Walking and Health

Here we go about to embark into summer and you look at your swimsuits from last year and wonder how they shrunk when you haven’t even washed them.  Wait a minute.  It’s not the bikini that got smaller, you got bigger.  How did that happen? You were mentally ready on January 1st to lose those extra pounds, but by January 10th your heart just wasn’t in it anymore. You shed a few pounds, but spring came and you got more active, so that meant you could eat more because you’re burning more calories since you are exercising more.  Just like a bear that wakes up from his long winter break, you started eating and eating.  Now it’s time to get back into shape.

Summer is around the corner and summer bikini bummer is right in your face.  Let’s deal with it and start working on your tummy now.  Try different exercises that work the whole core.  You don’t want to concentrate so much on your abs that the rest of your muscles get neglected.  Pilates is a great way to exercise the entire core.  WebMD has a great slide show on Abs, the name of the section is called, Ab Envy and you can link to it here.  Ab Envy Slide show .  A few of the exercises they reveal are:

• The Canoe Twist
• The Cat Kick
• The Pilates Zip Up
• normal everyday “extras” to help abs

The main point is that if you start a few months before summer and exercise more and make good choices towards eating healthy, the Summer Bikini Bummer will be a thing of the past. 

What do you think?  How long does it take you to get into shape for the summer bikini months?  Do you work out all year so you don’t have this issue, or do you feel like your weight creeps up more and more every year and you have to try harder and harder to get it off?  Let me know what you think.

So, you go on a diet and you lose those extra pounds.  Now what?  How do you keep off the pounds that you just lost?  The last thing you want to do is get back to your old eating habits and gain the weight back that you worked so hard at losing.  The gaining weight, then dieting to lose it, then gaining it back again is the old yo-yo dieting theory.  Some even say that if you lose weight and then gain it back, you usually end up gaining more weight or gain fat and not muscle, so in a sense, your body is worse off than before you started. 

There are many products out on the market now that can help you to lose weight.  But, let’s say you lose twenty pounds by following a strict diet.  Good for you, but how do you keep the pounds off.  Well, Dr. Suzanne has gone and done it again!  She gave you the revolutionary secrets to fat loss in her eBook “Top Secret Fat Loss Secret” which shook the very foundations of the food manufacturers and opened the eyes of millions just like YOU to help take your life back and your waistline.

Even though, she helped people lose over 56,562 lbs total and counting with her amazing secret, she noticed an unsettling trend.  She found that there was no problem for them losing the weight but, to her disheartenment they seemed to be struggling to keep it off!  We have ALL gone through this. It seems too familiar.

LOSE the WEIGHT….GAIN the WEIGHT…LOSE the WEIGHT…GAIN the WEIGHT…

This viscous cycle of Yo- Yo Dieting has to end and end NOW!  As you know, Dr. Suzanne leaves no stone unturned when searching for the TRUTH!  After countless interviews with diet experts and people just like YOU who have struggled with the battle of bulge and have won she discovered that all of them did a very similar SIMPLE EASY to DO SYSTEM that kept the weight off !!!!

Instead of keeping this amazing discovery to herself Dr. Suzanne has created the YoungSlimFit Program to give you all of the tools that they used to finally end their battle with the bulge!!  So if you are someone who is just flat out sick and tired of the endless Yo-Yo Dieting then do not hesitate any longer.

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These days, life is so much more complicated than that and children are so much more sophisticated than just a decade ago. My children, my two girls for example, do dress up in their room and do pretend to play and sing and dance and act out High School Musical numbers. They sing along with the CD playing in their portable player. They do the hands on the hips and they act out parts of Troy and Gabriella from High School Musical.

Children need to have fun and learn that they can have dreams and grow up to be someone famous. Did Barack Obama know as a child that he would someday be running for the President of the United States? I doubt it. He lived with his grandparents in Honolulu, Hawaii from the fifth grade on through high school. Did little Sarah Palin play with her dolls and ever dream of running for Vice-President? Did she ever play with dolls? Actually, when Sarah was young she would sometimes go moose hunting with her father before school.

So, who is going to be the next President of the United States? Barack Obama? John McCain? Will Sarah Palin make it or will Joe Biden be serving as our next Vice-President. Either way, history will be made as Barack Obama may beome the first African American as President or if the Republican Party wins, Sara Palin will become the first woman Vice-President of the United States.

The point is that anybody in America can grow up to achieve and become anything they want. Never give up your dreams. Even if the current situation seems bleak. Work hard, stay focused on your desires and make them a reality. You can become anything you want to become and don’t let anyone, including yourself, tell you otherwise. Here are a few inspirational images.. Have a wonderful day and always walk tall and walk in peace.

Barack Obama: Change
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Sarah Palin, Washington, DC
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I Am
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Dreams
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Persistence
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Commitment
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Achievement
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Winners Never Quit - Football
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Aim High
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Peace

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One day a father was on his way home from the office and he suddenly remembers that it’s his daughter’s birthday. He pulls over to a Toy Shop and asks the sales person, “How much for one of those Barbie’s in the display window?”

The salesperson answers, “Which one do you mean, Sir? We have: Work Out Barbie for $19.95, Shopping Barbie for $19.95, Beach Barbie for $19.95, Disco Barbie for $19.95, Ballerina Barbie for $19.95, Astronaut Barbie for $19.95, Skater Barbie for $19.95, and Divorced Barbie for $265.95.”
The amazed father asks: “It’s what?! Why is the Divorced Barbie $265.95 and the others only $19.95?” The annoyed salesperson rolls her eyes, sighs, and answers: “Sir . . . Divorced Barbie comes with : Ken’s Car, Ken’s House, Ken’s Boat, Ken’s Furniture, Ken’s Computer, and one of Ken’s Friends.

