It’s another New Year and like countless other people, you will wake up on January 1, 2010 with the intention of losing weight and getting in shape. You are not alone!
On average, only 20% of people actually stick to their New Year’s resolutions with the biggest failures in fitness resolutions.
If you want to be successful with YOUR fitness new year’s resolutions, you need to make lasting changes that work for you through out the year.
Over 66% of adult Americans are considered overweight or obese. Join the 33% that are not. Exercise keeps you healthy and makes you look and feel better. Why not make this year the time to get in shape!
Here are some tips to help you succeed with your fitness resolutions, lose that weight, and get in shape!
- Set realistic fitness goals. Make your fitness goals attainable. If you think that 1 week is enough time to lose 15 pounds or get those nicely toned arms, forget it. Neither of those fitness goals is realistic. There is no instant fix. If you want to lose weight, figure out a healthy weight for your height and frame, then determine a reasonable amount of time to get to your new weight. With exercise, be careful of taking on too much, too fast. It will just exhaust and maybe even injure you. Take it slow and set your fitness goals accordingly.
- Diets don’t work. Diets are temporary fixes to your eating problem. When you finish “the diet”, YOU still have your eating problem. Get onboard with a lifestyle that will keep you healthy for life. The foods you consume on a daily basis affect your healthy everyday. With lifestyle changes, you modify or eliminate bad eating habits and replace them with good ones. Then maintain those good habits.
- Ditch the junk food. Are you still buying junk food at the market and then “trying” not to eat it when you get home? Stop buying the junk food. Eliminate junk food from your life. Forget the processed food and sugar filled foods. That second of joy you think you get from junk foods can lead to health problems, feeling awful, and weight gain. When you start eating healthy foods, you will be amazed at how good you feel!
- Schedule your exercise. So many people say, “I don’t have time to exercise”. What else are you doing? Busy surfing the Internet, watching TV, or doing a whole lot of nothing? Schedule your exercise just like you would any other important meeting or event. It’s important! Do it!
- Create a home gym. Joining a gym can be expensive, so create one at home – it will cost much less. There are many alternatives to a gym like workout DVDs and WII fit programs. It’s also more convenient to work out at home. Click here for some great home fitness DVDs!
- Cook and eat at home. Eating out is expensive and restaurant meals have significantly more calories then sometime healthy you can cook for yourself at home. Restaurants are in business because of their great tasting food which is filled with lots of added sugar, too much sodium, and loads of fat calories.
- Follow a well-rounded fitness program. Do your research before starting any fitness program. If you never run and suddenly decide to start running 6 miles a day, that is not a good choice. In this case, a better plan is to include stretching, walking, and jogging until you work your way up to running.
- Be patient. It took you a long time to get in your current shape. It will take some time to fix it.
- Get support. Find a friend or community that you can turn to for support when you need it! Find out how you can get the support you need at the Team Beachbody community! You can even win money just for working out – now that’s incentive!
If you do nothing else and can not afford a gym membership or home fitness DVDs, go outside and walk – it’s FREE. Just 30 minutes per day of walking can help improve your fitness and contribute to weight loss.
Insanity is Shaun T’s latest, cardio-based 60-day fitness program. Insanity promises to get you in the best shape of your life! That is, if you do the exercises for 60-days and follow the Insanity Elite Nutrition plan. The Insanity Elite Nutrition plan is part of the Insanity at-home fitness package – Insanity 10-DVD base kit or Insanity Deluxe 13-DVD kit.
When you do an intense exercise program like Insanity, you must eat healthy! The Insanity Elite Nutrition guide teaches you about balanced nutrition and how to feed your body what it needs to survive Insanity!
We all like to be social or emotional eaters, or just eat whatever is convenient. But that won’t work too good when you do Insanity with Shaun T. If you are serious about transforming your body, understand that the primary purpose of food is fuel. Your body needs fuel to function, especially if you are doing an intense, cardio-interval based fitness program like Insanity.
