Aim For Fitness: We Made It to Moab!

Well we made it to Moab!  We got in around 5 and found a campsite right in town yet with the canyons all around I feel ‘away’ from the hubbub.  Sid and I were able to set up the tent, it is a tiny tent and I can’t even sit up in it without hunching my shoulders over and almost curling into a ball.  I didn’t want to bring the big bulky tent that you can stand in, I wanted something small and fast.  Well I got that but with a small inconvienence of not being able to sit comfortably. J

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Aim For Fitness Tip for Women: Stopping the Bottomless Pit

Aim For Fitness Tip for Women: Stopping the Bottomless Pit

Aim For Fitness Women’s Weight Loss Tip: Accountability

Aim For Fitness Women’s Weight Loss Tip: Accountability

3 Tips To Steer Away From Seasonal Pitfalls

Here in Detroit Lakes my family and I have been enjoying the brilliant red, orange and yellow orange foliage. We are noticing the cooler temperatures and therefore ready to change with the season. However, I have noticed with myself and others, this time of year can bring some challenges if you’re not sure what or how to change with the season in regards to your eating and exercise program.

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Kale-Avocado Salad

A wonderful summer recipe!

* 4-5 leaves of kale (sliced down to the big part of the stem)
* 1 ripe avocado
* Juice of 1 lemon
* ¼ cup of olive oil
* 2 Tbsp of raw pumpkin seeds
* Sea salt to taste

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Tasty Black Bean Salsa

Get your fiber fix and a healthy dose of iron with this easy recipe:

* 2 - 15 oz cans of black beans (drained and rinsed)
* 1 small to medium jicama (peeled and chopped)
* 6 tbsp fresh Lime Juice
* 3 to 6 tbsp olive oil (as desired)
* 1 ½ tsp ground cumin
* ½ cup chopped red onion
* ¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro
* ½ tsp salt
* 1 cup peeled and seeded chopped tomato
* 1 tsp seeded and chopped fine jalapeño (use the whole jalapeño for extra spice)

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What’s the Biggest Mistake You Can Make in Starting Your Workout Programs?

Mindset To Get You Motivated To Exercise:

I see and talk with many people who get started on workout programs, do well for a week or a month, and then blow all their progress when life “just comes up.”

It’s time to take a look at this factor of “when life happens”, and how it works together with incorporating exercise into your lifestyle.

So what’s the biggest mistake you can make? Read more

What Does it Take to Get a Little Work Life Balance Around Here?

If you’re anything like me, I’m sure you’ve asked yourself this question before!  (if not in so many words!)

I have actually experienced work life balance in my own life – I’ve felt the reality of its wonderful, blissful peace wrap around me – but when you have four kids, a husband, and a business, it doesn’t seem to take much for that kind of peace to vanish just as quickly as it came!

Maintaining a sense of balance and harmony in your life is not so easy if you continually feel yourself reacting to the slightest distractions (you know, the types of things that seem to come along every day, all day long).

You may fall prey to the regular distractions of:

• E-mail (this is my biggest distraction when working in the office!)
• Phone calls
• TV
• The kids wants and desires
• And the list goes on…

There always seem to be numerous things there to pull you away from your hard won decision to find balance in your life and the actions that you try to take which will actually give you peace of mind and help lead you to a life of peace and joy.

As a Lifestyle Fitness Coach, what I have noticed the most among women trying to find work life balance is that the failure of achieving it is not from lack of trying, but from lack of direction.

How do you really start to LIVE this process of balance and harmony?

The hard part is putting in all of the effort and not seeing any fruition.  Instead of a confident, strong woman with a glow like a beautiful jewel, the spirit becomes depleted and begins to show through, causing a lackluster look in many women as that depleted spirit begins to overcome the body.

The shine is gone. The bags under the eyes begin to appear along with the slouched shoulders, poor posture and the pounds that gradually pack on.

It is exactly this cycle of low energy leading to overwhelm and exhaustion that moves you into over consumption (self medicating with poor nutrient rich food to give body energy it needs), which ultimately leads to overweight.

Today, you can begin to move away from this and start moving towards your own personal glow!

Here are 3 steps to begin to get your shine back: Read more

Get Ready…For A Lifestyle Revolution!

This is my first ever Blog entry:

First of all I want to welcome all the new readers to Aim For It. I have been quiet for sometime, as my devoted readers have noticed. However today I am thrilled to unveil what I have been working on for quite some time….

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