Fit Tip

Nothing works better than your mind for providing a base for a bad, good, or great experience.  Remember to use your head when hitting your workout this week:  put together an encouraging mantra to repeat while you work.  Select words that illustrate how you want to perform, how you want to think of yourself, and as always, be specific.  Get yourself going and use this encouraging phrase at all the moments your really need it!

Fit Tip

I'm not really a big Cameron Diaz fan but she's been getting a lot of press lately due to her new book and the release of a new movie.  I came across this quote from her book "Cameron's Body Book" and clipped it out.

"Discipline isn't about denying yourself; its about giving to yourself.  It isn't about losing; its about gaining.  Everyday that I get up early..to go to the gym, even if its difficult and I'd rather stay in bed, I think about what I will gain from going and what I'll lose if I don't....Discipline is always a gain in the tally of life."

Shift your focus this week to gaining when you tackle choices and decisions.

Fit Tip

Vow this week to drink one more glass of water and eat one less sweet each day.  Don't enjoy a daily sugar rush?  Pick your guilty pleasure and drop it this week.  BTW, include fruit on your list of treats!

 

Back away from the Easter Basket!

Fit Tip

Take a moment at the end of this week to clean up your "space."  If you have a messy desk, cluttered closet, or maybe you live out of the car, spend a few minutes tidying up; you might find yourself cleaning up your diet as well!  When life is more organized, there is time to contemplate and prepare healthier food choices (and maybe that candy bar from 2013 won't be hiding under a stack of folders!).