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New Outlook On Exercise

Posted on July 24, 2018 by LetlerFit

I challenge you to start looking at exercise as a means for improving your quality of life and not just as a means “to tone” your arms. ⠀
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Did you know that exercise can reduce your risk of dying from⠀
-Cardiovascular Disease⠀
-Coronary Heart Disease⠀
-Hypertension⠀
-Colon Cancer⠀
-Type 2 Diabetes⠀
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Exercise can be used for so much better than just “to tone.” I mean, if you or a loved one suffers from these diseases or it runs in the family, think about how many more moments with that person would mean to you because they or you decided to take control of their disease and manage it with proper exercise.⠀

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6 Habits That Destroy Your Otherwise Healthy Lifestyle

Posted on October 23, 2017 by LetlerFit

Creating a healthy lifestyle is all about habit. Just like good habits, there are also bad habits. Some of them are killing your healthy lifestyle journey, and you may not even realize it.

Lack of Sleep: Sometimes, life requires you to lose sleep, and that’s ok. The problem is not a few nights of lack of sleep, the problem becomes too many nights without adequate sleep. Sleep is so crucial. I know we all know how awful it feels after consistent sleep deprivation. What many people may not know is that lack of sleep triggers an increase of cortisol hormone to be released in our bodies, which may cause us to bloat and have difficulty losing weight. Without Sleep our bodies cannot properly repair the muscles we just worked out.
Restriction: Leading a restrictive diet, leads to binges and constant yo-yoing and that’s not what we want. I’ve said time and time again it’s about establishing a balance of consuming more health foods than junk foods.
No Exercise or No clean foods: Sometimes eating clean is the easiest part of the nutrition and fitness equation. For others exercise is the easy part! But they go hand in hand! Not exercising or not eating clean but doing the other is only half of it and yields not so great results.
Alcohol: Going ham on the drinks during the weekend, EVERY weekend, is KILLER to your healthy lifestyle.
Not reading nutrition labels: Never go by the front of the packaging, read the label and pay attention to the ingredients!
Not Meal Prepping: Buying “healthy” foods from restaurants is no where near as good as prepping and cooking your own foods where YOU control everything. Sometimes the cleaner options are still loaded with hidden salt or sugar.

5 Simple Ways To Cut Out Junk Food

Posted on September 27, 2017 by LetlerFit

Like I’ve said in so many of my previous posts, I never like to take extreme sides as I’m an advocate for balance. Junk food is something we need to cut down on, but don’t need to completely cut out. Here are 5 simple way to cut out junk food that work for me and many of my clients.

Do not buy junk foods at the grocery store. Keep good food in the fridge and you only eat good food.
Do not buy sodas, juices, etc. at the grocery store. We do not want to drink our calories while we are at home. Replace those beverages with water!
When you are eating out, choose between eating your calories or drinking your calories, but not both. Doing this helps you to cut back on total empty calories consumes.
Limit how many times you purchase a meal on the road or at a restaurant to 2x a week max
MEAL PREP: It doesn’t have to be complicated! Most o my meal prepping for the week takes 60 minutes to do on a Sunday. Not only does it save you money, but you are controlling what goes into your food.

4 Reasons You Should Start Working Out Today

Posted on September 5, 2017September 5, 2017 by LetlerFit

As much as the current fitness industry would like you to believe, fitness is not about perfect quads, chiseled, abs, and overall shredded physique. Here are 4 Benefits that have absolutely nothing to do with you physique.

Reduce your risk of Coronary Heart Disease: Studies have found that not only does exercise help reduce your risk of CHD, but studies have found that in patients who have already suffered a stroke, physical activity was more effective than drug treatment. (Not saying toss the drugs, always consult with MD, but realize you should be exercising)
Improve your memory: Aerobic exercise boosts the size of your hippocampus (responsible for memory and learning). In women more so than man they have found that regular aerobic exercise decreases risk factor for dementia.
Strengthen your Immune System: Regular aerobic exercise boosts your immune system
Increase your life span: A study published in 2012 that contained 650,000 people found that 150 minutes total a week of moderate exercise, which is about 30 minutes of exercise 5 days a week could increase your life by 3.4 years.

6 Supposedly Healthy Foods You Should Be Avoiding

Posted on August 9, 2017August 9, 2017 by LetlerFit

The thing about the food and fitness industry is, marketing and advertising goes farther than science. It’s a sad reality, and is one of the reason so many people are quick to fall for gimmicks, nutrition labeling etc. Just today I went grocery shopping and was baffled at how the industry charges more or hides poison in their labeling. Here were the top 6 offenders that stood out to me today.

Fit and Active brand popcorn versus the generic brand popcorn: Fit and Active brand was almost a dollar more expensive and when you compare the labels…the EXACT same thing. Just because something is labeled fit and active or something along those lines does not necessarily make it any better.
Sugar: A bunch of BS, and WORSE for you! Your brain gets the same stimulation only instead of being natural, it’s synthetic, can mess up insulin regulation, and most are metabolized in to carcinogens…cancer causing agents. Go for REAL sugar, avoid the sugar alcohol. Even in moderation, real sugar is better than fake. Same goes for regular vs diet sodas
Arctic Zero Ice Cream: People love it because it is low calorie, has minimal protein, but just like sugar free labels are ridded with sugar alcohols. Limit sugar alcohols as much as possible (generally anything that ends in “ol” ie. sorbitol, erythritol, maltitol)
Low Fat anything: Your body NEEDS healthy fats. Low fat labels are usually a guise for companies to add sugars and MORE sugar alcohols in order to make the food tastier since removing fat makes food less appetizing. Whole fat is totally OK!
Organic Tostitos: While the ingredients may be “cleaner” they have more sodium and do in my opinion more harm because people consume more of it thinking it’s healthier.
Organic Granola: uhmmmm 36g of sugar per serving and only 8g of protein? what?! READ your labels!! Ideally there will be no added sugar.

