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Getting Fit at 50 Q&A – Part 2: A Typical Day

Beverly — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 15:06:39 +0000

Good morning everyone! I had a lot of questions about yesterday’s post on the FASTer Way To Fat Loss program so today we are going to talk about a typical day for me. Investing in a weight loss program is a step some of us are unwilling to do because we feel like we may not follow through or we may fail. I am always a comment or email away to help answer any questions, offer support, recipes, meal ideas, etc. We think nothing of buying a new purse or a great outfit, but for some reason, we tend to shy away from our health – which is one of the most important things we can invest in. So, let’s answer a few questions, talk about my typical day and I’m also sharing a low carb recipe we use on low carb day! Questions & Answers Is this a program or lifestyle and is it doable? This is not a program – it’s a lifestyle! And it’s one that is easy to fit into your daily life very easily. You can eat out, you can eat sweets and you can drink a glass of wine. You will learn how to limit yourself, make better choices with the foods you chose and reward yourself weekly! Can I do the program at home, or do I need to join a gym? If you join the FWTFL program you will get daily exercises that can be done at home, at the gym and beginner options. Some people do not exercise and are in the program only to learn to eat healthier. I personally like to walk 30 minutes a day (5x a week) or go to the gym 3x a week for 30 minutes and walk 2 days a week for 30 minutes. What is Fasting? We do intermittent fasting on this program, but it is not hard and you will get used to it very quickly. I actually enjoy the fasting part. Intermittent fasting helps you burn fat while developing lean muscle. Barry picked his eating window from 1pm to 9pm. I like to break fast around 2pm and eat till 10pm. My mother breaks fast at 11am and stops eating at 7pm. Most people break fast at 12 noon and eat till 8pm. Like to do mine later since I am a late night snacker! What do you eat? We eat carbs every day! Two days are low carb days. We keep track of our MACROS. We track our Protein, Carbs, and Fats. We use the My Fitness Pal app and plug in each day what we eat and it calculates everything for you. This is one of the best features of the program for me, I can plan my days ahead of time or meals when we are going out to eat to make sure I stay within my allowance. What are the benefits of the program? incredible fat loss and unbelievable body composition changes. Fat just melts off! increased energy, stamina, and strength. less bloating (your stomach will feel so flat!!), better digestion. I have IBS-C and I am off my prescription medicines!! (that alone has saved me approximately $150 monthly) better sleep and improved moods. your self-esteem and self-confidence will soar! How long before I see results? Most people say they start noticing a change in their bodies in 2-3 weeks. I started seeing a change around the 2nd week. My stomach was much flatter and my hips were shrinking. Is it an easy plan to follow? Yes and no. The first couple of weeks are trial and error, but it gets MUCH easier each week. I struggled finding foods on low carb days, but soon found ways to incorporate high fat foods and keep my carbs low. Now, I’m working this program like no other! I have tried them all! Nutrisystem, WW, Keto, and more and this is by far my favorite program that has been the easiest for me to maintain daily. A typical day for me I normally break fast around 2pm and this is a normal “Wednesday” for me. Although these may be foods I enjoy eating, you can certainly customize your meal plan (you are also given a meal plan and recipes when joining the program to help you btw) to suit you and the foods you like. Snacks: Boiled egg, Sweet and Spicy Chicken or Tuna, nuts, fruit cups, veggies and clean ranch, jerky, veggies and hummus, energy balls ( I will post some recipes for these…they are SO good), protein shakes, I eat Atkin bars a lot also. Breakfast foods: bacon, eggs, sausage, coffee, herbal tea, hash browns, smoothies, granola, oatmeal with nuts and berries, banana pancakes Dinner: steak, lean hamburger, chicken, shrimp, fish, lean pork, beef stew, roast, tacos. Basically, remember if it has a mother or came from the ground – you can eat it! That’s a lot of options!! Vegetables and Fruits: All vegetables are on the program! Especially leafy ones!! All fruits are on the program!! I love fresh fruit, but sometimes I do get fruit bowls and I make sure I get the fruit bowls in their own juice. Amanda does recommend gluten free and cutting out dairy at the beginning of the program. She teaches you how to incorporate dairy back in to your meals during the program. If you are a coffee drinker and like a little coffee with your creamer- do not fear! I love creamer and I have cut all my creamer out and use coffee syrups and lighten my coffee up with almond milk. It tastes the same and I’m losing fat in the process!! Do I eat bread? YES! I still eat sandwiches, but not daily. I will have a roll with my meal from time to time also. I do eat the low carb/high fiber wraps a lot! We have always eaten those, so that was not a big change for us. I love shredded chicken mixed with taco seasoning, some lettuce, a little cheese, some taco sauce or salsa…that has always been a favorite for me! The next FASTer Way To Fat Loss program starts Monday, August 5th! If you would like to sign up, do so HERE. You will be asked to join a Facebook group for accountability and support, which I HIGHLY recommend. This group helped me tremendously and I got a lot of ideas on what to eat an recipes!! Low Carb Day Recipe – Low Carb Salsa Chicken I made this last night and it is a very EASY recipe (only 3 ingredients)! If you like salsa then you will love this. Barry kept digging in LOL, it is one of his favorite dishes! Ingredients 12 oz chicken tenders or chicken breasts 1 cup salsa 2 slices cheese or shredded cheese Instructions Preheat oven to 375 ℉. Place chicken in an ovenproof pan then pour salsa over. Bake for 20 minutes or until chicken temp reaches 165 ℉. Place cheese slices over salsa chicken then return pan to oven to melt cheese. Nutrition Calories: 344kcal | Carbohydrates: 9g | Protein: 45g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 138mg | Sodium: 1287mg | Potassium: 1027mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 955IU | Vitamin C: 4.5mg | Calcium: 249mg | Iron: 1.3mg As you can see in my pictures, I had peas and corn with my meal and it was delish! I hope this answered some of those questions for all of you! Please drop a comment or email at info@bandbblog.com if you have any more questions for me. I will periodically be posting recipes that I use weekly that are low carb for low carb days and recipes for your higher carb days. Can’t wait to see you Monday on FWTFL!!! Be sure to Pin anything you like to Pinterest, as this helps me grow as a new blogger. I appreciate your Pins, comments and coming by the blog! DON’T MISS A POST! Subscribe to get email updates! In addition to my most recent blog posts, you’ll receive an exclusive newsletter, and a sneak peek behind the scenes with family pictures, etc. — all delivered right to your inbox. POST CONTAINS AFFILIATE LINKS. ALL OPINIONS ARE MY OWN. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON WHAT THAT MEANS, SEE MY ABOUT PAGE: BLOG COMPENSATION AND DISCLOSURE

