"How to Use Faith in Healing your Unhealthful Habits"

The 4 P's in Preconditioning your mind to Success

Positive thinking is one of the most powerful tools you have access to in life in overcoming major obstacles and adversities in life and day to day living. When you focus your energy and thoughts on positive thoughts how does that make you feel? Have you ever heard the saying you become what you think about most of the time? Well this is true for anything in life you have a much better chance at overcoming poor health, obesity, negative thinking, or whatever your dealing with in life by at least staying more optimistic about things. Nothing lasts forever we are always going through peaks and valleys that is what you call life period! The truth is we all have problems and life is all about solving and finding solutions to our problems. The better we become at using our minds consciously when it comes to our health the better chance we have at staying well through mind, body, and spirit. Basically, the better you can cope with life through constructive choices and habits the better chance you have at achieving lasting health.

Prayer is another powerful tool that will give you so much peace and guidance in life. I realized years ago I am nothing without God. Taking the power of God into your life is one of the most essential steps in preconditioning your mind to success. Forecast that you are going to achieve a certain goal , and then move steadily towards that goal. When you have given yourself a really difficult assignment, you cannot achieve it by yourself. I happen to believe weight loss is one of the biggest obstacles people have to overcome in their life. I see it every day with my clients the things the go through after our sessions together. The choices they have to make in social settings, family environment, and work etc. The demands of today are absolutely overwhelmimg with too many choices and life throwing us in so many directions. I happen to know first hand how difficult weight loss is I had to overcome it myself. Losing 65 pounds as teenager was not easy because it required hard work, and a heck of a lot of faith! Remember this Prayer changes things! We need to use the mighty forces that God has given us and draw upon that power that he has placed in everyone of us. These powers are available to all of us that can ultimately lead us to a life full of success!

Planning is another critical area of achieving your ultimate levels of health and successful living. No matter where you are now successful living and better health can be yours with a good plan. It doesn't matter who you are or how often you've failed . Neither does it matter how old you are. Successful living can always be yours through the transformation of renewed thinking, and amazing success-pattern strategies. Before knowing Jesus I was always chasing the wrong things Fitness competitions, vanity, success, money, and all the things of the world that once I achieved them didn't really fix my inner self. If your reading this right now I want you to listen to me loud and clear until you accept yourself, forgive yourself, and learn to trust yourself and what God can do in your life then better things will begin to happen for you. You need to be ok with you from the inside out and live your life from a loving standpoint. Having a good plan of action that you can maintain for a lasting lifestyle is the only way to long lasting success. That is why I'm always happy my friends because I know where I'm going. Life here is temporary and I choose to follow what is right!

Purpose is the last key element to achieving lasting better health and vitality. Have you ever seen so many people fail every diet, every program, up and down all around. All I can say is WOW! I know I have truely seen it all over the years of being in this business. What I can tell you that is absolutely true is that overweight people want a quick fix. People don't stop to think about what got them there in the first place and how many years it took to put it on. Poor health and poor thinking doesn't happen over night my friends. I have found the most successful people that have overcome weight loss and better living chose a better lifestyle on purpose. Based on their values and principles of life that gave them purpose and meaning they were able to apply it to their every day living. Remember my friends life is not easy and I realize that but don't wait until it's too late apply the 4 P's in Preconditioning your mind to Success and watch just how much your life will get better each and every day. God is always with you and has never left you and he has always had faith in you the question is do you have faith in you? Have a healthy and happy day!

By, Natalie Pyles

Health and Fitness Expert, Nutrition Specialist, Author, & NSA Speaker

Top 20 Fitness Trends for 2009!

American College of Sports Medicine Survey Predicts Fitness Trends

Are You Ready for a sneak peek at the top 20 fitness trends for 2009?

Those trends were ranked in an online survey by 1,540 professionals certified by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM).

