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Fed up with Exercise books and fad diets? Are tired of the supermodel and body builder images that are not realistic? Learn how being fit is not about being perfect!

“Mindmuscle is an easy to follow holistic routine…It’s like having your own personal coach with your everyday.” Mitzie Reed, Nevada Holistic Chamber of commerce.

“Zoe Rox told me I needed to get into shape and backed it up with the MINDMUSCLE program. Now thirty pounds lighter. I am a winning triathlete and respectable marathon runner.” Greg Nielsen, Author of a bestseller.

MINDMUSCLE A Simple Realistic Guide to Physical, Mental & Spiritual Fitness is feeling good about yourself, discovering your inner capacity for wellness, physical fitness and healing. MINDMUSCLE appeals to everyone it does not intimidate with perfect bodies or ridiculous difficult to perform exercises. Its photos are packed with everyday people like you and me.

Topics include:

• Goals I know what’s important to me
• Rewards I feel great because I’m achieving my plan!
• Affirmations Say “delete” to those negative beliefs!
• Visualize I become what I see-the true me!
• Exercise- I feel energized , alive and fresh
• Body fat/ Obesity Understanding helps me change!
• Dieting/Eating disorders I am balanced, whole and complete!
• Healthy Changes with food I am what I eat, I chose wisely!

Zoe Roxanne has 25 years experience as a personal trainer and group exercise instructor. She previously sold many of her MINDMUSCLE audio and video tapes through national sales. She has offered continual education credits, seminars and workshops. Has been on television and print media discussing her technique and personal freedom story as well as being published through various subjects of interest. Her new booklet: P.S. You’re Already Beautiful! You just didn’t know it: is in publication now.

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Recent Research according to Rudolph Leibel an obesity expert at Columbia Medical center and one of the discoverers of leptin, the hormone that usually signals the body to stop eating. Leptin levels fall rapidly when people lose weight, setting off a cascade of physiological changes that burn fewer calories and act to pile weight back on.
The Wall Street Journal February 23, 2010 Health Journal Obesity? Big Feet? Blame Darwin
A study of 28 subjects found that when pistachio nuts were consumed it resulted in a decrease in total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein. Researchers concluded that when eaten with a healthy diet pistachios have a beneficial side effect on the risk factors for cardiovascular disease. “Scientific evidence suggests but does not prove that eating 1.5 ounces per day of most nuts as part f a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol may reduce the risk of heart disease.”
AFAA Q&A March April 2010 by Matt Brzycki
What about all those toning shoes on the market today? Do they really Work?
It is difficult to measure for there is not sufficient data on the effects of these shoes currently. These shoes all create a degree of instability when you walk will alter the way the muscles respond to an activity like walking. The question is whether or not this change is beneficial, benign or possible harmful. My experience felt as described above and I had some muscle soreness only on the lower leg. I do not recommend using these shoes in any fitness endeavor. Only time will tell the claims of muscle activation in the glutes, hamstrings and calves, and whether or not this is truly real. Doubtful.

Have you ever asked what you should eat after exercise?
According to PINES Professionals in Nutrition for Exercise and Sport www.sportsoracle.com.
After a moderate workout you do not need to worry about rapidly refueling. But after an exhaustive workout plan to replace carbs, water, and sodium as soon as possible, particularity if you will be exercising again during the same day. Adding a little protein to the recovery meal or snack helps repair damaged muscle, reduce soreness and also enhance glycogen replacement in athletes who neglect to enough carbs.

Diet Pill Withdrawn
European Union Regulators said an Abbott Laboratories diet pill should be suspended because it has been associated with the risk of stroke or heart attack. After a study of 10,000 patients, suggested the risks of these medicines are greater than their benefits. Reductil, Reduxade, Zelium and in the United States Meridia.
The Abbott company spokesman said the company disagrees with the European agency’s recommendation to suspend the medicine. Global sales of course for these products are estimated 300 million in 2009 alone.
Source: The Wall Street Journal 1/22/2010 ABBOT EU Agency Recommends Diet Pill Be Withdrawn
Junk Food Turns Rats Into Addicts
According to Paul Johnson of the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter Fla, and his study on rats for five days on a junk food diet including Ho Hos, sausage, pound cake, bacon and cheesecake. The rats showed profound reductions in the sensitivity of their brains pleasure centers, suggesting animals quickly became habituated to food. As a result the rats ate more food to get the same amount of pleasure. Just as heroin addicts require more and more of the drug to feel good rats needed more junk food, developed compulsive eating habits and became obese.
Source www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/48605/title/Junk_food_rats_)into_addicts

Heavy Bag training? Have you tried it?
I recently got turned on to heavy bag training a 100lb hanging bag that I installed in my garage. Along with boxing gloves and wraps you can purchase at any sports outlet or on-line.
If you want to get your aggressions out this is the workout for you, or maybe simply you’re burned out on your current training modality. Try this check out my u-tube 60 second demo spot and twitter to see the 1hr workout plan.
According to research a 20 minute workout alone burns 281 calories, versus 164 calories burned for a high impact aerobic class, or 188 calories for a 12-14 bicycle ride. It also increases bicep and triceps strength, sculpts the deltoids and entire leg as well as abdominals. Killer

We all know that there will never be one single pill, diet, exercise, or lifestyle that will cure what ails all people. Eastern philosophy suggests that every person is a separate Universe in and of himself or herself. Each of us is unique and must be understood, examined, and healed separately from others. What is emotionally debilitating and toxic to one person is liberating and powerfully transformative to another. Each person, each life is unique with a completely separate reality unto itself.

Human evolution allows the tired and outdated methods of expansion to die out. If life has offered us a new set of circumstances, it is nature’s way of saying, “You’re ready to grow and change, to go into a new direction; there’s nothing left for you here. Release the old way and move on.” Most of us remain paralyzed when what we should do is focus on breaking through by making the most of this fortuitous opportunity to grow beyond the limitations we have placed on ourselves.

Remember, just because someone else is experiencing something that is uncomfortable to you does not mean you will experience the same thing. Their universe is not your universe. You are a universe unto yourself. Others are receiving their own opportunities to re-evaluate their lives and decide what is important to them. It does not mean you necessarily need to do anything, but if you do, release your fear. Crisis, destruction, death, impossible, poor, sick—these are all different names for fear. This is what is happening now globally with an epidemic that is spreading everywhere—not as a germ, but as a world view; however, just because this seems to be happening all around us does not mean it is true.

When we refuse to accept change is when we are in trouble. By your refusal to accept change, you have opened the door to suffering and offered it a comfortable place to stay. I did this for decades with the dysfunction in my family. Eastern philosophies point out the shortcomings of an inherent basic human desire—control. We try to control every detail of our life. We try to hold whatever it is in a fixed place until we have everything “just right”… the way we want it to be. We all want to create a comfortable external environment and once we have, then we spend our lives desperately trying to maintain this tenuous position on the chessboard of life. We all want the problem to be solved and never have to revisit it ever again. We want it to all stay as planned or else! Realistically, we cannot, so we must learn to let go of outdated ways of thinking. Just because we have achieved a particular quality of life doesn’t mean there’s never going to be an opportunity to upgrade and evolve to the next level. Sometimes you have to just do it!

Article derived from In Light Times July 2009: “Transforming Through Tough Times” by Vaishali