Humor can get you through most instances in life. If you’re feeling stressed, depressed, angry, sad, lonely, or experiencing any other negative emotion, reading or hearing a good joke can relieve some of the negative feelings and bring about a lighter side to life. Start your day with reading the comics in your daily newspaper.

Humor also helps in understanding a difficult subject. Studies have shown that students seem to learn more when teachers use humor effectively. Humor can also increase effectiveness in the workplace. Let’s face it, the people around you in your workplace become your extended family. When you spend 40 or more hours with them, it helps if a few of them or yourself has a sense of humor and can lighten things up in the workplace. If everyone always had an “all work and no play” attitude, the hours would drag by forever. It really helps when your supervisor has a good sense of humor and uses it effectively to make the workplace more enjoyable.

Humor is also effective in helping to heal whether emotional or physical healing is needed. Studies have shown that “humor helps patients relieve stress and heal.” You can read a great article from Science Daily here Laughter Is The Best Medicine-Science Daily . Anyway you look at it, using humor effectively can bring a smile to anyone who may need it.

I listen to the radio at work and every week morning the DJ tells a joke. Most of the time it’s a little corny and always a rated “G” joke. It doesn’t matter what the content is, becuase in most cases it makes you laugh, it helps you to forget about other things weighing on your mind; it makes you feel good.

So, go out there and walk and be happy and enjoy life and stay positive and feel good about yourself and laugh. Laughing is contagious, spread it everywhere you go. Here’s one more…have a happy day.

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It’s Free, This is Heaven

his 85 year old couple, having been married almost 60 years, had died in a car crash. They had been in good health the last ten years mainly due to her interest in health food, and exercise.When they reached the pearly gates, St. Peter took them to their mansion which was decked out with a beautiful kitchen and master bath suite and Jacuzzi.

“Don’t you understand yet? This is heaven, it is free!” Peter replied with some exasperation.

“Well, where are the low fat and low cholesterol tables?” the old man asked timidly.

Peter lectured, “That’s the best part…you can eat as much as you like of whatever you like and you never get fat and you never get sick. This is Heaven.”

With that the old man went into a fit of anger, throwing down his hat and stomping on it, and shrieking wildly.

I took a much needed vacation and took the family to Lake Vail in Temecula, CA. It’s official title on the website is Vail Lake Village and RV Resort. I wanted to get out of town for a few days and I wanted to travel just out of reach of the city, so it seemed like we were making a significant change in scenery even though it was only a 50 mile drive from our house, keeping the gas expense to a minimum. Lake Vail is located about 100 miles from Los Angeles off of the 15 freeway on Route 79 South. The resort is ideal for RV camp goers as well as those who want to rough it and use a tent. The campsites are large enough for the RV and a tent. Most of the sites have a table and a fire ring. We barbecued every evening. We cooked chicken, had salmon one night, did the usual hot dogs and hamburgers and the ever-important S’mores after the sun set while sitting around the campfire.

We went out to the area of the campsite where the pools are located. It was hot in the sun, but the water in the pool was refreshing. The bathrooms and the whole pool area were very neat and clean. I would recommend this RV resort to those interested in having a relaxing time with the family. The resort also has a water slide. The water slide has an attendant and they watch the kids go down. The resort also has a small gathering area where on weekends they serve up Carne Asada dinners for $8.00 a plate and they have a band providing entertainment. It’s a great place to take the family after a fun day in the sun.

We went miniature golfing on their green set up with 18 holes. It was a great time for the kids. This was the first time my six year old had ever experienced miniature golf and she had fun trying to master her swing. At one point she whacked the ball into the next playing field and another point she was so close to the hole, but the ball barely budged because she was learning control and she didn’t want to hit it too hard. Back at camp, there was plenty of space for the kids to play catch with a football, throw a Frisbee around, and play catch with a softball. There were exerting energy, and they were staying active. They didn’t even miss the play-station or TV which were left behind at home on purpose.

All-in-all it was a fun time had by everyone. The kids stayed busy and the adults could relax without the annoying phone ringing or deadlines pending. I spoke with several different “neighbors” who were camping nearby and they said this resort was a great place to camp on the weekends. Most visitors arrive on Friday evening after work and leave on Sunday. Lake Vail Resort a great place to get away. The outdoors promotes physical activity for all ages and all levels. In the evening, we took a walk around the campsite and enjoyed seeing the sunset and the smell of camping. If you have ever been camping, you know the smell. It’s a mixture of trees, fresh air and the smell of firewood burning at a campsite. Gotta love it!

Here are some helpful sites to link to while setting up a camping trip for vacation. We stayed five days, but a weekend getaway can help relieve some of the day-to-day pressure that builds up at work. We got a campground finder book from the Auto Club, we made our RV Rental reservations through El Monte RV and we booked our Lake Vail Resort reservation by calling the number on their website. The “website available” camp sites seemed to be a little out of sync with the available sites when calling a live person. I would recommend a call to them to confirm available spots before booking. We preferred the shade in the Oaks area. Happy Camping.

• Lake Vail Village and RV Resort:

http://www.vaillakeresort.com/index.php?p=1_1_Home

• Automobile Club of Southern CA: Excellent resources for campgrounds by State

http://www.aaa.com/scripts/WebObjects.dll/ZipCode.woa/wa/route

• El Monte RV Rentals: Nationwide RV Rentals

http://www.elmonterv.com/

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