Here are the survey's results, reported by exercise science expert Walter Thompson, PhD, FACSM, FAACVPR, Regent's Professor at Georgia State University:

1. Educated and experienced fitness professionals. Certification and accreditation for health and fitness programs and professionals are becoming more common.
2. Children and obesity. Fitness programs to address childhood obesity are a top trend for the third year in a row in the ACSM survey.
3. Personal training. Personal trainers are becoming more accessible to more people, according to the survey.
4. Strength training. Men and women are lifting weights; staying strong while aging is increasingly part of their motivation.
5. Core training. This trend is about strengthening muscles in the abdomen and back to stabilize the spine.
6. Special fitness programs for older adults. This trend includes aging baby boomers, frail elders who want to get stronger for daily tasks, active older adults, and master athletes.
7. Pilates. Done on a mat or special equipment, Pilates trains the core muscles and improves flexibility and posture.
8. Stability ball. These big, inflatable balls (also called Swiss balls or balance balls) are used for crunches, push-ups, and other exercises. Staying stable on the ball is part of the challenge.
9. Sport-specific training. This trend is about athletes training in the off-season to build their strength and endurance.
10. Balance training. In balance training, you might stand on a wobble board or use a stability ball to hone your balance. It's a trend for all ages, Thompson notes.
11. Functional fitness. A functional fitness workout preps your body for daily activities such as running for the bus or lifting groceries -- not just gliding along on the elliptical machine.
12. Comprehensive health programming at work. This trend is about improving employees' health -- and lowering employers' health care costs.
13. Wellness coaching. Wellness coaches support clients in making behavior changes for better wellness.
14. Worker incentive programs. Some employers are giving their workers incentives to make healthy changes.
15. Outcome measurements. This trend is about accountability and measuring progress toward fitness goals.
16. Spinning (indoor cycling). Spinning classes, fast-paced group workouts on stationary bikes, have been around for a while, but they're still going strong.
17. Physician referrals. Doctors are increasingly referring patients to health and fitness facilities, according to the ACSM survey.
18. Exercise and weight loss. Sensible or "sensationalized," most diets now include an exercise component, Thompson notes.
19. Group personal training. Groups of two or three people can often get discounts from personal trainers.
20. Reaching new markets. Thompson estimates that 80% of the U.S. public doesn't have an exercise routine or a place to exercise, which amounts to a "huge market" for the health and fitness industry.

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15 Toxic Truths You need to Know About

How better Food choices can make you Win the game of Life

Here are the Toxic Truths that you need to be aware of and remember this is you and your families health so pay attention and be aware.

• Organic foods are really good for you. Foods sprayed with herbicides, pesticides, and other toxins are not. Choose wisely!
• The insecticides or hormones eaten by or injected into cows can be passed into their milk, which becomes your milk. Scary!
• Fat is when toxins are stored in mammals. Therefore, when you eat animal fat, you may be eating their toxins, too.
• Anti-fuels are loser fuels.
• Powered sugar drinks, chips, and boxed pastries that sit on supermarket shelves for weeks on end are mostly labmade anti-fuels. Unreal.
• Artificial, lab-made chips, cheese, and ice cream are fake foods. Get Real!
• Fake foods are sickening.
• Mant fast food shakes are fake shakes loaded with artificial who knows what! Try making your own healthier shake with yogurt, fruit, and nuts. Like a Vanilla Almond shake yummy!
• Fake foods can hang around your gut for a long time! We all know that to be true and we love our Abs!
• How long do you think a fast food burger that your body can't digest sits in your intestines? Longer than a day? No, usually much longer. Ask me I'll give you a really good lean turkey burger recipe no problem.
• Your body can handle the toxins of one bag of French fries. The problems start when you pile on the fries, sodas, fast food burgers, toaster pastries, colored sugared cereals, grilled cheese, chicken nuggets, and chocolate chip cookies day after day. Need I go on! To these poor choices the toxins and physical demands of your sports plus the stresses of your school. This is when your body heads into absolute overload. There is just so much of this magic body of yours can handle until it breaks down on you. "Overload, overdone!" Sometime and somewhere it just says "Enough."
• Would you ever put soda into the gas tank of your car? Are you a Pinto or a Porche? Come on its your choice! Do you think the engine will break? Well guess what soda doesn't belong in your body either.
• It's simple eat more of your friends not enemies. Your friends are clean water, veggies, fruits, nuts, other legumes, grains, fish, and lean meats. The enemies are (simple carbohydrates), hydrogenenated and trans fatty acid processed fake foods.
• Save junk food treats for 1 meal a week as your reward for fueling your body with incredible gasoline for better performance. In the meantime, enjoy fresh foods like a juicy red apple and teaspoon of Organic Peanut butter!
• Crocodiles have lived for millions of years on freshly caught food! Hmmm makes you think doesn't it!

