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Home › Articles › Women's Fitness › 40 Minutes to Fit

40 Minutes to Fit

The Only Workout Mom Needs

By Kelly Calabrese, M.S., CSCS

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  • Choose wholesome and nutritious foods. Choose foods that are fresh, such as fruits, vegetables, lean meats, fish, chicken, beans, nuts and rice. Avoid all processed foods.
  • Include a lean protein in each meal. For example, breakfast might include a veggie omelet with yogurt and melon. A snack could be an apple with peanut butter. Lunch might feature grilled shrimp over a salad. For an afternoon snack, try fruit with yogurt and flax seeds. Dinner might include chicken with whipped cauliflower and saut褤 spinach with almonds.
  • Eat every three to four hours. This helps to stave off hunger, which many times leads to bingeing. It also helps to keep your metabolism at its peak and keeps you from feeling deprived.
  • Plan ahead. Grocery shop when you are full. Avoid buffets. Bring your lunch to work. Cook several meals on Sunday and freeze them. If you are dining out, reserve your calories during the day. Serve your food on a plate, and put the rest in the fridge and so on.
  • Clean out the pantry of tempting, unhealthy foods.

    • Where will you be in 6 weeks, 6 months and 6 years if you begin your fitness plan today? Where will you be if you don't? If you want to attain a fit body, you can! The results are guaranteed if you follow the program outlined above. You cannot put a price on your health. Feel no guilt in taking 40 minutes a day to reshape your body and improve your health. You can watch your body transform before your eyes and love the reflection that stares back at you in the mirror.

    Kelli Calabrese is an exercise physiologist and 2004 Personal Trainer of the Year. For more information about Calabrese, visit KelliCalabrese.com.


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