Da Super Bowl, Da Booz, Da Diet and You

By

Laura Dion-Jones

“If you wanna know about the road ahead,

ask someone who’s on her way back.”

Old Chinese Proverb

Da Super Bowl game this Sunday is absolutely no excuse to eat junk food like there’s no tomorrow, and it won’t help Da teams win – not even one little bit. And it certainly won’t help da diet, either.

But what it will do is retard your weight loss and wellness efforts too early into your New Year’s health and fitness plan if you don’t watch what you’re eating.

If you find yourself getting swept up in the football frenzy of food, drink and fun – you have to learn how to enjoy yourself without carb-cramming like everyone else at the party. Maybe others can afford it – but you certainly can’t.

And as far as using Da Super Bowl as an excuse for not losing weight next Monday morning at your personal weigh-in, I wouldn’t if I were you. It’s become one of my least favorite excuses of all. 

Sure, excuses like this can be funny at first, but in the end, how funny is it to sacrifice your health, weight loss and wellness for mere football fun food. 

And, BTW, you do have a personal weigh-in with yourself every morning, don’t you? Weighing every single day is a crucial key to true and everlasting weight loss.

Trust me.

A lot of us got through the holidays pretty well unscathed, weight-wise, but that was then and this is now . . . I wish I had a dollar for every time one of you use football games and other BS “holiday” celebrations as excuses for your mystified gain.

Partying hardy, eating everything in sight with reckless abandon just isn’t worth it in the long run – as you’ll soon find out the next time you step on the scale. 

Personally, I don’t care if you eat carbs like crazy till the cows come home. That’s your choice. I finally made my peace with my weight and found the keys to true and everlasting weight loss. I can only share what worked for me with you. If you think you know better, so be it. However, you’re not fooling anyone but yourself because it’s written all over your body and your face. 

When I congratulate you on a big weight loss and job well done for the past week, and some of you snicker and say in an aside to the rest of the group within earshot – “Don’t tell Laura, but I ate carbs!” That’s entirely your choice. 

I’m not your enemy – you and your diet demons are.

Sooner or later it will catch up with you – and you’ll continue to be stuck in the same old weighty situation you’ve been trapped in for how long now? Aren’t you tired of it? I was dog-tired the third time my weight skyrocketed to over 300 pounds in ’02 – this last time tipping the scale at 317. That was IT for me. 

What’s gonna be IT for you?

Whatever diet you choose is, of course, up to you. Whatever you’re doing to lose weight, or not, is up to you. I just hope you choose a healthy eating plan that you can live with for the rest of your life. Because if it’s not, the joke’s on you. It’s not my weight, heath and fitness that are at stake here. It’s yours.

If you continue to eat the same way that got you into this overweight trouble in the first place, you’ll continue to get the same old results. What else do you expect? 

Some of you are a bit too young to really realize the ramifications of chronic obesity – because that’s what being fat and over weight really is – obesity. And it will surely shorten your life considerably. Just wait and see.

How’s this gonna sound:

Dear Mrs. Obama: The real reason we have an escalating obesity epidemic in our country today is because most people don’t really care. They’d rather lazily lie around and eat everything in sight, hoping no one notices. 

It doesn’t work that way.

For some, this road will be all too short because of critical health complications . . . 

Cheating on your healthy eating plan just doesn’t pay.

Enjoy the game. But bring your own diet-friendly snacks and drinks. I always carry something low carb that I love to eat to keep me from caving in to the temptation of the carb-loaded “pokey-bait” that’s usually the standard fare for these kinds of affairs.

And by all means, make sure you get your pre-game daily cardio in. 

“If you wanna know about the road ahead, ask someone who’s on her way back.” 

That be me.

Super Bowl’s Best,

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* If you know of any corporation, organization, company, group or individuals that are interested in having me come and present my "Commit To Get Fit" motivational weight loss and wellness programs in the beginning of 2013, I will put on a highly effective presentation tailored specifically for you. Contact info below:

* Laura Dion-Jones is a Pro-Health Activist, Certified Corporate Wellness Coach, Certified Wellness Coach, Radio Show Host, motivational & lifestyle writer & speaker.

* Through Laura's highly successful Commit To Get Fit/Elgin's Biggest Loser motivational weight loss and wellness program, Laura helped motivate over 182 Elgin area residents to lose 1800 pounds in a little over 18 months.

Here's hoping you'll be next.

* Laura is available for speaking engagements, individual coaching, and corporate wellness programs.

Email Laura@commit-fit.com for further details.

* E: Laura@commit-fit.com Website: www.commit-fit.com

Laura's New Blog: www.commit-fit.blogspot.com

And don't forget the pups: Snob Hounds Canine Couture: www.snobhounds.com

* As with any new diet and fitness plan, be sure to check with your physician before you begin.

Set Clear Weight Loss & Wellness Goals

By

Laura Dion-Jones

“The only way of finding the limits of the possible

is by going beyond them into the impossible.”

Arthur C. Clarke

(British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist,

famous for his short stories and novels, among them

2001: A Space Odyssey)

             I was recently interviewed on eHealth Radio’s Fitness, Weight Management and Nutrition channels by host, Eric Michaels. You can find the podcast on my commit-fit.com website under the NEWS tab.

             The benefit you’ll gain from listening is the opportunity to use my words as a “C2GF mini tune-up” that will get you back on track with your weight loss and daily cardio routines – cos right about now, I hear a lot of you are still struggling with your New Year’s weight loss and wellness resolutions.

            So, my interview is a little something to help you find your way back on the road to wellness - look at it as the “Cliff Notes” of what I cover in my Commit To Get Fit With Laura Dion-Jones seminars.

And if you’re thinking about Olympic Gold – it might be a stretch for you and little too early for that, but you do need to set clear weight loss and wellness goals and reinforce them every day. And you need to begin again, right now, today.

Want to walk or run a faster lap? Yen for a quicker step? Lose 20 pounds or more? Be able to walk an hour without needing a nap after?

These things could very well happen but your first step is to define your weight loss and wellness goals by writing them down and/or stating them out loud to a class, friends, family or co-workers. Tell someone who will remember your intentions and remind you about them – and hold you accountable.

When you “go public” with your goals, it’s hard to break the contract you set up with yourself and others. It gets really embarrassing when you don’t stick to your goal.

The difference between a goal and a daydream is that the goal requires action to achieve it. The daydream happens the rest of the time when we’re sitting on the sofa, driving – and just contemplating.

And, do what I did: learn to hold yourself accountable – cos who else is there in the end but you, really?

Write your goals down in your fitness journal and post them where you’ll see them the most – fridge, freezer, bathroom mirror, on your computer screen, dashboard - places like that.

Your next step is to give yourself a reasonable deadline. Do like I always do for important events, holidays, and other significant benchmarks – I count backwards from the deadline date and set myself daily points of reference on my calendar to keep me on track along the way.

Creating smaller, incremental goals to motivate you as you go will help keep you on track.

Make everything you do count toward your end objective of improved health, fitness, weight loss and wellness.

When you write it all down – your goals become your reason, your road map – the “why” you’re doing it in the first place.

It’s up to you to figure out the “how” that fits in with your daily lifestyle. I can help you with this – but I can’t do it for you.

All I can tell you is the only way of finding the limits of what’s possible with regard to your weight loss and wellness is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Now, go listen to my eHealth radio podcast for that blast of positive motivational support you need right about now . . .

http://ehealthradio.podbean.com/category/fitness/

Yours in terrific health,

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* If you know of any corporation, organization, company, group or individuals that are interested in having me come and present my "Commit To Get Fit" motivational weight loss and wellness programs in the beginning of 2013, I will put on a highly effective presentation tailored specifically for you. Contact info below:

* Laura Dion-Jones is a Pro-Health Activist, Certified Corporate Wellness Coach, Certified Wellness Coach, Radio Show Host, motivational & lifestyle writer & speaker.

* Through Laura's highly successful Commit To Get Fit/Elgin's Biggest Loser motivational weight loss and wellness program, Laura helped motivate over 182 Elgin area residents to lose 1800 pounds in a little over 18 months.

Here's hoping you'll be next.

* Laura is available for speaking engagements, individual coaching, and corporate wellness programs.