I hope you understand the message my friends its loud and clear take care of you we only have one life to live and our health is very important. Don't wait until its too late start living well. Have a happy and healthy day!


By, Natalie Pyles

Health and Fitness Expert, Nutrition Specialist, Author, & NSA Speaker

How to Make Green a Family Value that Lasts

5 Tips to Use the Outdoors for a Greener Lifestyle

Are you ready to get outdoors? Good lets go have some fun shall we. While it sometimes seemsas though we've paved over most of the world, in fact nearly a third of the land in the United States- Almost 700 million acres- is owned by the public and managed by various agencies in part for outdoor recreation. We've got urban parks, dense forests, alpine meadows, desert canyons, and remote wilderness.

Let's not only save the earth. Let's get out there and enjoy it. There are so many ways you can make Health and Fitness a Green Family value here are some of the common ones. Hiking, running, brisk walking, swimming, and bike riding are all activities that require a minimal investment in gear, keep you fit, and get you outside appreciating and reconnecting with nature which will completely destress you. Doing things from your front door saves you fuel and greenhouse gas emissions. I believe in it so much that I started doing Mobile Personal Training, Lifestyle consulting, and Nutritional Counseling teaching clients to utilize their own environment for sustainable results that last a lifetime.

Another plus: With the average cost of a gym membership running about $50 dollars a month , moving your workout outdoors can save you about $600 a year. Don't get me wrong I grew up in gyms my whole life and they have value too but, I realize they are not for everyone especially when you do have a family to support and would rather be spending time with them. Afterall family is most important and should never be neglected so enjoy Fitness together.

Take the whole family. Childhood Expert Richard Louv wrote a thoughtful book called Last Child in the Woods (2006), in which he laments that today's kids are "alienated" from nature. He thinks depression, anxiety, and obesity can all be lessoned by reaquanting your kids with the grand outdoors. I am a living example of overcoming childhood obesity and depression and would never want anyone to suffer what I went through. There are so many ways for you and your family to live a healthy, happy, Greener lifestyle so I hope you enjoy and get outdoors!

By, Natalie Pyles

Health & Fitness Expert, Nutrition Specialist, Author, & NSA Speaker

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How to Shop Green and Spend Less!

2 Local Stores to that You can go shopping to stay lean, mean, and green!


I hope by now with all the media, news, and hype about going green you realize that going green does not have to be more costly and can, in fact, save you hundreds of dollars on your home's overhead expenses. But you might be thinking that the savings stop at your door. Doesn't it still cost more to buy green products at the grocery store -and, for that matter, at any other kind of store?

The short answer is no and here is why: Your spending choices shape the world we live in. How you spend not only determines the quality of your life- what you eat, where you live- it also contributes to the success of your businesses where you shop. And as more and more Americans are choosing greener products, the prices are dropping all the time. That just makes sense, right?

