Twitter topic of the day: Do you give up too easily?

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My #questionoftheday is: Do you give up too easily?

Most people want results yesterday, forget about today, they want instant results. How realistic is that? How long did it take to get into your body's present state? It stands to reason that it will take a bit to get your body used to activity and a new diet, let alone see results. But what happens? Most people go into their diets and workouts with highly unrealistic expectations. Recipe for failure! That will just feed your doubts, negative attitude and insecurities when nothing happens fast. Then what happens, you quit and for what? That will get you nowhere fast, make you lose any progress you had and make it harder to restart. Quitting is the worst thing you can do once you begin. Give your diet and exercise program a real chance to succeed! It takes time to put your house in order and even more time to gain and see momentum. You have to be consistent and patient. Diet and train consistently, day in and day out and you will see wonderful changes in your body & health. Don't quit before you have a chance to reap the rewards of your efforts. Give yourself a chance to see and feel the progress you are making, no matter how small. Even a little is better than nothing at all, correct? Little by little, you'll make great strides! Once you get yourself in the habit of being consistent and positive, you can increase the intensity for even more results! Don't be a quitter! Don't you dare quit on yourself. Your diet or exercise program won't fail you, only YOU can fail you! #realtalk Go get it now, stop giving up on what you want and go get that body you want!

#Quote of the day: Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. - Vince Lombardi

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Twitter topic of the day: Do you know how to get rid of that one problem spot on your body?

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My #questionoftheday is: Do you know how to get rid of that one problem spot on your body?

We all have that one problem spot on our bodies. That one spot where fat never seems to want to leave. I'm here to give you some info on what to do, what to expect and what won't work. Love handles, hips, belly, thighs- the main areas where fat stores in men's & women's bodies. It seems to never go away no matter what you do. What to do? Spot reducing is a myth. No such thing. Exercising that one area will tighten the muscles underneath but do little to reduce the fat there. Forget pills, that's another myth. Reducing fat is an overall process and to remove it from a problem spot takes dedication. Here's why: your body genetically stores fat in pre-determined areas. That means it will hold onto it there. Even when you diet, it will still be there and will be the last place you will lose fat. BUT, you can lose it if you are persistent in your dieting & exercise efforts. Your problem area is where your fat is stored first and where you will lose it last. So, you may notice that you are losing fat elsewhere on your body but that one problem spot is still there. Keep attacking your diet and exercise and you will see your body finally begin to lose the fat stores there. At this point, you will have lost much fat and inches throughout the rest of your body but don't stop till you hit those fat stores too. Remember, slack off on your diet and your body will look to restore its fat store right back into the problem area. Attack it, stay on top of it. You CAN do it. Kiss that problem area goodbye!

#Quote of the day: No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change. - Bill Phillips

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Twitter topic of the day: How many pounds have you lost & kept off?

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My #questionoftheday is how many pounds have you lost when you've decided to diet & exercise AND how much of it have you kept off?

I'm sure many of you have dieted & exercised in the past with varying results. Some of you have lost, some of you haven't. Some of you have tried more than once to diet & exercise, again with varying results. Some of you have lost a lot, some have barely lost a pound no matter how hard they tried. What has gone wrong with these attempts? Some have had success but gained it all back and more later. Some had no success and gave up, only to gain more weight. What is wrong with all these all too familiar and far too common scenarios? The desire is there and so is the ambition but to go into a diet/exercise program without knowing what to do & how to do it right isn't good. Also having unrealistic expectations and not knowing what expectations are realistic is already working against you. You have to go into a diet/exercise program with clearly defined goals and realistic expectations if you want results that stick long-term. I want to lose 25 pounds isn't a clearly defined goal. I want to lose 25 pounds within the next 3 months & be more toned with good cardio is. The best way to have steady progress with your diet & exercise is to know what is realistic and achievable in the short-term. This will keep you from frustration that will derail you from staying motivated. At the same time, what you learn will help you long-term. Just because you failed at diet & exercise once or more doesn't mean you shouldn't try anymore. NO! Take what you learned & apply it again! Throw away what didn't work but DO apply what did work. Everyone's body reacts differently to diet & exercise. It's not one size fits all. What you learn from your failures is what you can apply with your next attempt. Learn all you can about diet, exercise & your body. DO NOT QUIT EVER. Keep at it. Make realistic expectations and goals and then work your butt off to make it happen. You CAN do it.

#Quote of the day: Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. - Aldous Huxley

Twitter topic of the day: Holidays, weekends & exercising

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My #questionoftheday is are you on holiday or using the holiday or weekend or other excuse to take off from your diet & exercise program?

