"Diet" is not a verb

Just eating less chocolate cake is not a life plan.


Nutritional balance is the key....it's all about WHAT you are taking in, what kind of work you are doing, how much you are doing and what you are fueling yourself with.


Food is not the enemy.

Factors we consider when making choices:

Taste
Emotional Comfort
Budget
Personal Preference
Values
Availability


Why is it that health benefits are often at the bottom of that list?


What is a carb?

ENERGY- Useable power.


PROTEIN-,, FISH, POLTRY ETC...are amino acids. Key in supporting body's structure. it keeps the machinery running smoothly.

Fat is often viewed as negative. It supplies more than twice the calories of other nutrients.

Fat stores vitamins....comes from various sources.

Vitamins and minerals are micro nutrients. Involved in healing, provides structure to skeleton, provides support for immune system.

Water is essential. helps with body temp, lubricates joints, eliminates waste....water needs are individual!
 

Fitness and Personal Empowerment

One of the first and foremost reasons my private clients my reach out to me is to loose weight.

Many of the people I find myself helping are in the middle of their lives.  Lives in which they have many obligations both business and personal.

I also find myself working with teens through my marching band boot camps. 

In many ways everyone is so similar.

They are each trying to figure IT out.

The other day I pondered this:  Why is the IT missing?  Why aren't we growing up knowing how to do this stuff??

It is really puzzling to me. 

Think about it:  I am teaching people what they need to know for their lives that which they should have been taught in childhood.

What would this world be like if, as children, we all grew up in health, physically active and making great food and lifestyle choices? 

What a wonderful and empowered world we would have!

Think about it.......if we start with ourselves, re-train, re-grow....re-learn eating habits, what would that mean within each of our relationships, our families, our communities and our world?

It's HUGE!

And it starts with each of us!  one step, one day, one meal, one decision, one ISSUE at a time. 

It's a commitment to deal with our own "stuff."

It's a commitment to move forward.

It's a commitment to be living example.



Think about this:  Are there any negatives to living a full life in a state of fitness and personal empowerment?


Hmm....