Day 13/90 Mission 'YOUR 2011 Christmas Six-Pack'

13/90  of the Mission 'YOUR 2011 Christmas Six-Pack'


13 is my favourite number.  For me, it holds a kind of power.  I.e. the power of, 'do whatever you feel is best' with it.  The number 13, typically holds mystery.   It is the symbol of the unknown.  Hence, the number 13 brings with it, the temptation to react and resent it in fear.  It also holds the allure of curiosity, that is asking your inner power to 'stay with it,' move towards it, into it, until you reveal it.  That is exactly like your inner power.  Are you afraid of it?  Are you in touch with it?  Are you aware of it, and able to consciously use it, for your own benefit? 


On this day, day 13, I challenge you to tap into your deepest potential, and yank it onto the surface. Time to team up with the best within.  You can do it!  Actually, you have been doing it!!!!


Nothing has changed.....

20,000 Green Smoothies!!

Are you ready to kick your kale up a few thousand notches?

It’s your last chance this weekend to join a few hundred of
your closest chard chugging chums as we get ready for the
Live, Full-Support 21-Day Green Smoothie Detox 
starting on Monday!

Green Smoothie Queen

We’ll start this natural detox program with a gentle
transition week, and then we launch into green smoothie
glory!

There will be well over 300+ people on this program,
including the Green Smoothie Girl, Robyn Openshaw.  If
you’re in, and commit to drinking 3 green
smoothies per day for 21 days, together we’ll be guzzling
about 20 000 green smoothies!

That’s a lotta lawnmower pulp!
It’s also a lotta happy livers! 

Green Smoothie Queen

Livers deserve spring vacations too!  So, register now, and

get ready to renew: Green Smoothie Queen

~ your tour guide to the 20 000 green smoothie
trip of a lifetime!

xo

Green Smoothie Queen Monika 

p.s.  There will be menu planners, recipe alternatives,
educational teleseminars, online journals,
and everything you need.  I promise, the only way to fail,
is not to follow along!!!

Commit & Cleanse your way to vitality!!

Exercise + Diet

Exercise + Diet = Happiness + Wellness

What if, you substituted the word Exercise for Movement, and Diet for Eating.  It feels so much more attainable, and doable, doesn't it?  It is our nature to do both.  Take the pressure off, daily commit to:

-Movement, and, get up daily, and do a little more than you think you should

-Eating, choose a little wiser than you KNOW you DO.

That is it.

We need to do both, it is our nature--with better quality choices !

52 weeks of bodily bliss, week 28: jUST wALK aWAY

A very simple tool to use to help gauge what goes into your body is through portion control. In North America, we have a very distorted idea of what a serving of starch, protein, not to mention fat would be. For example, when we hear a handful of almonds for snack, how big of a handful are we just talking about? Believe me, it is not a very big one ...


Eating is a numbers game:calories - beyond the taste and nutritional make up. Hence, it can be a varying learning curve, person to person, to get comfortable with it, and be able to use it 'for' us...not against.


My recommendation is to get a great book as a reference tool. Or, work with a professional over a few sessions of basic nutritional counseling, to build the proper foundation of nutrition, and build your castle of physical perfection, from there. For starters that anyone can adopt right now is getting used to walking away from our plates while there is still food on it. This way, it is a definite step towards scraping off excess calories, that would otherwise end up stored. And lets face it even the smartest SPANX designs cant hide the unwanted inches as well as not wearing them in the first place.
Walk away from your plate knowing you are doing that much more for you and celebrate your wellness all around.
xo
Monika

52 weeks of bodily bliss, week 26: quicky on salads

Most people believe that ALL salads are healthy meals.
NOT so fast !!!!

Use caution when choosing your salad.  Adding croutons, cheese, eggs, nuts, fried meat and high calorie/creamy/oily dressing will transform a salad from a healthy meal, to a high fat, high calorie, unhealthy, FAST-FOOD-like, meal.

