Lose It for Good

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Day 7 Assignment: Make a Top 10 List

Sticking to a new workout program isn't always easy. You need ways to make it fun to stay motivated. Try making a list of the things that will motivate you to stay on track. To get you started, here are the biggest motivators that have helped my clients: making fun music playlists, having a workout buddy or going to group classes, keeping a training log and making goals, joining a club or team, training for a race and raising money for charity. Jeanette Jenkins

Amy Hendel

Amy Hendel Amy Hendel is the founder and CEO of HealthGal.com, a health and lifestyle information Website. An established medical correspondent and journalist, Hendel began her career as a hospital-based physician assistant in internal and dependency medicine. After extensive post-graduate education in exercise physiology and nutrition, she began a private practice in 1996 as a family lifestyle therapist, where she focuses on weight issues associated with medical conditions.

In 1999, Hendel began her media career at KCBS, a Los Angeles-based AM talk show, as a weekly on-air health expert. She has been a medical host on Lifetime's Stories on the Beach and Pfizer's On the Road to Pain Relief.

Hendel is a frequent health and lifestyle contributor to local and national news networks and talk shows including Fox Cable News, The Big Idea, Starting Over , Extra! , Discovery Health, TLC, Lifetime, SoapTalk, HGTV, KFIS FM Portland, PBS.

She is the new correspondent and health editor of NBC's HouseSmarts and also hosts and produces the medical talk show HealthZone.

Her national "HealthGal Corner" column is featured in Best Body magazine and she is a frequently quoted nutrition expert in numerous publications including InStyle magazine, Fit Pregnancy, Family Circle, the Los Angeles Times, and the Los Angeles Daily News.

Jeanette Jenkins

Jeanette Jenkins Jeanette Jenkins, founder and President of The Hollywood Trainer is the author of The Hollywood Trainer Weight-Loss Plan: 21 Days to Make Healthy Living a Lifetime Habit. Jenkins is one of the country's leading healthy lifestyle coaches, known best for her holistic approach, results-driven cross-training techniques, and supreme ability to motivate. She helps millions of men and women achieve their health and fitness goals through her international appearances, internet expert coaching and columns ranging from Oprah.com and iVillage.com to NBC's Today show, Fox News World and The Tyra Banks Show.

Jenkins studied Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa and has earned over 18 international certifications covering nutrition and various methods of training. She is a graduate of the Institute of Integrative Nutrition which is recognized by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners and Columbia University. Her mission is to use her experience and education to teach and inspire men and women to live their best life! Her first creation to inspire the world to healthy living is the internationally successful Hollywood Trainer Cross Training DVD System, distributed in 12 countries. Jeanette's most recent workout DVD, The Hollywood Trainer 21 Day Circuits has been recognized as a favorite by Fitness and Shape Magazine. Jenkins will also be featured as the lead instructor for a Kickboxing Party Workout, February 2008 with the highly successful Crunch workout series.

Jeanette is one of the few experts nationwide hand-picked for Nike Corporation's Elite Athletes program and a Podfitness Premier Trainer. She also uses her experience and knowledge as an expert advisor for Fitness magazine and a regular columnist for the National Urban League's Urban Influence Magazine and MSNBC's Fit List.

Jeanette's expertise as a healthy lifestyle coach has also been featured on EDiets.com, Fox's Mike and Juliet Show, The Best Damn Sports Show, Extra, Celebrity Fit Club, E! Entertainment Television, Kimora Lee Simmons' Life in the Fab Lane, BET Networks, The Jay Leno Show and Access Hollywood.

Her work has also been profiled in such leading publications as O The Oprah Magazine, In Style, People, Fitness, Redbook, Self, Marie Claire, Glamour, Shape, Prevention, Women’s World, Ebony, Essence, Women's Health & Fitness, Health, Us Weekly, In Touch, The Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly and more.

Her knowledge and ability to get results is what attracts a client roster that includes A-list actors, professional athletes, swimsuit models, and Hollywood executives. It’s also what keeps her group classes at L.A.’s top fitness clubs jam-packed with celebrity regulars and Hollywood’s hottest bodies. Jeanette’s student and client roster has included Queen Latifah, Kimora Lee Simmons, Christina Applegate, Taryn Manning, Ian Ziering, Jordana Brewster, Jackée Harry, Amy Weber, Victoria Rowell, Mara Brock Akil (creator of UPN’s Girlfriends and new hit show The Game), Tom Arnold, NFL’s Ty Law and Brian Cox. Terrell Owens describes Jeanette as being "high energy, passionate and knowledgeable. Says Owens, “Jeanette knows how to draw you in and keep you motivated."

Growing up in public housing in Canada, Jenkins was one of three children raised by a single mother and fitness is what kept her focused. A natural athlete, Jeanette found a safe haven in sports, one that taught her the value of discipline and team work, and most importantly instilled self confidence and a “can do” attitude. Jeanette has benefited from social and community services as a child and dedicates her time every week to tutor homeless children as a part of the School on Wheels Organization. She also volunteers her time to several community churches, sororities and nonprofit organizations to help motivate and empower men, women and children.

Jessica Weiner

Jessica Weiner Jessica Weiner is an author and motivational speaker. Her groundbreaking and empowering work in self-discovery and self-esteem with women and teens motivates and inspires them to become Actionists™ by taking action in their everyday lives. Her emerging brand, With Jess,™ is dedicated to reinforcing the motto, “Find you. Feel good.”

Her latest book Do I Look Fat in This? is a step-by-step guide to loving your body and developing the attributes of Inner Style™: self-confidence, self-knowledge and self-acceptance.

Her first book A Very Hungry Girl chronicles her self-discovery and ultimate recovery from an eating disorder and low self-esteem.

She writes a column for teen girls entitled “Real Girls/Real Advice” on the Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen website, reaching over 1 million girls in 10 countries.

Jess has been featured on, Oprah, CNN, MTV, The Today Show, and in the Washington Post, Cosmo Girl! and many other media outlets.

You can learn more about Jess at WithJess.com.

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Comments

From: Juanita
Date: 03/10/2009 - 09:23 am


I will be running for 30 mins today!! I want to do this for myself


From: Anonymous.Poster
Date: 03/10/2009 - 05:17 am


i have put on weight after my delivery my baby is 9 months old.iam feeding her.how can i reduce my weight through dieting and excercise.please give me some tips to reduce my weight.


From: JenniferM
Date: 03/07/2009 - 06:44 pm


Good tip ..Just starting out on this plan..well actually in 3 days time as I am away from home.

Does it really work. I really want to loose the weight..can tell it is hurting my joints and I am just 25.




From: kau311
Date: 03/05/2009 - 11:08 am


I found that replacing bad carbs with good carbs was a fun challenge.  I love to read food labels and make interesting meal choices.  I feel really proud of myself when I create a meal that is healthy, tastes good and is good for myself and my family.  I followed the South Beach Diet (which I'm not endorsing) but it is a great diet and menu/meal plan of good carbs.  It can get you on the right track of removing the bad carbs from your diet.  It only took me about a week to get over the craving of bad carbs and now when I do crave I am very satisified with healthy foods.  Replace bad carbs with good carbs for a week, don't give in to the cravings and I'll bet you'll see and feel the change.  Good luck.


From: Bookworm3637
Date: 02/25/2009 - 03:53 pm


I would love to exercise, but I have arthritis that put me on disability, and I have back problems which make it difficult for me to even walk. What should I be doing?


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