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Resource Directory Program commences

The Resource Partner Program starts today with exclusive invitiations for specially selected organisations to Partner with me and be included in the Resource Directory in “Half The Woman I Was”.

In the book readers are encouraged to address outstanding areas of their life in the “Barnacle Busters” program, and seek assistance by contacting one of the companies I have chosen to endorse.  Companies have been speficically selected due to my experience with them as well as their integrity, operating professionalism and good standing in the community.

Here is a taste of the categoies and what they will include:

  • Auto – includes Car Cleaning,  Car Servicing, DIY and Windscreen Repairs / Replacements
  • Fitness – includes Scales, Exercise Equipment, Gyms and Group Fitness …. and more
  • Food – includes Health Foods, Portion Control, Sugar Substitutes, Supplements, Health Monitors, Counselling, Medical, Natural Therapies … and more
  • Home – including Cleaning Services, Linen and Kitchen Supplies, Lighting, Repairs, Rubbish Removals, Handymen, Gardeners … and more
  • Organisation – Home Services, Stationery, Storage … and more
  • Personal – Skincare, Personal Care … and more
  • Professional Services – Accountants, Lawyers, Will Kits, Financial Planners, Insurance Brokers and Advisers … and more
  • Rewards – Day Spas, Hairdressing, Retreats, Cosmetic Dentistry … and more

All of these categories (and more) are discussed in the book and it’s vital that my readers address all these areas in their life in order to achieve their health and vitality goals.

I look forward, very much, to meeting my new Resource Partners soon.

 

 

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Cover Finalised

The long awaited book, “Half The Woman I Was ~ How I losk 70kg naturally, reclaimed my life … and how you can too!” will soon be in bookstres throughout Australia and New Zealand and available for download on Amazon Kindle.

We’re currently in final proofing, and soon into layout and print, with a currently scheduled release for early April.

But the wonderful news is that the cover is finalised and heading off to my wonderful book distributors (Dennis Jones & Associates, Allen & Unwin’s Australiasian representatives) for inclusion in their sales catalogues.

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Thousands of dollars of free bonuses….

Yes.. the manusacript has been lodged with my publisher and now I’m hard at work developing the thousands of dollars of free bonuses that reados of “Half The Woman I Was” will have access to.

Bonuses include:

  • A complete body calculator (think every computation and permutation possible!)
  • My Complete Program – what you shoudl eat and when to get maximum results with a minimum of fuss
  • My Resistance Training Program – again think minimum effort andf maximum results
  • My guide to Stretching Out for all ages
  • Lifestyle questionaire, to determine what minor changes you can make to your life that will yield BIG results
  • Stress Test to determine your stress levels and recommendations for change
  • Medical Risk Profile to determine which tests you should consider having done
  • Reprogramming information – how to get your sub-conscious working for you every minute of every day
  • Barnacle Busters – how to clear your life out and achieve more effortlessly
  • a review of diet diary software programs (we’ll eventually have our own that actually works and can be easily used!)
  • a review of body fat scales – which ones are the best and most reliable?

……. and much much more.

Get Your Body Right

#2 Tip – Get Moving and Keep Moving

Exercise is a very fundamental part of wellbeing.

You don’t need to exercise 3 hours a day but it is important that you get into action and stay active every day, regardless of your age or stage of life. Staying active is fundamental to ensuring your body maintains good health and continues to work well right through your later years.

All it takes is minimum of 30 mins a day at an intensity at or slightly above you current fitness level. As your fitness increases, so will the level at which you exercise. Low impact, high energy activities are best, such as cycling, swimming and aqua aerobics. Yoga and pilates are also excellent. Weight bearing activites help build bone density, but can cause injury if you have joint weaknesses or suffer from arthritis. Pick the type of exercise that suits your lifestyle and your fitness level. And above all, exercise should be enjoyable, so find something you like to do.

Warm up before you start exercising, and cool down and stretch after you exercise – this helps avoid injury and improves flexibility.

Ideally your exercise routine should also include 2 targeted resistance training sessions per week. This will accelerate your weight loss through building increased lean muscle mass and keep your body strong and toned.

Sample Exercise Routine

Saturday:

  • Warm up (10 mins)
  • High intensity work out (10 mins)
  • Resistance Training session – Upper Body (30 mins) i.e. Chest, Back and Arms
  • Cool down and stretch (10 mins)

Wednesday:

  • Warm up (10 mins)
  • High intensity work out (10 mins)
  • Resistance Training session – Lower Body (30 mins) i.e. Legs, Buttocks and Abdominals
  • Cool down and stretch (10 mins)

All Other days:

  • Warm up (10 mins)
  • High intensity work out (30 mins)
  • Cool down and stretch (10 mins)

 

 Top 5 Tools

Know Your Target Heart Rate and how far you can push yourself without injury

Use Interval Training for Increased Fitness

Combine it with Resistance Training for Toning and Shaping

For strength and flexibility use great low impact options like Yoga and Pilates

If you can’t get tot he gym or exercise class then make sure you have plenty of at Home Exercise Tools

Get Your Mind Right

Tip #1 – Get Educated

OK, so there are a lot of diets out there on the market. Almost all of them are designed for quick term short gains. This means you get results over the first 7 to 14 days, but they NEVER work in the long run. Many diets are hard to stick to, they’re boring or require special foods. Others expect you to weigh out or calorie control everything you put in your mouth. The bottom line is that ANY diet will ALWAYS give you results for the first few days but after that, the weight you took off will creep back on, sometimes with extra pounds and you’ll feel like a big fat failure.

