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Question #10: Is there a money back gurantee for the boot camp program?
The final question is whether or not your potential boot camp trainer is willing to put her money where her mouth is and offer you a guarantee of results. Has your boot camp trainer ensured you that you will be part of a reasonably sized group led by a qualified professional with a clear training philosophy that makes sense to you? Has she told you that her clients stay in the boot camp program an average of 3 months and enjoy a comprehensive nutrition plan and other accountability measures all at a reasonable price? Does your trainer walk the walk and offer herself as a living example of the fitness lifestyle? If so, then she should be confident enough in her program and coaching skills to offer some type of guarantee of results for her boot camp program. There is the absolute and the conditional guarantee. Maybe your trainer offers an absolute money back guarantee. Even if you sign up and show up for only 1 out of 4 weeks and then get to the end and decide that you weren’t satisfied, you’ll get your money back. These types of guarantees aren’t very common but they do exist. One downfall of this type of guarantee is that you are not incentivized in any way to keep up your end of the bargain. There’s no sense of “I need to work hard because I’ve already paid”. You can simply talk yourself out of working toward your goal, get a refund and continue to fight the battle of the bulge alone. The other type of guarantee is the conditional guarantee. There can be a number of conditions but the most popular type is if you join the boot camp program, show up to class and give a good effort, follow the nutrition plan as evidenced by your food journal and the weekly improvements and don’t lose weight, inches, and body fat, you get your money back. In my opinion, this type of guarantee is best for a boot camp program focused on helping participants lose weight and create body transformation. The client is incentivized to show up, put forth effort, and actively engage in adapting the nutrition habits that will produce the fat loss results that she was seeking when she joined. Simply quitting isn’t an option because if she just gives up, she will have waisted her investment. The trainer is also incentivized to pay attention to each client during class, ensure that she has proper form, push her to work at the appropriate intenstiy required to attain body shaping results, hold her accountable for her nutriton habits, and provide valuable feedback so that the client can achieve the results she desires. Failing to effectively help the client reach her fat loss goals results in loss of revenue for the boot camp coach. Is your potential coach committed to working hard for you AFTER she has collected your registration fee? You’ll know by her willingness to offer a guarantee.

As the Fit Club coach, I offer a conditional money back guarantee for my boot camp program. I put forth great effort to ensure that I'm recruiting women who are serious about weight loss into my boot camp program and then I put forth just as much effort to help boot camp participants get the weight loss results they are seeking.

Each potential boot camp member enjoys 1 FREE week of my boot camp program. This 1-week free trial gives the potential boot camp participant great insight into how much effort is required to lose weight. After the first week, potential members who are invited to become full members are guaranteed that they will lose weight and inches by continuing to follow the boot camp program or they get their money back. That’s just how committed I am to helping my boot camp clients get results!

Coppell Body Transformation Boot Camp Trainer - Avoid Boot Camp Scams

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Question #9: Is the boot camp trainer in great shape?
This may seem like a shallow question to ask or observation to make. After all no one likes to be scrutinized or discriminated against but if you are paying someone to guide you to greater health and fitness, shouldn’t they at least be fit? Don’t get me wrong. I’m not suggesting that a boot camp coach should be mean, lean, and ripped to shreds year round but their body and performance should be evidence of their fitness lifestyle. If your potential coach is chunky more often than not, gets winded while giving exercise instructions or demos, and routinely avoids extra movement or activity, you should question their ability to inspire and educate you on what it takes to achieve a body transformation and get in great shape. Conversely, I’m not suggesting that any buff guy or lean lady is a qualified coach. Remember our discussions on training certifications and training philosophy. I realize also that some coaches may have great bodies that are due largely to awesome genetics and not fitness education, fitness discipline, or good nutrition. You can observe visually the type of shape your potential coach is in. Take advantage of a free trial class and observe their energy levels and performance during class. If they are stick thin but can’t remain energetic for a complete class then maybe low calorie dieting or excessive partying have produced what appears to be a great shape. Finally casually ask your trainer what types of training or sports they personally enjoy best and whether or not they compete in any sport. The observations you make and the answers to the preferred activities question can give you immediate insight into the coach’s true dedication to the fitness lifestyle required to produce a lasting body transformation.