The Insanity Elite Nutrition guide is designed to power your body through the most intense workouts of your life! It’s true. Even if you work out a lot, Insanity will be a challenge for you too. With the Elite Nutrition guide, you will learn how to eat healthy while you power through Insanity fitness, but you will also understand how to eat long after you complete Insanity.
The Insanity nutrition guide teaches you:
- How to determine your daily caloric needs.
- When to eat.
- How many daily meals to eat.
You get a yummy array of meals aimed at keeping your metabolism burning steadily. The Insanity meals range from Teriyaki Grilled Tuna and Chicken Stir-fry, to breakfast protein pancakes and berry protein smoothies! The Elite Nutrition guide is 70 pages packed with learning, recipes, Michi’s Ladder chart, and food substitution lists to further customize your nutrition plan
Using this eating and nutritional plan, the Insanity test group’s metabolism was kicked into high gear and they lost weight so fast they had to add calories each week just to maintain!
If you commit to Insanity and the Elite Nutrition plan, you can be in the best shape of your life in 60-days. No one said it would be easy, it takes hard work and commitment but YOU can do it! Take the challenge. See you in 60-days!
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Kim Alexis is one of America’s first super models. She has done more than 500 photo shoots! After having three beautiful children, Kim struggled with hypothyroidism and weight gain. She tried for years to lose the weight with no success. Then Kim discovered Slim in 6 with Debbie Siebers. In just 6 weeks, Kim lost 30 pounds. This is Kim’s Slim in 6 success story.
The things that helped her keep her weight down in her twenties, no longer worked for Kim. She gained weight and no longer felt good about herself in her forties. She got up to 174 pounds! In the first week of Slim in 6, she lost 10 pounds. By week 6, she lost a whopping 29 pounds!
The 6 days express program was especially helpful and helped Kim to get those fast results.
She felt so motivated after the first 6 days of losing 10 pounds that she had no problem doing the next few weeks of Slim in 6. This Debbie Siebers program really worked for Kim Alexis, and she looks fabulous now! But you do not have to be a super model to look good.
If you commit to fitness and a healthy lifestyle, you can look good too. Slim in 6 is a great program to help you reach your fitness goals!
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Watch what Kim Alexis has to say to Julie Moran about Slim in 6.
What’s your Slim in 6 success story? I want to hear from you!
Are you a junk food junkie with a weakness for junk food that you can’t control? What is junk food? Junk food contributes little or no nutritional value to your diet. Instead, it contributes calories, fat, and makes you cranky. Making dietary changes in your life can be hard but you can do it. All it takes is a commitment by you to a healthier life. With that in mind, here are 6 tips to help you steer clear of junk food.
- If you find yourself eating too much fast food, save all your receipts for one week. Everyday, put your fast food receipts in safe place. At the end of the week, add up how much you spent on fast food. You may just be shocked at what you are spending on fast food. A couple of dollars here and there can easily add up to $50 or $100 per week. You can wean yourself off fast food by only spending half the amount the next week. Do the exercise again each week, cutting the amount spent each week in half until you get to zero. By then you should start feeling better and realize how much money you were throwing away on fatty food that made you cranky.
- Make a list of junk food you eat all the time. In an adjacent column, write down a healthy replacement snack for each item in your junk list. For example, if you wrote down Twinkies in the junk food column, you may want to replace it with strawberries and plain yogurt. Each week, pick one junk food and eat its replacement instead. Continue doing this until you are no longer eating the junk food but only the healthy replacements.
- Use visualization. Focus on how your life will change when you are no longer sugared up on junk foods. Focus on the changes: more energy, less cranky, more stamina, looking better, nicer skin, and so on.
- Do not buy junk food. Keep it out of your house. If you must have something sweet, walk to the nearest restaurant, sit down and order a single slice of cake or something else sweet. Take your time eating it, pay for it, and leave. Then go home.
