Week 8: chug a lug baby!
The latest from my #infinitecoaching nutritional program with Jessica at Infinite Fitness:
Water!!Human beings are made of at least 60% water. So it kind of makes sense that we need water to survive.
Our brains are 80% water and at a mere 1% dehydration level, our mental performance and physical condition starts to become impaired. This is even before thirst kicks in. People don’t usually start to feel thirsty until they have already lost up to 3 % of their body’s water.
The problem here is that water is just so…. BORING!
We all know we should be drinking the recommended 8-12 cups a day, but how many of us ACTUALLY do that?
I know I don’t.
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Week 6: the status quo revolution
More lessons learned on my path to being Lean for Life with @Infinitefit.
The status quo. The existing condition or state of affairs.In layman’s terms, the status quo in everything is what we like to call our “comfort zone”. It’s the place of good enough, not rocking the boat, keeping the peace, and the happy medium.
And a lot of people are very happy with the status quo.
I spent last weekend in a room full of do-gooders from my city looking for ways to challenge the status quo, to move people out of their comfort zones that privilege or race or gender has granted them. And this was one of the biggest challenges we all faced in our projects, our endeavors and our desires to do-good for our communities.
The status quo.
These feelings of “everything is just fine; this is just the way things are; you just have to accept the world we live in” are hard to eschew. They make up all the stories we tell ourselves to make us feel good about our lives. That we are not bad people, we aren’t hurting anyone, we pay our taxes, we eat relatively well, we “exercise” enough. In essence, we keep telling ourselves that we are A-OK.
But are we?
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Thanks,
Natasha~
Week 4: The "binge" repercussions.
The lastest update from my #LeanforLife and #InfiniteCoaching program with Jessica at Infinite Fitness:
This is the reality check post.There are a lot of inspirational stories of people's fitness and diet transformations. You hear about the success stories all the time. Heck, you see them at the gym or in your own life. The people who drop 12 or 20 pounds and who really seem to be doing all the right things. And then you get on the scale for your weekly weigh-in and....
The number is going up.
This is what happened to me last week and I am not going to lie. It got me down.
REALLY, really down...
Everything looks harder than it is....
Here is my latest update from my #InfiniteCoaching and #LeanforLife program with Jessica at Infinite Fitness.
I can just imagine the ad team for Nike.All sitting around a conference room table one day, brainstorming about slogans for their biggest client. They are all talking about fitness and exercise and running and someone makes an off-hand remark… “Why doesn’t everyone just do it?”
And there you have it. Three words that have revolutionized a brand and made Nike a recognized and household name worldwide.
BUT…
Even with the biggest brand in the world telling us to “Just do it”, so many of us just DON’T.
The problem in our fast-paced, busy, busy world is hidden in that original question…
Why don’t we eat better? Work out more? Go for a walk or a bike ride? Plan out our meals better? Clean out the storage room? Or our inboxes? Or our pantries?
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Everyone needs a good coach in their life...
I have Jessica Zapata of Infinite Fitness. And she is going to help me to LOSE....
A LOT!
Food.
Jessica has told me for years now that in order to lose weight, it doesn’t really matter how much I work out, if I don’t change my eating habits, it will be all for naught.
And so here is where I get to tell you that I have some pretty bad eating habits.
Not so bad that I am putting junk food in my mouth every chance I get and hitting the McD’s drive-thru every other day, but bad enough that I don’t even think I realize how detrimental all the “little” things that I do are to my body and my health and fitness goals.
What are all these little things you ask?
Well, first of all, I eat fast. I have two kids who are in two different schools and also in various activities across the city and in order to get to where we need to be at whatever time we need to be there, MY meals tend to be rushed and not really MEALS at all. A banana here, a handful of carrots there, whatever the kids don’t eat off of their plates or whatever I can grab to eat in the car. Trust me folks, a grande skinny vanilla latte and honey-glazed almonds do not a good breakfast make.