With the holiday season coming upon us, now is the time to buckle down on your diet & exercise program! If you allow yourself to continue to slack off & not establish good new habits then you know what's going to happen come the holidays right? You're going to eat all that good holiday cooking, gain weight, feel guilty & miserable at the weight gain & make a new year's resolution. Then you know what happens after that New Year's resolution right? You make a committment that you keep for about 2 weeks before the cycle begins all over again and another year of fat & excuses rolls on. NOW is the time to make that committment to yourself. BEFORE the holiday season starts & all your ready made excuses start. NOW is the time to learn what foods are good for you to eat so you can eat well during the holidays and not gain weight. NOW is the time to learn discipline yourself into also exercising consistently so that if you do eat more holiday food, you can work it off. You have to start sometime and the truth is that there will always be some ready made EXCUSE for you not to begin. Stop the excuses! Time is ticking. The time is right to discipline yourself before the holidays. There's enough time to build good habits before then. Don't wait until the holidays are upon you to try to start because you know that hasn't worked out for you before. You CAN make it through the holidays without weight gain and you CAN even make progress with your weight loss & fitness goals.

#Quote of the day: Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can. - unknown

Twitter topic of the day: Do you shy away from exercise because of the soreness?

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My #questionoftheday is do you shy away from exercise because of the killer soreness you get from it?

A lot of people shy away from working out because of the pain. They feel they can't take the soreness but they don't understand what it means. The soreness comes from muscles that are being pushed. Muscles that haven't been pushed in a while or pushed beyond the normal. The burn that comes during the workout is a result of lactic acid buildup. That is different from the soreness felt the next day(s) later. The workout burn goes away within seconds after stopping an exercise. Given enough time between sets you can use it to your benefit. But that is not what I am talking about. I am talking about the soreness you feel the next day the minute you try to get out of bed. Here's what that soreness should tell you- you had a good workout!! You pushed yourself. You gave your muscles a wakeup call. As long as it's just exercise soreness that you're feeling then you should look at it as positive feedback from your body on your workout. Do you take a day off because you're sore? NO! Work through it. With a proper warmup, the soreness will go away as blood rushes into muscles. The way to get your body past the soreness phase is by powering through. Soreness can last from a day to a few days but it does go away. Do you know what you have after the soreness goes away? Besides relief, you will have stronger muscles. You have to keep at it. Your muscles rebuild and build more / tone up as you rest so the soreness tells you to rest the muscle. This is why sleep & recuperation is so important. Your body tears itself down while exercising and builds itself back up during rest. Don't shy away from the soreness. Don't shy away from the effort. Your health is at stake. Power through and just get it done. Make soreness a friend and use it to learn about your muscles and how your body reacts to exercise. No soreness? You're taking it too easy! Go get it! Challenge yourself! Push yourself and embrace the soreness as a sign of a job well done. Make sure you're smart about it. You want to push yourself but not to the point of injuring yourself. If you are sore for more than 2-3 days, then u pushed too much in your last workout for that sore bodypart. Pull back in your next workout. You can learn a lot about your body and exercise through how sore you are. Your body will let you know. ;)

#Exercise tip: Warmup & stretch before your workout. Warmup first with light cardio, then stretch the bodyparts you will be working on.

#Quote of the day: The pride you gain is worth the pain. - Dennis Ogilvie

Twitter topic of the day: Have you considered "quick fix" surgery?

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My #questionoftheday is have you ever considered liposuction, lapband, gastric bypass surgery or some other "quick fix" surgery?

A lot of people look for "quick fixes" like diet pills and even surgery to lose weight and get rid of fat. There is some value to this for select people, especially the morbidly obese BUT there is a BIG flaw to these surgeries or diet pills. The BIG flaw to diet pills and surgeries is that it is not changing your past behaviors that got you there nor is it making you healthier. Sure you may think and even feel healthier with the weight loss BUT it is exercise that makes your heart stronger. Too many people go for the quick fixes & don't change their behaviors so what happens? They slowly gain weight back! Now what?! Then they get depressed and frustrated that nothing works when in actuality what didn't work was their behavior! You have to change! To change the outside, you have to change the inside! You have to change your mindset & behavior! A quick fix isn't taking action! It took months, years to get all that fat stored. Your body is not going to just give it up, even if you get surgery. You have to exercise! The body will always fight to keep or get back to the mean weight it has learned & adjusted to be at so you have to fight back to lose it! Save your money in looking for quick fixes and instead invest your time, sweat and money in doing the right thing for your health & body. You can be your own quick fix, it's all within you BUT you are going to have to work and change your eating & exercise behaviors. Don't look for the easy way out, you'll just find that you will waste time & end up being frustrated. Instead rise up to the challenge!

#Quote of the day: Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat. - Jill Johnson

Twitter topic of the day: Reality TV & keeping realistic expectations

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My #questionoftheday is do you watch a TV show and get frustrated because you can't achieve the same results as what you see on TV?

