Velvet Magazine September 2016

Health
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familiar? Add to that the side effects of
being overweight: fatigued, demotivation
and signs of metabolic syndrome.
That was a very brief overview, I haven’t
even gone into modern diet issues and
schemes, but it leads to the same issues.
We have generations of people who believe
they are eating the right food to lose
weight, on top of the increasing pressures
of having to look a certain way. This leads
to the final piece of the puzzle; feeling lost
and sometimes desperate.
As the efforts to lose weight increase, the
pounds, either infuriatingly continue to
rise, or drop down to then soar straight
back up again. We feel increasingly
confused and strive to regain some form
of body confidence. This causes one of
the biggest self-sabotaging issues I come
across everyday in my career. Everybody's
focus is on the big ‘R’ - no, not Revolution
Fitness - Results. With the ever-lowering
confidence and misguided advertisement
from the fitness industry, many people
are utterly focussed on the speed in which
they can achieve ‘results’. When the results
come a little slower, not at all, or we meet
a bump in the road that causes us to feel
like we have failed and are back to ‘square
one’, it becomes a downward spiral.
Sound familiar? We need to reprogram
ourselves. At Revolution Fitness Academy,
we focus on health and we invite you to
do the same. When focusing on health
where you are guaranteed to see results
at some point (as long as the information
on your nutrition is correct - something I’ll
be talking about next month!). Focus on
preventing diabetes, heart attack, strokes,
Alzheimer's. Focus on running around with
your loved ones, waking up feeling fresh
and enjoying your health. So what if you
only lose two pounds a month and don’t
look like 'Mr or Mrs World’, because in a
year’s time you’ll be 24 pounds down and
it will have been effortless. Not to mention
the boost in your energy levels and
confidence. After years of misinformation
of biblical proportion, combined with
social pressure and cultural development,
I find more and more people feeling lost,
frustrated and with no self confidence. It
needs to change now.
Next month, I’ll go into more depth about
what we can do to improve our health and
what we can do to feel great.
Here’s what I want
you to do until next
month’s issue:
Throw out the scales that are
probably lurking around your
bathroom.
Any negative thoughts you have
about yourself, I want you to turn
into a positive e.g. “I love my body
because it gave me my beautiful
children.”
Exercise can be hard but enjoy
moving your body and think of the
challenge you’re setting yourself.
Compliment two people everyday.
Challenge yourself to make a new
home-cooked dish at least once or
twice a week.
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