For example, as ordinary Americans have become conscious of shopping for food grown without chemicals pesticides, supermarkets have begun marketing store brands of low-priced organic foods. Safeway introduced its O brand, an organic line that includes 150 products across the store, from bread to olive oil to yogurt. They even deliver your food too! And Whole Foods has a popular brand called 365, which includes competively priced organic and all- natural products. If you would like to learn more I give grocery shopping tours, and a cooking class at Whole Foods once a month to educate the public.

Not only are these products cheaper than name-brand organics, they're also often cheaper than the non-organic alternative. A 15-ounce can of O organic black beans costs $1.05. Whole Foods' 365 label organic beans are 99 cent. Compare that to a can of Bush's Best beans, on the shelf at Safeway for $1.39.

A bag of O pasta costs $ 1.95- just slightly more than a box of Barilla brand pasta, which sells for $1.79. But a bag of Whole Foods' 365 organic pasta costs $1.29- a savings of 50 cents a bag!

If we all begin to shop green and demand envoronmentally friendly products and services, the companies of the world will keep delivering them at more and more affordable prices. I believe it won't be very long before the cost of green products reaches parity with non-green products, and not much longer after that before the green alternatives become cheaper.

In the meantime, shopping green does not have to mean paying premium prices. Even with categories that are still significantly more expansive, like organic produce, there are ways you can come out ahead at the grocery store. So let's go shopping. If you have the willingness to learn how to become lean, mean , and green then I can help educate you for a long lasting lifestyle. Have a healthy and happy GREEN day!

By, Natalie Pyles

Health & Fitness Expert, Nutrition Specialist, Author, and NSA Speaker

2 New Articles for you From Fitness Elements!

How to put some Pizazz in your Pickling

3 Ways to Celebrate National Pickle Month

When is National Pickle Month?

The month of July is always National Pickle Month! This is a Food holiday month and I have put together some ways you can get into the groove and celebrate.

What is this Holiday for?

This Holiday is set aside for people to appreciate the pickle and I will try to put a healthy spin on it for you . It doesn't matter if it's a sweet pickle or a dill pickle, most of us love pickles in one form or the other at least I do and I hope you can enjoy them with me. During this month make it a point to add more pickles in your diet and familiarize yourself with all the different ways pickles can be used in our daily menu or in cooking. Make it fun for you and your family and put some pizazz in your pickling. We already know how popular and traditional it is to serve a pickle along side a sandwich for lunch so make this month fun by planing more juicy pickles on your plate. M aybe you would like to learn to grow cucumbers so you could can your very own homemade pickles. It doesn't matter how you celebrate National Pickle Month at all, just as long as you do! So let's go!

What the meaning of a Pickled Cucumber is and it's Origin?

Pickled Cuc umber
A pickled cucumber, most often simply called a pickle in the United States and Canada, is a cucumber that has been pickled in a brine, vinegar, or other solutions and left to ferment for a period of time.

Origin
Cucum bers were probably first pickled 4400 years ago in Mesopotamia. In India, pickles were well known by the Vedic period.

The pi ckling process was also known to the Ancient Greeks. Aristotle is reported to have praised pickled cucumbers for their healing effects. Julius Caesar's soldiers ate pickled cucumbers as health aids; many other brine-soaked foods were part of daily life in Ancient Rome. Cucumber pickling remained widespread across the Levant and Maghreb regions, where it is still very popular today.

Pickled cucumbers became popular in the United States due to the influence of the cuisine of Central and Eastern European immigrants.

7 Types of pickles to familiarize yourself with

Gherkin
A gherkin is not only a pickle of a certain size but also a particular species of cucumber: the West Indian or Burr cucumber (Cucumis anguria), which produces a somewhat smaller fruit than the garden cucumber (Cucumis sativus).[4] Standard pickles are made from the West Indian cucumber, but the term gherkin has become loosely used as any small cucumber pickled in a sweet vinegar brine, regardless of the variety of cucumber used.

