Mar 01
99 Things You Can Do To Lose Weight, Be Healthy, Look Great, and Feel Wonderful!
Strategies Add comments- Take 6 grams of Fish Oil every day.
- Eat 24 almonds every day (1 ounce)
- Measure your waist, hips, thighs, and upper arms every Friday.
- Schedule the time to plan, prepare, and shop for your meals.
- Get plenty of the cheap plastic tupperware containers. Make sure the lids all fit.
- Design a “go-to” breakfast, lunch, and dinner that you can fall back on if you don’t have a plan.
- Buy some cool workout clothes that you look forward to wearing.
- Read this blog.
- Read “Freakin’ Fabulous
” by Clinton Kelly to learn how to dress outside the gym (One of my favorite books!)
- Take pictures of you in your underwear every other week.
- Drink at least 80 ounces of water every day.
- Don’t drink any calories (exceptions: protein shakes)
- Go to a casino buffet and see what people who eat like that look like
- Throw out everything in your kitchen that isn’t part of your meal plan. If it’s in your house, you’ll eat it.
- Plan out your reward meals in advance. And then enjoy them.
- Get good cooking tools, it makes it a lot more fun (and much easier!) to have the right stuff.
- Find a skinny doctor to give you a checkup
- Register for one of my bootcamps and come at least 3x a week.
- Before you skip a workout, watch this video:
- Drink at least 2 mugs of green tea every day.
- Make friends from work come to bootcamp with you, you can all support each other during the day.
- Hang this line up in your kitchen: “Eating is a promise you make to your body, and every time you eat processed food, you are betraying that promise.“
- Get rid of negative people in your life.
- Give up grains.
- Give up high fructose corn syrup
- Give up alcohol
- Go for a walk 3x a week for extra exercise and to absorb vitamin D.
- Write your goals down from memory every morning.
- Friend me on Facebook and ask questions on my wall.
- Get a stainless steel water bottle with a cool pattern on it.
- Take a great multivitamin like VGF25+ (for women or for men)
- Do extra interval training twice a week (here is an interval program I use with my clients: Interval Training Workout)
- Set an “Unveiling Date” to reveal your swimsuit body. Memorial Day is coming up soon….
- Get rid of your fat clothes as you lose weight. Don’t give yourself an easy out.
- Buy a pair of skinny jeans with the waist size you want to be. Hang them on your wall.
- Make your family eat healthy too. There’s no reason to cook 2 separate meals. Show them you love them and make them eat clean.
- Try a new kind of vegetable every week
- Add flavor without adding calories: salsa, mustard, lime juice, tabasco, spices
- Drink a mug of peppermint tea before bed every night
- Print out pictures of fitness role models and put them in your food log
- Floss twice a day (Do you know how many people skip this?)
- Add 1 cup of broccoli to lunch and dinner
- Cook meat twice a week so you always have a supply
- Pack some protein powder in baggies so you’ll never have to skip a meal (I like this one)
- Go see a chiropractor at least once a month (I go to Brian Russell, he is the best!)
- Use a Foam Roller
every day
- Add a long stretching session every week
- Read Secrets of a Former Fat Girl
and learn her “It’s Not An Option” strategy for getting fit
- Come to a seminar and learn what REALLY works when it comes to increasing your metabolism
- Ask yourself “If I don’t make this change today, how will I feel this time next year?”
- Keep a nutrition, workout, and healthy ideas journal.
- Go to a fitness and bodybuilding expo. You probably don’t want to look like these guys and gals, but you’ll see people who are 100% dedicated to their physique.
- Plan a vacation to the beach and decide to be the fittest person there
- Wear a pair of Vibram Fivefingers
during your workouts and your knees, ankles, and back will thank you
- Mellow out. Stress hormones cause fat storage.
- Don’t half-ass your workouts. You’re there to get something done.
- Take one day a week off from hard exercise. Go for a walk in the hills. This is called “Active Recovery”
- Eat five or six snacks every day, instead of 3 large meals
- Eat REAL foods. Processed foods cause an insulin surge and you’ll store every extra calorie as body fat.