As a boot camp trainer and fitness coach, I take my roll as a fitness mentor extremely seriously. Although I have experienced being overweight and can identify closely with my weight loss clients, I keep a close watch on my own physique and level of conditioning. I believe it’s important for the trainer to walk the walk and not just talk the talk. I’ve found that leading people to fitness by example is way more powerful than pointing the way while standing on the sidelines. My clients love it when I share a new, great tasting, healthy concoction that I’ve created to overcome a junk food craving. I share my own personal motivation tricks and tips with my clients and even admit moments of weakness so that they can see first hand that it is possible to overcome the bondage of food confusion and exercise gimmicks to live in a lean, energetic body year round. My personal training preferences are various methods of extreme training. I love an adrenaline rush so my workouts mainly consist of high intesity resistance training, running and cycling sprints, plyometrics (jump training), stadium workouts, and outdoor obstacle course work. Lately, I’ve incorporated more yoga to improve balance in my program between high rush adrenaline activity and activity that increases my sense of calm and awareness. I follow a sensible clean eating nutrition program that consists of lean proteins, whole grains, produce, lean dairy, healthy fats, and occassional “planned indulgences”. In addition, I drink about 1 gallon of water per day to battle the “false hunger signals” and to maintain high energy levels, and healthy skin. Don’t get me wrong, I like pizza, cake, and brownies just like the next woman but I know that I feel my best when I save those foods for my “planned indulgences” and teach my clients to do the same to successfully lose fat and transform their bodies without feeling deprived.

Coppell Weight Loss Boot Camp Cost - How to Avoid Boot Camp Scams

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Question #8: What is the cost of the program?
The cost of the program is more than the registration fee. It is important to consider what equipement you are expected to have or bring and what will be provided by your boot camp coach. It’s also important to consider the cost of sound nutrition support if your potential boot camp trainer does not offer a solid nutrition component as part of the boot camp program. If an apparantely low cost boot camp costs $100 per month but you are required to bring your mat, weights, and any special equipment that is needed for the workout, the cost can really be $125 - $250 depending on the special equipment required. If you are responsible for securing your own nutrition coaching then you can expect to spend an additional $50 - $200 per month to secure quality help. This apparantely low cost boot camp can require an investment of up to $300 per month to attain everything necessary to ensure your weight loss results. Make sure you understand the total amount you need to invest before signing up.

Participation in a 4-week session of Great Shape Fit Club is $260 per month. Each participant needs a mat and a pair of dumbells that can be purchased for about $20 and used for each session. For a limited time, I am running a "Human Billboard Campaign". I’m looking to help 20 new boot camp members achieve significant body transformations I’m reducing the monthly investment to $195 per 4-week session for those women who are seriously seeking a body tranformation that is “billboard worthy”. Since I bring any special equipment that we use beyond the mat and dumbbells and provide each participant with nutrition coaching, there is no hidden cost for my boot camp program. In addition, my boot camp members receive free admission for themselves and 1 guest to any fitness and nutrition seminar that I offer during their time in boot camp. There is truly nothing else for them to buy after they sign up. In seeking out a boot camp program, be sure to ask your potential coach about equipment you are required to bring and the level of nutriton coaching provided so that you can be prepared upfront for the true total investment required to participate in the program.

Coppell Fitness Boot Camp Accountability - Avoid Boot Camp Scams in North Texas

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Question #7: What accountability measures are part of the program?
No matter how good a program is, you will not experience results if you are not held accountable to following the program. At some boot camp programs, after you sign up, you either show up or you don’t. Your coach may do very little to find out why you weren’t in class or to encourage you to return to class if you have been absent. In addition, some programs offer a 1 hour nutrition seminar at the start of the session and you either follow the program or you don’t. Many times the seminar is designed by a qualified professional but delivered by the boot camp coach or an outside nutrition professional, who is not a part of the program nor works on an ongoing basis with the participants but is only contracted for the seminar. When this happens, there is often little effort to hold you accountable on a weekly basis to your adherence to the program and/or no support when you have questions or need to troubleshoot a plateau in your weight loss progress.