Kosher dill
A "kosher" dill pickle is usually not kosher in the sense that it has been prepared under rabbinical supervision, which would ensure that no non-kosher ingredients were used, and that no utensil in contact with the pickles had ever been in contact with food that was not kosher. Rather, it is a pickle made in the traditional manner of Jewish New York City pickle makers, with generous addition of garlic to the brine.

Polish
Polish style pickled cucumbers (Polish: ogórek kiszony, plural: ogórki kiszone) are a type of pickled cucumber developed in the northern parts of Europe and have been exported worldwide and are found in the cuisines of many countries. As opposed to some other varieties of pickled cucumbers, they are prepared using the traditional process of natural fermentation in a salty brine which makes them grow sour. There is no vinegar used in the brine of a Polish-style pickled cucumber (Ogórek kiszony).

Typically, sm all cucumbers are placed in a ceramic vessel or a wooden barrel, together with a variety of spices. Among those traditionally used in many recipes are garlic, horseradish, whole dill stems with umbels and green seeds, white mustard seeds, oak, cherry, blackcurrant and bay laurel leaves, dried allspice fruits, and — most importantly — salt. The cucumbers are then placed under clear water and kept under a non-airtight cover for several weeks, depending on taste and external temperature. The more salt is added the more sour the cucumbers become. Since they are produced without vinegar, a scum forms on the top, but this does not indicate they have spoiled, and the scum is just removed. They do not, however, keep as long as cucumbers pickled with vinegar.

The concoction produced during the fermentation process is often consumed as a drink (a natural treatment against hangover, rather).

In Poland they are traditionally served as a side dish to vodka.

Lime
Lime pickles are soaked in lime rather than in a salt brine. Vinegar and sugar are often added after the 24-hour soak in lime, along with pickling spices, although this is done more to enhance flavor than as a preservative.

Bread and butter
Bread-and-butter pickles are sweeter in flavor than dill pickles, having a high concentration of sugar added to the brine. Rather than being served alongside a sandwich, they are more often used in fully-flavored sandwiches, such as hamburgers, or used in potato salad.

Swedish and Danish
Swedish pickled cucumbers (pressgurka) are thinly sliced, mixed with salt and pressed to drain some water from the cucumber slices. Afterwards placed in a jar with a sour-sweet brine of vinegar, salt, sugar, pepper and parsley.

Danish cucumber salad (agurkesalat) is similar, but the cucumbers are not pressed and the brine doesn't have parsley. The cucumber salad accompanies meat dishes, especially a roasted chicken dish (gamme ldags kylling med agurkesalat), and is used on Danish hot dogs.

Kool-Aid Pickles (a.k.a. "Koolickles")
Kool-Aid pickles (considered a delicacy in parts of the Southern United States[8]) are created by soaking dill pickles in a mixture of Kool-Aid and pickle brine.

Pickle Fun Facts to leave you with

The m ighty pickle is over 4,000 years old.

The pickle was brought to the New World by Christopher Columbus.Picture of the first McDonald's Restaurant

Like pickles? So did George Washington, John Adams and Dolly Madison. Cleopatra claimed pickles contributed to her beauty.

Americans eat about nine pounds of pickles a year.

Dill pickles are the most popular.

Pickles are mentioned at least twice in the Bible.

If all of the pickles consumed each year were placed end to end, they would reach the moon and back 8.25 times.

How can I Celebrate National Pickle Month?

Make your own pickles! - Hey have you ever tried it? The Internet is packed full of how-to videos on pickle making and recipes galore.

Blog with us a bout it! - We have a blog called "Everyday is a Holiday" so visit our pages and tell us about your favorite cleaning day or your favorite cleaner recipe.

Send Free E-Greeting! - If your ready to get together with your friends don't forget to invite them with these fun Internet Invitations.

I hope you enjoy these fun facts, tips, and a healthful ways to put some Pizazz into your pickling. Have a healthy and happy pickling day!

By, Natalie Pyles

Health and Fitness Expert, Nutrition Specialist, Author, and NSA Speaker