Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Standing For What I Believe In

So, I'm not like many other fitness professionals. My clients don't generally live from one measurement to the next.
We know, as educated human beings, that being overweight is NOT the healthy way to live our lives. This is science. Risk of many, many diseases increases, quality of life changes, it is harder to complete activities of daily living while carrying a weight far and above your "healthy zone", which can differ from person to person. We, as animals, have bodies that are programmed to work at their best at a particular weight. These things we know. Without a doubt.
So why does our society attach the need to lose weight only with someone's aesthetic beauty?

I have a couple of statements to make.

If you don't love yourself fat, you won't love yourself thin.

Losing weight will not change your life.Give you money. Get you a hot guy. A new job.

I have yet to see a person who looks ugly in a weight loss before picture. Just bigger.


So, here's my point. Don't jump on every marketing ploy to make you feel bad about yourself, in order to make some fatcat (pun intended) even richer. Don't make changes to make yourself beautiful. Chances are you already have that covered.

Make nutritional and lifestyle changes because you deserve a life rich with experiences, as little pain, disease and injury as possible and because you know that you are worth being treated with love and respect by everyone you meet, especially yourself.

Our CORE clients have reported the following changes in their lives since starting to move with us:
- lower blood pressure
- the ability to look after their new baby grandson, rock him to sleep, stand up, and walk him up the stairs to his crib. Without waking him up. This lovely grandma is 88 yrs. old
- waking up pain free - and walking down the stairs without holding on
- buying a bikini!! and wearing it - in public!
- making consistent changes become habit - drinking water, moving every day
- less medication needed to control pre-existing conditions
- personal best result on a yearly medical test
- better mood, more able to cope with stress
- more energy
- sleeping better
- finding it easier to be organized

And a whole lot more.
And guess what - a funny by product happened. These people are all contributing to moving their bodies towards a healthy weight, if they haven't reached it already.
Pants fit differently. New clothes must be bought.
And the determination, hard work and desire to make these changes stick? That comes from looking inside, not dwelling on the outside.
Confidence comes, not from the physical changes, but from the traits that have developed and strengthened over the journey, and will continue for life.

After all, we see the beauty in each person who walks in our door. In that way, they never needed to change a thing.

Find Your CORE
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