Day 19: Share a Recipe with June Produce

Posted on June 19, 2017 by LetlerFit

Totally skipped yesterday. I chose to enjoy Father’s day and be more in the moment, which is a rare thing for me. I don’t usually unplug from client communication.

But today I am supposed to share a recipe using June produce, but I am not sure what’s specifically June produce, so here’s a recipe!

Antioxidant Toast
•Ingredients: 2 Slices of Ezekial Toast, 1 TBSP Salted Crunchy Peanut Butter, 1/2 banana, 2 Strawberries, Chia Seeds
•Directions:
1. Toast Bread Slices
2. Spread 1 TBSP of Peanut Butter
3. Slice up 🍓 and 🍌
4. Sprinkle 1 TSP of Chia Seeds
5. 54g Carbs, 10g Fat, 14g Pro

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Spring Cleaning: Episode 8

Posted on April 26, 2017 by LetlerFit

While we were looking for houses we decided to look at the higher end of our approved budget so that we could get a 3/2.5. Our logic behind it is that we did not want to get a 2/2 which is what we actually needed and then 5-6 years from now need to transition into a larger place and not be able to for whatever reason, or if we had an accident, etc. So in the meantime with the spare 3rd room we turned it into Xavier’s Mancave/Office which is coming in handy while he’s doing his MBA.

This room had the least amount of change!

We completely tore down the closet hangers as they were rotting, and we have an empty closet for now. We also got rid of the bi fold doors.

we also changed out ALL of the mismatched ugly knobs and switched them out to matching more modern knobs throughout the upstairs.

The end results:

We repainted the room with a fresh coat of white
changed out the curtains for Zebra Blinds
Changed the bi fold doors to more modern glass sliding doors (not pictured) done by My dad and My Husband
Added in a light because before it was lit through lamps. This task was also done by my father.
Th Bookshelf, Chair, and Desk were all given to us!
The carpet was one Xavier chose and was given to us as a wedding gift
My Dog’s bed was also a wedding gift

Even though this month is dedicated to our DIY’s you can still:

Spring Cleaning: Episode 7

Posted on April 24, 2017 by LetlerFit

Of all the rooms in the house, may office is definitely the one that to date (until we redo the kitchen) has seen the biggest make over!

This is the picture that was taken for realtor.com, but what you don’t see are the 3D butterflies, bees, and dragon flies glued to the wall.

So here’s what we did!

We removed the carpet and placed the same laminate that we had matched from the hallway and another room (next blog) for our master bedroom and now my office.
We removed all of the 3D figurines and then painted on 4 thick coats of eggshell ultra white paint to remove the previous paint job
We got rid of the awful curtains and added the more updated zebra blinds
and then of course, turned it into my home office, we are definitely not in need of re-creating another nursery.

Even though this month is dedicated to our DIY’s you can still:

Spring Cleaning: Episode 6

Posted on April 19, 2017 by LetlerFit

Nowadays houses come with a living room and formal dining room. Let’s be real, how many times a year does the formal dining room get used? Unless, you’re my mom…maybe you get to 2-3x a year.

So as someone with an online fitness business who also does Personal Training from my home 15-20 hours a week, what did we do with the original living room space? We turned it into a gym!

Before it was a gym, this is how the people we bought the house from, had their living room set up. My preferred taste is more modern, a lot of white, grays, silvers, etc.

So we painted over the red and yellow walls, tore down the red curtains, and eventually we will be redoing the floors, but for now our DIY project turned out like this:

I purchased all of my equipment from either amazon, walmart, or bforce bands. Got a few machines as a gift. And put down the flooring myself! I got the flooring from Walmart, rather inexpensive and definitely gets the job done! Easy to clean and maintain. Eventually I will invest in a more “professional” floor, but for now this one is holding up great!

Even though this month is dedicated to our DIY’s you can still:

Spring Cleaning: Episode 5

Posted on April 17, 2017 by LetlerFit

In this blog I wanted to show you guys how the smallest details make a huge difference.

In our hallway all we did was

Paint a new coat of white which my husband and I did
Change out the old lights for more modern LEDs, which my Dad did
Get rid of the bi-fold doors and change it for mirrored sliding doors which my Dad and my husband did

This Project only took a weekend and made a HUGE difference. As you can see we also got rid of the wooden cover and switched it out for some modern Zebra blinds to allow for natural light to come in.

The next big project, was NOT a DIY, and something we originally wanted to postpone to save ourselves a nice little chunk of money to put elsewhere into the house. However, when your insurance makes it mandatory and you need those shutter credit savings, you end up having to get it done. So here you’ll see that we painted the entranced and hired Windoor Impact to give us a new modern impact door. All of our others windows came with accordion shutters…thank GOD.

Even though this month is dedicated to our DIY’s you can still: