Do negative calorie foods really exist?

I love this article! it clarifies what negative calorie foods really are, and at the end gives a summed up list of foods that anyone trying to lose weight or get healthy. Its a MUST READ


Do negative calorie foods really exist?

Empowerment

One of the things I enjoy most about Personal Training is that I watch as people become empowered to change their lives. While life in general does through obstacles in our ways, its important to remember that with fitness, we do have a certain level of control that deeply benefits our lives. The control we have is behavior change. If a personal willingly ends a bad behavior, they lose the negative consequences, and even better if they ADD a good behavior they are rewarded. Over time even the smallest things add up.
Whether its self esteem gained by being the change we needed, or just simply the change and empowerment, fitness has a place in everyone's life

the good restuarant

I don't know why all my analogies and comparisons come back to food. Maybe its because its so universal.
While introducing my clients to the gym, I always take time to point out the free weight/dumbbell area. I also point out all the "intimidating" buff men/women. "look how in shape they are... they are very muscular" I'll say to my clients. They are so muscular because what they are doing works. Then we will walk to the machine area. "now look at the shape of these people." While there are obviously muscular people that also use the machines, they are primarily in the free weight area.
Areas in the gym are like a good restaurant. When a place has amazing food and good service, its always full and busy. People want to eat there because it looks good. No one wants to eat in a place where people are running out holding their stomachs, or a place that is mysteriously empty on a Friday night around dinner time. We know without over analyzing that a deserted restaurant is a bad sign, that no one wants to eat there.
But what about the gym? We see the results that are given by the free weights, and the dedication of those participants. So being afraid of the most popular parts of the gym is like being afraid to eat at the popular restaurants.

Mold

Many people do not realize that their health problems are much like moldy leftovers in the back of the fridge. If you leave something small and moldy in the back of the fridge and just pretend its not there, it will never go away. Not only will the problem still be there, but it will become worse and worse turning into a much larger more significantly gross tupperwear full of mold. If the leftovers had just been thrown out on day 5, the tupperwear just goes into the dishwasher, business as usual... but if not, the mold covered tupperwear must now be emptied, soaked in bleach, scrubbed and scraped before going into the dishwasher. and not in the fun easy way either.
Same thing with the human body. something as small as 10 extra pounds can be easily taken care of. However when its ignored and 10 turns into 20, turns into 50... then the severity of the problem is much worse. It can turn into a life threatening disease, and is not so easily or enjoyably taken care of. Now it has turned into a battle. things like high blood pressure, colon cancer, heart disease and diabetes are all connected too obesity, and with each of those problems many more risks like blindness and stroke are also on the coattails.
Many people take for granted their health and don't do what they should or could to help themselves. The road to wellness is more then just a workout or some green veggies, but its mostly mental. You have to have the motivation, dedication and passion to do it. These are traits we all want to have for life in general, so why not cherish our own lives and give our bodies the love and respect they need.

the kitchen

Your body is like a kitchen. Lets say you clean your kitchen once really super well. it looks great, but then as the week goes by, you don't touch anything. by the time its a week later, the kitchen is trashed. Now imagine that you clean up the crumbs after your self, you do the dishes one day, and throughout the week you wipe down the counters. By the time the next week comes, your kitchen is not destroyed. Its like this with a rounded out workout program. if you don't do your dishes, your kitchen is nasty. if you don't do your cardio, wts, stretching and keep your fridge clean (aka nutrition) your body wont be healthy. just one of these things alone won't work. wooo let's go do some wts

Hot potatoes

I was telling a client about how many reps and sets they needed to reach their goals. I was trying to explain that a workout has to be hard to be any good, and I was thinking about it... if everyone could be buff without trying hard, well then there would be buff couch potatoes. Hot couch potatoes... why they'd be HOT POTATOES

core work

exercise I routinely make clients do :)
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/2-killer-moves-for-a-flat-tummy-577218/