As the Fit Club coach, I hold every woman accountable for showing up to class daily. If there is an unexcused absence, my clients know and expect that I’ll be calling to find out if they are safe, why they missed class, and to suggest what exercise they can do that day to make up for their missed session. Because of my qualification to coach healthy individuals on nutrition changes that support weight loss, my clients are held accountable weekly to following the nutrition plan and given the support needed to troubleshoot any stall in weight loss. I partner with alocal nutritionist and dietician so that my clients with metabolic disorders or other problems beyond my scope of practice have a qualified resource to lead them through the nutrition changes necessary to see results.

It has been shown in numerous studies that accountability and social support could be the biggest factor in weight loss success so make sure that your prospective boot camp program is designed with measure to keep you accountable.

Coppell Weight Loss Boot Camp - Avoiding Boot Camp Scams

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Question #6: Is there a nutrition program included?

This one can be a touchy subject because there are some trainers that believe that trainers should not discuss nutrition but solely exercise. There are others that will give detailed nutrition information with slim qualifications – such as having successfully dieted their own excess weight away. Still there are those that erroneously believe that as long as their clients aren’t overindulging in fried foods, cakes, and pies, that they can simply help them sweat away the pounds with hard core exercise regimens. All of these scenarios present a huge problem for you the potential boot camp client.

First of all, proper nutritin accounts for 80% of the success equation when it comes to weight loss, body shaping, and body transformation. If your trainer is providing very little in the way of nutrition guidance, you may get fitter, faster, and stronger but your chances of getting slimmer, smaller, and tighter are very slim. YOU CAN NOT OUT TRAIN A POOR NUTRITION PLAN.

On the other hand, not every trainer is qualified to coach clients on proper nutrition habits beyond handing out information that comes from a qualified source. If your trainer is uneducated in nutrition for weight loss, they should be partnering with a nutritionist or dietician that they can refer to ensure that you are getting the proper nutrition support to see fat loss results.

Each participant in Great Shape Fit Club receives Eating for Great Shape – The Metabolism Makeover Program. This is a simple and effective nutrition re-education program that includes nutrition, grocery shopping, and dining out guidelines, sample meal plans, fast foods best picks lists, delicious and nutritionally supportive recipes, and an innovative food journal tool that serves as a nutrition coach. In addition the program includes, 3 nutrition audios that highlight the critical information in the nutrition, grocery shopping, and dining out guidelines. Finally each participant’s food journal is reviewed by me on a weekly basis. I provide feedback that helps each participant identify and change their current nutrition pitfalls that have the potential to sabotage their weight loss efforts. My program was created based on nutrition education I received through my NSCA certification, independent research, and my affiliation with the Precision Nutrition program that was created by Dr. John Berardi with the University of Texas.

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Question #5: On average, how long do participants stay in the program?
This falls under the category of questions for which you may wonder, “who cares”. Well there is a reason that you should care about how long the average participation in your potential boot camp program stays. A transformation of 15-30 pounds can take approximately 3 months while more transformations that require more weight loss may take 6 months to a year. If you are looking for a boot camp program that specializes in body transformations, the average boot camper should be staying at least 3 months. Of course, there are people who may transform faster or just do a month or two to jump start their fitness programs but if the average participation is only 1-2 months, that could be a warning sign. Short stays could indicate a program that doesn’t deliver results, a program that has poor customer service, or a program that really isnt’ geared toward women who are there to reach a body transformation goal. Your best chance for success is to be in a program that delivers body transformation results while being surrounded regularly by other women who are on the same mission as you are. Working out side by side with women who are tranforming their bodies just like you is one of the best forms of inspiration you can possibly have and inspiration is key to getting and staying motivated to achiever your goal.

On average, members of my Great Shape Fit Club Coppell boot camp program stay in the program for 3 months. Of course there are those who have been there for 6 months and more because they absolutely love their results and the accountability of having established exercise appointments. In addition there are those that stay for a month or two and then leave for a while to implement what they’ve learned on their own- many of those participants return after a brief hiatus for more inspiration and results. In general, the Fit Club ladies stick around or come back for more!

Coppell Boot Camp Workout - Sneak Preview Fat Blasting Workout

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Fat Blasting Boot Camp Circuit

Well week 2 is well underway and the dedicated ladies of Great Shape Fit Club- Coppell's Best Fat Loss Boot Camp for Women didn't let a little thunder scare them away this morning. Way to go ladies!

Next up... ANOTHER FAT BLASTING BOOT CAMP WORKOUT on Wednesday.