Email Laura@commit-fit.com for further details.

* E: Laura@commit-fit.com Website: www.commit-fit.com

Laura's New Blog: www.commit-fit.blogspot.com

And don't forget the pups: Snob Hounds Canine Couture: www.snobhounds.com

* As with any new diet and fitness plan, be sure to check with your physician before you begin.

Daily Cardio: The Better Burn

By

Laura Dion-Jones

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One of my guy fans just sent me this:

Dear Laura,

I will be sure to do my cardio today. Thanks for the reminder.

I think my schedule will normally be to do my daily walking in the neighborhood, or on my lunch hour while at work, along with some strength and flexibility exercises at home each day, then hit the gym on weekends for the weights.

I'm sure you know that you burn, in the long run, more calories from weights than cardio because when you exercise your muscles through weight training, the muscles continue to burn calories for up to 16 hours after you're finished.  

To get the most out of exercise, I think it’s good to do both cardio and weight training. Plus, for us guys, getting strong is good and helps with the definition of our muscles. All guys want big guns (arms) and 6-pack abs. 

I think one needs cardio, the right diet and weights to accomplish all of it.

Your motivational advice is terrific – keep it coming!

Best,

T

Dear T:

            Couple things: Congrats on formulating your daily cardio and fitness plan. That in itself takes a commitment and I can see you’re well on your way.

            And what you say about muscles burning calories for up to 16 hours after you’ve finished lifting is true, however, lifting weights and weight training of any sort are not cardio.

            Cardio and weight lifting are different animals, altogether, yet they both benefit you in their own unique way.

            I feel the calories you burn from weight training is a bonus burn along with doing daily cardio – and I say this from my personal experience.

           Nothing, nothing, nothing helped me boil that fat from my frame like daily walking. And the more I walked, the healthier and thinner I became, and my appetite decreased, as well.

           One of my marathon-running, personal trainer friends told me that walking, like running, blasts all that visceral fat from our innards like nothing else – and MAN, was she ever right. BTW, the gal’s also a Chiropractor.

Saving all your weight training for the weekends might harm you more in the long run than you even realize. You really should be doing strength training spread out at least 3 times a week.

Better yet, all my personal trainer friends recommend you weight train your lower body three days a week and your upper half the other three days a week – leaving one day off from weight training for good measure.

            Real cardio needs to be done every single day. Period. And weights are not cardio . . .

            I’m just sayin’.

You KNOW I work on my cardio practice daily. That's one reason why all my doctors and followers love me - cos I try to set a good example and more than walk the walk and walk the talk.

            And in one of my recent Commit To Get Fit seminars, a Southern Belle asked if she had to do cardio “even on Sundays – cos it’s the Lord’s Day, Miss Laura.”

            My response: “Why, Miss Suzanne, you eat on Sundays, don’t you?”

           ‘Nough said . . .

Make sure you get your daily walk in no matter what.

Do an hour of cardio today - for the health of it!

And: There are no excuses for being overweight - for any of us.

When you work your ass off, and Commit To Get Fit With Laura Dion-Jones - good things will happen with your weight loss, health and fitness! But you gotta do your daily hour's cardio combined with a good, healthy, low-carb diet - cos it's the carbs that are killing you. Ask your endocrinologist/internist. You do have a good one, don’t you?

             Make today terrific! Do your daily cardio for your health. 

Do it for your life.

Laura

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On Monday night, January 21, 2013, Laura will host her Commit To Get Fit 90-minute introduction seminar at Chicago Dance Studio located at 415 West Huron, Chicago, IL 60654. Email Laura at laura@commit-fit.com or go to MeetUps.com for more details and to register.

Please take this as a special invitation to any and all of Laura's former clients and participants of her Commit To Get Fit/Elgin's Biggest Loser seminars who need to come join us for that up close and personal C2GF tune-up that you know Laura is famous for - just in case you need a little push to get back on the weight loss and wellness wagon for the New Year.

  

* If you know of any corporation, organization, company, group or individuals that are interested in having me come and present my "Commit To Get Fit" motivational weight loss and wellness programs in the beginning of 2013, I will put on a highly effective presentation tailored specifically for you. Contact info below:

* Laura Dion-Jones is a Pro-Health Activist, Certified Corporate Wellness Coach, Certified Wellness Coach, Radio Show Host, motivational & lifestyle writer & speaker.

