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Link Time! Inspiration Boards, Instant Oatmeal, and More

admin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:04:14 +0000

This is interesting: A diet rich in starchy, processed carbs will pack pounds on both men and women . But, when it comes to heart disease, the same diet seems to be harder on women’s hearts than men’s, says Charlotte at The Great Fitness Experiment. Couch potatoes don’t go from flab to fit overnight. If you’ve been off your fitness game, the best way to get back to it is one step at a time , says Skwigg Blog. This “fitness snowball” adds one gradual change on top of another until you are back in your full program. Continue reading…

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Things I’ve Learned About Diet & Fitness

admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:03:27 +0000

It’s been a long time since I started blogging and thinking about diet & fitness. I’ve seen lots of fads, bloggers, books, and techniques come and go. So, now that I’m the grand old age of *cough* late-thirties *cough*, it’s time to look back on a few things I’ve learned. You might completely disagree, and that’s fine. I’m not out to be provocative, but just honest. I’ve learned that it’s a good idea to look after your body, not get too caught up in quick-fixes, and to retain an overall perspective of our place in the world. So here it is. A brain-dump of diet & fitness trivia, in no particular order. Continue reading…

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How to Set a Goal for Better Health

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:00:25 +0000

” Set a goal ,” it’s one of the most common recommendations given to people who want to lose weight, or improve their fitness. It’s good advice, too. Having a goal gives you something to reach for, and there’s just nothing like the feeling you get when you set out to do something, and then did it. Continue reading…

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[Forum] Protein Choices and Fat Loss

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:42:48 +0000

Paying close attention to your diet is extremely important, especially as you begin a new exercise routine and choose to be healthier. You won’t lose weight without watching how much, of what types of food you eat every day, and what kinds of foods you’re choosing for your protein, carbs and healthy fat. Take the meat in your diet, for example. Make sure you choose lean cuts of meat to benefit both your health and your waistline. By definition, lean cuts of meat are lower in fat and calories. Eating a healthy meal of fish like salmon is as delicious as it is healthy for you. There are also a number of different methods and seasonings you can use to prepare your chicken, turkey and other fish varieties. Though red meat can be high in saturated fats and calories- you don’t need to cut out red meat entirely from your diet. As long as you make sure that the red meats you choose are lean, there won’t be a significant enough difference in fat and calories to derail your fitness goals. All you need to do is educate yourself on the healthiest cuts of meat and the cuts that you should definitely avoid if your looking to burn body fat. The ribbons of fat that are found in a typical cut of meat help provide flavor and tenderness, while adding fat and calories to your daily intake. Prime cuts of meat have the most marbling (that ribbon effect), and select cuts have the least. Choose select cuts of meats with loin or round in the name, such as sirloin, tenderloin and eye of round, as they are typically the leanest. Choosing a lean cut of meat can assist you in your weight loss goals. But just because they are leaner cuts, doesn’t mean they have to be tough or flavorless. When cooking a lean meat, try marinating it or dressing it with a salsa, specialty mustard or other low-calorie and low-sugar dressing. These options will help the meat to remain tender without packing in excess calories. Just because you’ve selected a lean meat, and cooked it without butter or oil, doesn’t mean you can have as much as you want. You still need to watch your serving size. Ask your trainer and nutrition consultant what amount of protein is appropriate for your goals because everyone’s body has different needs. Make sure to load up your plate with clean veggies of all varieties. Clean-meaning no butter, excess oil or heavy dressings. Eating extra veggies before your meal like a salad and during your meal, for instance steamed asparagus, will not only help fill you up but help your body digest your protein properly. Lastly, don’t forget to change it up here and there. Occasionally adjust your meal plan to avoid getting bored with the same foods-tempting you to cheat on your program with rich, calorie dense meals . And as always, talk with your personal trainer or nutritionist to make sure that the foods you are eating meet your body’s needs. We’re here to help! Enjoy!

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[Forum] How do You Beat the Holiday Pitfalls?

admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:15:48 +0000

This is the time of year when many of my clients have a tough time sticking to their fitness goals….what do you do to start, stick to, and or create new habits to help fitness be apart of you busy holiday season?