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Update: Getting Fit at 50 – What I’m Doing & New Results!

Beverly — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 12:36:42 +0000

Hello everyone! Today I wanted to post about something that is one of the most important things in our lives as we age, keeping our bodies fit and being healthy. As we get older we tend to start evaluating our health and lifestyle a little more than we did in our younger days! I certainly did! When I was younger I was more active, I was running around keeping up with kids, my schedule was jammed packed, and my metabolism seemed to be pumping harder and burning much better than it was at 45. So if you are 50 or older you can relate to this and if you are younger, this is something you may want to start addressing now. When I was 40, I was still very active, I was running at least 3 times a week and I felt like I was 20. At that time I was working 8-5 and working the gym into my schedule or some time at the park for a jog was no problem at all. What changed for me was at the age of 45. I took a job where I was traveling 80% of the time and I was sedentary most of the day. I took up bad eating habits and it wasn’t long before it started showing. I gained about 30 lbs. in a year and slowly I was losing muscle mass from sitting so much during the day. I quickly jumped from a size 4/6 to a size 12 and it seemed almost impossible to lose those extra pounds. I had lost my routine of working out and I had lost the want or desire to exercise. By age 48 I was back home and decided I needed to think about me, my health and getting fit had to be a priority. Putting me first…had to be a priority! I lost a few pounds by cutting my food intake and walking or going to the gym a few times a week, but nothing actually helped me get the added pounds and fat off until I started FASTer Way To Fat Loss. I’ve told this story before, I was hesitant…very hesitant!! I did NOT want to spend any money on something that may not work. I did not want to waste money on something I may not follow through on. I just didn’t want to spend any money LOL! My thoughts were I could cut back on what I ate and I could drop some pounds on the scale and I would be happy. The problem was, I was almost 50 and skipping a few meals was not working for me like it did in my 20’s and 30’s! After seeing more and more blogger friends have success on this new “plan”, I decided to take the plunge and join. Putting in my credit card number as I was paying for this program was not easy for me ladies…I don’t like spending unless it’s something tangible that I can see or hold. After signing up, my thoughts were, would I follow through? Could I work this program and learn it? Did I have enough determination to actually do it? My first week was learning the program, I watched their live videos, I read all the materials and I was committing myself 100%! The following Monday we started as a group, we have accountability groups on Facebook and I had my own personal coach to help me along the way. The first few days I thought I was a total failure! I kept on though, I read the posts, the comments in my group and by my second week I was catching a good groove. By the 3rd week, I had this baby nailed! I could do it! Around this time is when I noticed my stomach was MUCH flatter and I was losing inches! I was eating more food than I ever have in my life each day and I was losing fat! How does that work? This program taught me that I was eating the wrong foods and I was consuming too much of foods that were hurting my body. I eat foods that I like, I eat all the fruits that I like, meats that I like and vegetables that I like. I don’t eat sprouts of green, or “healthy” yucky food…I eat things I liked and because of this, it was easier for me to maintain and work the program. I needed more protein and fewer fats, I needed more carbs and fewer fats…yes, you heard me right…I eat CARBS! And a lot of them!! This program teaches you how to cycle your carb intake and you fast during certain hours of the day. This was the easiest thing for me! Have I stuck to it 100% of the time…Ummm, NO! I have messed up, I have gotten off course, but that was ok! I started back up the next day and