Category Archives: Fitness

It’s Not Too Late To Start Your Resolutions!

I’m currently on my own personal weight-loss journey that I ultimately hope will inspire others to become fit, happy and healthy. This was my motivation for writing my first best-selling book, “Confessions of a Reformed Dieter“, founding the weight-loss support network My Healthy Body Club and for creating this blog.

It’s also for these reasons that I contribute to a regular column on celebrity blogger Perez Hilton’s health and wellness website: fitperez.com. This week I talk about how it’s never too late to make a change for the better (although the sooner, the thinner!)

 

It’s not too late to start your new year’s resolutions! Guess what? It’s never too late to make a change for the better. It’s not like there’s some government body that will come and escort you from the gym just because you started your New Year’s health kick a few weeks later than you thought you would. Read more here.

Why not start by pledging to exercise 2012km in the year 2012 (and win a Polar Heart Monitor while you’re at it)…

2012 in 2012

Fitness Challenge – Win a Polar Heart Rate Monitor

I got a Facebook message from one of my girls in Healthy Body Club, a weight loss support network for women I have run for the last 8 years, and it was such a great idea I had to share it with everyone.

She had committed to doing 2012 kilometres of exercise in 2012 and asked me if I wanted to join in.  Now I am no runner, so much so that just yesterday I took this quote as my inspiration: No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everyone on the couch! So if I am being honest, and not deluding myself that I am in any way sporty or athletic (I managed to avoid ALL high school sports by writing the school newspaper), then I will admit that this would be a challenge if I agreed to do it.

But see, therein lies the key to me saying, “Why sure I’ll do it!” because if there is anything I love more than chocolate, it is a challenge. Seriously, I accidentally signed up for the longest of three triathlon distances a few years ago and instead of swapping out to the beginner distance which is what I should have done, instead I committed to doing it (and finishing), no matter how long it took.…

Think outside the box

At work and talking yourself into bypassing the gym only to go home and veg out in front of the TV, promising you will work out twice as hard tomorrow?

At home convincing yourself that you are just too tired to go for a walk but you will run twice as far tomorrow?

Today’s workout is meant to be done today. It’s that simple.

Talking yourself into something takes just as much energy as talking yourself out of it.  Time spent debating whether or not you will stay within those four walls is time and energy wasted. You won’t ever get it back so don’t even bother indulging those thoughts. As soon as that debate starts inside your head, get up, get moving and before you know it you have finished the workout you were not going to do and you will more than likely feel bloody good about it.

Think outside the box, think outside your mind, think outside the room you are in and get to where you want to go faster!

 

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One size does not fit all!

Round em up! All of them! You can spot em a mile away. They
all look alike…..they tend to stick together and they are different ….the food
they eat….the clothes they wear…. ….…. they should be labeled, segregated and diligently separated from the other of their kind, the ones who are obviously far superior. I am speaking of, dare I say it, the larger models appearing in today’s catwalk show, “Big is Beautiful”, part of The Mercedes Fashion Week.

Now when I say “larger” and “big” I don’t really mean obese,
or even overweight. More than likely the women walking the catwalk will be a more genuine representation of the normal, average every day woman,
statistically a higher percentage of the population than the majority of models gracing the other catwalks this week.

But I have just one question to ask? Why are these statistically realistic, healthy, empowered, beautiful women given “their own show”? What’s next? “Black is back?” “Jew is new”? Seriously, before you call me racist you had better be sure you are not being size-ist! Because believe me, I am sick and tired of this segregational size-ism that goes on again and again and again.

Take Ricki-Lee – a beautiful and talented woman.…