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Increase your wellbeing

There is no rush to be perfect, the only urgency is to get started!! The idea is to create a healthy practice to live by.  You can do this by incrementally making positive choices and changes so that you’ll starting feel a little healthier each day.  The process shouldn’t be extreme or punishing, find enjoyment in whatever you are doing that way you’ll be less likely to quit.

Self love: Think positive thoughts about thyself.  What you believe, you become.

Be fit: For feeling and longevity, not just for looks

Be patient: With your body, quick fixes do not work long term!! They guarantee backlashes and disappointment.

Allow yourself: to have things you like in moderation. Deprivation ends in over indulgence.

Stop counting calories: Just be mindful and eat nutrient dense foods.

Don’t beat yourself up: for poor decisions, if you eat it enjoy it and move on.

Alcohol:  Don’t over do it and hold off the sugary cocktails.  If you do drink lighter, consume wine or lighter alcohols, like vodka at 60-70 calories per shot (the lighter it is the less sugar it contains). Avoid carbonated or juice mixers- they add up a lot faster.

The great outdoors: Connect with mother year round, there’s something so peaceful and magical about nature.  Get grounded with outdoor activities like beach volleyball, basketball, hiking, water sports, swimming, skiing, snowboarding, snowmobiling, ice-skating or hockey and tobogganing.

Sex: It relieves stress, helps you sleep better, increases self esteem, boosts immunity, increases mood, burns calories and it helps to increase intimacy between you and your partner. *Always practice safe sex*

Sleep: It assists the body in metabolizing food, especially carbohydrates, by stabilizing glucose and insulin levels. This prevents excessive storage of fat.  Sleep is also when the body heals itself by renewing and rejuvenating.

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Toning

Lifting weights or Toning is the exact same thing!

You are working a muscle, regardless if you use your body weights or actual weights (except the language used) for men and women.

Here are the top 8 reasons why you should lift at least once a week (high rep low weight for bulk less body):

1)    Caloric burn! With light or no resistance, you are basically wasting your time.  Lay the body’s foundation with weights (yoga and ballet inspired workouts are great for other purposes like strengthening the little muscles, elongating and cardio).

2)    Be strong! Weight lifting gives a muscle strength and firmness.

3)    You won’t get bulky! This is a misconception of using weights. This statement is far from the truth!! Bulking up occurs mostly due to increased appetite and not enough cardio or yoga to lean out.

4)    Weight lifting maintains muscle mass while lowering your body fat. Muscle separation (cuts) occurs when muscles are worked independently in all directions (do several different exercises for 1 muscle group).

5)    Your metabolism will be in high gear! Having a muscle on your body is a good thing because your metabolism will be kicking when you are chilling and when you can’t make it to the gym.

6)     Posture! Shoulders point or cave forward because the chest is overly tight from sitting hunched forward over the computer or driving.  Back, chest and core exercises can greatly improve strength assisting you to sit up straight, making you appear slimmer.

7)    Give your pups a perk up! Even if you don’t have much there a little muscle will make them look bigger! Especially the decline exercises, these exercises will help to lift up the twins to say hello, and goodbye to double side boob!

8)    Don’t give cellulite a chance! Diet alone won’t prevent it! Fat cells can only shrink, they never go away once they’ve multiplied and if the area isn’t worked they will enlarge and keep multiplying.

 Keep in mind your body works like a pulley system, a balance between working the upper and lower body is super
important front, back, top and bottom. Work your entire body in order to burn fat and look great everywhere (there’s no such thing as spot treatment)!!

Incorporate these 3 key elements to burn fat and keep it off with 1) regular cardio
exercise, 2) consistent strength training for all your muscle groups and 3) a healthy balanced diet.

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Save Water And Give (SWAG): bluDEM

Perfect for around the house, to bed, to nap, to workout and run errands in.  These bamboo threads are literally my second skin and in my opinion it’s the most comfortable stuff to wear on the planet. I
discovered it a little over a year ago in the Equinox boutique, and as it turns out by total fluke the owner is now one of my closest girl friends.

Besides all that… The product is all made out of bamboo, which means it’s good for the environment by saving water (the production of 1 cotton T-shirt YES ONLY 1 T-SHIRT uses 720 GALLONS of the world’s water, which is 11,520 cups, versus the production of a bamboo T-shirt only uses 240 gallons of water 3,840 cups of water).  By supporting this brand you will have an immediate impact on the lives of nearly 1 billion people currently living without access to clean water (this is viewed as a basic human right in North America).

The clothes are produced right here in LA, they have absolutely no use of forced labor in their facilities, no child labor or person under the legal working age is hired at their facilities.By you purchasing any product from the BluDem line (men’s woman’s, children’s or baby’s) you are participating in a social movement, encouraging more efficient use of the worlds limited resources like water and supporting a business that is dedicated positively changing our world.

I encourage you to get your SWAG on (Save Water And Give) because reducing your environmental footprint by buying fashionable, comfortable clothes is just plain rad.

Go to bluDem and enter the code ALGblu when checking out to receive 25% off you entire order! 

 

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