I received and email yesterday from Andrea. Andrea was on the X-Weighted TV show and it is going to me on TV this Wednesday night for those of us here in Canada. I thought that the email was insightful and asked for if I could post it here, Andrea agreed: I was reading some of your articles on X-weighted and just wanted to give you a heads up that on the Wednesday July 9th episode, Binge Buddies, you will see my  formerly flabby butt get kicked by Paul Plakas. Paul was absolutely the best thing … [Read more...] about Andrea on X-Weighted

Short and long term goals are a very important thing to have in your arsenal to fight against motivation problems. When you make goals it is easy enough to say "I want to lose 100 pounds in a year" or "I want to run a 10k next May" But the trouble is that if all of your goals are just long term goals then you will have nothing pushing you to that workout today. Conversely if you have only short term goals then you just see the trees and not the forest. If you shoot to just lose … [Read more...] about Setting goals for a new you

Craig Ballantyne of Turbulence Training sent this email about what to do to keep yourself motivated to workout even when you don't feel like it. There will be days (everyday?) when you don't feel like doing your workout. Sometimes you don't want to get out of bed. Sometimes you don't want to leave your office because you feel like there are too many deadlines (but this is when you need a workout the most!). Sometimes you don't want to end story time with the kids only to head down to … [Read more...] about Workout Motivation Tips

I have been having some trouble sleeping lately and it is a little puzzling to me. I have no stresses in my life that I am waking up with so I am not to concerned and am just chalking it up to some disturbance in my circadian rhythm. The real problem with not sleeping enough is that it drains your will power, confidence, and energy. When you sleep well you feel great but when you do not sleep enough it is easy to say "What the hell I deserve to have desert and while I am at it I don't … [Read more...] about Sleeping and motivation

I have been writing this blog for a couple of years now and this post should probably have been one of the first posts that I ever wrote. Change is hard, change is difficult, most of all change is exciting and helps you grow as a person. We all want change and change needs to happen at many points in our life. Of course that is not always true as our bodies and our minds fight change all the time even when we know how important it is. So we end up having two choices, we can either stay … [Read more...] about Making change is all in your head

I got an email from one of the guys at the Discovery Channel telling me about Discovery Health's National Body Challenge 2008, because it's all about offering helpful tools for getting in shape. As you have seen in the past I have plugged all the TV shows that have to do with fitness from the Biggest Loser to X-Weighted to last 10 pounds Bootcamp. Registration is totally free and includes an 8-week trial membership to Bally Total Fitness and online components, including over 1,000 recipes and … [Read more...] about Discovery Healths National Body Challenge