs can do.
Two, they have 10 grams of fiber. We encourage our members to increase the fiber in their diets to help them have a feeling of being full longer and to decrease hunger in general. More fiber also decreases the amount of food we want to consume at each meal.
Three, they are delicious. I have never had a nutrition bar that I thought compared to our Healthsmart bars when it comes to flavor. The great flavor of the bars makes it easier for our member to avoid treats, since they have already had a treat with their bar.
Four, they are great for our diabetic clients, The Healthsmart protein bars are sugar free and have only about 100 calories. This makes them perfect between meal snacks if you are diabetic.
Hey, we know it’s a struggle, but we also know there are no quick fix, no magic pill, no more counting points, and no bad tasting pre packaged mail order food. When everything else has failed, you know it’s time for a lifestyle change. Inches A Weigh is a lifestyle center exclusively for women that combine nutrition counseling, and state of the art toning beds and fitness programs in an atmosphere where you’ll never feel out of place. Inches A Weigh lifestyle centers exclusively for women in Appleton and Green Bay, when you are finally ready to make a lifestyle change.
I had a nice chat this morning with one of our members. She told me how happy she was with her success losing weight so far. She said that eating better and exercising has also helped her regain the kind of energy that she used to have. One of the tools that she said helped her was the protein bars.
Not all protein bars are created equal and the Healthsmart bars we use at Inches-A-Weigh cover four important bases for our clients to help them succeed with their lifestyle goals.
One, they have 10 grams of protein. This helps our members get a protein boost any time of the day that they think they need it. Protein is an energy source that doesn’t make you tired a short time later like carbs can do.
Two, they have 10 grams of fiber. We encourage our members to increase the fiber in their diets to help them have a feeling of being full longer and to decrease hunger in general. More fiber also decreases the amount of food we want to consume at each meal.
Three, they are delicious. I have never had a nutrition bar that I thought compared to our Healthsmart bars when it comes to flavor. The great flavor of the bars makes it easier for our member to avoid treats, since they have already had a treat with their bar.
Four, they are great for our diabetic clients, The Healthsmart protein bars are sugar free and have only about 100 calories. This makes them perfect between meal snacks if you are diabetic.
Hey, we know it’s a struggle, but we also know there are no quick fix, no magic pill, no more counting points, and no bad tasting pre packaged mail order food. When everything else has failed, you know it’s time for a lifestyle change. Inches A Weigh is a lifestyle center exclusively for women that combine nutrition counseling, and state of the art toning beds and fitness programs in an atmosphere where you’ll never feel out of place. Inches A Weigh lifestyle centers exclusively for women in Appleton and Green Bay, when you are finally ready to make a lifestyle change.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Lifestyle diet tips
Successful weight loss comes from making good lifestyle choices. If we can turn those good lifestyle choices into a regular routine we can achieve permanent weight loss.
Routines in our daily life service very well even though they may sound very boring. when we get up in the morning we done think much about getting ready for work. We shower, brush our teeth, get dressed, comb our hair etc.
We don't get in the shower in the morning and start deciding how we are going to wash ourselves today. We usually have a routine and we do it almost exactly the same everyday. This is great because we don't need any more things to think about in our busy lives.
One of fthe first things I reccommend if you want to lose weight is to examine your eating routines and habits and try to identify the good ones and bad ones. Let face it the more we can improve our routine the less we have to think about dieting and does anyone really want to spend anymore time thinking about dieting than is absolutely necessary.
The first routine you want to establish is to eat breakfast. Eat as soon as you can after you get up in the morning. Some people like to call their first meal of the day breakfast, but if you get up at 6am and don't eat your first meal until 10am that can hardly be called breakfast. Numerous studies have shown that people who eat a healthy breakfast within 30 minutes of rising in the morning will lose more weight on their diet than people who don’t. If you have a hard time with eating breakfast you need to figure out some way to make it work. I have counciled numerous women and it's amassing how many skip breakfast, but when we sit down and talk about it we can usually find a way to work breakfast into a routine.
The second routine I like to see women develope is to eat more regularly. Eating more small meals on a regular basis will help you lose more weight. Eating more often will increase your metabolism so you burn more calories and have more energy. We don't skip brushing our teeth in the morning and we shouldn't skip meals either. It should be as routine as brushng your teeth.
Hey, we know it’s a struggle, but we also know there are no quick fix, no magic pill, no more counting points, and no bad tasting pre packaged mail order food. When everything else has failed, you know it’s time for a lifestyle change. Inches A Weigh is a lifestyle center exclusively for women that combine nutrition counseling, and state of the art toning beds and fitness programs in an atmosphere where you’ll never feel out of place. Inches A Weigh lifestyle centers exclusively for women in Appleton and Green Bay, when you are finally ready to make a lifestyle change.
Successful weight loss comes from making good lifestyle choices. If we can turn those good lifestyle choices into a regular routine we can achieve permanent weight loss.
Routines in our daily life service very well even though they may sound very boring. when we get up in the morning we done think much about getting ready for work. We shower, brush our teeth, get dressed, comb our hair etc.
We don't get in the shower in the morning and start deciding how we are going to wash ourselves today. We usually have a routine and we do it almost exactly the same everyday. This is great because we don't need any more things to think about in our busy lives.
One of fthe first things I reccommend if you want to lose weight is to examine your eating routines and habits and try to identify the good ones and bad ones. Let face it the more we can improve our routine the less we have to think about dieting and does anyone really want to spend anymore time thinking about dieting than is absolutely necessary.
