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Health

Charlotteans, the more you deny it, the more you want it!

I don’t know about you but a lot of my clients, including my wife have problems with one thing. The more they deny themselves the food they want to eat the more they crave it, finally they give up and just binge it. 

That probably sounds familiar to you as well. It can be the wine, the chocolate, the salty stuff, the pizza, pretty much anything.

The question is, what can you do about it. It might have been ruining your efforts to lose weight, run fast, be fitter, be healthier, whatever your goal is, nutrition is the key.

Here are some tips that can help you be in peace with your food:

  1. Clean up your diet and eat healthy, tasty minimally processed foods 90% of the time. Learn how to prepare them, so that they taste great. The internet is a great source for recipies. Anyone can cook. Don’t just steam veggies, spice them, experiment, and you will discover all kinds of new flavors that will stimulate your taste buds.
  2. Allow yourself the occasional exception. If 90% of your nutrition is good, you will make progress, don’t try to be perfect. Perfection is doomed to fail and so are you if you try to attain it.
  3. If you feel like chocolate [insert food you crave] tell yourself, later, not right now. This later might never come but if it does, have a piece and savor it knowing you follow the 90% rule.
  4. When was the last time you truly enjoyed your food. I mean, sat down, TV turned off, and eat food savoring it? Learn to do that and when you cheat, do exactly the same thing. If you want to have some chips, instead of mindlessly shoving them into your mouth turn off the TV, listen to some music and enjoy every bite of the serving you put in front of yourself. When you are done with that you can turn the TV back on or get back to whatever you were doing.

 

I hope you are enjoying your Holidays,

 

Michael Anders

Head Trainer Shape Up Fitness & Wellness Consulting Inc.

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Personal Training helps your brain!

Were you aware that exercise helps your brain? Yep, it sure does. There are several studies out there that describe this in detail.

Here is what you need to know:

  1. Exercise boosts brain power, studies show that exercise improves circulation to the brain. That little fact is important since the brain represents only roughly 2% of our weight but consumes 20% of the energy that we spend.
  2. Cardiovascular activities like walking are an integral to our brain development. Walking or running 3 days a week for 20-30 min seems to boost brain power and cuts back on the chance that you will get dementia and or Alzheimer’s by 50-60%
  3. Research shows that exercise improves thinking skills.
  4. The improved circulation caused by exercise helps remove free radicals from the brain, as well as stimulating the protein that keeps connecting neurons

So it would definitely help you if you moved more. Get a treadmill desk for work, run or walk 2-3 times a week and if you really want to do some good, go lift some weights on top of it. Our personal trainers are excellent at helping you with your training.

 

Give us a shout,

Michael Anders

www.charlottepersonaltrainer.org

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Slim down by making these 10 quick changes to your diet!

August 6, 2012

As personal trainers we get to hear a lot of stuff about nutrition and clients often request a specific nutrition plan that they don’t follow anyway.  So here is what works for most people for the long term. And yes, you will have to commit, you will have to do some work. If you thought [...]

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If you, a friend or a family member has been struggling with cancer you might want to read this!

March 5, 2012

Hey everyone,   I was contacted by David Haas who is a Guest Blogger for the Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance and he asked me if he could post a blog. After reading it I definitely think this is some awesome information, so check it out down below!   Michael   Exercising With Cancer A diagnosis of [...]

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