June 8th was day 3 of my 3 day cleanse. Started the day off with a shake, then my daughter and I took a hike, ended up doing about 10 miles. Wow, I was really shocked that I was able to do it, but I did and it was so much fun. Had another shake for lunch and went for a job interview. Still felt really good and energized. Dinner was baked Talapia and salad. I was so full I never did have my 3rd shake and I guess from the hike I slept like a baby.
I was really nervous to get on the scale this morning, I really did not what to expect. So my starting weight for this cleanse was 181.8 and today the scale said 177.2 that's a total loss of 4.6 pounds in 3 days. But the thing I am most excited about is since Dec. 2010 I have lost 47.8 pounds total.
I'm so grateful for Team Beachbody and what I have learned since joining this great company. Without the help of all the great friends I have made and all that I have learned I know this would not have been possible. I'd really love to share this opportunity with you as well, please contact me if you are interested.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Shakeology 3 Day Cleanse
Tuesday, Day 2 of 3 day cleanse has been a little tougher than yesterday. Not the cleanse itself but my activities made it tougher. I did great w/breakfast and lunch and had planned on having a shake for afternoon snack then my salad and fish for dinner but my daughter had an interview at 2:00. No big deal right? Except they hired her and sent her to have a drug test, still no big deal. Except she couldn't pee so we were stuck at the hospital waiting and waiting. Of course they were pushing her to drink water, and tea so she could but that made her sick to her stomach so she got sick several times at the hospital. And I was stuck with nothing to eat, not that I wanted to) but I was starving. This went on for 3 hours. I finally broke down and bought some peanuts and ate them. Got home around 7 this evening had a salad and my final shake. I pray the peanuts did not kill my success from yesterday.
Tomorrow is the final day and I'll post my results on Thursday!
Tomorrow is the final day and I'll post my results on Thursday!
Monday, June 6, 2011
Shakeology 3 Day Cleanse
Today is day one of my 3 day cleanse and I decided to blog about it.
For the most part it has been pretty easy. I got a little hungry between lunch and dinner so maybe tomorrow I will have my 3rd shake then. But as for today I have had 2 shakes, and dinner was a large salad w/a boiled piece of chicken. And I have had a ton of water. And the great thing is I still have one more shake to drink, yummy chocolate! I think I'm going to make it thick like ice cream for a treat.
Everyone's results are different so I'm not really sure what to expect as far as weight loss is concerned. I would def. be happy w/at least 5 pounds, which would drop me below 180 and into the overweight class as opposed to the obese class. This is a huge accomplishment for me and one I'm really excited to be getting close to. I'm starting Day 1 @ 181.8 and can't wait to report how much I lose on Thursday morning.
Well that's all for now, see you tomorrow for Day 2.
For the most part it has been pretty easy. I got a little hungry between lunch and dinner so maybe tomorrow I will have my 3rd shake then. But as for today I have had 2 shakes, and dinner was a large salad w/a boiled piece of chicken. And I have had a ton of water. And the great thing is I still have one more shake to drink, yummy chocolate! I think I'm going to make it thick like ice cream for a treat.
Everyone's results are different so I'm not really sure what to expect as far as weight loss is concerned. I would def. be happy w/at least 5 pounds, which would drop me below 180 and into the overweight class as opposed to the obese class. This is a huge accomplishment for me and one I'm really excited to be getting close to. I'm starting Day 1 @ 181.8 and can't wait to report how much I lose on Thursday morning.
Well that's all for now, see you tomorrow for Day 2.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Random
So I'm sitting here late in the evening looking over a friends blog and realized I really need to get better about blogging. I set two goals for myself this weekend, one was to exercise both days, which I accomplished and I am very proud of this! The second was to add one new person to my BeachBody team, that one didn't happen, so I am disappointed. However, I am not giving up. This is such an awesome company to work for, that I know if I keep at it everything will fall into place.
Over all I'd say I've had a great weekend, spent it with my husband, daughter and both granddaughters and got some fishing in also. So, yes I'd say over all it was great!
