Let's get Summer ready....together:

We'll take baby steps together:
Weekly discussions on diet, exercise and beauty (yes, for men too):

Let's begin:

Diet:
Eating foods that make you healthier:

• Eat more nutritionally dense foods, instead of calorie dense foods.  - Stay away from processed and fried foods
• Eat more alkaline foods, instead of acidic foods - if your food intake is too acidic, your body will take nutrients needed from your bones to satisfy it's needs (eg Calcium) 
• Try substituting your juices and soda based drinks for water.  Start slowly, if this is easier for u.  If you are used to drinking juice in the morning/hot chocolate, juices with lunch and dinner.  Start by drinking just juice in the morning and sub everything else.  Then eventually take away the juice/hot chocolate in the morning as well.  Black coffee is still suitable, no sugar or cream though.  (oops, yeah i said NO SUGAR OR CREAM).

Ok, so let's take baby steps...every week if we try something new it's much easier than taking everything away all at once....but education is key.  So read on and do your research.

Exercise:

• Try a mix of cardio and strength training.  I would reccommend more strength training than cardio (for both weight loss and weight gain - diet plays a very important role in achieving your goals.  It also plays a part in your recovery time as well)

Beauty tip:

• Be sure to moisturize your body especially your face before going to bed, namely your face and your extremeties (hands, your feet, especially your heels...this added moisture will be needed when the heat arrives)

Here are some things that you can try to transition to a healthier lifestyle:

• Sunbutter (healthier than peanut butter, but tastes just like it)
• Almond butter (not as smoothe as Sun butter but it's just as healthy)
• Substiutute cauliflower for potatoes in your regular mashed potato recipe (recipe to follow)
• Try run/walking, start with 30 sec run, 1 min walk, then increase your run to 1 min run, then 30 sec rest, then when that's mastered try doing it in ratios of 2:1 until you don't have to rest for 5 mins then keep adding 30 secs onto the 5mins.  This may take some time, so please be patient.  (after all Rome wasn't built in a day...right)

Pls post any questions or comments, they will be answered or addressed.  If there is a specific topic that you would like to know about, please feel free to add those in as well.