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Hike the Hill: Preventing Knee Pain

admin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:00:28 +0000

Fall is the perfect time to hike. There’s a cool breeze, the fallen leaves make the trail even softer, and once you reach the pinnacle, you’ll be amazed at the gorgeous foliage across the horizon. I love to try out new mountain trails, but find that the steep inclines and declines can be really hard on my knees. If this sounds familiar, don’t let achy knees keep you off the trail. Here are some ways you can prevent pain to these joints. Make sure your footwear is supportive. Sneakers provide cushioning, but they won’t stabilize your ankles, which can also help to prevent your knees from turning out. So wear trail runners or hiking shoes that go over your ankle. Invest in a pair of trekking poles . They look like ski poles, and when you use them to help you ascend and descend, they take some of the weight and work out of your lower body, and share it with your arms and back. So not only will you get more of a total body workout, but it’s less demanding on your knees. Go easy on the gear. Even though a little pack may not add a ton of extra weight, downward force on your knees can reach eight times the weight applied, so even five extra pounds can add 40 pounds of pressure to your knee joints. For a day hike all you need is water, some food, an extra layer, and your cell phone. If you have to bring along more, ask a helpful friend to carry it in their pack. For more great tips, keep reading

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Are You On the Twilight Diet?

admin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:00:27 +0000

Have you heard about the Twilight diet? At first I thought it was a term Twilighters – aka die-hard Twilight fans – used to describe their voracious appetites for all things Edward and Bella – books, movies, pictures, life-size Robert Pattinson cutouts – but it’s actually related to food. Twilight vernacular is everywhere, even in the world of health and fitness. I’ve written a little about Taylor Lautner’s quest to bulk up for New Moon . In order to be a believable Jacob the werewolf, the young star was in the gym every day for two hours to put on the needed 30 pounds of muscle. “I had to eat every two hours,” says Lautner. “At one point, my trainer said, ‘Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonalds get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.’ Because my body fat at the time was only, like, 7.5 percent” Lautner’s fitness routine is what the urban dictionary calls the Twilight diet : Person A : Yo man, I wanna get ripped. Person B : Yeah man, follow the Twilight diet! I wonder what Michael Phelps and Venus Williams would think if they knew they were on the Twilight diet while training, and didn’t even know it? To hear about the “other” Twilight diet read more. I was curious if the Twilight diet was actually being followed, and not only did I find out that it is, I also discovered that there is another diet with the same name – and it seemed to be at odds with the already mentioned Twilight diet! What’s a fan to do? In the first movie we are introduced to the Cullens, a family of vampires who resist their natural desire to feed on humans. This desire becomes even more exasperated when Edward Cullen falls in love with Bella, a human. Some Twilighters are using this narrative as a model of self-control in their own lives. If Edward and the rest of the Cullens can resist eating humans then they, the fans, can resist eating chocolate cake. There are tons of posts on Twilight boards and blogs affirming that Twilight has been a catalyst for lifestyle changes. Apparently fans are so busy consuming everything Twilight , they have less time to eat. On top of this they are also adopting the Cullen’s method of self-control. This combo has led to some serious weight loss – some fans have lost six pounds, while others claim 25. I admit that the Twilight diet is an easy target, but you can also look at it as inspiration coming in many different forms. For some it’s a vampire series that spawns a lifestyle change. Odd? Perhaps. But it’s great to see people making choices for the better, whatever the reason. Have you ever found inspiration from an unlikely source?

