Take Action Now!

Nothing is going to happen to your body if you do not take positive action. It doesn’t do you any good to have heard all of that information on how to build a good solid physical body if you don’t take action. You want to take care of your body. You want to live longer and you want to be a more active and powerful in your living.

You want to have more energy, more drive and more endurance. Why? Because you don’t want be a couch potato with no vision or no purpose in your life. There is a purpose in building up your body and that reason is to live a healthy life. Not only should you want to look good and live a healthy and prosperous life, but also you should want to live to be around the people you love the most as long as you can.

You must believe in yourself and you must employ the same power and force for your weight loss goals. You must take action.

Here are the 6 Common Reasons for Not Taking Action:

1. Confusion and not knowing where to get started - you may have a great goal, but sometimes no plan on how to really do it.
2. Procrastination - you won’t even try! You create excuses to put off your goal.
3. Lack of confidence - your main thoughts are about how you have tried this goal before but you failed.
4. Lack of motivation - the goal you set no longer has any importance for you.
5. Lack of support from the people around you - in fact, it starts to tear at you, because you start to believe you will not achieve it.
6. You! - ask yourself: "What is really stopping me from achieving my goal?"

Look at the weight loss you have set for yourself, the one you have let go. Then ask yourself: "What is really stopping me from achieving this goal?"Seriously, ask yourself: "What is stopping me from taking action and giving it my best shot?”

Keep asking yourself this question until you find the answer to what is truly stopping you from becoming successful in your weight loss goals and write down every reason! Whatever reasons you have for not taking action, whatever is stopping you from achieving your dream, you can do something about it.

For every reason that stops you, there's often an easy solution! Always remember:

“If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.” – Barack Obama

3 Quick Ways Lose Weight Before Your Vacation

Summer time for most of us is the time for a vacation. There are many moments to look forward to during your vacation such as, the joy of relaxing and just enjoying one another, the feeling of not having to be a certain place and looking forward with anticipation to going on a trip where all you do is look around and enjoy God's creation.

Of course you can fully enjoy all of these moments and more by getting yourself in better shape before you leave for your destination. Here are three of the quickness ways to lose weight before your much deserved break from the hustle and bustle.

Boot Camp – Boot camp workouts are great calorie burners because you're moving rapidly from exercise to exercise and working upper and lower body at the same time. Boot camp exercise burn big calories. You can expect to burn off up to 600 calories per hour during a single boot camp session. This is more calories than you'll burn with most other types of exercise. Each workout builds confidence in your physical ability which can carry over to all aspects of your life.

Kettlebell Training – I have been training my clients with Kettlebells for over four years now and everyone from top athletes to soccer moms is joining the kettlebell revolution for one reason: Kettlebell training works. If you’re like many others, you have a basement full of machines, equipment and DVDs collecting dust. All things you tried and that didn’t get results, either because they didn’t work or because they didn’t work fast enough to keep you interested. Kettlebells are different. The combination of strength and cardio will give fast results and will motivate you to keep going.

Bikram Yoga - also known as “Hot Yoga”, is the practice of a series of yoga poses done in an intentionally over-heated area. Bikram Yoga requires the room temperature to be between 95 and 105 degrees Fahrenheit. You will sweat profusely during the workout, eliminating toxins and cleansing the body. It can help you lose weight for obvious reasons. First, the simple act of working out helps you shed pounds, especially when the workout raises your heart rate and it is also helpful when reshaping the body as it helps to tone, lengthen and strengthen muscles. Plus, your posture, balance and coordination will improve, which can help to significantly improve your physical appearance.

I encourage you to use your vacation as motivation to get in shape. Use one or all three of these exercise methods and not just little walks around the block. As for your diet, remember to eat real food, eat vegetables, eat fruits, whole grains - don’t eat things in packages and don’t eat things in wrappers.