This next week I am going to look for a part time job to help my husband out with bills while I build my Beach Body business, continue to look for the perfect somebody to join my team, and if time allows make my wonderful husband a pecan pie. LOL
Have a great night, see ya again soon!
Over all I'd say I've had a great weekend, spent it with my husband, daughter and both granddaughters and got some fishing in also. So, yes I'd say over all it was great!
This next week I am going to look for a part time job to help my husband out with bills while I build my Beach Body business, continue to look for the perfect somebody to join my team, and if time allows make my wonderful husband a pecan pie. LOL
Have a great night, see ya again soon!
Thursday, June 2, 2011
My Story
Just thougtht I'd take a minute or two and tell you a little about myself and why I became a Team Beachbody Coach.
I am 46 years young, mother of 4 children, grandmother to 3 and wife to a wonderful man. This is my second marriage. We have been married 6 years, the first marriage lasted 15 years. My children are 24, 22, 19 and 17, the grandchildren are 3, 11 months and 1 month. I have been overweight/obese since my first child was born in 1987. I had my ahhhh moment playing with my 3 yr old granddaughter. She wanted me to go down the slide with her and my butt wouldn't fit. LOL
I was introduced to Team Beachbody by an old friend from high school who had amazing results using Shakeology and Chalene Extreme. I joined Team Beachbody in Dec. 2010, my starting weight was 225 pounds, today I weigh 181.8. I have lost 5 inches in my waist, 8.5 inches in the hips, 4.5 in the chest. I currently use Turbo Fire for cardio and Shakeology as a meal replacement. I love Team Beachbody for what it has done for me physically, emotionally and financially. I also discovered how much I love helping other people reach their fitness goals.
If you have any questions about my journey please feel free to reach out to me and ask, I still have about 40 pounds to lose and would love to have you join me on this incrediable journey.
Lets get Healthy and Fit Together,
Beverly
I am 46 years young, mother of 4 children, grandmother to 3 and wife to a wonderful man. This is my second marriage. We have been married 6 years, the first marriage lasted 15 years. My children are 24, 22, 19 and 17, the grandchildren are 3, 11 months and 1 month. I have been overweight/obese since my first child was born in 1987. I had my ahhhh moment playing with my 3 yr old granddaughter. She wanted me to go down the slide with her and my butt wouldn't fit. LOL
I was introduced to Team Beachbody by an old friend from high school who had amazing results using Shakeology and Chalene Extreme. I joined Team Beachbody in Dec. 2010, my starting weight was 225 pounds, today I weigh 181.8. I have lost 5 inches in my waist, 8.5 inches in the hips, 4.5 in the chest. I currently use Turbo Fire for cardio and Shakeology as a meal replacement. I love Team Beachbody for what it has done for me physically, emotionally and financially. I also discovered how much I love helping other people reach their fitness goals.
If you have any questions about my journey please feel free to reach out to me and ask, I still have about 40 pounds to lose and would love to have you join me on this incrediable journey.
Lets get Healthy and Fit Together,
Beverly
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
8 Reasons Why Your Workouts Aren't Working
I pasted this from an article I found. It may help those who have plateaued or are having a hard time losing in general. Enjoy!
8 Reasons Why Your Workouts Aren't Working
We all know how fantastic working out is for your health. But what happens when your workouts aren't delivering the results you want? Or you're not getting the results you think you should be getting? While any kind of physical activity is good, some workout plans are better than others and—as you might suspect—a lot of other factors come into play when trying to lose weight and tone up. So if your workout isn't working for you, one of the following eight reasons could be to blame. Find out how to turn that around and get the results you deserve!
1. You're not working hard enough.
If you have been exercising consistently for several weeks, months or years, it's definitely time to increase the intensity and start pushing yourself. As you work out more and more, your body adapts and becomes more efficient at doing that certain activity. This means that over time, the 30-minute workout that was challenging for you three months ago doesn't provide the same results. In fact, you're actually burning fewer calories and your body is no longer changing if you're still doing the same old thing.