- Buy smaller dinner plates. Our fullness is greatly controlled by the size of our plates in relation to food volume.
- Feel fuller by eating more vegetables and clear soups. This is called “Volumetrics”
- Eat breakfast. This will cut your risks of obesity, heart disease, and cancer. (I’m not hungry first thing, so I have a protein shake, almonds, apple, and spinach)
- Read food labels and pass up anything that you can’t pronounce.
- Watch less TV. Pick a few favorites and TiVo them. Sitting in front of the TV is the express route to snacky-town.
- Don’t fear dietary fat. Your body NEEDS fat. Cut out all carbs from grain and sugar instead. (Go to town on fruits and veggies!)
- Follow your plan. The more closely you follow your nutrition and workout plan, the faster you’ll get the results you want.
- Brush your teeth after every main meal.
- Eat a healthy snack before you go to a social event. That way you’ll be less likely to binge on the carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.
- Get out of the “more is better” mindset when it comes to exercise. Instead, take a smart approach based on the elements of your metabolism. More isn’t better. BETTER is better.
- Get your teeth whitened. You’ll feel better and smile more.
- Keep walking shoes in your car. No more excuses.
- Shop with a list. Not on the list, not in your cart.
- Drink a specially-formulated workout drink during and after your workout. (I drink this one: Prograde Workout)
- Maybe you think it’s easy for some people. And maybe you’re just making excuses:
- Don’t smoke. Don’t hang out in smoky places.
- Pack your lunch (Last Friday I asked 3 of my fittest friends out to lunch. All 3 already had something packed by 7am. Coincidence?)
- Get some sunshine early every day.
- Need a jump start? Hire a GOOD personal trainer for 4 months to get you going.
- Eat more protein. It raises your metabolism and preserves lean, toned muscle.
- Give yourself a break. If you screw up on your diet, just get started again THAT DAY. Don’t declare the week a loss and set yourself farther back
- Get more and better sleep. Try to make your bedroom a “cave”- dark and silent.
- Throw out your scales. Use the pictures from number 10 to gauge your progress.
- Cut out all soy from your diet. It will mess up your hormones and make you store more fat. (Also – tastes gross)
- Make exercise time your fun time. We have a blast at bootcamp because it’s fun and we vibe great together.
- Why sports? You’ll live longer!
- Print out the 7 Rules Of Nutrition and keep them with you when you plan your meals (find them here: Nutrition Guide)
- Make fitness a LIFESTYLE, not a “quick fix”
- Get the Paleo Cookbook and try 3 new recipes a week
- Make a bet that you can lose a bigger percentage of inches off your waist than your friend.
- Go to ThisIsWhyYoureFat.com and look at what some people eat
- Before you eat anything, ask yourself “Will this bring me closer to my goals? Or take me away from them?”
- Stay satisfied longer by having protein, fats, and vegetables in every meal.
- Get your priorities straight: Do you want to look and feel great? Or to eat a muffin that will make you bloated and crash your energy levels in 20 min?
- Focus on metabolic resistance training. Building and maintaining lean muscle will raise your metabolism and keep you healthy and mobile.
- “The more you cook, the better you look.” Stay out of the fast food drive-thru.
- Stick to one plan long enough to give it a chance. If you change workouts or diets based on every ill-informed magazine artilce you read, you’ll never have a chance to make progress on any of them.
- Take note of how you feel after every meal. If you’re lethargic, cut down on the carbs.
- Take ACTION on something EVERY day. Want to eat 2 apples a day? Don’t go and buy just four apples. You’re out of luck in 2 days. Go and get 14 instead.
- Remember that a great body is built one day at a time. Every day that you live according to your plan brings you one day closer to your goals!
What is YOUR best weight loss tip? I’d love to hear it! Leave a comment below
June 14th, 2010 at 6:18 am
amazing stuff thanx
August 18th, 2010 at 5:53 pm
these are the types of things that i love to see posted up.
September 30th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
you’ve got a great personality.