The word Diet, according to Dictionary.com has 5 meanings:

  1. food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health;
  2. a particular selection of food, especially as designed or prescribed to improve a person’s physical condition or to prevent or treat a disease;
  3. such a selection or limitation on the amount a person eats for reducing weight;
  4. the foods eaten, as by a particular person on group;
  5. food or feed habitually eaten or provided.

Only number 3 actually talks about restricting intake, so why is it more than 50% of the world’s population is either overweight or obese when there are literally hundreds of diets we can choose from?

Why don’t diets work? A diet should be a lifestyle choice, not an event or quick fix to a bigger underlying issue. Diets don’t work because they are all presented as short term solutions which force the body into a fight or flight scenario, rather than presented as a life-long eating plan.

The bottom line is that scholastic education is insufficient when it comes to health- we are not taught about food, its nutritional value (or lack thereof) or how each component – carbohydrate, protein, fat and nutrients (vitamins, minerals, amino acids, antioxidants) – are utilised by our body.

The answer to life is not “42” (to borrow a line from Douglas Adams), it is in “education”. This page will present a range of tools and tips that will reveal all you need to know in order to make the right lifestyle choices, eat the right foods and prolong a healthy and happy life.

Top 5 Tools:

Overall Program / Lifestyle Choices:

An overall education via a holistic program is the best way to battle the bulge. This is one of the best home education packages on healthy eating available on the market. If you believe, as I do, that education is the key, then this program is for you.

Portion Control Re-education:

It’s easy to over eat – most of the Western World is plagued by over sized food portions and All You Can Eat buffets which educate our stomachs and our brains to eat more than we should. Does anyone ever eat the serving quantity of a packet of food, or do they just assume it’s 1? Portion control is one of the biggest issues that can be easily resolved with re-education via a meals service or software tracking program.

Metabolism Boosters:

Our metabolisms get slower as we age and slow down. There are several ways to boost your metabolism, the most successful being exercise, particularly resistance training (see Exercise Tips and Tools page).

Organics for Massive Nutrients:

It’s well know that many nutrients are missing from our foods as we deplete our soils, genetically modify our foods and add growth hormones to ensure that things look right even if they’ve been grown in sub standard conditions. As a kid remember the taste of a fresh picked tomato off a bush in the back yard? What about a strawberry from pick your own? Do things taste like that now? Organic foods are the closest we get to a perfect world, and they provide significantly more beneficial nutrients without genetic modification or growth hormones, and they just taste better!

Supplements and Vitamins:

In a perfect world supplements and vitamins would not be necessary – everything from the earth would provide the myriad of trace elements required for the body to function perfectly. But we don’t live in a perfect world – the lack of nutrients in our food and inability or expense of organic foods means our intake may be lacking. This, coupled with extreme stress levels of the modern working world and lack of work/life balance means we can benefit from taking supplements or vitamins to “top up” our diet.

Plan Your Trip

Dare to begin…..

” All accomplishment comes from daring to begin”

Why do we not start things? Or if we do, why do we fail so often?

Failing to start is almost always a result of fear: fear of failure, fear of success, take your pick, they are both powerful preventers to obtaining your goals and dreams. The fear convinces you that it’s better to stay as you are, leave the status quo, rather than rock the boat, leave the port and risk journeying into uncharted, rough waters.

But by setting your Wellness Mission Statement, establishing a Wellness Plan and following these seven steps to overcoming your fears.

Step 1 – Lost Opportunities

Consider what you’re going to miss out on if you don’t do this. Write a list of all the wonderful and positive things that will happen if you reach your goals – this is what you’re going to miss out on if you don’t start.

Step 2 – Research the alternatives

Is this plan the only solution to achieving your wellness goals. Other alternatives like surgery are probably not an option. When your back’s against the wall and this is the only way out then that provides you with added motivation to surge ahead.

Step 3 – Identify the worst case scenario

Often times the fear of failure is a fear of the unknown. By identifying the worst case scenario that can happen, it’s put into perspective – chances are it’s not as bad as you’d first imagined. Plus, if it does (and it usually doesn’t), whilst you still may not like it you will have already considered it and your next options via step 4.

Step 4 – Contingency Plan

My number one thing for almost everything I do ~ what if’s. What if I go to yoga and I’m terrible at it? Well perhaps you can do pilates instead. For each of the worst case scenarios in Step 3, come up with a contingency plan. This will save you lots of time, thought and angst should something not go right first time around.

Step 5 – Understand failing is learning

Thomas Edison failed 1000 times to make the incandescent light bulb. When asked about this he replied “We now know a thousand ways not to build a light bulb”. Learning what doesn’t work is just as important as learning what does work. Without making a mistake (or failing in some small way) a lesson can not be learned fully, and the truth can not be moved closer to. Embrace your mistakes as learnings, take the lessons from them you can and move on.

Step 6 – Ensure your success

Remove all temptations and barriers that will prevent you from working your plan – throw out all that highly processed food form your fridge and pantry, eliminate or reduce the number of meals out, etc. And replace these with things that will help you achieve success – ensure you have plenty of lean meats, and fresh fruits and vegetables in your fridge, when eating out go for better restaurants rather than fast  food and order the chicken salad with the dressing on the side rather than the burger and fries.

Step 7 – Get into action

Action is everything – without it decay starts. By getting into action you are working your plan and getting closer to your goals, you’re learning and expanding your knowledge, which makes you feel better and builds confidence. Inaction is the killer of all plans, the destroyer of all dreams. Get into action now, and track and monitor your progress to ensure you keep moving them forward!

 

 

Sigrid de Castella – weight loss achiever, paleoish intermittent faster, adrenal fatigue recoverer, foodie, cook, writer, globetrotter & dog lover