Get-Results Remedy: In order to get results from exercise, you have to regularly push yourself beyond your fitness comfort zone. Whether you increase the frequency, intensity, or duration of your workouts, you have to switch it up. Not sure where to start? Try adding an extra day of cardio onto your routine, testing out a new group exercise class at the gym, adding another loop around your walking track, or bumping up the incline and speed on the treadmill. Remember, when it comes to exercise, change is good—and that change should be challenging!
2. You're working too hard.
Yes, you can actually work out too hard and too much. If you're someone who goes all out in every workout, or rarely to never takes a day off to rest, you could actually be breaking your muscles down instead of building them. If you always feel tired and sore, have unexplained headaches, insomnia or just a general lack of motivation and an inability to complete your workouts, you may be overtraining.
Get-Results Remedy: Take three to five days off of exercise altogether. It may be hard for you to do this, but know that you must allow your body the time it needs to rest and recover. Get plenty of sleep each night and fill up on nutritious foods. Then slowly ease back into your routine, making shorter, less intense workouts part of your workout plan. And remember to always take one to two rest or easy active recovery days a week!
3. You haven't changed your diet.
Exercise is awesome, but if you're not eating a nutritious diet with the appropriate number of calories for weight management, you could be shooting yourself in the foot. Proper nutrition fuels your workouts, but eat too much and you could gain weight (or hurt your weight-loss efforts), and eat too little, and you won't have enough energy to exercise.
Get-Results Remedy: If you can't seem to see those muscles you're trying to build, start logging your foods to see how many calories you're eating a day. If you're regularly eating more than you should (it just takes an extra 100 calories a day to gain an extra pound a month), then try choosing lower-calorie versions of your favorite foods and slowly decreasing your caloric intake until you're at the right level! On the flip side of that, if you find that you're eating too few calories, that can also slow your metabolism and leave you drained at the gym. Find out how many calories you need to manage your weight by visiting your SparkPeople Nutrition Tracker.
4. You're only doing cardio.
Yes, cardio is important for calorie burning, but a proper exercise plan includes cardio, strength training and flexibility. If you're just doing cardio, then you will be burning calories and strengthening your cardiovascular system, but you won't be really changing your body composition by building more muscle. For that you need strength training!
Get-Results Remedy: Lift weights or do body-weight exercises, such as lunges and push-ups, at least twice a week to reap the amazing benefits of resistance training; including decreased body fat, increased muscle mass and stronger bone density. For hardcore cardio fans, you can also try kettlebell training or circuit training, which is like getting a strength and cardio workout at the same time!
5. You reward yourself with food.
Do you allow yourself to have that extra piece of pizza or order that dessert when dining out because you "went to the gym" earlier? If so, you may be undoing all of that good calorie-burning with too many treats.
Get-Results Remedy: Familiarize yourself with the calorie contents of your favorite foods—and find out how many calories you're really burning through exercise. (SparkPeople's Nutrition Tracker and Fitness Tracker will help you learn!) Remember that while you may have run 3 miles at the gym, that only burned 300 calories, which isn't nearly equivalent to the calorie count in that brownie sundae you ate later. Focus on how good exercise makes you feel rather than what it allows you to eat after; and choose foods that fuel your workouts, rather than the other way around.
6. You're doing too much too soon.
Unfortunately, results don't happen overnight. It takes time and consistency to get in shape over the long haul. But how many of us decide that we're going to get in shape and then get totally gung-ho, spending hours at the gym only to find ourselves tired, sore and no thinner after a week or two?
Get-Results Remedy: Be patient. Remember that you're creating a lifestyle change that you can sustain for the rest of your life. While there's temptation to start off doing extra long and hard workouts, don't. Build up to doing those tough workouts gradually as the weeks go by. Not only will this prevent injury and give your body more time to adapt and change, it will also give your life and habits time to change—permanently!
