For those who know me, I’m infamous for my love of food, but also my wacky diets. If you’ve heard of a diet, I’ve probably tried it. I must say most of them actually do work. I wish I would just be good at maintaining a healthy eating habit, but it’s just too hard when there is just so much yummy food out there! Plus, it doesn’t help when the future husband has as many cravings, if not more, as me. Of course, he rarely gains a pound regardless of how much he eats. The man once finished 11 full size muffins in one sitting, no joke.
Anyhoos, I am fortunate in that I do lose weight pretty fast. However, I think that’s also why I’m a victim of fad diets and yoyo-ing since I always have it in the back of my mind that I can drop the pounds fairly quickly. My latest go around: The Cookie Diet!
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The 'gym in a bag'
So, there are many brides out there who are helping to motivate the rest of us bloggers to get fit and fabulous for our wedding day, and here is the latest edition!! I was waiting to be the official owner of the TRX system before I endorsed it on the internet, but I have actually been using the system with my trainer for the last month… ladies, this is serious business!!
Who wouldn't want to be able to do this??
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From http://flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/287666827/
I feel very fortunate to have lots of different technologies at my disposal to assist me in my fitness and nutrition goals. I’ve already mentioned SparkPeople as a great resource and way to track your food and workouts. But I have more hi-tech suggestions in my arsenal.
- Great tunes are essential for me to be motivated to do my best. I love the pink iPod Nano that I got from Plumeria Dude for Christmas this year. My old Shuffle is nice but I wanted the added flexibility to change up playlists on the fly and store more on the device. Continue Reading
I’m sure everyone reading this has some kind of plan to either lose weight, exercise more, eat more healthfully or just plain look better in your wedding dress. All of the holiday eats have been creeping up on me. Just the other day I nearly fainted when I saw the number on the scale. But it’s OK– I have a plan.
Photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/10413717@N08/2843730015
What is this plan, you say? Well, a few years back I joined a free site called SparkPeople and lost about 30 pounds. It has tons of resources– like a calorie counter and an exercise tracker — as well as recipes, message boards, motivational articles and exercise demos. Basically you can set whatever type of goal you like and the site gives you the tools to achieve it.
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