Look Good FAST with Your New Handy “Trainer”

📅 8 de noviembre de 2024 ✍️ By David Rosales ⏱️ 8 Mins Read 🗂️ Blog 🕒 Last updated: 8 de noviembre de 2024

None of these are endorsed by GMT or MamaChallenge as diet remedies, but the newest trends in support that viewers and readers have shared for weight management. Check with your doctor before starting any regimen or weight loss program.

The Cabbage Diet. The Hot Dog Diet. Or my personal favorite from The Devil Wears Prada, I Don’t Anything Diet Until I’m About to Pass Out and Eat a Cube of Cheese Diet.

None of them sound good, but certainly have worked to help anyone have long-lasting weight loss. The reason why of course, is diets don’t work.

The last time I was on Good Morning Texas I shared the secret of a long marriage. Today I’m going to share the secret to losing weight: Eat healthy food, practice healthy lifestyle with exercise. Period.

But for many of us that’s a lot harder than it sounds!

However, people are realizing it’s about a lifestyle change; a mindset; a shift, to a healthier version of you!

So we asked our viewers and MamaChallenge.com readers to tell us what they are doing to lose or maintain weight and here’s what we found!

SKINNY STIX BY ZANTREX3

Actress, Host and Ex-Playboy bunny Jenny McCarthy is the spokesperson for Skinny Stix, a proprietary blend you add to 16 oz. water. 1-3 times a day.
SkinnyStix formula was originally designed for weight loss, but it’s been benefitting everyone for powerful appetite control, mood elevation, increased energy, fat burning, stamina, and improved focus.
Starting yesterday you can find Skinny Stix at Walmart for a pack of 21.

DAILY GREENS

Juicing is not a way to lose weight but help you to get in those fruits and vegetables you might not be getting in your regular diet. Take a look – this one bottle has 6 lbs of produce!
Austin-based Daily Greens is a raw, cold-pressed juicing company with products available for sale at Whole Foods and other specialty stores as well as online for nationwide, overnight delivery.
Shauna Martin created this company after being diagnosed with breast cancer at 33 and discovered juicing was her way to restore her health.

ADVOCARE

A locally based company, Advocare has a strong reach – I bet many of our viewers have tried it or know someone who sells the products.
It’s an overall wellness program to kick start a healthier lifestyle and designed to help you feel better, look better and perform better.
The 24-Day Challenge™ is a comprehensive supplementation and nutrition program. Give your body the jumpstart it needs to help you reach your goals.* There’s something for everyone: weight management, energy, overall body composition or overall wellness.

PLEXUS

Plexus Slim is a natural drink that contains a variety of plant extracts helpful in balancing blood sugar, hormones, cholesterol, and lipids.
Plexus Slim was originally designed to help patients with diabetes regulate blood sugar, but when it was noted that all test participants lost weight, it was then decided to market it as a weight loss product.
Many have had success with relief from auto-immune issues in addition to weight management.

PERSONAL TRAINER FOOD

Successful weight loss is about 20 what you do and 80 what you eat. So if you can’t afford to have one of those celebrity trainers to watch your every move and thing you put in your mouth, you have Personal Trainer Food!

Personal Trainer Food is a direct home healthy meal service based in Fort Worth!
It’s just real food without the processed fillers – that makes it easy for you to eat right because it’s easy to do. No grocery shopping, cooking or cleaning, no calorie counting – just a way to learn to eat right.
The food truly tastes great. Many people are afraid of trying the food because they’ve tried Nutrisystem, Lean Cuisine, Jenny Craig, etc. However, it really is restaurant-quality food.
It is realistic on this program to lose 2-4 pounds per week just by eating right and walking 15 minutes/day. They also offer weight loss coaching with all programs.

RISE

There are tons of apps that can help you stay on target, but you have to find the right one for you.

One of the ones that is getting a lot of praise is Rise, an app that is highly endorsed by Good Morning America contributor Tory Johnson.
Rise connects people with their very own nutrition coach – all registered dietitians – with one-on –one, 24/7 access.
She talks about how Rise helped her in her new book, Shift, a book about how she was able to find the SHIFT within in her to change her life for good to a healthier living and lose 65 lbs. in a year.
Just for Good Morning Texas viewers, you can visit Rise.us and use the code SHIFT for 20% off your first payment!

