Fit & Healthy Buffalo- Fitness Success After 40

  There is incredible power in your daily habits . Your habits quite literally mold your body, your health and your accomplishments in life. And it turns out that there’s a special secret sauce to making new habits stick that I’d like to share with you today… This secret sauce goes against our instincts and the way that we are wired, which is why so many of us fail to make healthy, new habits truly stick and become part of our ongoing routine. It’s more natural for us to take on the role of a critic with ourselves than that of a cheerleader. We compare ourselves to others and focus on our flaws rather than pausing to celebrate our wins by really feeling good. This works against us because it is proven emotions create habits and that the positive emotion of FEELING GOOD is the BEST WAY to get a new habit to stick! Now if you’re anything like me then the idea of celebrating tiny little wins is a bit uncomfortable. I’ll feel good about myself when I do something substantial, you may think

  Raise your hand if you’ve ever been told that to lose weight, you need to do cardio? Whether it’s running, cycle classes, or the elliptical, it seems like everyone’s preaching that the only way to drop pounds is to slave away on some cardio machine for hours, to sweat at least a gallon each workout, and to be so sore that you can’t walk for 3 days. The truth is, if you want your workouts to be effective, you must work out smarter, not harder. More time does not equal more results. More sweat does not equal more pounds lost. More muscle soreness does not equal more pants sizes dropped. Working out smarter looks like this: Instead of doing long workouts on a cardio machine, do shorter workouts working multiple muscle groups throughout the week. Instead of trying to push yourself to 100% every workout, do workouts that vary in intensity and work different energy systems throughout the week. Instead of pounding the cardio every day, combine strength and metabolic condi

There’s a lot of BAD advice out there when it comes to weight loss. The worst part is, the bad advice can be hard to spot because it’s usually disguised as the “secret” to weight loss, OR it’s coming from someone with a large following and a chiseled body. Maybe you may have fallen for some of the bad diet advice, but now you know better. But maybe you still have friends falling for it and you desperately wish you could save them. How do you know how to spot bad diet advice? Here’s a few hints: - Demonizing a specific food or food group. Whether it’s carbs, fats, sugar, or fruits, bad diet advice usually involves making you believe that you need to cut out certain foods completely to lose weight. - Overly restricting calories or portion sizes If a person is trying to tell you that you should basically starve to lose weight, RUN in the opposite direction. For long-lasting weight loss, you should actually feel comfortable and satisfied, not hungry and deprived. - A one-size-fits-all app