I find that weight loss shows are very motivational IF you keep them in the right context. You have to always remember that its a TV show. For a TV show, there is no entertainment value in losing a lb or 2 but there is in 10 lbs even though that is not realistic of how it works. On a TV show, they are at a camp working 6-8 hours a day like a job and being pushed by trainers and have nutrition plans by trainers. But in reality, most people work, have other responsibilities and are lucky to get in a 1/2 hour of working out & slap together a diet. The reality is that a 1-2 lb loss in a week is a safe & realistic way to lose weight. This allows you to keep muscle which helps to burn fat. The TV shows are good in the attitude they try to foster and the motivation they try to give. If an obese person can lose weight, so can you. That is what you have to take away from a TV show. Remember that it's there for entertainment first. BUT the advice they give is very good. When they talk about not giving up, digging deep, etc. - well, its what you hear me say as a trainer as well with my daily tips. I don't necessarily agree with the tasks or workouts they show on these shows. They are over the top but they also have medical staff there. Some of these workouts you see on TV are over the top for entertainment purposes & to motivate you. The people signed up for that. In reality, you should give your workouts everything you got but you also have to not overtrain because that will stop your desire to wrkout. There is just no reason to try to imitate what u see on TV while you also try to work, go to school, etc. An hour workout max is good enough. Be realistic with your goals and expectations. Don't let a "TV show" make you think different. Apply common sense to your training & diet. A 1-2 lb loss a week may not seem glamorous but that's 4-8 lbs in a month and that will show in your clothes & how they fit. 1-2 lbs loss a week = 4-8 lbs a month = 12-24 lbs in 3 months. See how slow and steady will get you there? Just be consistent & realistic. What I will applaud of these TV shows is the trainers real desire to help & the contestants real desire to help themselves. 100% real! Take the advice, take the heart shown and motivate yourself to do your best. You can achieve your own big results if you just do it!

#Quote of the day: When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place. - unknown

Twitter topic of the day: Do you shy away from diet/exercise because it's hard?

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My #questionoftheday is do you shy away from diet & exercise because it's hard?

No one said diet & exercise would be easy! Do you think that you are going to lose what you have built up over months & years without work? No one said diet & exercise would be easy! Do you think that you are going to lose what you have built up over months & years without work? Is it going to be hard to do your diet & workout? Yes, no doubt it will be. But it also isn't going to be as hard as you think it will be. You will get out of your diet & exercise exactly what you put into it. You will get out of it exactly what you make up your mind about it. If you tell yourself you hate to diet & exercise, you have already defeated yourself & psyched yourself out. You are destined to fail. If you tell yourself diet & exercise is going to be hard but you have to do what you have to do then you have a realistic outlook. A realistic outlook and attitude towards diet & exercise will serve you well when the inevitable plateaus occur. Dieting & exercising is going to be hard but you have the ability to make it easier by making up your mind that it will be so. Your body will fight to hold onto the mean weight and fat stores it has. You will have to work hard to establish a new mean weight. Dieting is more a mental thing than it is hard so making up your mind to change your past diet behaviors is key to succeeding. As for workouts, the word itself should give you a clue - you have to WORK to get the body you want! Work it out! ;) While it may be hard to start, once u have done it for at least 2 weeks you will notice it getting easier as yourbody & mind get used to it. That initial adjustment period is the hardest hurdle to overcome. The next big hurdle will be when you plateau. It will get easier if you honestly give it the effort. You will find that after a while you will find yourself wanting to challenge yourself. As you see results, u will push your workouts harder, etc. Then it is an issue of not overtraining & doing too much but that's another topic. So stop the excuses and get yourself moving today towards the body you wish to have. It's going to be tough but you're tougher! Go for it!

#Quote of the day: When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow." Tomorrow is disease. - V.L. Allineare

Twitter topic of the day: Don't psyche yourself out of dieting & exercising

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My #questionfortheday is do you psych yourself out of dieting and exercising?

Get out of your own way! Dieting and exercising is hard. It's not easy or fun to lose weight. It's true but you knew that already so now go from there. Don't make excuses to slack off on your diet or not do it all, same for exercise. One day off will become two, etc. Stop the cycle! You know it's going to be work to diet and work off the pounds that took you months & even years to pack on. So dig down deep & attack it. Find motivation in the mirror, your clothes, whatever it takes to get the job done day after day. Eventually the motivation will come! You have to allow yourself the time to get to that point where you can start results that will feed your motivation! Be patient. Unrealistic expectations are the detours to your success. You are getting fitter & healthier just by dieting & exercising. Don't psych yourself out from dieting & exercising, psych yourself up instead to get it done. You can do it! if you can't do it on your own, then do what you need to do to find someone who can psych you up and motivate you from day to day! Finding someone to help hold you accountable to your dieting & working out can sometimes be the difference between success or failure. Just make sure you find someone who is not going to derail your diet and exercise program and that will always push you forward. Go for it! No excuses. Excuses when it comes to #diet & #exercise will just keep you in the same present you are now. Embrace your future!

#Quote of the day: Self-trust is the first secret of success. - Ralph Waldo Emerson