1.  The scale is not the best indicator of weight loss.  Your clothes are a much better indicator of whether or not your diet and exercise plan is working.  The scale can, and will, be affected by a multitude of factors including hormones, sleep, after consumption and salt intake.  Weigh in no more than once a month or even longer.

2.  All sugar is detrimental to weight loss!  It does not matter if the sugar in your diet comes from fruit, honey or plain white sugar.  All sugar sources are processed similarly by your body and too much sugar is a leading reason why weight loss plans fail.  So limit all sugar, even if it is a natural sugar like honey.

Words are powerful...

Definition of Frustrated:   defeated, to make worthless
Definition of Discouraged:  to deprive of courage, hope and confidence
Definition of Try:   to attempt without commitment
Definition of Can't:   denial or refusal to be able to have the power, ability and skill to do something.

So those are the words I hear out of mouths of students every day.  When you speak those words, you are saying you are a defeated person who has deprived yourself of courage, hope and confidence who only attempts things without commitment and denies or refuses to use your ability to have the power, ability and skill to do something.  Wow.  Our words are powerful and when you say the above words, you are setting yourself up for failure and it is all your own doing.

I want to share with you this article that I read this week that blew me away...........

PILOT BLINDED BY STROKE IS GUIDED TO THE GROUND

A British pilot who was suddenly blinded by a stroke during a solo flight was talked safely down by a military pilot, the Royal Air Force said Friday.

Jim O'Neill asked for help after he was went blind 40 minutes into a flight from Scotland to southeastern England last week. The BBC reported that O'Neill, flying a small Cessna aircraft, lost his sight 5,500 feet in the air.

"It was terrifying," O'Neill said. "Suddenly, I couldn't see the dials in front of me."

If you are wanting to start running or add running into your exercise program your choice of running shoes can make the difference between running in comfort or pain and whether you will injure yourself.  This has to be the number one question I am asked on a regular basis.  What is the best shoe?  Many want to know what shoes I run in, but what works for one person won't always work for another.

The most common mistake when one wants to find a running shoe is to bargain shop for an inexpensive first pair of running shoes right off the shoe store clearance table.  It is natural to do this because:

1. You may not be sure if running will be for you.

2.  How will your spouse react to an investment in a good shoe an

3. Isn't it just the brand name that makes them overpriced?

Some people will try to convince you that you need to do crazy things to lose weight, like cut out carbs for life, or eat nothing but cabbage, or follow a complicated regimen of shakes and pills and who knows what else. I'm not one of those people. I know that weight loss is actually very simple. If you burn more calories than you eat, you will lose weight. Tip the equation in the other direction, by eating more than you burn, and you'll gain weight. Balance the equation, and you'll maintain your weight. It's not magic — it's math.

If you want to lose weight, you need to create a calorie deficit. First, you need to figure out how many calories your body burns on a daily basis. That number also happens to be the number of calories you can eat each day if you want to maintain your present weight. If you want to lose weight, you must subtract calories from that daily total. One pound of fat is the equivalent of 3,500 calories, so if you want to lose 1 pound a week, you'd cut 500 calories each day (7 x 500 = 3,500). If you want to lose 2 pounds a week, you'd cut 1,000 calories a day. Once you make this subtraction, you have your "magic" number — the number of calories you should aim for each day to lose weight.

Let's face it, you need energy to get through everything from your daily workouts to stressful situations at work and home and making sure you’ve met your iron intake is key.  There are so many things that cause us to tire or lose energy so be a step ahead and combat it by doing something simple as making sure to intake enough iron each day.