Okay Fit Chics here are just a few ways that your relationship will enhance when you workout with your partner:

1. Begin to feel more connected as a couple. Now you have a common goal to focus on. You are both putting your thoughts and energy into creating an atmosphere for your goals to flourish. Working out together is quality time. You will have a lot of talk about. You will have a solid half hour to truly bond. You can plan to workout when you are most likely to have little interruption.

2. Lifestyle will become more conducive to a fit and healthy couple. This is fantastic! When you begin to workout together and feel GREAT, you want this feeling all the time. You will begin to appreciate quality, wholesome foods. You will realize that eating well makes you FEEL well. When you feel well, your entire outlook on life enhances! As a couple you may begin to question some of your current activities if they do not suit a healthy lifestyle. For example, sitting on the couch for hours and eating chips on a daily basis is not what fit people do day after day. You will find yourself gravitating towards activities such as: joining a walking club or bowling. This is just what happens when you realize how awesome being fit feels!

3. Have a TON more Energy! This is simply the best. I love to workout mainly because of the natural high that I get immediately afterward. My day flows much more smoothly. I feel energized, I am more productive, I am less stressed. When I have a productive day, it makes me feel really good. I know that I am also a lot more patient with our children. I think this is because when I don’t get my workout in, I just keep thinking about it, which leads me to be irritable. My best time to workout is first thing in the morning because then I do not have to feel irritable when ‘life’ seems to get in the way of my intentions.

4. Argue less. When Scott and I workout we are just a much more happier, relaxed, and joyous couple. When we both feel this way our day together flows well. What I mean is that we feel really good because we are living the life that we want to live. I respect his need to workout. It makes him feel good and as a guy, he feels more attractive. He gets a huge ego boost when he gets home from the gym and I cannot wait to touch his muscles! He also understands my need to workout. I feel so great afterward. My mood is positive and I’m much more patient all day. When you workout chemicals are released into your brain that make you feel happy. It’s super!

5. More intimate. I think you can put 2 and 2 together. When you workout and take care of yourself you will feel amazing and want to share these great feelings with your partner. When you workout together, well the fireworks will explode because you are both feeling so attractive, leading you both to want to initiate more intimacy. This is how you want to live! Start 2009 on the right path. Get that sexy body and bond like never before!

Have a wonderful day!

Cheers to health,

Angie
ISSA – C.P.T.

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When it comes to dieting and exercise, the key is to always take consistent action. Even better – planned, focused, and committed consistent action. Once you begin to live your life with your health as a top priority, nothing can get in your way. Yes, I said NOTHING. That’s right, not even the fast approaching holidays.

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I thought this was an interesting study to report from Boston College: “60% of the successful dieters had strong beliefs that they could handle uncomfortable situations. Their thoughts reflect a very positive and firm belief that they are in control of their eating.”
Whereas, two-thirds of the unsuccessful dieters reported worries about what other people were thinking of them.

You, too, can be a very successful eater. Work on these stategies:

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I just wanted to share a great tip with you that I find is working very well with my training clients. We have a ‘check in’ call. We set up a time to do a quick call to each other in the morning. This call is solely to let the other person know that you did your cardio. Wow, is it effective!

Once that alarm goes off in the morning, I am UP! I am ready to get going on my bike or walk because I know that someone is counting on me to do it. I know that I will be getting a call soon and I don’t want to have any lame excuses. This set up will encourage you to be accountable to a plan and motivated to prove to someone else that you did it!

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For nearly a year now there has been just one audio in my mp3 player that I listen to when I workout. That mp3 is the Optimindzation Attraction Accelerator audio. Without this workout music I simply can not perform my best in the gym. In fact, just the other day I walked into the gym without my mp3 player. I couldn’t believe that I left it at home, but since I was already at the gym I decided to go ahead with my workout. After 5 minutes of warming up I walked out of the gym and drove home to get my mp3 player and the Attraction Accelerator audio.

Seriously! I just could not do my workout without it. Nothing felt the same. I was unfocused, unmotivated, and distracted with everything going on in my surroundings. I was as far away from my training ‘zone’ as I could possibly be.

How I Approach My Workouts

I walk through the gym door with an intense purpose and passion. I know exactly what I’m going to do and I know that I will give everything that I have and more to making this workout the best one that I’ve ever had.

I refuse to just go through the motions.

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Hello everyone!! We are back from our family vacation! We went on a Carribean Cruise. It was so beautiful to experience the different Islands and just stare at the sea…endless sea…it was truly mesmerizing. Now I feel so refreshed and ready to help you out in any way that I can! I really mean this, if there is anything I can do to help you to achieve a healthy lifestyle – I am listening. I am anxious to get working to meet all of your needs.

I hope you are all starting your “New Year” out right with great, healthy intentions! I also want to mention that while we were away, Scott and I still found the time to get to the fitness centre on the ship and get in an intense workout. It was actually very enjoyable because it was a different environment and I was surrounded by other like-minded people. Although we were on ‘vacation’ we all still held the same mentality that ‘exercise is part of our lifestyle.’ When you truly reach this way of thinking, nothing gets in your way! You wouldn’t walk out the door to work in your underwear, right? (well, I hope not!) You get dressed in the morning…it’s part of your routine. Look at your exercise and eating habits in the same context and just make it part of your everyday routine. Schedule it in. There are no excuses.