* Through Laura's highly successful Commit To Get Fit/Elgin's Biggest Loser motivational weight loss and wellness program, Laura helped motivate over 182 Elgin area residents to lose 1800 pounds in a little over 18 months.

Here's hoping you'll be next.

* Laura is available for speaking engagements, individual coaching, and corporate wellness programs.

Email Laura@commit-fit.com for further details.

* E: Laura@commit-fit.com Website: www.commit-fit.com

Laura's New Blog: www.commit-fit.blogspot.com

And don't forget the pups: Snob Hounds Canine Couture: www.snobhounds.com

* As with any new diet and fitness plan, be sure to check with your physician before you begin.

Start The Year Right

“Commit To Get Fit With Laura Dion-Jones”

And learn the secret to YOUR own true and everlasting weight loss . . .

If you’re still struggling with your New Year’s health and fitness resolutions, come meet Laura Dion-Jones and let her show you how she lost 150 pounds in 2.5 years and has kept it all off into her 10^th year and how you can begin to Commit To Get Fit With Laura Dion-Jones and do it, too!

Laura can help you turn this:                              Into this:

By popular demand, Laura is conducting her highly successful “Commit To Get Fit with Laura Dion-Jones” motivational weight loss seminar this coming week – and both are conveniently located for those of you who live in the Northwestern Suburbs!

Wednesday, January 9, 2013, Laura’s C2GF 90-minute introduction seminar will be held at the Algonquin Public Library, main facility, from 7-8:30 PM. Please go to http://www.aapld.org to register, or www.meetups.com for map and more info.

Saturday, January 12, 2013, Laura’s C2GF 90-minute introduction seminar will be at the Winfield Public Library, in Winfield, IL,  from 1-2:30 PM. Please go to www.winfield.lib.il.us to register, or www.meetups.com for map and more info.

Commit To Get Fit provides accountability-based fitness programs and motivational seminars that will help you find the diet that’s right for you, develop daily cardio discipline and achieve lifelong wellness success by building on skills which will carry on through other parts of your life.

Through Laura’s highly successful “Commit To Get Fit/Elgin’s Biggest Loser” motivational weight loss and wellness program, which she held through her weekly talk radio show on WRMN 1410 AM in Elgin, Laura helped motivate over 182 Elgin area residents to lose 1800 pounds in a little over 18 months.

Here’s hoping you’ll be next!

And please take this as a special invitation to any and all of Laura’s former clients and participants of her Commit To Get Fit/Elgin’s Biggest Loser seminars who might need to come join us for that up close and personal C2GF tune-up that you know Laura is famous for – just in case you need a little push to get back on the weight loss and wellness wagon for the New Year.

Then, beginning on Monday night, January 21, 2013, Laura will host her Commit To Get Fit 90-minute introduction seminar at Chicago Dance Studio located at 415 West Huron, Chicago, IL 60654. Go to MeetUps.com for more details and to register.

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* If you know of any corporation, organization, company, group or individuals that are interested in having me come and present my “Commit To Get Fit” motivational weight loss and wellness programs in the beginning of 2013, I will put on a highly effective presentation tailored specifically for you. Contact info below:

* Laura Dion-Jones is a Pro-Health Activist, Certified Corporate Wellness Coach, Certified Wellness Coach, Radio Show Host, motivational & lifestyle writer & speaker.

* Through Laura’s highly successful Commit To Get Fit/Elgin’s Biggest Loser motivational weight loss and wellness program, Laura helped motivate over 182 Elgin area residents to lose 1800 pounds in a little over 18 months.

Here’s hoping you’ll be next.

* Laura is available for speaking engagements, individual coaching, and corporate wellness programs.

Email Laura@commit-fit.com for further details.

* E: Laura@commit-fit.com Website: www.commit-fit.com

Laura’s New Blog: www.commit-fit.blogspot.com

And don’t forget the pups: Snob Hounds Canine Couture: www.snobhounds.com

* As with any new diet and fitness plan, be sure to check with your physician before you begin.