7. You're trading sleep for workouts.
We're all so busy these days, and sometimes the only time to work out seems to be early in the morning—even if you were up late the night before working or with a child that couldn't sleep. But regularly swapping sleep for workouts can seriously hinder your weight-loss, as sleep triggers a number of hormones that influence cravings and a tendency for weight gain. In addition, too many sleepless nights will leave you tired and unfocused for your workouts, which means that you won't get much from your efforts. And did you know that sleep is a much needed part of a fitness plan, since a lot of recovery and repair happens while you rest each night? Skimp on the shut-eye, and it could also lead to symptoms of overtraining.
Get-Results Remedy: Start scheduling both your sleep and your workouts—and treat both as unbreakable appointments. Then follow SparkPeople's 4-week Better Sleep Challenge to make the most of those Z's! Exercising after an occasional sleepless night shouldn't pose too many problems. But if you're regularly swapping sleep for a sweat session, you could be doing more long-term harm than good. Sleep should come first—even before working out.
8. You sit all day.
Sure, you work out regularly, but what you do the rest of the day matters, too! If you put in a solid exercise session only to sit at a desk all day and lounge in a recliner watching TV at night, you may be undoing all of your hard work at the gym. Plus, there are a number of new studies that say too much sitting can be bad for our health and our waistlines—even if you exercise during the day.
Get-Results Remedy: Try to work more activity into all areas of your life by going for a walk after dinner, choosing to stand whenever possible, taking the stairs, parking your car further away and replacing your TV time for more active relaxation (like playing with your dog). Also, if your job requires you to sit in front of a computer all day, set a timer to beep every half hour or hour to remind you to stand up, stretch and do a quick lap around the office.
If you're not seeing the results you want, you may be guilty of more than one of the mistakes above. Follow these tips to feel better, have more energy and get the workout results you want and deserve!
8 Reasons Why Your Workouts Aren't Working
We all know how fantastic working out is for your health. But what happens when your workouts aren't delivering the results you want? Or you're not getting the results you think you should be getting? While any kind of physical activity is good, some workout plans are better than others and—as you might suspect—a lot of other factors come into play when trying to lose weight and tone up. So if your workout isn't working for you, one of the following eight reasons could be to blame. Find out how to turn that around and get the results you deserve!
1. You're not working hard enough.
If you have been exercising consistently for several weeks, months or years, it's definitely time to increase the intensity and start pushing yourself. As you work out more and more, your body adapts and becomes more efficient at doing that certain activity. This means that over time, the 30-minute workout that was challenging for you three months ago doesn't provide the same results. In fact, you're actually burning fewer calories and your body is no longer changing if you're still doing the same old thing.
Get-Results Remedy: In order to get results from exercise, you have to regularly push yourself beyond your fitness comfort zone. Whether you increase the frequency, intensity, or duration of your workouts, you have to switch it up. Not sure where to start? Try adding an extra day of cardio onto your routine, testing out a new group exercise class at the gym, adding another loop around your walking track, or bumping up the incline and speed on the treadmill. Remember, when it comes to exercise, change is good—and that change should be challenging!
2. You're working too hard.
Yes, you can actually work out too hard and too much. If you're someone who goes all out in every workout, or rarely to never takes a day off to rest, you could actually be breaking your muscles down instead of building them. If you always feel tired and sore, have unexplained headaches, insomnia or just a general lack of motivation and an inability to complete your workouts, you may be overtraining.
Get-Results Remedy: Take three to five days off of exercise altogether. It may be hard for you to do this, but know that you must allow your body the time it needs to rest and recover. Get plenty of sleep each night and fill up on nutritious foods. Then slowly ease back into your routine, making shorter, less intense workouts part of your workout plan. And remember to always take one to two rest or easy active recovery days a week!
3. You haven't changed your diet.
Exercise is awesome, but if you're not eating a nutritious diet with the appropriate number of calories for weight management, you could be shooting yourself in the foot. Proper nutrition fuels your workouts, but eat too much and you could gain weight (or hurt your weight-loss efforts), and eat too little, and you won't have enough energy to exercise.