Here's a sneak peek of what's going down at Wednesday morning's boot camp session.

Squat - Press - Speed Boot Camp Circuit
Prisoner Squat
Push Press
Speedy Biceps

Some of these exercises probably do not sound familiar and that's because some of them have just been added to your boot camp workouts for this session. Be sure to make it to class so that you don't miss out. You'll see these fat blasting boot camp exercises again for sure!

To enjoy fat blasting boot camp workouts along with our hard working ladies of Fit Club, click here on the COPPELL FITNESS BOOT CAMP FOR LADIES website to reserve your spot in our next free 1-week trial.

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Maria Boccalandro joined Great Shape Fit Club boot camp program for women to lose weight and prepare to live longer stronger years. She even walked away with a new skill that she didn't realize she would get. Listen to her testimonial to find out what it was.


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Coppell Boot Camp Workout

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FREE FRIDAY BOOT CAMP WORKOUT

Here's a 4-Minute Circuit from this morning's workout. Try it and let me know how you liked it!

Y- Squats (30 seconds)
Bent Over 1-arm Row (30 seconds)
Low Agility Touches (60 seconds)

Repeat the circuit twice and you're done!

Y-Squats are Squats with both arms extended above your head and spread wide like a Y.

Low Agility Touches are like side lunges only you reach and touch the floor of the
leading leg with the opposite hand and hop to switch sides.

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Renee Hill lost over 30 pounds of fat with Great Shape Fit Club's Boot Camp Program. This Boot Camp is helping women all over Coppell, Lewisville, Valley Ranch, and Irving lose weight and get in great shape with fun, fat blasting workouts.

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Sweet Tomatoes is located in Valley Ranch and is an excellent dining out choice to support your boot camp program to lose weight and get in great shape. Check out my visit to Sweet Tomatoes in the video below.

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When you sign up for Club Veg at Sweet Tomatoes between now and May 3rd, you are automatically entered to win ONE FREE MONTH OF BOOT CAMP with Coppell's Premier Fitness Boot Camp For Women.

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Boot Camp Workout For Busy Women

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4-Minute Boot Camp Workout for Busy Women

Here's a boot camp circuit for fat loss that we did this morning at Great Shape Fit Club.
Try it out and be sure to post your comments to let me know how you liked it!

Wide Squat (advanced version : Wide Squat Jumps) - 30 seconds

Push Up (modified version: on your knees) - 30 seconds

Skip Rope (alternating feet- no real rope needed)-45 seconds

Repeat continuously for 2 cycles.

With this one 4 minute circuit, you will get your heart pumping and thighs and arms burning.

Don't forget to come out and join us for your free 1-week trial of our fitness boot camp workout for women guaranteed to help you burn fat and get your body back!

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Coppell Fitness Boot Camp - Avoid Boot Camp Scams

Are you in Coppell and ready to sign up for a boot camp fitness program to lose weight, banish belly fat, and get lean legs and toned arms? If you live in Valley Ranch, Coppell or anywhere in Dallas, chances are that there's a boot camp program within 3-5 minutes of your home or job. But before you sign up, be sure to ask this very important question...

Question #4: How are participants with different fitness levels accomodated in class?
It is very important to be sure that your trainer knows how to work with participants with varying degrees of fitness in the same class. Many boot camp programs claim to be great for all shapes, sizes, and abilities but what type of client your trainer is accustomed to working with will impact your experience. If you just stumbled off of the couch into a boot camp program, you don’t want a coach who is only accustomed to working with elite athlete types. Similarly if you are super fit, a coach who is only accustomed to dealing with deconditioned clients may not be the best fit for you. Running a boot camp class requires a coach to be active, alert, and quick thinking. Often times coaches may need to progress or regress any given planned exercise on the spot to suit the participants’ fitness levels and to ensure that everyone gets a great workout. Your potential coach should be able to communicate to you with confidence their ability to modify exercises and think on their feet in a dynamic enviornment. Your potential trainer should be able to easily tell you who their program is NOT ideal for.

Great Shape Fit Club – The Boutique Boot Camp is designed for women of all sizes, shapes, and abilities with an interest in fat loss and body shaping. I work with clients who have body transformation goals. My 8 plus years of training, experience with clients of varying physical condition, degree in Biomechanics and overall love for exercise science enables me to quickly progress and regress exercises on the spot to increase or decrease the challenge for each participant. Although I am knowledgeable in areas of training other than fat loss and body shaping, my boot camp is not ideal for training endurance athletes, preparing physique athletes for competition, or for rehabilitating injuries.

