Exercise Removes Weakness From My Body

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Plan Tomorrow's Meals In Advance

Weight loss printable - Plan Tomorrow's Meals In Advance. Planning your meals in advance is a great way to motivate yourself to stay on track. Print out this sheet and use it to plan the next day's meals.

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Desire, Dream and Envision Your Goal

Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream a vision. -Muhammad Ali

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Almonds Are Good For You

Almonds may not be considered a typical diet food because they have a reputation of being high in fat and calories. These nuts do contain fat, but most of it is the heart-healthy unsaturated kind, which can help you feel full. MayoClinic.com adds that a diet that includes nuts such as almonds may also reduce your risk of heart disease by helping you lower your LDL, or dangerous, blood cholesterol levels. Adding almonds to your weight loss plan will provide a healthy amount of fiber to keep you full and enable you to reduce your overall calorie intake. -www.livestrong.com

It Takes Sweat, Determination and Hard Work

It takes sweat, determination and hard work...your sweat is a symbol of your determination to succeed.

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Muffin Top Melting Workout

Muffin Top Melting Workout - See the complete video HERE on YouTube

20 Benefits Of Walking For Exercise

Walking is especially good if you're someone who's reluctant to exercise because it doesn't feel like exercise.  If you walk at a brisk pace you can get a really good workout. It's so easy to do for most people and is as simple as putting on some comfortable clothes and shoes and walking out of the door.

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Do Something

When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.

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Demand More Of Yourself

Demand more of yourself by making exercise a vital and consistent part of your life. Make yourself strong, your persistence will be rewarded.

For my UK readers: Have you ever thought of becoming a fitness instructor? A great way to motivate yourself to exercise consistently is to learn how to teach others to do the same. Fit Training is one of the UKs leading fitness training providers, they have courses at all levels from beginner to advanced. Watch one of their videos HERE on YouTube to learn more.

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Images: Fit Training 

Exercise Motivation Tip

I'm always searching for ways to motivate myself to exercise and this picture shows my latest "invention". It's a picture of a digital photo frame taped to my elliptical. It's one of those photo frames that plays videos as well as display pictures plus it has a USB port so you can load any video onto it.

Using a photo frame like this has many more advantages than just placing your exercise machine in front of the TV because you can choose from the multitude of videos available on YouTube and the internet. On my screen is a screenshot of The Biggest Loser UK...I like pretending the trainers are yelling at me to work harder while doing my workout.

The photo frame I'm using is available HERE.

Think About The Benefits

All change is difficult. Think about the benefits of changing your life, not the difficulties. Your focus will determine your motivation.

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The Scales Are Not Always The Best Way To Measure Fat Loss

If you were to place 5lbs of fat and 5lbs of muscle side by side the fat would look about twice the size of the muscle because muscle tissue is more tightly packed than fat tissue. A 150lb person with toned muscle and a low percentage of body fat will appear slimmer than a 150lb person with low muscle development and a high percentage of body fat. As we get fitter we gain more muscle so the scales may not always accurately show our weight loss. So use other methods (as well as the scales) like a tape measure or the way your clothes fit to determine the amount of fat you've shed from your body.

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Use Measuring Spoons To Aid Portion Control

I recently found out, to my horror, that a tablespoon of olive oil contains 120 calories; and I never used a tablespoon to measure it, I always poured straight from the bottle. Although olive oil is a healthy fat, use it in moderation.

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Eat Foods With A High Water Content

Water has zero calories so foods with a high water content tend to be very low in calories and therefore are very useful to include in your diet when trying to lose weight:

• Red tomatoes 94% water
• Watermelon 92% water
• Strawberries 92% water
• Spinach 92% water
• Broccoli 91% water
• Carrots 87% water
• Blueberries 85% water
• Apples 84% water

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Fight Through The obstacles

There are plenty of obstacles on your path. Don't allow yourself to be one of them.

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Motivation Is Not Constant

Don't worry if your motivation is in a slump at the moment; just stay focused on your goals, be determined to succeed and your motivation will return.

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Just 30 Minutes A Day Goes A Very Long Way

There are 1,440 minutes in a day, schedule 30 of them for exercise.

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Patience and Persistence are Vital

Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavour. -Joseph Pilates

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Exercise Today

Exercise Today - Make Yourself Proud!

I Love Kiwi Fruit

When was the last time you had some kiwifruit? It's sweet, low in calories and packed with nutrition. It should definitely be part of your weight loss shopping list.

The Benefits of Doing Regular Aerobic Exercise

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The Benefits of Doing Regular Aerobic Exercise:

1. Strengthening the muscles involved in respiration, to facilitate the flow of air in and out of the lungs
2. Strengthening and enlarging the heart muscle, to improve its pumping efficiency and reduce the resting heart rate, known as aerobic conditioning
3. Strengthening muscles throughout the body
4. Improving circulation efficiency and reducing blood pressure
5. Increasing the total number of red blood cells in the body, facilitating transport of oxygen
6. Improved mental health, including reducing stress and lowering the incidence of depression
7. Reducing  the risk for diabetes.
8. Burns body fat, while building leaner muscle.

Info Source: Wikipedia

I find it really motivating to occasionally remind myself of all the good exercise does to my body and mind. It can be so easy to think of exercise as only a means of burning calories and losing weight, but it can do so much more. 

Just Keep Going

Just Keep Going - Failure is just another stepping stone to success.

Believe You Can Succeed

Believe you can succeed. You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. -Zig Ziglar

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Set Goals and Be Unstoppable

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated. Set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. -Les Brown

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Start Running or Jogging

I started jogging some years ago and these were some of the reasons why I began.

1. To burn fat and lose weight
2. To inspire others to get fit and healthy
3. To eliminate "I can't" from your dictionary
4. To build physical and mental toughness
5. To discover your own personal best
6. To promote overall health and fitness
7. To boost confidence and self-esteem
8. To decrease stress and to feel good

The exercise motivation tip below is from  Spark People.com and I can vouch for the fact that just getting your running shoes on even if you don't feel like doing any exercise, is a great way to get yourself motivated to get out of the door or to start some sort of exercise.

For my British readers if your're looking for some great running shoes try these from Northern Runner.com

Free Meal Plan Generator

Check out this free automatic meal plan generator from swole.me. All you have to do is type in the amount of calories you want to eat for the day and the generator will give you some meal plan suggestions. If you don't like the meals that come up, hit the generate button again and a brand new list of suggestions will be displayed. A very useful tool in my opinion.

It Takes Sweat Determination and Hard Work

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

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Calories Are Like Money In The Bank

Seeing calories like money in the bank is a fun way to get a different perspective on your calorie intake and expenditure. If calories were money in the bank we'd be much more careful how we spent them each day. Eat healthy nutritious food but be aware of the calories.

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You Will Succeed If You Persevere

Don't give up...Hang in there....and you will succeed!