Have you used any of these products? What do you do to lose or maintain a healthy weight?

Want-It Wednesday:

Oh, my poor skin.

We demand the most of it, but for many of us, it’s one of biggest areas we ignore. We’ll spend buckets of money on the best lipstick and foundation, but when it comes to caring correctly for our skin most of us just suck.

Lastyear I had made a resolution to be better to my skin with a real grown-up skin care regimen instead of the splash of Noxema or wipes I might do. While I tried really hard to be after the first 90 days to be adament about my daily and nightly routine, I will admit many days the only thing my skin received was the softness of my pillow when I hit it each night.

However, 2013 is a new year and a new attitude about creating a BETTER ME.Unfortunately, I’m a year older, so a little dab of moisturizer ain’t going to make me look like a 20 year-old all of a sudden. So I went to see board-certified dermatologist, Dr. Tanya Reddick Rodgers of Skin Specialists in Addison to learn what I should be doing to be skin to make it look the best it can be.

Dr. Tanya Reddick Rogers of Skin Specialists of Addison/Allen recently on Fox’s Good Day Dallas. (Photo from Facebook.com)

I learned so many amazing things from this beautiful doctor and mom – especially that basic skin care doesn’t to cost a lot of money if I’ll listen to her advice!

Here are her basics you need for good skin care:

Sunscreen:
No matter if you’re actually going to be outside or not, all of your exposed skin areas should get a coat at least 2 times a day (and more if you are planning to be outside for an extended amount of time.)

Moisturizer:
This and sunscreen should be the most important steps to preventing aging and skin cancer. Use a oil-free and noncomedogenic brand so it won’t clog your pores (and cause blemishes.)

Cleanser:
Clean your skin with a non-harsh, liquid, fragrance-free cleanser two times a day.

Anti-Aging Creams with Retinoids and Antioxidants:
Daily you should use a cream that contains antioxidants like vitamins C, E or ferulic acid to boost the power of your sunscreen in the prevention of oxygen radicals. Prevent wrinkles with an anti-aging cream containing a retinoid (retinol, retinaldehyde, Retin-A) as its active ingredient nightly to reverse the collagen loss that causes the wrinkles and fine-lines of aging skin.

Chemical Peels:
A medical-grade peel can safely improve the texture and tone of any skin color or type. These can also be customized to target a variety of problem areas like acne, wrinkles, dark spots and rosacea.

The most important thing to remember is that you should visit the dermatologist annually, just like you should get a physical once a year to check for skin cancer and other ways to keep your skin healthy.

BUT what do you do when your face looks less like a grape and more like a raisin?

Next Wednesday I’ll take a look at the magical world of:

In Dallas where there’s just as many med spas as there are Starbucks and McDonalds (want proof, look here), I’ll take a look at the newest options for making you look like a million bucks (or at least take a few years off your face.)

As part of my vow to be a little healthier this year, I’ve decided to broaden my family’s minds (and taste buds) to include more diverse foods like QUINOA.

I’ll be honest, a few year’s ago I didn’t even know what or how to pronounce it, but now it seems like I keep hearing about it. Then coincidentally on TV this week, Bobby Flay made delicious meal on The Chew using quinoa, so on my last trip to the grocery story – I threw it in the basket.
Call it peer pressure.

Of course, the real issue was the next step – what to do with it. While Bobby did give me a good start on a great way to prepare it, he is Bobby Flay…so I wanted to know what my friends had done with it first. So with the help of Facebook, I got tons of responses from family, friends and neighbors on their favorite recipes using this “grain?”
Since inquiring minds always want to know more, I went Googling what was so dang special about quinoa. According to About.com, first of all, it’s not actually a grain, but a seed. And since Quinoa provides all 9 essential amino acids, it’s considered a complete protein that is gluten-free and cholesterol free. I guess that does make it kinda awesome, but the real question remained, would do I do with it?

Thankfully, one of my friends that is always on top of identifying awesome things way ahead of the curve (he totally has been in love with Mumford and Sons for years), shared some of his tried-and-tasted family recipes for me to try. So while I prepare a little quinoa for dinner tonight (wish me luck), I wanted to share their amazing recipes including his wife’s, Nanette’s Quinoa Salad.