Fast Fat Loss for Women – Discovering the Ideal Program

If you are a woman itching to get into your skinny jeans, tanks and tees, or even a bikini but unwanted fat is standing in your way, it’s time you discover how to build or recognize the ideal fat loss program that will help you drop fat fast. With so many programs out there claiming to be the one you need, it may be hard to determine which one will work for you. After all, you’ve seen the headlines, "Banish Belly Fat in 4 Simple Moves", "Thin Thighs in 10 Minutes Per Day", or "Tank Top Arms in 30 Days". Can any of this be true and if so, which approach will help you lose fat to achieve your dream body?

The Ideal Fat Loss Program for Women – 4 Critical Components

The first factor in building or identifying your ideal program is enjoyment. You must enjoy your program on some level to ensure that you will stick with it long enough to reap results. Also your schedule and lifestyle are extremely important. Consider the amount of time you have to exercise and type of equipment you have access to in order to determine which workout program is right for you. If you find your program enjoyable and you have the time it takes to complete the fat burning, body sculpting workouts in your fat loss program, you are on the road to success.

There are 3 other components that any fat loss program must have to maximize your fitness results: resistance training, cardiovascular conditioning, and flexibility / relaxation exercises.

Resistance training builds strong muscles and bones. Why should you want to build muscle if your overall goal is to drop fat? Building muscle will help will increase your metabolism (the amount of calories your burn each day) - making fast fat loss a true possibility for you. An increased metabolism will help you burn more calories when you are not exercising (for instance while you are reading this article) and help you to banish unwanted fat in record time. You don’t have to build big, bulky muscles to enjoy the extra fat loss results. Simply exercising to maintain and slightly enhance the muscle you already have will be enough to accelerate your fat loss. Resistance training includes exercises like squats, lunges, push ups, pull ups, and planks. It is important that you use enough resistance to challenge your muscles. Using super light weights and tons of repetitions will not optimize your fat loss or increase muscle tone. It is ideal to resistance train three times per week (you can start with twice per week if you are a novice) and to allow at least 24 hours of recovery between sessions training the same muscles.

Cardiovascular conditioning (such as running, swimming, biking, or aerobics) is ideal for strengthening your heart and lungs and the prevention and management of many lifestyle diseases such as high blood pressure and diabetes. Since losing fat and getting into better overall shape is your goal, do interval cardio 2-3 times per week. Interval training is done by intermixing bouts of hard work with bouts of relatively easy, "recovery" work. An example would be to run or jog for 1 minute then immediately walk for 2 minutes and repeat. Interval training causes your body to continue to burn calories even after your exercise session at a much higher rate than traditional steady state cardio such as going for a walk would. This increased post exercise calorie burn is guaranteed to accelerate your fat loss results and help you banish belly fat fast.

Flexibility exercise (such as stretching and foam rolling) helps maintain normal movement patterns and reduce risk for injury. It is ideal to stretch the muscles groups worked after each session and to pay close attention to muscle groups that are very tight. Muscles that are tight do not contract optimally and thereby rob you of some of your fat burning potential when you exercise. Relaxation exercise (such as restorative yoga or meditation) can increase calm and awareness which helps to regulate and balance fat burning hormones and to create a healthier, happier you.

If you are looking for a program in Coppell, Valley Ranch, or Dallas that incorporates all of these critical components in a safe, fun, and motivating, women’s only environment, consider Great Shape Fit Club – The Boutique Boot Camp. Our members choose us because of the amazing results they experience from our optimal blend of fat loss workouts, fat loss focused nutrition coaching, accountability, and fun.

Coppell Boot Camp - Don't Fall for a Boot Camp Scam

If you are ready to lose the belly fat and back fat to get in shape for the spring, signing up for a boot camp program is a good idea. But before you sign up for a boot camp in Coppell, make sure you ask these important questions to avoid a boot camp scam. Here's the third question you should ask...

