Water Water Everywhere

Being a person who struggles to get water in on a daily basis I thought this article might help you. I know I am going to try some Ideas from it.


7 Ways to Make Water Taste Better
Simple tips for livening up your drinking water
By Jen Laskey

Not everybody has a taste for water, but we all need it to ensure that our bodies continue functioning properly. If you want to drink more water, but aren't crazy about the taste (or lack thereof), here are some tips that can make it more enjoyable:

1. Add fresh fruit. Citrus fruits, such as lemons, limes, and oranges, are classic water enhancers, but other fruit flavors might also tempt your taste buds. Try crushing fresh raspberries or watermelon into your water, or adding strawberry slices. Cucumber and fresh mint are refreshing flavors as well — especially in summer.

I agree totally. I have tried adding many fruits to my water it does help a little but I usually need more of a mask to make the water taste better.

2. Use juice. Any fruit juice can be a good base flavor for water, but tart juices, like cranberry, pomegranate, grape, and apple, are especially delicious. Go for juices that are all natural, with no added sugars. And remember: Fruits and their juices don't just taste good — they contain vitamins and antioxidants that can benefit your health too.

This again is a good Idea. I feel however that you do not want to get too much fruit juice for there is a lot of sugar in fruit juice. To little juice tastes like not enough flavor in the water.


3. Make it bubbly. Many people prefer sparkling to still water. If plain old water isn't inspiring to you, try a naturally effervescent mineral water — which will give you the added benefit of minerals. Or try bubbly seltzer, a carbonated water. You can add fresh fruit or natural juice flavors to your seltzer, as suggested above, or look for naturally flavored seltzers at your local market. If you become a seltzer devotee, you might want to consider getting a seltzer maker for your home.

This is my favorite new suggestion cause I love bubbles. I will try this very soon and let you know how it is.

4. Get creative with ice. Some say that ice water tastes better than water served at room temperature. If that's so, flavored ice cubes may make an even better drink. Use some of the flavoring suggestions above and start experimenting with fresh fruit, mint, or cucumber ice cubes. Simply chop your additive of choice, add it to your ice cube tray along with water, then freeze. You may also consider juice, tea, or coffee cubes. If you want to be more creative, use ice cube trays that come in fun shapes, like stars, circles, or even fish.

Again neat idea Seems like the first idea just in different forms. Still very good.

5. Drink tea. Herbal, fruit, green, white, and red teas are generally considered to be better for you than black teas (or coffee, for that matter) because they contain little to no caffeine. And there are countless flavors of these teas to choose from. Start with the selection at your local market or health food store. If you're interested in pursuing more exotic flavors and sophisticated teas, start researching the vast array of specialty teas that come from all parts of the globe.

I love herbal tea, Glad to see it on the list.


6. Try bouillons, broths, and consommés. If your palate leans toward the savory, you may pass on tea and start sipping one of these hot and savory liquids instead. Choose low-fat and low-sodium versions for maximum health benefits. Because soup is water-based, a cup of hot soup will count toward your daily fluid consumption.

I didn't know this. I would be concerned about the salt in the soup. That would hold water.

7. Add fast flavor. If you're looking for a quick-and-easy flavor booster, you might also consider sugar-free drink mixes, and flavor cartridges that can be used with your faucet filter system.


This is my old standby. I love the flavor packets they put in water. Not sure how good they are for me but at least. I drink water when I have them.

Hope you enjoyed
Tina

Overly Emotional

If you havn't figured it out by now I am an emotional eater. I eat when I get sad or depressed. I eat everything, which brings on more feelings of regret and sadness. Causing the cycle to start again. Well I have been in control for many days. Like over 3 weeks I want to say. A few minor slip ups but nothing to major. Till tonight, I am not going to say what brought it on ,but all of the sudden my emotions hit like an anvil on Wyle E. Coyote's Head. I attempted to work it out with P90X Kenpo X. It wasn't helping, So I relaxed for a little bit talked to my Beachbody Coach, who was patiently working me through it. I am proud to say I made it past the intial I feel bad so I am going to get Ice cream or chocolate. I decided to go ahead and eat a protein shake instead. The the big part is I won. Yes my coach helped and had he not been there I would have eating all the icecream in the house. This is why I decided to be a Beachbody Coach to help people thru all of there crisis.

Butler Fit Club

This week was the 4th week of the Butler fit club Steve and I started. We had 10 people show up. Let me repeat that 10 People. I loved it alot of my friends are coming and enjoy an awesome workout. We had a projector and speaker thanks to Steve.(Him and I run the fit clubs together.) We did a Cardio work out Called Tony Horton One on One Core Cardio Intervals Vol 2 Disk 1. Everyone was working so hard and when we were done we did P90X ab ripper. I am so proud of how everyone did tonight. It was so wonderful and exciting. I really can't wait to see everyone again next week.

