Balanced Life for a Successful Weight Loss and Fitness Plan

First off, I want to thank all of you for reading my blog and for supporting me. The reason I'm extending my gratitude to all of you is because I finally feel that I have come closer to a balanced life than ever before. That's not to say that my life is fully balanced; I am still working on certain areas.  Just so all of you know this last year or so have proven to be pivotal in the direction my life, career and personal relationships are going. It all started when I worked in a full-time corporate job and HATED every second of it.  Yes, I let my emotions take a toll on my physical and mental being. I finally said, enough was enough and took some steps to drastically change my lifestyle.

While working, I enrolled at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition held in NYC and hired a life/business coach because I was determined for a career change. I took the chance and networked with many people to make things happen. One thing led to another, from hiring more coaches to surrounding myself with like-minded people, and I found myself finally realizing what my dream career would be…and that is to help as many people as I can, people like myself who have nowhere to turn to, who are ashamed because they are overweight, have poor lifestyle habits, and are uncomfortable in their own skin. And that's when I quit what I hated the most…Corporate America.  That's not to say that everyone should just get up and quit their jobs, family, friends, or circumstances, but I say to you, evaluate what is making your life unbalanced and take action steps that'll lead haphazardly to your dream life!  After committing the most monstrous and scandalous sin in the eyes of loved ones, (mind you, I faced the "how could you quit a steady paycheck" and "you are wasting your master's degree to do fitness?"), I cannot tell you enough how my relationships with these people, family, friends and boyfriend, have dramatically improved. In addition, my health improved…along with weight loss…it took me soooo damn long to lose those pounds because of the stress I was putting my body through. I finally have learned, and still am learning, how to please my body and my spirit. 

It's all about Primary Food! If you have obtained that is no longer medically desirable for your physical condition and features, sometimes issues on weight loss and fitness are not really a matter of what food you are eating. Studies have shown that it is often more about how you weigh your options and harmonize your lifestyle and habits.

First, you must acknowledge that it is not all about planning diets and that your planned diets have, yes, failed. Step on the weighing scale and prove it yourself. If you are beyond "X" pounds, you might already feel a conscious and constant urge to normalize your weight. If you have exceed what to you seems like a normal and healthy weight, you know there is something wrong with your lifestyle on health, wellness, weight loss and fitness. Further, if you are below what you have been informed that your weight is not the desirable weight for your age and health condition, then there is something wrong and you must do something about it NOW.

Ask yourself.  How did you grow up and become into who you are now with this undesirable and unhealthy weight? How can you retrace your past so that you can remodel your future? Is there any possibility that you can gradually renew yourself into what you really want that is also very good for your health? Who motivates and how are you convinced to take better care of yourself?

Achieving a balanced life in order to solve your weight loss and fitness issues is to engage in frequent motivational set-ups and experience inspirational events and conversations. Through these, you will be able to understand that people appreciate you as you are right now because they are here ready to help for whatever choices you make.

Balanced life is a means of confronting any stressful event with enough courage to do the right thing.  Getting stressed daily might be chronic. This will not only influence your activities related to weight loss and fitness; it will even generate the possibility of suffering from cervical cancer. Did you know that 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women will be diagnosed with cancer in some point of their lives? So, check on your weight loss plans and cope with stress with the most positive means and solutions.

Begin with a modest weight loss and fitness plan. This will lead you to reducing risks of heart disease and diabetes. Reduce your calorie intake and exercise for a total of at least 150 minutes weekly. More importantly, you must rethink how you thought about and behaved on concerns such as eating habits, physical tasks and activities, and attitudes toward food, weight, fitness, and wellness.

Studies on weight loss and fitness have shown that those who have formed a beneficial lifestyle change and undertook related psychosocial solutions have formed positive characteristics. These include exercising for at least an hour daily, eating a healthy breakfast daily, eating a low-fat, low-calorie diet, eating a diet on weekends similar with the diet for weekdays, and weighing themselves frequently.  Now, begin.

I know, and can related, more than anyone else, how we women wear so many hats, and are expected to be perfect in everything we do. We are expected to be the perfect mommies, trophy house wives, youthful looking and sexy looking broads, loyal friends, highly educated leaders, and financially successful corporate career women. How stressed do you feel just thinking about this? It doesn't matter what others think of you. I urge to not let this unbalance and stress sabotage what's most important to you.

NOW is your time! Evaluate what your weight loss and fitness plans are NOW. There is no better time that NOW!  Seriously think about what your desires are, what ignites your passion, who you love to be around the most, what your ideal weight is, and what your body should feel and look like. Remember the times that were colorful in your life. That's what nourishes you, this so called "primary food". What you physically ingest is really secondary. What we really hunger for our love, intimacy, achievement, excitement, leadership, self-expression, freedom (financial), play, laughter, touch, and spirituality. Evaluate how these "foods" are incorporated into your life….make these changes NOW!

Hope you feel inspired and motivated to be the most balanced Fit Fem'r you can be! Feel good!

I invite you to leave a comment to and let's encourage each other to achieve our weight loss and fitness goals through a balanced life!