- Eat breakfast, it’s the most important meal of the day! Eating a good breakfast will help you curb your hunger during the day. Eat complex carbohydrates. And don’t forget to drink plenty of water throughout the day.
- Join an online community where you find workout tools, community support, and customizable meal plans to help you make better choices. Click here to find out about two great ways to join the Team Beachbody community.
What are your favorite ways for avoiding junk foods?
If you have a large belly, then you have a spare tire around your middle. If you are already working out, you are well on your way to losing it. Great! That fat around your middle can cause lots of problems if you do not reduce it. According to the Mayo Clinic, your belly fat surrounds your abdominal organs and can cause you serious internal health like:
- Heart disease
- Type 2 diabetes
- Stroke
- Sleep apnea
If you are concerned, just get a tape measure and measure your waist. For men, if your waist measure 40 inches or more, you are carrying too much belly fat. For women, 35 inches or more is too much! Reducing your waistline takes work but it can be fun too!
Just 30 minutes a day of high intensity aerobic exercise will help you lose that belly fat. If you are just starting out, Slim in 6 or Hip Hop Abs are great choices. If you want a more intense workout, try Power 90 or P90X!
But exercise alone won’t be enough. You also need a healthy diet of whole grains, lean protein, fruits, and veggies to help you lose those extra inches. Don’t forget to limit your alcohol intake!
Did you know that by replacing just one meal per day with a Shakeology drink can get you on the road to your weight loss quicker? This is another great way to keep those pounds coming off even when you don’t have time to exercise everyday!
Learning what to eat is made easy with Team Beachbody’s fitness tools and community of people that there to help you reach your fitness goals! You can join for free - click here to join Team Beachbody for free and take advantage of health and fitness tools, plus a free Coach (me).
Working out and eating clean, healthy foods can help you lose that belly fat and flatten that stomach.
Are you up for the challenge? Get started today. Send me your testimonial and results in 30 days!
Shaun T will push you past your limits with his new Insanity 10 workout discs packed with plyometric drills on top of nonstop intervals of strength, power, resistance, and ab and core training moves. No equipment or weights needed with Insanity. Just the will to get the hardest body you’ve ever had.
Update 7/08:
>> INSANITY AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW! Click here to buy the base kit $119.85
A leading fitness expert and personal trainer, Shaun T likes to pack dance and exercise into one energetic fitness routine that will get you ripped. You will even learn some dance moves and working out with Shaun T is lots of fun.
Shaun T’s new Beachbody exercise program is called Insanity. Are you crazy enough to do it? The base Insanity Kit comes with 10 DVD’s! The deluxe includes 13!
We expect it to launch in July 2009 with the base of 10 workouts, including:
1. Dig Deeper/Fit Test
2. Plyometric Cardio Circuit
3. Cardio Power & Resistance
4. Cardio Recovery/Max Recovery
5. Pure Cardio/Cardio Abs
6. Cardio Abs
7. Core Cardio & Balance
8. Max Interval Circuit
9. Max Interval Plyo
10. Max Cardio Conditioning/Cardio Abs
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Poppy Montgomery, star of “Without a Trace”, gained a whopping 70 pounds during her pregnancy last year. She now has a beautiful 10- 1/2 month old son, Jackson Phillip Deveraux. Like many pregnant women, Poppy Montgomery says, “I ate with no guilt!” She was very happy about eating all that food!
Being a celebrity and star, Poppy knew that eventually she would have to shed those pounds and get back to camera-ready form. Just 3-weeks after giving birth to Jackson, Poppy Montgomery signed up for the Sunfare meal-delivery service (restricting her food intake to 1,200 calories per day).
She also got P90X and exercised at home six days per week! By this past September, she was back in her size 27 jeans. She shared, “All the hard work paid off.” “It was hard, but worth it.”
If Poppy can do it so can you! P90X is for everyone!
