Fully dedicated to women’s fitness and health, my Fitness4Her Diet and Exercise program will help you lose weight and get in shape without ever having to count a single calorie. Learn to love food, enjoy exercise and celebrate success when you take the 90 day challenge. – Karen
Beginning a fitness program takes guts. It also requires inspiration and determination. If you really want to get fit, you have to go all out. You may find it necessary to change many of your old habits, exchange exercise for lounging on the couch and snack on carrot sticks instead of potato chips.
Inspiration is the first step towards greatness. The next step is learning how to harness that inspiring power in order to succeed. How do you capture the essence that is inspiration and turn it into a tool for success? First of all, you must really want to succeed, without that desire, the inspiration will die off before you even have a chance to try it out.
Affirmations are the appetizer for the brain when it comes to a successful diet program. We all know the important role that the brain plays in most of the habits that come from overeating or eating the wrong foods. That’s why affirmations work so well in a women’s fitness program. When it comes to staying committed to your body, these daily declarations of victory can bring you closer to your fitness and weight loss goals.
Successful dieting depends on the type of foods that we eat. So much of what we put into our body is just junk food. Very little nutritional value and many times way too high in fat, sugar and salt.
When top athletes enter the ring, many of them have practiced a widely respected mind game known as visualization. Either, due to the fact that they have been there before or because they have totally imagined the scenario and practiced their reactions, the act of visualization allows these athletes to perform under pressure with spectacular results.
Oftentimes women will ask me the question…
“What is the best diet plan or exercise program for women to use in order to lose weight?” I hesitate when presented with this challenge because no two people are alike. What works for one woman may or may not work for everyone. The truth is, a temporary diet plan may work temporarily. Just like crash diets, a method of eating that requires you to cut back on calories for a short time will produce results the same way… for a short time.
The same is true when it comes to exercise. Going for a two-mile hike one day and not exercising again for the following three weeks, does not constitute an active exercise program. In order for exercise programs to work for your body, you must be an active participant. Like a healthy diet—exercise must become part of your life.
Ladies, once you begin thinking of it this way, you will assure your success because your diet, and exercise program will become a natural part of who you are rather than just something that you are doing.
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Hi, I’m Karen Ficarelli, author, founder and creator of Fitness4Her, a website completely devoted to women’s fitness, aimed at helping women achieve their health and fitness goals. As a Fitness author, multi certified personal trainer, Pilate’s instructor, women’s fitness consultant, fitness model, wife & mom, I know that the desire to attain a healthy, slim and well-toned body is just as important as any other dream that a woman can have. But I also understand that to achieve that dream, you first must believe in it.
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