I was impressed with the variety of healthy food choices while we were away. So many fruits and vegetables! We ate so well…a lot of fish too. Of course, we treated ourselves to dessert! However, what I’m trying to get across is that we chose the healthier foods each day. We had our share of ‘not so healthy’ foods, but they were limited. When you know the real reason why you want to lose body fat, you have a stronger drive to achieve it. Do you know your powerful WHY? A hint: it’s a more powerful reason than just what the number on the scale says.

If you have not listened to Scott’s audio series: Unstoppable Fat Loss, I highly encourage you to take the plunge and check out this incredibly motivating product. You will learn the reasons why you are not achieving your fitness goals and how you can become more motivated and UNSTOPPABLE when it comes to achieving success. It really is so uplifting and filled with 21 amazing stories of people around the world that have finally found that motivating factor in their life and they want to share it with all of you.

Listening to this while you are walking and/or jogging along with following Jon Benson’s Every Other Day Diet – Lifestyle Plan (what I follow) will get you started on the correct path to success. I guarantee you will see results. Of course you are missing one more piece of the puzzle and that is weight training. I am a busy mom and I always find the time to spend 20 minutes on weight training 4x/week. That is not much time ladies! That is a total of 80 minutes a week! These are quick, but very intense workouts. I do them in the comfort of my own home with a stability ball and some free weights. You can too! Check me out at: The Fit Chic’s Year of Workouts. I savour this time to work my muscles like gold. I feel like a million bucks afterwards.

Today, I plan on getting my workout in before dinner. I usually try to get it done in the a.m. , however I still feel really groggy and dizzy from the cruise ship. I guess it was a little rocky! This is the bonus of working out at home though. It is just easier to find that 20 minutes to spare…my kids are sometimes running around me…oh well…as long as no one gets hurt! They are cute, they are usually imitating what I’m doing. (or trying to!)

I suggest you write out your goals for the next two months. What do you want your weight to be? What size do you want to fit into? Go try on that dress at the mall that you want to fit into! See yourself already fitting into it…listen to the unstoppable fat loss audio…empower yourself girls! You have all the power within you. Take action today!

Cheers to health,

Angie

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Hello there! I just to share with you the wonderful evening Scott and I had with our neighbourhood friends. We decided to meet up at a restaurant for dinner. There was not much variety on the menu and I was feeling so stuffed from eating cheese and potatoes the last few days…however, there was something called “SoHo Chicken Salad” Wow, it was so delicious!

There was a lot of chicken, red onions, mandarin oranges, chinese noodles, and poppy seeds. As we were waiting for our food everyone was asking each other what they ordered. When I told them what I ordered, most of the responses were, ‘that’s it’ and ‘aren’t you hungry?’ The funny thing was that when they saw my plate they were all drooling over how good it looked and how large the salad was. I was so full afterward! I am following the Every Other Day Diet – Lifestyle Plan and it truly was the perfect meal for me.

I was totally satisfied and energized afterward. I wanted to share this with you because I know some of you may think that it is difficult to eat a healthy meal when you are at a restaurant. Or, you may feel that you have to order a full size meal when the rest of your party is. I am here to tell you to be a leader! Be the healthy role model in your group of friends! Find friends that support your healthy food choices and choose to live the lifestyle of champions.

Okay, so that was the first part of our evening. Then we all went to Rock N’ Bowl and had a blast! The lights were dimmed and awesome dance music was blaring in our ears! It was so much fun! My bowling score was humiliating, but the laughs were endless!

The final and most hilarious part of our night ended with two couples coming back to our home to participate in a DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) challenge! For those of you whom have Playstation 2 may know what I’m talking about. If you do not, it is a game where you have a mat on the floor in front of you and it has arrows where your feet will go. You watch the t.v. screen and you try to match up the arrows on the screen with your foot movement. Basically, you are doing dance moves and you can make choose a ‘beginner’ all the way up to an ‘elite’ level. I have yet to conquer the ‘difficult’ level. I always get booted off!

Do you sweat? Is your heart rate through the roof? Is it addictive? Is it fun? The answer to all of this is OMG , YES! It is an amazing fun cardio workout! We had such a blast with our friends! It’s just as much fun to watch them as to do it yourself. I have been practicing it on the ‘workout mode’ and I am breaking out in such a sweat! It’s fantastic! So if you need some spice to your cardio routine, or worse yet, if you do not have a cardio routine…look into this DDR. It really is a blast. The funniest part is that Scott and I are the only ones using it! We bought it for our 4 and 6 year old. They are not interested in it – YET. I know the time will come.

We will post a video soon of what exactly it is. I love it because its another dimension to add to my Fit Chic Year of Workouts that I follow each day. A couple of days in the week, I only do cardio. So I can choose DDR now and its so much fun. I’m sure once my daughter sees how much fun I am having, she will hope right on. For the girls who are already following the Fit Chic Year of Workouts you can choose DDR on two days and then walk for at least 30 minutes the other two days.

Remember,too, if you need some extra motivation during your walk just listen to the Unstoppable Fat Loss audio series. You can download it right to your MP3 player or ipod. Trust me, it’ll give you that extra skip in your step that you’ve been lacking. It will totally get your mind opened up to the possibilities that you can attain by simply controlling your thoughts. I know I’ve said it before, but yes I cannot stress it enough…IT IS POWERFUL. It’s all about real people, real life stories, real change.

I hope I’ve enlightened you in some way today…

Cheers to health,

Angie

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