The first routine you want to establish is to eat breakfast. Eat as soon as you can after you get up in the morning. Some people like to call their first meal of the day breakfast, but if you get up at 6am and don't eat your first meal until 10am that can hardly be called breakfast. Numerous studies have shown that people who eat a healthy breakfast within 30 minutes of rising in the morning will lose more weight on their diet than people who don’t. If you have a hard time with eating breakfast you need to figure out some way to make it work. I have counciled numerous women and it's amassing how many skip breakfast, but when we sit down and talk about it we can usually find a way to work breakfast into a routine.
The second routine I like to see women develope is to eat more regularly. Eating more small meals on a regular basis will help you lose more weight. Eating more often will increase your metabolism so you burn more calories and have more energy. We don't skip brushing our teeth in the morning and we shouldn't skip meals either. It should be as routine as brushng your teeth.
Hey, we know it’s a struggle, but we also know there are no quick fix, no magic pill, no more counting points, and no bad tasting pre packaged mail order food. When everything else has failed, you know it’s time for a lifestyle change. Inches A Weigh is a lifestyle center exclusively for women that combine nutrition counseling, and state of the art toning beds and fitness programs in an atmosphere where you’ll never feel out of place. Inches A Weigh lifestyle centers exclusively for women in Appleton and Green Bay, when you are finally ready to make a lifestyle change.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
As if reading food labels wasn’t hard enough
In a recent discussion I had with one of my weight loss clients the topic of reading food labels came up. As we talked I started to realize that this lady looked at the label on the side of the box of food as if it were gospel. This made me understand that I needed to do a little more research so I could educate my clients about reading labs.
The Federal Food and Drug Administration or FDA is the agency of the government that regulates how companies label their foods. Most people take it for granted that what the label says is what’s in the product. This is not the case however.
The FDA allows a whopping 20% lead way in the numbers that are reported on the label. This means if that Lean Cuisine you had for lunch was supposed to be 290 calories it might actually have been 348 calories and been perfectly fine by government labeling standards. I’m not really trying to run down the government regulators or the companies, because it’s not that easy to hit the numbers right on the head all the time. It is important to know this however if you are trying to count or monitor certain nutrients in your diet.
What do you need to know to help protect yourself? First of all you need to realize that the nutrition contents as they are reported on the label come from adding up the nutrients in the individual ingredients and not by testing the end product. So the more ingredients in a particular product, the more likelihood there is for error. Our Lean Cuisine might have 50 ingredients but a bag of carrots has one. Where do you think the error is more likely to be? Who do you think is more like to want to massage the number a little bit, the people selling the Lean Cuisine or the ones selling the carrots? Dropping the calories 20% might be quite a marketing boon for Lean Cuisine but it probably would be of little value to the carrots.
So what is my take way message? First, be more leery of food labels from products with lots of ingredients and foods that are marketed as being diet or lite. Second is to eat more whole fresh foods and you won’t have to worry about the labeling so much. A woman who is trying to maintain a 1500 calorie diet could be off by as much as 300 calories per day if everything she ate was mislabeled by 20%. This could cause a difference in her weight over the period of one year of as much as 31 pounds.
Hey, we know it’s a struggle, but we also know there are no quick fix, no magic pill, no more counting points, and no bad tasting pre packaged mail order food. When everything else has failed, you know it’s time for a lifestyle change. Inches A Weigh is a lifestyle center exclusively for women that combine nutrition counseling, and state of the art toning beds and fitness programs in an atmosphere where you’ll never feel out of place. Inches A Weigh lifestyle centers exclusively for women in Appleton and Green Bay, when you are finally ready to make a lifestyle change.
In a recent discussion I had with one of my weight loss clients the topic of reading food labels came up. As we talked I started to realize that this lady looked at the label on the side of the box of food as if it were gospel. This made me understand that I needed to do a little more research so I could educate my clients about reading labs.
The Federal Food and Drug Administration or FDA is the agency of the government that regulates how companies label their foods. Most people take it for granted that what the label says is what’s in the product. This is not the case however.
The FDA allows a whopping 20% lead way in the numbers that are reported on the label. This means if that Lean Cuisine you had for lunch was supposed to be 290 calories it might actually have been 348 calories and been perfectly fine by government labeling standards. I’m not really trying to run down the government regulators or the companies, because it’s not that easy to hit the numbers right on the head all the time. It is important to know this however if you are trying to count or monitor certain nutrients in your diet.
What do you need to know to help protect yourself? First of all you need to realize that the nutrition contents as they are reported on the label come from adding up the nutrients in the individual ingredients and not by testing the end product. So the more ingredients in a particular product, the more likelihood there is for error. Our Lean Cuisine might have 50 ingredients but a bag of carrots has one. Where do you think the error is more likely to be? Who do you think is more like to want to massage the number a little bit, the people selling the Lean Cuisine or the ones selling the carrots? Dropping the calories 20% might be quite a marketing boon for Lean Cuisine but it probably would be of little value to the carrots.
So what is my take way message? First, be more leery of food labels from products with lots of ingredients and foods that are marketed as being diet or lite. Second is to eat more whole fresh foods and you won’t have to worry about the labeling so much. A woman who is trying to maintain a 1500 calorie diet could be off by as much as 300 calories per day if everything she ate was mislabeled by 20%. This could cause a difference in her weight over the period of one year of as much as 31 pounds.
Hey, we know it’s a struggle, but we also know there are no quick fix, no magic pill, no more counting points, and no bad tasting pre packaged mail order food. When everything else has failed, you know it’s time for a lifestyle change. Inches A Weigh is a lifestyle center exclusively for women that combine nutrition counseling, and state of the art toning beds and fitness programs in an atmosphere where you’ll never feel out of place. Inches A Weigh lifestyle centers exclusively for women in Appleton and Green Bay, when you are finally ready to make a lifestyle change.
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