shook off my failures and kept going. My husband saw the progress I was making and decided to give it a go. When he started this program and I was telling him how many carbs he needed to eat daily, he was convinced I was trying to get him fat HA! He, like me, could not conceive the thought that eating food could make you lose weight. This was totally against everything we had heard and learned throughout our lives. But guess what…he dropped from a size 38 waist to a size 34 and he is 60 years old! Yes, any age and any gender can do this! My mother, who is 78, was struggling with her weight and had been for a long time. She decided to give it a try, only for nutritional purposes. She is not very active but needed to lose weight and she was having a very hard time. She has now dropped 30 lbs and about 38 inches in fat! With no exercise ladies! It doesn’t matter what your activity level is and it doesn’t matter your age or gender…this works! I thought I could get her to do a video, but she has come down with a cold and not feeling well. I did snap this picture of her this week when she was over at our house talking with Barry. This was a photo I screenshot from my Instastories. If you have a lot of weight to lose or that pesky last 10 lbs, this is a program that can and will work for you. This program has taught me simple and easy exercises that are helping me build my muscle back up and how to eat! At 50, it is so important to keep myself moving, flexible and healthy so I can enjoy these latter years of my life. I don’t want to ache and hurt each morning, I want to have more energy, I don’t want to be on a lot of medication and I want to be able to live and enjoy my life. I am joining my sister-in-law Monday on this round, so I will be doing this with all of you that decide to sign up. It honestly is the best thing I ever did for myself. And my family…if it weren’t for me stepping out and making the decision to commit, my family would still be having weight issues. If you are struggling, I urge you to give this program a try. It is not hard to learn and trust me, once you learn it…it is EASY! You are held accountable, you are helped one on one if needed, you are taught things that will change your life! I love sharing this program because I know it is going to work for you. I know you will see changes, I know your clothes will start getting baggy, I know your stomach will start feeling smaller. You will lose that little belly, the mommy pooch, and you will start seeing yourself as the image you have locked up inside your head! Living this lifestyle has totally changed my life, I am now burning fat daily! I have more energy, I’m eating foods I like, I have a support group, I can envision a goal and I know I can reach it. I can crush those goals and I can do it easily!! If I can do it, my 78-year-old mom can do it, and my husband can do it and so many others do it and be successful…YOU can too! Join us next Monday for our next round of FASTer Way To Fat Loss and start your healthy lifestyle and your slimmer life! Trust me, you won’t regret it…it’s by far the BEST thing I have ever done! I’m so glad I took the plunge and put my health first! I can’t wait to see where I end up now that I am working out more and building muscle. I know it is a work in progress, but you know what? I’m doing it one day at a time and I’m doing it for me! I’m doing it for my kids and my grandchild. I’m doing it because I want a great life 10-20 years from now! How about you? Sign Up HERE to Join Me Monday, November 11th!!! Be sure to follow along on Instagram, I am trying to grow my following and would be so grateful! And be sure to Pin anything you like to Pinterest, as this helps me grow as a new blogger. I appreciate your Pins, comments and coming by the blog! DON’T MISS A POST! Subscribe to get email updates! In addition to my most recent blog posts, you’ll receive an exclusive newsletter, and a sneak peek behind the scenes with family pictures, etc. — all delivered right to your inbox. POST CONTAINS AFFILIATE LINKS. ALL OPINIONS ARE MY OWN. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON WHAT THAT MEANS, SEE MY ABOUT PAGE: BLOG COMPENSATION AND DISCLOSURE.

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