My Top 5 Tips for Making everyday a Monday

These are my essential 5 Top Tips you can think about or use everyday to get yourself on a direct path to feeling healthier, more balanced, lighter, leaner, sexier and more importantly energetically happier!

1. Stop drinking your calories: Simply the easiest and most effective way to cut down on waste less, belly and back-fat packing calories STOP drinking kak in a cup! No more Tropicana to start the day or a $6 Frappa-Lappa-Creme-De-I am going to be hanging over your pants soon-Lattes, or Triple, Triple (gross) XL coffees or Iced Tea because its healthier??? V8’s because that’s a great way to get your veggies in (why do you even have teeth?) milk by the glasses full and sodas. And if you think you are in the clear because you drink DIET drinks WRONG you are even worse off the Frappa-Lappa junkies. Why? Because all you are consuming is neuro-toxins that mess with your neurological system, give you digestive upset, mega PMS, screw with your pituitary gland, thyroid and hormones and will prevent you from ever LOSING WEIGHT…and as an added bonus will make your rear-end resemble a dimpled golf ball when you take a peek behind yourself in the mirror – awesome! Click onto the blog I wrote a few months back called ‘The Beverage Bar’ for healthier and much cheaper ideas.
2. It’s Over the Rainbow its under the Rainbow: Eating foods loaded with nutrient rich color will provide you with a good chunk of your daily vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, fiber and ph neutralizing greens. For every snack and meal you consume please make sure to have at least 2-3 different colors happening ex: fresh berries and 2 tbsp raw cashews, black bean quinoa salad with yellow, red, orange peppers, snap peas, red cabbage and pumpkin seeds, veggie sticks and humus and home cooked vegetable minestrone soup…yummy!
3. Prepare for the day before it happens: Every Saturday or Sunday I sit down with my family; the kids each pick a meal for the week my hubby 2 and myself the other 3, then I base my list off of this and shop. We prep enough quinoa, beans, dry salad and cut up veg and fruit for at least 3-5 days so its super easy to grab the night before and put into our lunch bags. We also make a pitcher of smoothies at night for our nutritious breakfast on-the-go.
4. Move your Sweet @$$! Exercise is no longer an option but take the pressure off yourself at feeling like if you don’t have 45-60 minutes to move whats the point…that’s just another excuse you’ve created for yourself. Start with 5 mins everyday. I don’t care when. I don’t care where. And I don’t care if you split it up. Just start moving.    

Minute 1 – Squat / Minute 2 – Pushups / Minute 3 – Reverse lunges on right leg / Minute 4 – Reverse lunges on left leg

Minute 5 – down dog to plank – plank to down dog

Voila! a 5 minute quickie that will leave you feeling fresh, revitalized and hopeful that you will find more time in the day and make a  greater effort to keep your body moving.

5. Do not reward yourself with food or booze: This is a horrible trap. I promise if you can abstain from sweets and booze for a full week you will already be 1/2 there with the battle of your cravings. If you must have a square of 70% dark organic chocolate. The more sugar you eat the more you crave it, same goes with wine and mixed drinks. You also need to ask yourself do I really want the sweets and a drink or am I just tried, bored, lonely, pissed off or just so used to having them that its my pattern not my craving that always brings me back???

Some good thoughts and ideas to mull over on this chilly Sunday whiel you prep for yet again another ‘New Monday’

Enjoy!