 When I stayed at one of the caravan parks down south, the entire staff was attending Zumba From that moment on I have wanted to 'do it'. The office workers said the 'found it hard'. The cleaning staff 'found it easy', all found they lost weight doing Zumba. Here is a way you can do it at home:- Zumba Ditch the Workout, Join the Party! the Zumba Weight Loss Program [With DVD] I think if you are active, you can do it and it sounded to me as if you can make your own moves, do it at your own pace. I guess I will know tomorrow and will certainly write about it. :-) and feel it would be more effective at burning calories than weight loss pills. About Zumba Let's face it, working out can be healthy, rewarding and beneficial. Working out can be lots of things, but it's never been known to be an exhilarating experience…UNTIL NOW! The Zumba® program fuses hypnotic Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow moves to create a one-of-a-kind fitness program that will blow you away. Our goal is simple: We want you to want to work out, to love working out, to get hooked. Zumba® Fanatics achieve long-term benefits while experiencing an absolute blast in one exciting hour of calorie-burning, body-energizing, awe-inspiring movements meant to engage and captivate for life! The routines feature interval training sessions where fast and slow rhythms and resistance training are combined to tone and sculpt your body while burning fat. Add some Latin flavor and international zest into the mix and you've got a Zumba® class! In the past years, the Zumba® program has become nothing short of a revolution, spreading like wildfire, and positioning itself as the single most influential movement in the industry of fitness. As of May 2010, the Zumba® program is being taught at over 60,000 locations in 105 countries, has sold millions of DVDs, and has changed the lives of Zumba® Fanatics worldwide with an astonishing 7.5 million participants taking Zumba classes every week. Why? Because it's the best party around. I am very excited about my first attempt tomorrow, in a Zumba class. J Want to buy the Home program, with DVD, click on image below.  I have had the My Michelle Bridges, work out DVD’s on in our caravan. I know most of us dream that taking a weight loss pill would be the ideal way to lose any excess weight but I am eager to have a bone density scan done next January and I hope, to be told, that my bones are denser, than the last time I had the scan done. I know that requires, strength training. It is the workouts I am doing that will be helping me protect and even increase my bone density, that to me is more important than just the weight loss effect of the exercise. Travelling is not a reason to sit around, in and outside the caravan inactive and over consuming food and drink. I love this life too much to join in the inactive senior crowd. We become old before our time, if we become inactive, eat, and drink too much, we do not become overweight and inactive, because we get older. I cannot see myself as part of the happy hour set. Who knows I may yet start a trend for seniors to want to start getting fit, lol. J  PepTalk. 03/21/2010
 'Just DO IT, Kathy'. I was morbidly obese, 51 kilo over my ideal weight range; because I led a sedentary lifestyle and I ate more calories than I burned. If all my relatives were morbidly obese too, it was not genetically predisposition to be that way, but because we all had a similar love of sedentary activity, including overeating. Surely when one after another of our relatives, die young from lifestyle disease, it is time to wake up and see, it is not the genes that are killing us. It is the lifestyle choice. Yes, I was just talking to myself. I give myself many pep talks. In fact pep talks, to myself are my one and only and best weight loss supplement, all the rest is happening through healthy portion controlled healthy eating and a planned exercise routine and more incidental exercise every day that I ever gave myself before, back when I made those excuses and just blamed my ‘genes’, for being obese. I protested that, ‘I was trying to lose weight’. Oh and I have to add, I ‘was trying’, and IE, WW and diets failed me, I did not fail them. Long term they were not the solutions I needed to lose weight and be able to hold it off. Yes some people do have more difficulty than others in losing weight and yes genetics is a factor in this. It still comes down to energy in versus energy out equation and giving the body healthy food, drink and movement in the right quantity for it to be at its best and to seek expert advice and motivation to follow a healthy plan. You do not put your car into amateurs to fix, why not go to specialists for your body? I am not taliking about diet sales people here. Anyone who wants to sell you easy weight loss, is just after your money, not your best interest. YOU / I, can get the advice from the experts, but we have to do the work. The only place that success comes before work, is in the dictionary. Want to join me and lose weight but not sure where to start? There is a Free program on the internet, ‘How to Measure Up’, I have always advised using an expert, accredited dietician and a physiotherapist or sports injury trained, fitness coach and I am currently a member of the Michelle Bridges, 12 week body transformation, just entering week 4 and I am learning, benefiting and loving it. I am happy to try to help if there is anything I can blog to help inspire others, check out my artslim.org website where most of my weight management writing is published.  