Getting the Body You Want is Easier Than You Think: Come Follow Me

         It is such a cold and snowy winter we are having. It makes us want to hibernate by nature. With that it means eating more, moving less and with that being said gaining weight. I myself have not been training as many people due to weather as they are being lazy as well. When I do see them they have gained about 5 pounds, even though I give them a food menu to follow. Somehow they felt the need to eat junk food and couldn’t control or fight the feelings. All I can say is “it is what it is” and start from there. We also don’t want to eat and eat and gain that much weight that is will become a challenge to lose it. Especially that spring is around the corner. Yes that is right even with all the snow we are having the warmer weather will sneak up on us faster than we think. What we don’t want is to find ourselves in a position that we have a long haul to get to our target weight. Before we get there let us try to think before we eat. We can put on some upbeat music and dance just to keep moving. It doesn’t have to be a long period of time but moving that body for a couple songs will help more than you might think if you do this every day. Yes I know every day but that is only about 8 to 10 minutes.  That is not long and it will help if you continue to do this. Think of it as fun, if you have children grab them and they will enjoy being silly and dancing as well. It not only gets you moving but your children as well. This will start you on your way to make you conscious of your food intake and to keep your blood circulating. This also keeps your metabolism from becoming too dormant.  This is what happens when we eat and eat and don’t exercise in any form or way. Your metabolism becomes sluggish and if you don’t move and keep eating your metabolism becomes dormant. We don’t know what to do to move at times. We don’t always feel like going out in the cold to make it to the gym. We might have young children that makes it harder to go to the gym, so we just don’t. Whatever the excuse may be we have to stop making excuses and start to do little things to keep your weight down and your body from getting to flabby. The winter makes it easier being able to wear more clothing. The big baggy sweater, sweats and you don’t realize until you look in the mirror that you not happy with what you see. And you may have gained more than you thought and now summer. So we now have the choice of buying big baggy summer clothes to cover up our body. This is not what you want and you know that. No matter how many times the media says love your body whatever your weight it is. Deep down people would love to fit into whatever they pick off the racks especially us women.

               As you get older you need to continue to move and use weights. It is important for your body in stopping the progress of having osteoporosis. It is extremely hard for me to tell you “to just do it” even if your mind is saying “don’t eat that” but you eat it anyway. It’s almost like there is a little voice in your head saying “eat me”. There are so many ways to move to start you off easy. I have taught a class for years called “Just don’t sit there”. This is where you would do your exercises using a chair. I will be doing a short video on this type of class. I will also be making a new Nice & Easy video for those who are beginners or haven’t moved in a while. A couple more videos will be coming including a Latin dancing video and a chair dance video. Last but not least I will be making a combinations class with stretching and meditation. This class is a feel good class. I hope you come and join me. So I will be busy in making these, but I want you to feel comfortable to know who I am. I believe you need to enjoy your exercise and the exercise that you do must be effective. In closing most of my videos got taken down because of copy writes of songs and the fact that they were Zumba videos and someone actually owns the rights to the word Zumba. So all that work and likes I got were gone just like that. Although I put some of them back up it is time for some new videos. I hope to see you there. Barbara Jeanne xo