Wonderful E-Book by our Wellness Coach Partner!

If you’re a college-aged woman who is feeling lack of self-esteem about your looks and weight, frustrated with trying to find a diet and exercise program that fits your busy lifestyle, discouraged about the lack of healthy options at the school cafeteria, think that money holds you back from investing in your own health and wellness, then you need to check out the 8-Weeks To Wellness System For College Women!

Find Out How You Can Get Your Health Habits Program Working For You – and NOT The Other Way Around

“8-Weeks To Wellness” Will Teach You:

Steps to build your confidence, take control of your weight, and set your own pace, preferences and priorities around healthy options.

The proven formula to achieving the lasting change you are looking for when it comes to your body, mind and self-image.

The step-by-step guide to calm confidence in living your best self now and way after graduation.

What all the diets, books, programs and pills do NOT tell you and what you need to know now.

The reason why buying other people’s “health” programs and products don’t help you take control in creating your own well-being

8-Weeks to Wellness has its origins in a true story of the successful weight loss of a 21-year old, written 27-years later by the same author, coach, and mother who has dedicated her career to helping others create a better life through healthy habits.

She has helped dozens of clients tap into their innate desire to be well, to create a life designed around what matters most, and to teaching others how to use a proven system to create the foundation of the “greater you”.

Get the free ebook at http://collegewellnesssolution.com/  and check out her website at http://bodyvisionhealthcoaching.com/

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Bike and Stay Packages

We offer 36 miles of biking on the Northern Rail Trail, which has a flat, hard stone
dust surface well suited for hybrid bikes.  Open views across wetlands, lakes and rivers
alternate with corridors of pine and oak, old mill sites and granite cuts blasted by the Northern Railroad.  In between, there are stores with refreshments and swimming spots.

For reservations please call 603-735-6426

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Diabetes: are we doing everything we can?

The modern Western Diet, as we know it from our great supermarkets, is potentially causing havoc on our health and, increasingly so, on our economy. While experts continue to search for ways of attending to the increasing rise of diabetes, those dedicated to prevention remain the ‘unsung heros” of the health crisis in the USA. The Highland lake Inn provides a powerful program to those who would like to get on track and stay there, especially as we look at some statistics below:

‘…fully a quarter of all Americans suffer from metabolic syndrome, two thirds of us are overweight or obese, and diet-related diseases are already killing the majority of us.’ As fast food creates these conditions in the individual and the health industry is chasing along just behind it, the ‘cost to society – an estimated $250 billion a year in diet related health care costs and rising rapidly – cannot be sustained indefinitely.

An American born in 2000 has a 1 in 3 chance of developing diabetes in his llifetime….the diagnosis of diabetes subtracts roughly twelve years from one’s life and living with the condition incurs medical costs of $ 13,000 a year (compared with $ 2,500 for someone without diabetes).

This is a global pandemic in the making, but a most unusual one, because it involves no virus or bacteria, no microbe of any kind – just a way of eating. An estimated 80 percent of cases of type 2 diabetes could be prevented by a change of diet and exercise..and the health care industry is gearning up to meet the surging demand for heart bypass operations (80 percent of diabetics will suffer from heart disease), dialysis, and kidney transplantation.’

The good news is that there is help and BodyVision SL, together with the Highland lake Inn, have the tools to co-create your wellness plan that will locate and expand your full potential,  set you on the path of a long and healthy life, enjoying your ‘best self’ and steering clear of the dangerous course that is becoming  more and more common everyday.

Please feel free to comment below, it is a pleasure to hear from you.

*Quotations from In Defence of Food, by Michael Pollan, No.1 New York Times bestseller and Sunday Times food book of the year.

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What’s Your Fitness Personality?

Today’s blogpost from the Highland Lake Inn’s Health and Wellness Coach focuses on an age-old question: ‘Once I have started my health and wellness program, how can I be sure I’ll stay on track for the long term?’

The Highland Lake Inn, in exclusive collaboration with BodyVision SL health coaching company, has designed the yearlong program to help the client with both parts of the question right from the onset.

Most of us know that physical exercise is good for us, many of us feel we don’t have the time or don’t ‘like’ going to the gym, or have gotten out of shape and dread getting back to regular workouts. But there is good news: ‘Exercise doesn’t have to be grueling to do you some good’, says Michele Olson, Pd.D., professor of health and human performance at Auburn Univeristy in Montgomery, Alabama. ‘Research shows it’s the accumulation of movement that counts – whether you walk the dog or do yoga, regular activity is more important than the specific activity’.

In other words, those who go to the gym regularly in a structured program or those who incorporate activity into their daily lives in little ways (walking to work, gardening, dancing to a favorite song…) are getting the same health benefits across the board, and are faring much better than those leading a sedentary lifestyle.

‘One study conducted at the Cooper Institute for Aerobica Research in Dallas, for example, tested 235 formerly inactive men and women for two years; participants followed either a lifestyle activities program or a structured exercise program. Both programs produced the same improvements in fitness, heart health, and reduction of body fat percentage, indicating that an overall increase in lifestyle activity is just as effective as a structured exercise program.’ *

Based on this sudy, your health and wellness program does not have to incorporate activities that feel cumbersome, like a chore, but can be arranged around your lifestyle and preferences.  The ‘homework’ exercise is in determining your preferences based on your sports ‘personality’. Are you the outdoorsman, the competitor, the social butterfly, the dreamer, the one who pursues new challenges and variety?

‘Chose activities that mesh well with your personality and lifestyle, and you’ll be more likely to stick to them. Plus, the mental relaxation  and enjoyment you’ll gain are as good for you as the activity itself.’*

Take the brief quiz by contacting info@bodyvisionsl.com and receive a free 30 minute consultation from the health coach!

Resources: ‘The Sugar Solution‘, by Sarí Harrar, 2004

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