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It’s important to eat at least 5 or 6 times a day to keep your energy levels high. The problem is, most folks who have healthy main meals, will have unhealthy snacks in between.

Eliminating these unhealthy snacks could be key for your own body transformation, so let me give you 3 Super Fruit snack alternatives…

Grapefruit – With more nutrient per calorie than apples, and more than 100% of your daily recommended Vitamin C, eating grapefruit can prevent illness and ‘premature’ aging.

Avocado – (Yes! A Fruit!) Avocados help with growth and development of the brain and nervous system, thanks to their high concentration of unsaturated fats. They’re also jam packed with a wide variety of vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients (add a teaspoon of extra virgin olive oil and red wine or balsamic vinegar for a tasty treat).

Prunes – With TWICE as much potassium as a banana and packed with anti-oxidants, eating prunes can help maintain healthy blood pressure and keep you looking young – even though prunes look wrinkly!

Fact is, fruit is good for you and most fruit is also super tasty. So make it a habit to swap out your chips and chocolate bars for grapefruit and avocados. You’ll still get to snack and you’ll be helping your body.

Dear Friend,

Although most people have their own “best time to workout,” the morning is usually most popular because you get your “personal victory” first thing – and that makes your day so much more positive, productive…and fun!

If you’ve been struggling to find the time to exercise during the day, then morning might be the right time for you as well. The trick is getting out of bed, shaking off the cobwebs and getting started! I’m going to show you how — keep reading.

Yours In Health,

Dimitri Louis

How To Get Out of Bed For Exercise

Get a “Sunrise” Alarm Clock – A sunrise alarm clock has a big bulb on it that gradually gets brighter, until it reaches full brightness at your desired wake up time. This wakes you up slowly, as opposed to jarring you awake. It’s more natural and sets you up for the day feeling great and full of energy.

Remove Your Alarm Clock From Your Bedside – Sunrise alarm clocks aren’t cheap. A less expensive alternative to ensure that when you wake up, you get up, is to place your alarm clock at the other end of your bedroom. When it sounds, you have to get out of bed to turn it off. And when you’re up, you’re up!

Get to Bed Earlier – If you’re going to bed late then it’s going to be harder for you to get up early. That’s just common sense. Plan your workouts into your daily routine to ensure that everything gets done in good time.

Make Exercise the First Thing You Do – If you settle down to have a full breakfast, then you will possibly begin reading the newspaper, checking your e-mail or watching TV. Before you know it you’ll have missed your window of opportunity and it will be time for work. Start warming up right away.

Remember How It Feels! – Remember just how good it feels as you breeze through the day full of positive energy and confidence, invigorated from your morning workout. Exercise really does make everything better – even work!

The start of your day is a good indication of how the rest of the day will go, so use these tips, try exercising in the morning and see if it feels as great for you as it does for everybody else.

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“The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” – Jon Hammond

Wow, I’ve been saying it for years and was glad to see the recent Today Show segment on “skinny fat”. Being thin is not an indicator of health. I love the two women that they featured; they were a good example of what skinny fat means. Some people are genetically thin, and yet carry a dangerously high body fat percentage. When you look at a smaller persons weight and how they look in their clothes it’s kind of hard to believe that they could be considered obese on the body fat chart. I’ve know many a thin person with lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Sorry thin people, you have to exercise and eat right too. If you missed the Today Show segment, take a look below. Would love to hear your comments.

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Okay, it’s Friday evening again, and all bets are off. Or not. Don’t make every weekend an eating free-for-all. Truly, those two days of eating bliss can really undue the five prior days of hard work and discipline. If you really want to make progress, and not just maintain, toe the line on the weekends. If you feel you need a treat, treat yourself for just one meal, not all 6 meals. Have a Happy and Healthy Weekend!

Last Tuesday I decided to do a raw food cleanse to rejuvenate my body with live foods and to get rid of a lot of the dead stuff. I was a little apprehensive, but am happy to say that I enjoyed it tremendously. My diet consisted of raw vegetables and fruits. I made the most delicious salads, adding avocados and making a dressing using Bragg Liquid Aminos. I also did a daily natural protein shake. The watermelon was so succulent and sweet, God’s dessert. The foods tasted so amazing in their natural state. It really gave me a greater appreciation for food the way nature intended.

Many people are still unclear about how you develop diabetes. A recent Washington Post article talks about 10 Myths and the real facts surrounding diabetes. One of my favorites is that you have to be overweight to develop diabetes. Or, you can get diabetes from eating too much sugar. True or false. Check it out.

I think the greatest struggle that many of our clients have is being committed to really eating healthy. If you have a background of eating just about any and everything, with no concern for how it makes you feel or how it’s going to effect your body long-term, eating healthy is quite a radical change in behavior. Our new nutrition support group should help out a great deal. Behavior change involves a gradual movement and a great support system always helps. This is only the second week of our weekly support group conference calls and already I can see how valuable this service will be. Because your trainer can’t be with you all of the time, the support group kind of fills in the gap and gives you yet another layer of accountability. – Be Healthy, Kristine