Question#3: What is the trainers training philosophy?
Any competent fitness professional (and remember your boot camp coach should be a fitness professional) should be able to concisely describe their training philosophy so that you can understand what to expect from your training relationship with them. However, if you ask this question, you will find that many trainers will give you vague phrases like “ I work them hard” or “Give it all you got” or what may seem like a very good answer like “I just believe everyone is different and has different needs”. Here’s why you should run away fast if your question is met with any of these lame answers.

A good boot camp coach will be able to tell you what they believe are effective training techniques, why they believe these techniques are most effective, and in what cases they would deviate from these techniques. An inability to explain this to you is a sign that you are not working with a professional. Additionally, you should not have to pay to meet with this person to get this answer. It is a reasonable expectation that your potential boot camp coach can answer this question in as little as 3-10 minutes - depending on how detailed they choose to be with the answer. It’s also customary to pay for time with a trainer if you would like to discuss their philosophies in depth and gain access to information that would essentially empower you to do a signification part of your transformation on your own.

My personal training philosophy is that in order to lose fat, gain definition and muscle, and postively transform your body permanently, you must have a concern for your metabolism. Boosting your metabolism is the quickest and most effective way to tranform your body, avoid fat loss plateaus, and escape rebound weight gain. Metabolism boosting requires combining high intensity conditioning (or interval training), resistance training, and supportive nutrition. Metabolism destruction, which produces an inability to lose fat, weight swings, low energy, and a host of other ailments, is caused by excessive cardio (low intensity aerobic exercise), neglecting resistance training, meal skipping, prolonged low calories dieting, and unbalanced meal plans. The Great Shape Fit Club program is based on metabolism boosting activities. The classes include resistance training, interval training, conditioning drills, and a simple and effective nutrition program. So if you are considering a boot camp program, be sure to ask the boot camp coach about their training philosophy and make sure that you are joining a program that provides you with all of the elements necessary to make over your metabolism and lose fat fast.

Master Eating for Fat Loss - Making Healthy Eating Easy

How to Lose Fat When You Find Healthy Eating Hard - Part II

Time to get back to this subject.... "what makes eating healthy so hard"

After asking a group of women interested in fat loss, why healthy eating was so hard, I got many really good answers. The first one was, "I don't associate 'good food' with healthy food." Find out how to conquer that issue in the post How to Lose Fat When You Find Eating Healthy Hard to Do .

A different women interested in fat loss responded that healthy eating was so hard to do because every life event- happy or sad- was centered around food. So today's post addresses the concern with our tradition of celebrating the events in our lives- happy or sad- with food! Here's my response below.

This is indeed true in our country and I can totally understand the struggle to eat healthy when you are challenged with some type of "event" on at least a weekly basis.And yes it's so true that usually "celebration food" isn't the healthiest. I wish I had some profound remedy for this dilemna but I really don't. I only have one word of advice that I heard/read somewhwere and I'm not exactly sure who deserves the credit for this quote but here it goes, "be the change you want to see in the world". We can't change how others celebrate (at least not overnight) but we can change how WE celebrate.

Here are a few tips to overcome the "celebration food" obstacles that stand boldly on your path to the body you want:

1)Bring food to share to the celebrations.
This takes some effort but bring healthy alternatives to the celebration. At the very least, there's something there that you can eat to support your goals and you just may turn someone else you love onto healthy eating. You may even take the time to discover how to make a healthier version of a family favorite.

2) Start another celebration tradition.
I had a client who was from a very large Italian family. She told me that they ALWAYS overindulged in rich food during the holiday BUT they always played a really intense game of touch football a few hours after the meal. Your family may not be into football but dare to add something (preferably movement) to the events besides eating. This can help burn up some extra calories and provide a distraction so that you don't catch yourself in endless food fests.

3) Realize and accept that celebrating doesn't mean getting off of your healthy eating plan... even if everyone else is doing it.This may be a hard one to do but I will personally admit that some of my best body transformation success came when I realized that I had to eat for MY goals and health regardless of what everyone else was doing. It's always easy to believe that 'IF ONLY' my husband, boyfriend, family, mom, etc would join me in eating healthy, I'd be so much more successful but that's simply not true... it's an excuse, an out, an obstacle or barrier that you are putting in your own way. You will be most successful when you are eating healthy, exercising, etc for YOURSELF- to produce the changes in YOU that YOU desire. Decide what you want for yourself. Follow through and then watch those closest to you be inspired.