Seven Halloween Tricks to Avoid Weight Gain

What is scary about Halloween is that it is the kick-off season for holiday weight gain. It is no surprise… with all the free candy lying around the temptation is everywhere you look. You’ll find candy at work, the bank, every reception desk, treats sent home with your kids, friends and family. This goes on virtually all month long, not to mention into November with all the left-over candy.
Halloween candy is easily eaten mindlessly and that means weight-gain. With a big bowl of candy sitting on your kitchen counter, it is easy to grab. Even though the portions are usually small, before you know it, a tootsie roll here and a few candy-corns there… the calories begin adding up quicker than you realize. Your body’s ability to burn fat is much harder.
Here are some good tricks:
1- Write down everything you eat, when you see your “honest reporting” on paper the results may scare you! Sometimes you think you are eating in moderation until you take inventory. Remember even fat-free and/or sugar-free candy has calories. Limit yourself to one piece/serving a day or if you can’t control that, none at all.
2- Keep the candy out of sight.
3- Burn the excess calories with exercise. This should never be the end all and the be all to fat loss, (proper nutrition is a highly important component to the mix), but the more muscle you build the faster you burn the calories, and that will help you all the more if you can’t seem to part with the candy bowl.
4- Eat something healthy and include lean protein before you dip into the candy to avoid blood sugar spikes and over-eating and binging on the candy.
5- Get the healthiest treats possible such as raisin packs, trail mix bars, pop-corn, etc. or buy a candy you don’t like to avoid the temptation.
6- Buy your candy at the last minute and be very generous with the last trick-or-treaters to avoid having too much left over.
7- Don’t skip your workouts over the time between Halloween and New Years. This is the time you need to workout most of all. Get started with pumpkin workouts and you could be in the best shape of your life by January 2010 while everyone else is making New Year’s resolutions.

Exercise …Fun?

Reframing is when you create a shift in consciousness to see things in a whole new way. This video at the bottom illustrates the point beautifully.

What happens when you have a choice such as this one in the video, to take the stairs or to take the escalator to go up? Without consciously being aware of it, your mind makes a decision that could be based on many things. Perhaps it’s your time, your level of energy, the shoes you are wearing, your determination to stay fit, or any number of things.

What if you could see all your day-to-day habits in a whole new way… from an entirely different point of view? You can look at any given situation more than one way.

What is your perspective about exercise? Is it work? Is it punishment for over-indulging in food that added too much fat around your belly? Is it something necessary but you absolutely hate doing? Do you have a limiting perspective that is only negative about exercise?

A limiting perspective about something usually fuels your excuses for not taking action. Those thoughts sabotage you! For example, the most common excuse for not exercising is not having enough time. What if you reframed that to: “I make the time for anything I am committed to.” Here is another common limiting belief: “I am too old to change. I just don’t have the energy I used to have… when you get to be my age, there is just no going back!” Reframe: “It’s never too late to make a change. The more consistently I exercise, and eat healthy, the more energetic I become!”

How is that limiting perspective about exercise working for you? What if exercise were fun? Would you make the time for it? Can you think of anything enjoyable about your exercise? The results if gives you perhaps?

If you can change your perspective from a negative experience to a more empowering one, you can change your action and emotional state about it. Your perspective about anything directly produces its outcome.

Your mind and body are part of the same system and affect each other. The way you think about something will have a direct impact on the result you will create. If your mind is not aligned with what you want your body to do (you want to exercise but are making every excuse not to) find out more about coaching.

Sneak Preview of Pumpkin Exercise E-book

I went ahead and picked out two of the exercises from the 31 Exercises You Can Do With a Pumpkin e-book and posted them for you to take a peak. To pick up your e-book just click on this link:

https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?i=361251&c=single&cl=49540

You will instantly get your e-book sent to your email in-box. The e-book is an Adobe Acrobat PDF file that can be opened on either a Mac or a PC computer.

You will spend less on this e-book than you will on Halloween candy, and it’s way less calories!

Be sure to pick a pumpkin size and weight that you can manage and keep the exercise in good form.

You can perform these two exercises as a “super-set” by doing one set of the first exercise and then immediately doing one set from the next exercise without rest.

After you have completed both sets, rest at least one minute and depending on your physical condition, repeat the super-set one or two more times.

31 Exercises You Can Do With a Pumpkin

31 Pumpkin Exercises and suggested routines!

I hope you have been enjoying the beautiful Fall weather as much as I have been.

To get you out enjoying the fun, I have a new e-book for you that will not burn a hole in your wallet…

…the only thing it will burn is calories and fat!

Best of all, you will have a lot of fun using it. I know I did.

There was a lot of laughing going on in my boot camp today when we tried out some of the exercises.

To pick up your e-book of  ”31 Exercises You Can Do With a Pumpkin”  just click: Get my Pumpkin Workout Now! or just click on the picture.

You will instantly get your e-book sent to your email in-box.

The e-book is an Adobe Acrobat PDF file that can be opened on either a Mac or a PC computer.

You can do the exercises as you choose or use the suggested routines.

Oh, and yes… you could do these exercises with a medicine ball, dumbbell, or kettlebell… heck, one of my boot campers suggested a watermelon!

As long as you have fun, get strong, lean, toned, and burn
lots of calories!

If the only thing you do with it is print out a copy to put next to your Halloween candy bowl… just to remind yourself, you do have a choice…

It will be the best money you ever spent!