Try this:Cut Calories and corners $

Carrie Chesloff Rossenfeld, cLEANmomma fan, shares her two cents.

Check out her web site at http://gettingrealaboutweight.blogspo

If you’re like me, you not only attended several parties over the holidays, but you ate a lot more restaurant meals than usual, too. This impacts not only your budget (ouch!), but also your waistline. My solution? Be more creative with meals at home, and give the restaurants a rest, at least for a little while.

It is certainly possible to eat healthfully in a restaurant, but it takes work: scanning the menu, deciding what sounds appealing and possibly in line with the day’s allotment of calories, fat, etc. And without a doubt, we should be able to splurge once in awhile nutritionally and financially on restaurant meals. But when we start to go overboard, we feel it. Restaurant meals almost always have more calories in them than the ones you cook yourself–definitely the portion sizes are larger than what you’d typically serve yourself. With rare exceptions, chefs are more concerned with how the food tastes and looks than how healthful it is, and you never really know how much butter or oil was used to cook your meal.

So, if you want to reverse an upward trend in weight and/or spending, start eating more meals at home. If you have a family, make it a fun weekend project to cook meals together. Start by researching healthful versions of family favorites (www.cookinglight.com is a good place to start), maybe trying some exciting new cuisines or pulling out an old classic that you haven’t made in years. There’s a wealth of great recipes available online, so you’ll never be at a loss for what to make. A quick trip to the supermarket will ensure you have everything you need. No doubt, you’ll see the scale inch downward and your wallet fatten up before long.

How to lose a pound a week. Here’s how!

It’s now January people and if you  now suffering from “FATTUSHAPHOBIA”, because you have eaten your way through the holidays, then pay attention so you can trim your thighs and flatten your tummy with very simple baby steps!!

In order to lose a pound a week in a healthy way, you need to decrease your calories for the day by 500. That may sound very difficult to many of you, but here is a little secret. Split up the 500 calories. Cut out 250 calories from your diet and burn 250 calories by elevating your heart rate and doing cardio.

How to cut 250 calories with Cardio:

If you find that you don’t have time to burn it off with cardio, you are WRONG!

You can burn up to 300 calories if you do the “Rag Drag” for seven-ten minutes twice a day! Even if you are not cleaning your floors, you can do the “RAG DRAG”  in the bathroom watching your kid in the tub for 10-15 minutes, or try it while you are in the kitchen and your kids do their home work, be creative. The key to burning the most calories is to push yourself every other minute. This will elevate your heart rate. Do one minute at a low intensity then one minute at a higher intensity. I swear this is so doable and is an insane cardio work out that tagets not only your heart rate but tightens your tummy, inner, outter thighs and tush! It’s so easy to sneak in!

Here is how to do it!

How to cut 250 calories a day from your diet:

-Replace your morning bagel and cream cheese with an English muffin and cottage cheese.

___ Skip the large bakery muffin in favor of 1 slice of whole wheat toast topped with 1 tablespoon of peanut butter.

__ Instead of a big muffin, choose 3/4 of a high fiber cereal

___ Instead of scrambled eggs, choose egg whites

___ Replace your 450-calorie lunch with a high protein egg whites tossed in a salad

The key is, not to feel like you are on a diet, but with each meal or snack, modify it a bit and you will be surprised how many calories you will subtract by the end of the day!

Good luck and let me know how that woks for ya!

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Tasckersize and sneak in some cardio, Watch video.

Like I have said again and again, getting to the gym or going for a run is just too much to accomplish on a day to day basis, especially if you are juggling a million things. Problem is, we still want that tight tush and flat abs!
That being said, try this at least 2 times this week! Start your day of with your work out shoes on, then…..

At some point you will have to take the elevator. Instead take this opportunity to walk the stair case. If you take two stairs at a time you will really give your tush and quads a great burn, while elevating your heart rate. Remember your posture, and tighten your abs while you climb the stair case.

Next time you are faced with the up or down button that lights up, don’t press it, instead remember my little voice in your head,”TAKE THE STAIRS!!!!!!!!! Just do it, or don’t, it’s your choice

Let me know how that works for you!

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Learn this Taskersizing move: Tone your core, thighs and calves, anywhere.

CALF RAISES:

Throw in a set of calf raises with out holding on to anything and you will work not only your calves but your thighs and core. By not holding on you will also improve both your balance and posture.

While standing in line at the grocery store, putting away your dishes or yacking on the phone,  you will  improve your balance , tighten your core, and strengthen your thighs and calves .

Here is how:

Tighten your tummy and stand tall as if a string were pulling you up from the top of your head. Keep your shoulders down. Then raise up onto your toes hold for 2-3 seconds and come down. Do 2-3 sets of ten through out the day, and maximize your time by Taskersizing!

Let me know how this works for ya!

Carolyn

How to: Get back on track after pigging out over the holiday’s!

I have to tell you…

Stepping on the scale this morning was a smack of reality. Before  the holidays, I was on a serious mission to drop the added weight that had unknowingly found it’s way onto my ass. I did however, manage to lose   5 lbs. that I had gained,  weeeee. So, when I stood on the scale this morning to discover, not only had I gain the five pounds back, but I added another pound and a half to my inner thighs, you could only imagine my frustration.

The reality is,  I created unrealistic expectations for myself . Have you ever been guilty of that?  Do you create goals for yourself that are unrealistic and then suffer from “This-sucksidose ” syndrome?

Lesson Learned :

Don’t set unrealistic goals for yourself ! Avoid saying things like, “I will lose 10 lbs. in two hours”, it is a set up for failure!

Solution:

Instead, try making short term goals that are realistic for you to keep. For example, “I will break a sweat for at least 30 minutes, 3-4 times  THIS week.” Another could be, “I will not eat after 7:30 pm every night THIS week.”

See how you do.

So far so it’s been really working… however, it’s only Monday!