Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Do You Dry Brush?

I've been reading alot about dry brushing lately. I think I'll be heading to the store tomorrow and get me a brush. :)

Here is some GREAT information about Dry Brushing!






The Benefits Of Dry Skin Brushing
• Dry skin brushing helps to shed dead skin cells, which can help improve skin texture and cell renewal.

• Dry skin brushing increases circulation to skin, encouraging your body’s discharge of metabolic wastes, which greatly aids the lymphatic drainage of the entire body. When the body rids itself of toxins, it is able to run more efficiently in all areas.

• Dry skin brushing also helps to tighten the skin because it increases the flow of blood. Increasing the circulation to the skin can also help lessen the appearance of cellulite.

• Dry skin brushing stimulates the lymph canals to drain toxic mucoid matter into the colon, thereby purifying the entire system. This enables the lymph to perform its house-cleaning duties by keeping the blood and other vital tissues detoxified. After several days of dry brushing, you may notice the gelatinous mucoid material in your stools.

• Dry skin brushing helps with muscle tone and more even distribution of fat deposits.

• Dry skin brushing also rejuvenates the nervous system by stimulating nerve endings in the skin.

• Dry skin brushing helps your skin to absorb nutrients by eliminating clogged pores. Healthy, breathing skin contributes to overall body health.

• Individuals who sit at a computer screen all day long will particularly take pleasure in the benefits of skin brushing. People who have inactive lifestyles or jobs usually experience stiff and sore necks and shoulders that reach even into their arms and down their spines and into their lower backs. Increased blood flow begins entering the areas brushed and you will experience an increase in electromagnetic energy that permits you to feel energized and invigorated.

• LADIES—Cellulite is toxic. Cellulite is toxic materials that are accumulated in your body’s fat cells as they are unable to be eliminated. So, rather than liposuction surgery, how about utilizing the “dry skin brushing” techniques coupled with an alkaline diet program and a great exercising routine. It will break down the unwelcome toxic body deposits and send them scurrying out of your body through the elimination channels we discussed above.



How to Get Started With Your Skin Brushing Regimen

1. Purchase a natural, NOT a synthetic, bristle brush. (vegetable bristle)
2. Purchase a brush with a long handle, so that you are able to reach all areas of your body. Best-case scenario would be one that had a removable head with a strap for your hand.
3. Skin brushing should be performed once a day, preferably first thing in the morning. If you are feeling ill, please do it twice a day until you feel better.
4. Skin brushing should be performed prior to your bath or shower and your body dry and naked.
5. Begin brushing your skin in long sweeping strokes starting from the bottom of your feet upwards, and from the hands towards the shoulders, and on the torso in an upward direction. Always brush towards the heart. Try and brush several times in each area, over-lapping as you go.
6. Avoid sensitive areas and anywhere the skin is broken.

7. After brushing your skin, rinse off in the shower. Paavo Airola, author of Swedish Beauty Secrets, recommends alternating temperatures in the shower from hot to cold. This will further invigorate the skin and stimulate blood circulation, bring more blood to the outer layers of the skin.

8. After getting out of the shower, dry off vigorously and massage your skin with pure plant oil, such as almond, jojoba, sesame or coconut.

9. Don’t forget to clean your skin brush using soap and water once a week. After rinsing, dry your skin brush in an open, sunny spot to prevent mildew.

skin brush10. For a thorough lymphatic cleansing, perform skin brushing daily for a minimum of three months.

Caution: Do not brush on or over skin rashes, wounds, cuts, infections, poison oak or poison ivy.

Note: Any well designed program will take about 30 days to see and experience the changes. Please be patient and keep up the program!
 
 

*NEW* Mini Challenges




Starting February 1st, my first mini challenge will start. For the month of February it will be a Plank/Flutter Kick Challenge. This is FREE and open to ANYONE who wants to add a little extra kick to their work out!! Let's rock some ab's this summer!! If you're interested just click HERE I'd love for you to join me!

Here is what February's Mini Challenge looks like:

Friday, January 25, 2013

UPDATED Bucket List

“Consciously seek out experiences that expand your sense of who you are and what you are capable of.”


