Question:

Victoria,
I love your positive, yet hard-hitting advice and I need a dose of both right now.

I really want to get in shape, but I feel so overloaded with all the things I have to do. My life is jam packed with nonstop stuff. I don’t like the way I look or the way I feel. I am emotionally exhausted and I have no energy for myself. How do I get my body and my life back? I feel like I am moving fast but going nowhere. What should I do to get started? I don’t want to go through another year wearing size sloppy size16. I want my sexy six back! HELP!!
Pamela

Answer:

Pamela, You have the heart’s cry of the average woman today. You are burning the candle at both ends, yet you never seem to get caught up.

You are constantly busy, but do not feel very fulfilled.

You are eating on the run, but do not feel satisfied and your appetite is rarely satiated.

Pamela, your body and your life are overloaded at every level. Every challenge to your mental thoughts and body creates a demand on your adrenal glands. And the list of maladies that show up because of things like: your constant lack of sleep, skipping meals, reliance on stimulants like caffeine and over consumption of sugar and other simple carbohydrates, digestive problems, demanding children or work, financial pressures, personality conflicts, yo-yo dieting, family or relationship stress, illness or even worse, the death of a loved one. The result is adrenal glands are constantly over stressed which can lead to high levels of cortisol.

High Cortisol Levels are Bad News to Your Mind and Your Rear End

What is cortisol?

In its normal function, cortisol helps you meet life’s challenges by converting proteins into energy, release glycogen, which is energy for your brain and your cells, and it works to counteract inflammation. For a short time, that’s okay. But with sustained high levels from stress and metabolic dysfunction, cortisol gradually tears your body down.

Sustained high cortisol levels destroy healthy muscle and bone, impair digestion which stops your body from absorbing good nutrients, slows down healing from injury or illness, suppresses healthy cell regeneration and weakens your immune system. One of the worst things it does Pamela is it screws up your metabolism and distorts your mental function.

So girl, not only do you gain weight you turn into a moody b***h! It’s not enough that no one likes being around you; it hurts even worse because you don’t even want to be around you.

Don’t stop reading yet ladies; let’s continue to take a look at your true condition.

Your metabolic rate is slow which ravages your body and you begin to prematurely age... AAAHHHHH!

Your organs are overtaxed by the extra weight your heart is overstressed from the lack of fitness and too much fat. Your fat cells are increasing in size; your muscle cells are shrinking and becoming more de-conditioned, which causes your muscles to sag... Your behind will be around the back of your knees soon if you don’t stop this cycle today.

Your liver is toxic from the excess fat and lack of exercise, which is turning your body into a fat building machine!

When you are overstressed and under fed with real high value nutrients, which come from unprocessed whole foods, fruits, vegetables, low fat, high quality and easily absorbed vitamins and minerals you are setting yourself up for disaster.

Pamela, It’s time! You can see that this is serious and you have to do something now. You feel it in your soul and your intuition is telling you to start today getting ready for the rest of your life. Your body is a precious gift you were given and you have to do everything you possibly can to nurture it and care for it.

You would not take a precious little baby girl and start feeding her french fries, donuts, hamburgers, cheesecake and fancy high calorie coffee drinks with tons of caffeine and wine every night with her baby food.

In my eyes, you are just as special and precious as that little baby girl. Your system is just as sensitive and you are just as special. If you don’t feel that way about yourself, you need to bring your life to a screeching halt and re-evaluate who you are to YOU! If you do not treasure yourself, you will never be special enough to make the changes necessary to live a life of joy, excitement and significance.

Pamela do something today. Decide to change and do whatever it takes to reclaim your power over food and failure. Hallelujah, it’s a new year and you get to start over and never look back.

A perfect protein for breakfast will raise your metabolic rate and you will feel better and more empowered at mid morning than if you ate some silly simple carbohydrate?

Did you know that you could keep your metabolism up longer and take it higher if you did some resistance weight training after your cardio in the evenings? Yes!

You can do some bicep curls, lunges, triceps kickbacks and legs raises and stoke your metabolic fire to burn that dimply fat off your legs and that soft pooch off your belly. You won’t spot reduce, but you will raise your overall metabolic rate so that you burn fat faster and longer. Wooohooo, now we’re talking.

Burn it Off

With the right Low glycemic, Low Carb eating plan you can be up to ten pounds lighter in thirty days like many of the ladies on my program. Plus Pamela, if you don’t have time to get to the gym, you can get my fabulous Power shaping workout, that is a rockin’ fat burning, muscle shaping party!

Pamela when I was heavy, I was working two jobs, going to school and starting a small business. I was so busy with my outside life that I let my inside life get totally trashed. The more out of balance my life and thinking was, the more I would over eat and the bigger and unhealthier I became. I ate myself into type two diabetes.

I got up every day and almost fed my poor body to death by creating sickness and disease. I was a big hot mess! I thought I was so smart and so up on my game because I was making money, helping other people and studying like a maniac with a bag of potato chips by my side.

I would sit with a bag of DOUBLE STUFFED Oreos and a quart of soft ice cream and honey I would twist, lick and dip for days. You know; you twist the Oreo cookie open, lick the lard and sugar filling out and then dip the cookie in the soft ice cream. Excuse me… for a minute; I am getting nauseous just writing about it. I was so stressed that I would do what I called my sugar therapy.

I had to change or I was going to end up in the hospital with a bunch of loser friends telling me to hang in there as they brought me a big batch of cookies to my hospital room! How do I know? Because I had my appendix out and NOT ONE so-called friend came to see me. It was radical surgery so I lay in that hospital bed for an entire week with my stomach butchered up by a hack surgeon and NOT ONE even called. I remember the pain of the silence, the hours of loneliness and the thought of never being able to wear a little bikini because of a massive scar I had. Can you see how I was having my little pity party and poor me I am a victim dance.

Get Movin.
I got over it and I got over them. You can too. I had to find the right people to hang out with and then I had to change what I ate, what I thought and what activity I engaged in. I had to start to move with energy and hang out with winners who were not focused on desserts and hating to exercise. When it comes to fat, you have to move it to lose it.

Dance, Train and Smile
I started dancing more, smiling and laughing more, training more, eating the perfect foods and changing my thoughts. That’s why I love my Quick Start Energy Program, it’s not just about food, it’s about life, it’ not just about no sugar, it’s about what is the absolute best choice I can make to today so that I can have the best year ever.

I want you to have the body you have always dreamed of. I want you to feel great when you pass by a mirror in the mall by accident and you are so excited that you back up and look again because you look and feel so amazing.

You Can Change
Pamela, you can change. You can decrease your stress and increase your energy. Pamela, you can be the fit, beautiful and happy woman you know you have fantasized about; you just need a plan and the right exercise and food intake.

You need to prioritize and put your fitness and your food first. Everything will become easier when you feel great again. You can have your sexy six back. Go after it, run it down and dance it back. Your body has a memory and it will remember it if you will put in the time, it will respond and you will be the Pamela you use to know. Do it girl.

You can do it, start today, and make YOU your New Year’s Project!

God Bless and make it the Best Week Ever!


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