Inspiration

I never in a million and one years thought I would be Any one's inspiration. Let's just get down to facts. I am average in just about everything. I was average in high school, average in my dance classes. I am an average wife, and mother. Just another person walking down the street.

But now that I am losing weight and I am a Beachbody coach I am an inspiration to many people. The thought of this is very scary at first. However, I can honestly say I feel honored to take on this responsibility and will do my best to keep on inspiring and motivating the people I coach and the people that I help in my business. I enjoy doing this and hope to be the best Coach that I can be.

Thank you and good luck to all of you that have started your journey to get healthy. I am with you every step of the way.

Tina

Modification

So today I took that Picture and was amazed and excited at my progress. Then tonight while doing Ab ripper X. I once again was amazed at how far I have made it with Modifications, to my P90X workout.

Let give you some history. I am not just an unfit large woman.(I am working hard on the unfit and the large part). In October of 2009, I had hernia surgery. After I ask the doctor exercise I was allowed to do he looked at me funny and said well I guess you could do some baby sit ups, but don't lift anymore then 40lbs forever (which I had to beg for). You might be asking your self, "she had easy ticket out of exercise when she had an easy out.

The reason I wanted to exercise was because I don't ever want to go thru abdominal surgery, again. Anyhow I wanted to say that everyone is able to modify. I know when I modify Its not prefect But as Tony Horton says I "bring my best and forget the rest".

You can always do something.

Ice Cream Truck

So I spent most of today studying for my personal trainer exam. As I was studying I was getting very tired.

Now I know what I should have done. I should have got up and did my P90X Back and Biceps workout I needed to do for today. Cause I know that working out would wake me up again. I know this. Did I do this ....

Nope

The little gremlin in my head, said there is ice cream in the freezer that will wake you up. Me not being prefect gave in. I went to the freezer ate one and finished my studying.

So later I went to the park in town to run/walk for a while during my run I hear music behind me. The song was London Bridge so I look behind me there was the Ice Cream truck. The ice cream truck stops and I continue o not 5 min later there is the music again. Now not London bridge going through my head but a different version. Something like "I know you ate the Ice cream" .

So the moral of the story is when you are feeling tired. Get up and do your P90X work out don't feed the gremlin.

Later that night, after my run, I did Complete my P90X Back and Biceps. This felt very good, but couldn't help thinking I should have done this earlier.

Mornings

So this is day 2 of my blog. I am going to talk about mornings. I know I am not the only night owl out there so I am going to try to explain what it is like at my house in the mornings. I am sure many of you feel the same way.

I will start early in my life. I was born at 4:30 in the am. I proceeded according to my mom to have my days and nights mixed up. Now as an adult I feel I am most productive in the evening. I stay up late working on stuff such as house work or computer work then go to bed between Midnight and 1 am. Sleep and try to get up in the morning to get chores done. That is what I tell my self. Until the Alarm goes off then I hit snooze, aprox. 10 times and finally get up way past the time I wanted to get up. At this point angry for geting up late. I now have to rush and get the kids ready for school, gymnastics or what ever is on the plan for the day.

Now you are saying what does this have to do with exercise or nutrition.
I will tell you in the rush of getting ready, breakfast and working outis the last thing on my mind. Not until I am in the car and riding to where the next stop is going man i am hungry. If I am lucky I will get a bowl of cereal for everyone before we leave. Then I end up working out at the end of the day. Which it is much better to enjoy the work out in the morning.

So for my next goal: I am not going to suck at mornings any more. As I find things that help me I will post them and I hope they will help you as well.

Tina

Quest

Hello everyone, this is my very first blog, hopefully of many. I am 33 years old and I have been obese for most of my adult life. I decided to seriously get healthy in April 2009. At this time I weighed 278lbs and didn't care what I put into my mouth. After trying various "diet" methods(I have been thru them all.) I finally realized, thanks to P90X and Tops, that I had to eat right and exercise to get where I wanted to be with my health. I want you to know that the year between April 2009 and April 2010 was not easy. I had to have two major surgeries and that means two major recoveries. Which is fine but I can not sit still for the life of me. But after I recovered I got back to work. In that year I have lost 50lbs. I decided to quit my job of 11 years to stay at home and take care of my kids. I also decided to get my Personal training certifcation, open a fitness center and go back to school for fitness. During this time I also met up with Steve who I graduated with in highschool. He was a coach for beachbody and said hey you would love this come and be a coach with me. So I sucked it up and I tried it. I do love it he was right(He is always right by the way.) So now I am working on my second year in my quest to good health and have reached 61lbs lost and counting. Will you be next. Suck it up and Jump in. I am waiting to coach you. Check it out at www.beachbodycoach.com/zfitnezz