o Yes, that WAS me. I do not like it. Yes it does embarrass me putting it here. If it helps anyone else realize you CAN change. You can slim though healthy living not deprivation dieting, then it is worth the emotional cost to me, to not hide where I came from. If I can do it, YOU can do it too.  I have osteoporosis and as a result, I went straight to a bone health specialist, dietician, for advice. I now understand a lot more about nutrition and understand about the pH balance of foods and its effects on the absorption of minerals into our bodies and I have since achieved my own bone health nutrition qualifications. In my opinion the food plan that Michelle Bridges, Crunch Time cookbook and 12 Week Body transformation, suggests, is a wonderful balance between the ideal healthy diet and one that is not too fanatical or extreme. I am finding working with an on line trainer, to be one of the best fat burners, I have had, in a long whileJ and I am loving that the nutritional guidance and the exercise recommended by the 12WBT program is all in keeping with good bone health information. It is interesting that in the US where women have about 1200 mg of calcium in their diet but eat a lot of animal products 50% of them by my age have osteoporosis. In cultures where the calcium in the diet is only 600 mg a day and food is more plant based, with some animal product but not a lot, there is very little osteoporosis in the population. Osteoporosis is sometimes, called the ‘slimmers disease’. All those high animal protein, low carbohydrate diets are raising the PH in our bodies and that forces the calcium we consume to be used mostly to try to maintain the correct pH balance in our blood and cells, and there just is not enough over to do the work of maintaining bone density. In fact, if we eat too many acid forming foods and drinks we actually leach calcium from our bones, You do not have to go to the extreme of being a total vegan to have a balanced pH, all things in moderation. The western diet had gone well past moderation, just Google the incidence of osteoporosis and you will see this. Then Google the relationship of pH balance in your diet and osteoporosis and you will see that no amount of popping vitamins and minerals will help if you do not eat a balanced diet of all food groups without an excess of one type of food. The average Western diet is not balanced it is animal products at the expense of non-refined carbohydrates. Sorry for the waffle, but finding out I had a degree in nutrition and had never, been taught, a thing about pH and I ate what I thought was a healthy diet yet developed a deficiency disease, came as a whammy shock to me. I just feel passionately about this. With my recent bone health knowledge, I believe Michelle Bridges has designed a balanced diet for her clients or I would not be using her 12WBT program. I have made a lifetime study of nutrition, though still not an expert. I believe the information about a balanced diet, should be being taught loud and clear to everyone. It is not breast cancer or heart disease women should be fearing the most it is the one that gets most of us women and it’s the one most of us neglect protecting ourselves from, or think that taking a bit of calcium is all we have to do. If you don’t learn early enough, how to prevent it, osteoporosis is not going to give you the figure you want, and can result in slow painful degeneration and death from the non recovery from the broken hip, what finally ‘gets’, most women and those who suffer this earliest and worst are the ‘dieters’, who lose weight following the diet pushers rather than a sound nutrition plan. Gawd, that sounded like a lecture :-(. I apologize for how heavy handed that sounds but I CARE about my fellow women and the bone health message has to be heard or more women will become slim at the expense, of having brittle bones and bulging bellies, as the gut pushes forward as your spine, shortens and you will do all this low carbohydrate, high animal protein, slimming work and can end up with a worse figure, for it eventually. Don’t believe me, then do some web searching, well away from those low carb diet sites though. You might not like my post but I hope I shocked someone out of getting osteoporosis. The images are of flower art works I painted and have turned into fridge magnets, which can,be ordered, through this site. You can join my Kathy Shell, fan page and get updates, on nature, eco therapy, weight management, lifestyle, travel, healthy aging and art, plus you can enter to win unique art related competitions.  Exercise, humour! 11/26/2009
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