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Are you enjoying the benefits of Beachbody’s supplements, like whey protein powder, Shakeology, P90X recovery drink, or other nutritional products? Are you like me, and forget to order these each month and then run out? I finally discovered that Beachbody has a Home Direct program. When you order your supplements on the Home Direct program, you will enjoy a fresh supply conveniently delivered to your door every month on the same day!
This is a real convenience for you. Are you too busy to remember to order things and lose track of time? If you decide to try ordering your nutritional supplements on Beachbody’s Home Direct program, remember, you can cancel at any time, just contact Team Beachbody Customer Support to cancel your Home Direct (autoship) order.
You can also change the items you want to receive. I’ts very easy (and convenient).
Here is a list of Beachbody nutritionals that you can order on the Home Direct program. I love this! It’s like being on auto-pilot! Here is how to get started with Home Direct.
- Log into your Team Beachbody account. If you do not have an account, just sign up here for FREE.
- Click the Store link (button).
- On the Products page, click Home Direct. There you will find all the products that you can choose from for Home Direct shipment.
These are:
Core Nutrition
- Core Cal-Mag™
- Core Omega-3™
- ActiVit® Metabolism Formula
- ActiVit® Body Toning Formula
- Shakeology®
Weight Management
- Meal Replacement Shake (chocolate, vanilla)
- Slimming Formula
- 2-Day Fast Formula® (chocolate, vanilla)
Performance
- Performance Formula
- P90X® Peak Health Formula
- P90X Performance Bars Mocha
- P90X Performance Bars Berry
- P90X® Results and Recovery Formula
- Strength/Muscle Men Formula
- Whey Protein Powder
Wellness
- Herbal Immune Boost
- Joint Support Super Formula
- Joint Support Super Formula
Supplement Packs
- Core Nutrition Pack – Metabolism
- Core Nutrition Pack – Body Toning
- P90X Peak Health Formula Performance Formula
- Results Pack
- Renewal Pack
- Slimming Pack
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Barbara D. dropped 14 percent of her body fat with Slim in 6! When her body began to reflect the stress of four life altering events, she became burned out, exhausted and overweight.Not only did she decrease her body fat with Slim in 6, but also increased her energy levels.
She stopped working out because she no longer made time for it and she did not eat the proper foods. Finally,a chance meeting changed her life. She bumped into her ex-husband and his new girlfriend. She looked great because she had completed P90X. So Barbara ordered P90X too. After receiving it, she was a little overwhelmed by the 90 days program. She opted instead for Slim in 6, the 6-week program Debbie Siebers programs
Barbara ran into many more problems during the course of her transformation with Slim in 6, but she completed the program and lost 11 pounds and 14 percent of her body fat.
Now that she completed Slim in 6, and got the results she wanted, she is starting P90X! She also won $1000 playing the Million Dollar Body Game!
Ready to get started with your own body transformation? Click here to try Slim in 6 now.
Kathy Smith took center stage at the Diabetes Expo at Long Beach Convention Center to share Beachbody’s healthy lifestyle solution Project:YOU! Type 2.
Project:YOU! Type 2 is a 12-week fitness program aimed at those who have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes. You may help manage or prevent it with this revolutionary new lifestyle program, Kathy Smith’s Project:YOU! Type 2.Nearly 24 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes!
This program was developed in conjunction with doctors, certified diabetes educators, and the American Diabetes Association, Project:YOU! Type 2 is the first all-in-one solution to help manage diabetes, reduce your risk for diabetes complications, and get you back in control of your life!
Check out the video below to see the excitement at the Diabetes Expo!
Now for the first time, the American Diabetes Association has joined with Beachbody® and Kathy Smith to help fight this devastating disease.
Fitness Magazine picked Kathy Smith’s Project:YOU! as one of the 10 best fitness programs for beginners. Now Beachbody, with the support of the American Diabetes Association, has combined those same workouts with a complete diet and lifestyle plan to help deal with or prevent type 2 diabetes.