I have been working on a NEW UPDATED Bucket List. This isn't everything, it seems to grow day by day. But, these are some thing's I would LOVE to do one day.

**I will continue adding to this list**

1. Either marry Cliff at a tropical destination or honeymoon with Cliff at a tropical destination. (either works for me!) :)
2. Become a Elite Beachbody Coach
3. Move to a tropical destination ( we would love to move out of the country one day)
4. Travel to: Bora Bora, Fiji, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Belize, Antigua, Anguilla and British Virgin Islands to name a few....(this list will grow! lol
5. Scuba dive at those ^^^^ destinations as well! (***Scuba dive the Galapagos Islands***)
6. Scuba dive with sharks (and sea turtles just not together lol)
7.Take a photography class
8. Learn under water photography
9. FINANCIAL FREEDOM....Live in the positive!!
10. Run a half marathon
11. Hike in the rain forest
12. Build a home (somewhere warm and tropical...maybe out of the country^^)
13. Visit The Mel Fisher Museum in Key West, FL (dive while we're in Key West)
14. Continue my healthy lifestyle!!
15. To PERSONALLY meet my Beachbody team...that would be AWESOME!!
16. To continue to grow as a person and not let fear ever hold me back. To always look back and see how far I have came. Never take for granted the love that is given to me and to always show the love I have.
17. Be creative; craft
18. Vacation with the kids
19. Take more diving classes
20. To INSPIRE. Help people change their lives...to be healthier.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Just A Little Motivation


My Old Bucket List


Going through an OLD notebook earlier today, I came across this old "bucket list" I made when I turned 30. Back then I never thought any of them would happen! It's kinda sad how short and mundane this list is...for a bucket list!

1. Lose weight
2. Run a 5K race of some sort BEFORE I am 32
3. Take a photography class
4. Make a CHANGE
5. Grow out my hair and donate it to Lock's of Love
6. Learn to knit
7. Craft more
8. Go on a vacation
9. Get a tattoo
10.  (I guess I couldn't come up with a number 10 at the time) 

Well, I have actually done a lot of these things I listed. Honestly, at that point in my life I NEVER thought they would happen! Here is what I have done!

1. Lose weight ** So far I have lost 60 lbs! **

2. Run a 5K race of some sort BEFORE I am 32 ** I will be 33 in March, but I have TWO 5K's planned                for this year!! **

3.Take a photography class.  ** I haven't done this yet **

4. Make a CHANGE ** Boy did I ever! So many things have changed. I'm LOVING life! Most of all I found the love of my life **

5. Grow out my hair and donate it to Lock's of Love ** I haven't done yet **

6. Learn to knit. ** I haven't done yet **

7. Craft more. ** Sadly, I craft LESS. But, I have so many other thing's I do. On occassion I do though! **

8. Go on a vacation. ** We went on an AMAZING 8 day vacation to Cozumel in June 2012 **

9. Get a tattoo. ** I got my 1st one when I was 30. I hate it. I have 2 more that I have gotten since...that I love! **

10. Previously left blank. I have a whole new list in the making! LIFE IS MEANT TO BE LIVED!!! STAY TUNED!




Saturday, January 12, 2013

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2013

Wow, it's been a few weeks since I posted! I have been thinking a lot about what I want out of this new year. I really feel like this will be my year to hit my big goals! Do do write goals down?

"A GOAL PROPERLY SET IS HALFWAY REACHED." Zig Ziglar





Here are SOME of my goals for 2013:

1.) Get to my goal SIZE (7/8)
2.) Save enough money for a vacation
3.) Buy scuba gear (waiting on #1 to happen!)
4.) Dive more! (and maybe take another class)
5.) Start running (I have 2- 5k runs in my future! Mud Run and Color Run)
6.) Look good in a swimsuit (important for #2 & #4)
7.) To be able to do a REAL push up
8.) Start and finish Insanity
9.) Get family pictures made
10.) Read more personal development
11.) Blog MORE
12.) Get organized


"If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner."  Zig Ziglar


"If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want." 
Zig Ziglar



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