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Track Your Fitness Progress and See Results

admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:00:44 +0000

It takes about six weeks for a bonafide couch potato to see real results from a fitness program, though feeling the results starts to happen immediately. Unfortunately, many people just aren’t that patient, and quit long before they’ve really even begun. Going from flab to fit can seem like a long, overwhelming process. But the truth is, every day you stick with it is a day closer to your goal. As the visual evidence in the video above proves. Continue reading…

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Children’s Health Magazine: Brought To You By Lucky Charms!

admin — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:00:49 +0000

There’s a lot of buzz surrounding the launch of ” Children’s Fitness Magazine “, Rodale Press’ latest magazine endeavour (whose line-up includes Men’s Health, Women’s Health, and Prevention to name a few). The magazine appears to have all the right ingredients for success (at least it’s inaugural issue does)–including none other than the First Lady on the cover and featured in an exclusive interview within, as well as Oprah’s go-to Doc Mehmet Oz, weighing in on the 5 most critical health tips for new parents. Continue reading…

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Your Anchors & How They Keep You From Your Weight Loss Goals

admin — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:19:22 +0000

Anchors are the reasons that attach you to any behavior. Your anchors originated from extremely strong repetitive memory associations, which are triggered by your five senses of hearing, vision, smell, taste, and touch. You are constantly being anchored in different ways through out your life. For example, when you hear a certain song and it brings back a memory of a certain person, or a place in time, this is an audio anchor or an anchor triggered by your sense of hearing. Have you ever met someone for the first time and noticed that something about them reminds you of someone or something else? This is a visual anchor or an anchor triggered by your sense of sight. Until now all of your anchors have been installed in your subconscious mind by someone else or by accident and in most cases you were not even aware of them. Now for the first time through the process of Burris MIND/FITNESS, you can learn how to anchor a reaction or behavior you want on purpose and consistently get the results you want over and over, until you are assured of attaining your weight goal. It is important to understand that your subconscious mind can be triggered into a negative anchored behavior without even pausing to consider what it is doing. It is this type of behavior that is responsible for your worst eating habits. I refer to this type of behavior as “No Thought Eating.” At the time of “No Thought Eating” your subconscious mind has given no consideration to what it is doing and your conscious mind is not even aware that anything is taking place. A good example of this is when you are feeling fearful, guilty angry, or bored. You immediately look for something to eat, even if you are not hungry. In most cases you will look for what you refer to as your comfort foods, which is anything that is high in sugar, fat or both. Let us say you come across a bag of cookies, without any hesitation you eat one and before you realize it, you are eating the whole bag. Sometime during this “No Thought Eating” binge your conscious mind awakens to what is taking place. You stop your eating binge and now along with feeling fearful, guilty, angry, or bored; you are also probably a little nauseous. The first thought that pops into your mind is: “Why Did I Eat That? I wasn’t even hungry!” How many times have you asked yourself this self-defeating negative question “Why Did I Eat That?” The second you asked yourself this question, your subconscious mind is triggered into action to find an answer, which in turn produces a correlating picture. Surprise, surprise what did it find in your subconscious eating behavior program? It found you ate the cookies because you were feeling fearful, guilty, angry, or bored. Of course it did because that is exactly how you were programmed as a child to react to fear, guilt, anger, or boredom. Once again your subconscious mind will take this answer and the correlating picture of you being overweight and use it to anchor you even deeper to your childhood program. Here is where the fun starts, what you have to do in order to change your existing negative anchored behaviors of “No Thought Eating?” You simply restructure your question from its negative form of “Why did I eat that?” to a positive form question of “How can I stop this no thought eating when I am feeling fearful, guilty, angry, or bored?” Your subconscious mind will now produce a positive answer to your new positive question such as: When you are feeling fearful, guilty, angry or bored, find an activity you enjoy in place of eating. Once again these new answers will produce empowering correlating pictures that will move you toward your weight goal. It is truly that simple, positive empowering questions = positive empowering results. From this time on, it is essential that you are always conscious of your inner voice, thereby insuring that all of your self-questions are positive ones and insuring that you always maintain a positive emotional state. Regardless of weather your goal is a change in diet for weight loss, an increase in your fitness program or to take control of an eating disorder such as anorexia or bulimia. In the end the question you need to ask yourself is…Am I completely happy with the mind running itself or do I need to take control of it? If your answer is I need to take control of it, then Burris MIND/FITNESS is the answer. The health of your body is dependent on your mental health and taking control of the subconscious is the key to lasting permanent change of any behavior.

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