Get-Results Remedy: If you can't seem to see those muscles you're trying to build, start logging your foods to see how many calories you're eating a day. If you're regularly eating more than you should (it just takes an extra 100 calories a day to gain an extra pound a month), then try choosing lower-calorie versions of your favorite foods and slowly decreasing your caloric intake until you're at the right level! On the flip side of that, if you find that you're eating too few calories, that can also slow your metabolism and leave you drained at the gym. Find out how many calories you need to manage your weight by visiting your SparkPeople Nutrition Tracker.
4. You're only doing cardio.
Yes, cardio is important for calorie burning, but a proper exercise plan includes cardio, strength training and flexibility. If you're just doing cardio, then you will be burning calories and strengthening your cardiovascular system, but you won't be really changing your body composition by building more muscle. For that you need strength training!
Get-Results Remedy: Lift weights or do body-weight exercises, such as lunges and push-ups, at least twice a week to reap the amazing benefits of resistance training; including decreased body fat, increased muscle mass and stronger bone density. For hardcore cardio fans, you can also try kettlebell training or circuit training, which is like getting a strength and cardio workout at the same time!
5. You reward yourself with food.
Do you allow yourself to have that extra piece of pizza or order that dessert when dining out because you "went to the gym" earlier? If so, you may be undoing all of that good calorie-burning with too many treats.
Get-Results Remedy: Familiarize yourself with the calorie contents of your favorite foods—and find out how many calories you're really burning through exercise. (SparkPeople's Nutrition Tracker and Fitness Tracker will help you learn!) Remember that while you may have run 3 miles at the gym, that only burned 300 calories, which isn't nearly equivalent to the calorie count in that brownie sundae you ate later. Focus on how good exercise makes you feel rather than what it allows you to eat after; and choose foods that fuel your workouts, rather than the other way around.
6. You're doing too much too soon.
Unfortunately, results don't happen overnight. It takes time and consistency to get in shape over the long haul. But how many of us decide that we're going to get in shape and then get totally gung-ho, spending hours at the gym only to find ourselves tired, sore and no thinner after a week or two?
Get-Results Remedy: Be patient. Remember that you're creating a lifestyle change that you can sustain for the rest of your life. While there's temptation to start off doing extra long and hard workouts, don't. Build up to doing those tough workouts gradually as the weeks go by. Not only will this prevent injury and give your body more time to adapt and change, it will also give your life and habits time to change—permanently!
7. You're trading sleep for workouts.
We're all so busy these days, and sometimes the only time to work out seems to be early in the morning—even if you were up late the night before working or with a child that couldn't sleep. But regularly swapping sleep for workouts can seriously hinder your weight-loss, as sleep triggers a number of hormones that influence cravings and a tendency for weight gain. In addition, too many sleepless nights will leave you tired and unfocused for your workouts, which means that you won't get much from your efforts. And did you know that sleep is a much needed part of a fitness plan, since a lot of recovery and repair happens while you rest each night? Skimp on the shut-eye, and it could also lead to symptoms of overtraining.
Get-Results Remedy: Start scheduling both your sleep and your workouts—and treat both as unbreakable appointments. Then follow SparkPeople's 4-week Better Sleep Challenge to make the most of those Z's! Exercising after an occasional sleepless night shouldn't pose too many problems. But if you're regularly swapping sleep for a sweat session, you could be doing more long-term harm than good. Sleep should come first—even before working out.
8. You sit all day.
Sure, you work out regularly, but what you do the rest of the day matters, too! If you put in a solid exercise session only to sit at a desk all day and lounge in a recliner watching TV at night, you may be undoing all of your hard work at the gym. Plus, there are a number of new studies that say too much sitting can be bad for our health and our waistlines—even if you exercise during the day.
Get-Results Remedy: Try to work more activity into all areas of your life by going for a walk after dinner, choosing to stand whenever possible, taking the stairs, parking your car further away and replacing your TV time for more active relaxation (like playing with your dog). Also, if your job requires you to sit in front of a computer all day, set a timer to beep every half hour or hour to remind you to stand up, stretch and do a quick lap around the office.
If you're not seeing the results you want, you may be guilty of more than one of the mistakes above. Follow these tips to feel better, have more energy and get the workout results you want and deserve!
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