Fit & Healthy Buffalo- Fitness Success After 40

As August comes to a close, where do you stand with your fitness goals? Have you made progress or did your motivation sizzle out? {Read: Your Weight Motivation for some quick inspiration} Most people wait around for motivation to strike them like a lightning bolt. Well, I've got news: motivation isn't something that happens to you - it's something that you create for yourself. If you don't feel motivated to achieve your goals, it is likely due to mental roadblocks that hold you hostage. Read the following 21 Mindset Tips and prepare your mind for success. Success comes first in the mind, so visualize yourself accomplishing your goals. Remember, you are the only person who can hold you back. Forgive yourself and love yourself despite past failures. Decide what is important in your life, and focus on that. Conquer each negative thought the moment it enters your mind, when it is weakest. Give up the idea that things won't go right unless you worry about them. If you b

Dr. Joseph Mercola, a well-known health advocate, has an interesting take on exercise. He believes that it should be prescribed, like any other medication, in daily doses. “The simple act of writing out a prescription for exercise is an excellent approach to being proactive in regard to your health. It's also far more logical, inexpensive and actually radically reduces your risk of most every chronic disease known to man. A daily exercise routine is one of the main factors in achieving optimal wellness.” Whether you think about it or not, each day you are faced with the option to get your daily does of exercise or not. Will you find the time to hit the gym today, or will the busyness of the day leave you exhausted on the couch? Quite frankly, you don’t have reasons to not do it—you only have excuses.(Read: Your Weight Loss Motivation ) If you are like most then exercise isn’t at the top of your list of favorite things. You’d rather be immersed in a bowl of ice cream, enjoying thei

It’s easy enough to lose a few pounds for a short period of time, only to gain it back. It’s much harder to achieve long-term fat loss.   However, you know people who appear to be permanently in beach-ready shape, so it is possible to be lean for life. This begs the question: how can you lose the weight for good? The answer to this quandary is not found in a single habit or action, but rather in the following 5 Lean for Life Habits…

  The main reason that you're not happy with your weight is because of what you eat. It's hardly your fault. Have you ever stopped to notice how many times you're bombarded by food marketing each day? Ads come at you from magazine pages, T.V. commercials, on websites and billboards, each boasting of cheap, convenient and tasty ways to cure your hunger. The question "What's for dinner?" has never been more complex than now. Extensive menu options and large entrees have distorted your concept of a proper meal, and before you know it you've fallen into the trap of the chain restaurant, the drive thru, and the take-out line. {READ; 7 Habits That Separate The Fit From The Flab For More Ideas} But wait – truly healthy eating is simple. First you need to block out the blizzard of food marketing around you. Remember that advertisers want your money, and they don't stop to consider if the food they promote will expand your waist – that's your jo

  Do you ever struggle with sticking to your exercise and diet routine? One skipped workout leads to another, and another, and another. Then, before you know it, your fitness progress grinds to a halt. This frustrating cycle is all too common. 30 Minutes To Change Your Life Many of my clients have asked for a magical tip to stick with their exercise plan, and I found the solution in an unlikely place: from the mind of Jerry Seinfeld. The story goes like this… A few decades ago, when he was a touring comedian and the Seinfeld show was new to TV, a young man approached him behind stage at a comedy club to ask for advice. How can I become a better comic? He told the young comic that to become better he should write better jokes. And to write better jokes, he must write every single day. Seinfeld went on to describe his Chain Method for staying consistent. He hangs a big calendar of a whole year on the wall. On every day that he writes, he marks that box with an X. After a few days you hav