My butt is BIG ...

I found this motivational  and in this post  I will tell you a few things about fitness and which are my favorite workouts and  my biggest frustration this area

Energy and persistence conquer all things -Benjamin Franklin

So we all know that to be fit we need to watch our diet and to be active .  I BELIEVE fitness is giving ua much more then a fit body ,,,we are growing in so many other aspects like  Body confidence, Great eating habits, Improved lifestyle , Lean Physique .  In fitness but  in general we need to have persistence. We may want to lose weight or build  muscles or be fitter then ever , we need patience and motivation. To commit to a program and  to stay focused on what you would like to achieve  , to put the hard work and the struggle with sweat and pain , that’s what will lead you to the results of all your dedication & consistency you put in trough all that time .

3 years ago I become a bodyrocker in one of the most friendly, healthy , cool community online   www.bodyrock.tv . I was following Zuzana , the sexy,  fit 30 years old Fitness host with all the free home workouts she was posting for us and I just couldn’t stop going back every time  for more . About a year ago someone gave me some of the P90X workouts on a dvd  and so I love the interval training, the Yoga and the total body workout . Few moths ago Zuzana left Bodyrock.tv and started to post new workouts on you tube ZWOW  that’s how you can find them . Now Lisa is the new host on bodyrock.tv and shes absolutely great , shes doing a fantastic work on keeping this community fit and motivated .  Those are the kind of workouts I am following 3-4 times per week , Im interchanging  between all three of them.  I'm loving it and they changed my life and my body …made my butt BIG J and that’s just fine ..

But what I really want from a year ago ,,,, is to wake up 45 min earlier then I normally do and run or do yoga or my normal bodyrock workouts . And I find this very difficult to do. Its one of other big challenges I have …Im doing bad with the sugar one as well  seance I had the most amazing desert yesterday evening ,,,, but anyway back to morning exercising , don’t know how to do it . Maybe if I would put my alarm really loud in the bathroom ? Maybe if I would find a mate who would call me and tell me “get up lazy cow and put your trainers on and go out rise and shine and RUNNNNNN “ ,maybe if I would go to sleep at 9:00 pm would help ??? 

Why is it so important for me to start the AM  exercising thing???

-          Exercising early in the morning "jump starts" your metabolism, keeping it elevated for hours, sometimes for up to 24 hours! As a result, you’ll be burning more calories all day long—just because you exercised in the morning.
 

-          Exercising in the morning energizes you for the day—not to mention that gratifying feeling of virtue you have knowing you’ve done something disciplined and good for you

-          Studies have shown that exercise significantly increases mental acuity—a benefit that lasts four to ten hours after your workout ends. Exercising in the a.m. means you get to harness that brainpower, instead of wasting it while you’re snoozing

-          Many people find that morning exercise has a tendency to regulate their appetite for the rest of the day. Not only do they eat less (since activity causes the release of endorphins, which in turn diminishes appetite), they also choose healthier portions of healthier foods.

So this is to me and all the others out there like me …JUST DO IT !!!!!

Dubai , Yachting , Sugar and Awakening

             Today I was reading about The Taste of Dubai event that will take place in weekend and will bring together prestigious celebrity chefs, premiumcc beverage brands, food exhibitors and lots of entertainment on the stage .

I am not going to make it , my job needs me for the weekend so its probably better considering that  Nobu Matsuhisa   will be there  offering the best sushi in the world , that will get me tempted to eat over the limit . Instead I will eat healthy and drink lots of water , I'm planning to go Saturday to join a group of people in yoga bikrum in Dubai as well. Lots of the good things are happening in Dubai and I do envy those people leaving in the middle of everything .  Cant wait to tell you all about it , will be my first class of this type of yoga .

Going back to nutrition facts …

Living  on a yacht it’s a challenge when it come to nutrition as I have to eat what the chef is cooking and I never know what are really all the ingredients his using . His kind and let me use his kitchen sometimes to cook whatever I want and those are the times when I play with the row vegan recipes and mix lots of veggies with nuts but specially some dry fruits with nuts for some healthy deserts . My biggest issue when it comes to the food they serve for us here is the white  sugar and the amount of salt used .

 If salt is accepted in my diet and I sometimes added in my food , then sugar is everywhere and my biggest enemy .One of  My biggest challenge name  :" stay away from white sugar “  .

Why is white sugar bad for me and bad for you too ..

Ohhh don’t even know what to start with  ..

-risk of cancer ,

-can lead to infertility

-causing any number of physical and emotional diseases

-contributes to candida, a yeast overgrowth in the body

-addictive        

-poison in  our body

-empty food( NO NUTRIENTS !!!)  ... AND this list can continue but do you need more ???

And you may be thinking that this is a little bit exaggerating knowing that sugar started as a whole plant . The sugar cane and beet plant in nature come complete with vitamins, minerals, fiber, and phitochemicals  like any other plant. And they have carbohydrates like any other plant in the form of sucrose. When sugar is refined they strip the sugar cane plant or beet plant of all its natural components, except the sucrose. Then sucrose is concentrated into what we know as table sugar.

This means we take sucrose out of its natural balance found in plants…and that is an important part of understanding why it impacts our body so differently.

When sucrose is part of the whole food( fruits and other sweet veggies ) it acts like a food in your body, entering our system calmly, breaking down slowly and providing a range of nutrients in addition to energy.We all know and often say that sugar from the fruits its a good choice when we need to eat sweets .

SUGAR its toxic and its the poison it self . vff

Luckily we do have good alternatives , there is  a clear explained table of the best choices here : http://www.vegetarianorganiclife.com/sugartable.htm

End of the 1st post we have a wonderful entry by Shakti Gawain from the book Awakening and every End of Post will have one of the 365 them from the book as  I find this book inspirational and yes very much  ...

                                                               Awakening

   Each morning as we awaken, we have the opportunity to begin our lives anew, with a fresh perspective gained from what we learned the day before and the refreshment from our night's rest.
      Each day,  and each year ,
      I am awakening to grater consciousness .