52 weeks of bodily bliss... week 23: T I M E

Well, we are over the half way mark this year...I hope you are still ON track and are improving your fitness!!!!

I hear this all the time, I don’t have TIME to exercise because, of kids, work, work, studying, house, car…and what not.  I am the excuse buster and will always offer you a solution to find a way to get around things. The key to exercise, no matter if you like or not, you HAVE to CHOOSE to do it. Remember we always make time for what we WANT, what we value. Do you value YOU?  If not, what DO you value?


We all have lives and challenges, and if you think yours are bigger than mine, you are mistaken. Every person at every age has their challenges that are complimentary to their levels of life.

So the solution, no ‘not enough time’ is not-enough to NOT exercise. If you can only spare 10 minutes, give me the full 10 minutes of it.  But get creative and get honest, 10 minutes of skipping or light jog will be amazing. OR, I will challenge you to 10 madness circuits of burpies (yes yes my clients hate these and some even call them ‘the throw ups’).  Try 30 sec burpies fast, for numbers, with 30 sec rest. Alternate, no stopping for 10 full minutes. If you do this daily and keep with a sound eating- plan you WILL move things around and your bod will thank you! Try the same with 30 sec full out fast skipping, 30 sec rest, or 30 sec full out sprint, 30 sec walk. The choice is yours.


Try this as your new companion, an amazing gadget I use, the GYMBOSSSSS!!!!!!!


 


However when the tide does settle down you are to commit to a proper training regime that builds muscle, challenges the body and the brain, and keeps you progressing over time. 

Regardless of what life throws at you, get creative with your time.  Hire an expert to coach you and guide you through the challenges, you cant and should not expect yourself to know it all and do it all.  That is why we specialize in a certain aspect of life.  

Put you on your TO DO list so you can be proud of your  ‘TO HAVE DONE” list.  Because that is truly what life is all about the moments we stepped up and made it worth the fight ;)

Xoxo

Monika

52 weeks of bodily bliss... week 21: Better than ICE CREAM !!!!!!!

If you know me, you know, I LOVE ICE CREAM!!!!!  I mean I L O V E ice cream!!!!!  If I could, I would live on nothing BUT ice cream.  Unfortunately I can't, so the need for better alternatives has been tickling my curiosity, and this week I will share some fun ideas with you.

As the weather warms up and our hearts are more free and wanting to enjoy life's great fun and cool treats, ice cream moves way up the list.  Not so hard, at the grocery stores the freezer isles are displaying the latest indulgences, the TV reminds of the yummy, the streets have ice cream trucks circling playing the fun music, not to mention the beaches, where the fresh cones with scoops melting down the forearms are calling our taste buds for a party.

While this is all fine and dandy, if not kept in check, our waist lines soon will rebel against the indulgence of our taste buds, and we bulge out of the bikinis.  Where did all the hard work go at the gym all these weeks?????  Now what?

Fret not, there are some easy tricks to keep the cool cravings satisfied.  One of my favorite things to do is, freezing bite-sized watery fruits to snack on.  For example, pitted and diced plums, mangos, cantaloupes, grapes, or blueberries make for a cool and nutritious revive.  These are amazing alternatives for ice creams and even a little over indulgence will not do too much damage.

These fruits, and others you love, are loaded with nutrients and vitamins to even further boost your indulgences, and keep your waist line slim and tight:

1 cup plums have 76 cals, 19 g carbs, .5 g fat and about 2 g fibers

1 cup blueberries have 82 cals, 20 g carbs, under 5 g fat and about 4 g fibers
1 cup grapes have 104 cals, 27 g carbs, 0 g fat and about 2 g fibers
1 cup mangos have 107 cals, 28 g carbs, .5 g fat and about 3 g fibers
1 cup cantaloupes have 54 cals, 14 g carbs, .5 g fat and about 1.4 g fibers

So simple, so delisc, so good for you.

Happy Snacking !!!!!

xoxo
Monika