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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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Health Coach Tatiana’s Blog: How to Lose Weight Fast at Home

This is a question on the minds of millions of Americans looking to improve their looks, energy, health, and self esteem. Diets in and of themselves have a less-than-encouraging success rate of just 9%. So what is the individual to do?

The answer lies not in abruptly starting the diet journey, thinking that this is the fastest way, but instead in first paving the path ahead. Simply selecting a diet and ‘starting’ one day makes the assumption that we can arrange our lives around the new program, that we won’t have any significant obstacles, and that we can rely on our own self-discipline to keep us on track. In reality, usually the opposite is true. 3 steps are necessary to ensure that your diet will work for you, not the other way around. This process ensures the least amount of setbacks on the way to ideal weight because you are in control of each step of the program.

Read the 3  steps here http://www.hotmommagossip.com/2011/09/19/how-to-lose-weight-fast-at-home/

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Overcoming Habits: Getting Started

The Highland Lake Inn’s Health Coaching division is designed to provide the structure, resources and support you need to get healthy habits incorporated into the everyday for an improved quality of life and the freedom and peace of mind that underlie ‘the greater you’.

In a recent questionnaire, a participant named his biggest obstacle to weight loss as follows: ‘Overcoming Habits’.  To paraphrase a saying, first you make your habits, and then your habits make you, so, where to start to make a change? Transforming a habit takes time, practice, and accessing inner motivators that support you on your journey.

‘Overcoming’ habits might be rephrased in order to change the focus of our attention to what we really want. Overcome is described as ‘to surmount a physical or abstract obstacle, to prevail over, to get the better of, to win (a battle).’ With this outlook, the focus is on an impending doom of sorts, at least many of us feel that way when thinking of entering a battle. Will it hurt? Will I win? Am I ready? Is my opponent stronger than I? Do  I have the right weapons, strategies and talents? What if I lose?

No wonder we avoid it.  Take a moment to think about how this phrase can be rewritten in your own words to address what is right and good and going well. How can I find and nourish the seeds of greatness and responsibility in myself, my appreciation, my gratitude, my self-esteem in taking action and doing well? (sound better?) What would your phrase look like if  you re-wrote it to address the part of you that is calling for change, ready for change, excited for change, and write a detailed list of how you feel, as if you are already at your desired goal. (feel better?).

The unhealthful habits can be imagined as ‘dissolving away’, or like sand slipping away, as room is made for the new to come, the new habit that comes from your natural empowerment to be well.

We’d love to hear your comments below, your re-written phrases that look to capture the positive impulse behind your wellness goals.  For a personal telephone interview, please write to info@bodyvisionsl.com and we’ll help you get started today.

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Your Biggest Frustration with Incorporating Healthy Habits into the Everyday

As the writer of the blogposts at the Highland Lake Inn Wellness division, I recently completed a large survey to gather and present information about obstacles that individuals encounter in starting or maintaining healthy habits in the everyday.

So, the question is: ‘What is the biggest frustration you are experiencing right now about incorporating healthy habits into the everyday?’ With the information gathered, or so I thought, I could directly address the client’s, or the potential client’s, 2-3 main issues.

The surprise came in the results of the survey. All included, a long list of completely different answers kept coming back, all counted, at least 27 different issues that individuals told me that keep them from moving forward in this area of their life. Most all of the survey participants indicated wanting to make a change at some level, but the sheer number of individual issues lead me to a much different conclusion.

Here are some of the answers: overcoming habits, high anxiety, no time,  conflict in the household, attitude, planning and completing tasks, getting enough sleep, too much to do, not concentrating on foundation work, water intake, organizing, prioritizing, adding on little changes, overcoming constraints, mindset, ambivalence, packaged foods, emotional eating, snacks at work, putting in effort, and many others, including my favorite, ‘lack of committment to one’s own good.’

What have we learned? That not one size fits all when it comes to behavior change. That no issue is too small to be important. That obstacles come in all shapes and sizes. That the individual, targeted solution is going to be the lasting one. That many of us do know ourselves better than we think. That we even know what would be the next step for ourselves if we could manage to take it. That problems have many sides to them that need attention.

Why is that encouraging? Because, as a health coach professional, it is once again confirmed that it is valuable to accept and take each person, each situation, just simply at face value and then proceed forward one step at a time. Using your inner knowledge, the ‘simplicity that lies on the other side of complexity’ as it has been phrased, is the unfolding of the wellness plan, the transformation that comprises true success.

What are your obstacles? Please feel free to comment in the space provided below,  and contact us at any time to find out more.

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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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