Archive for January, 2009

Super BOWL or Super GOALS?

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

OK, Super Bowl Sunday is tomorrow…  it’s the long awaited day when we see who is the ‘best of the best’ in professional football – there will be a winner and a loser, right?   Well, in the business of fitness, this day also has profound meaning…  it’s the day that we can tell the Resolutes from the [...]

You Can RESIST Change, You Can RESENT Change, But You Can’t STOP Change

Monday, January 26th, 2009

I read this exact phrase in a dear friends sales newsletter and thought, yup, I GET IT.
 Every day we are innundated with CHANGE, some good, some not so, some welcomed, some feared, but change is truly the one constant in life.
In my work with my clients  there are things they can control, and many they can’t.  [...]

Take a Lesson from Our New President’s “Do Over”!!

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Don’t You Love It?
Even the President of the United States, in his first full day on the job declared one of my favorite things….a “Do Over!”  after flubbing his oath of office the first time. 
I know I have mentioned in these posts before my love of the DO OVER opportunity from my grade school days [...]

“New Era of Responsibility”

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Our 44th president, in his acceptance speech today, challenged all American’s with a New Era of Responsibility.
How about starting with being responsible (’able to respond’) for  your health and fitness?  Why not empower yourself with this inspiring message?  Make choices on the side of loving yourself and taking small steps on your behalf.    There is power in [...]

Eat fast….. Get F A T !

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Straight from the British Medical Journal:
“Want to lose weight?  Then slow down at mealtime and don’t stuff yourself.”  (Ed note: sounds easy, right?  TRY it one day!)
The study goes on to say “People who wolf down their food and eat until they feel full are three times more likely to be overweight than those who [...]

Do YOU have a Prevention Intention?

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

I just LOVE that term, as it says so very much!  We live in a country of over comsumption, food, drinks, pills, material things..the works! In health terms, prevention means thinking about the future before it sneaks up on you as a disease, condition or injury (or worse!) that you COULD have avoided, IF you [...]