The Love Your Body Boot(y) Boot Camp for February is in full swing! A sampling from comments made in our class forum:
A sneak peak for you:
I have lost an additional 2.4 lbs. that makes my total 10.4 lbs of loss since Feb 2 when Boot(y) Boot Camp started , about 3 weeks ago. I am pumped! I also have lost more in my arms, about .50 per arm. I knew last night when I was brushing they looked more toned. So today I measured. Plus I lost an additional .50 inch in my waist and 1 inch in my hips.
~ Rhonda K., Indiana
I lost an additional 6 total inches the second week (total of 10 in 2 weeks) and 4 more pounds. WHEEEEE! So glad I had my husband to take a pre -Lani Boot(Y) camp picture! ~ Barbara B.
"Oh. My. Goodness. *spluttering as I choke on my water* Just discovered I've lost 5 pounds. And I've cheated just a bit. Perspective shift just took a big leap forward." ~Charlotte Siems, OK
"Lani, I weighed this morning and am down 5lbs since 2/1!!! woo hoo!" I also broke down and did a few measurements because I just couldn't help myself. I'm down 1/2 inch in my waist, 3/4 inch in my hips and 3/4 inch in each upper thigh.
I am beyond thrilled! Thanks for kickin' my booty!" ~Phyllis B
"Every day, I feel tighter around the waist/abs/glutes/thigh area. I honestly feel like I'm carrying myself differently – more confident. And dare I say it? Sexier?! Maybe I have a little swagger in my step?" ~ Val D.
"Lani, I have lost 3 lbs. since Feb. 1 and I have lost 7/8" off my waist and 1/4 inch off my abs. I am loving all that we are learning in this boot camp not only with respect to exercise but also with respect to how to make better choices with our eating.
Thank you so much for one of the most fantastic classes I have ever been enrolled in!"~Jean M.
"Down 3 3/4 total inches. Down 3 pounds. I have finally gotten UNSTUCK after one month! Thank you so much Lani!" ~ Barbara B.
"You have me working out harder than I would have alone. I'm down 6 lbs for sure, 3 – 4 inches" ~ Rhonda K.
"I have had a breakthrough in my eating, and I'm not craving the junk. I lost 2 pounds the first week, and I don't lose weight easily, so I was pretty floored!" ~ Trisch R.
There's more where this came from, just wanted to share the edge of the excitement.
Can you tell we're having a blast in Boot(y) Camp? And week 2 is just getting underway.
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One of my last dietary high-fat holdouts was mayonnaise. I'd switched to Veganiase years ago, so at least had moved away from eggs in the recipe, but the fat content was no less than good 'ol Best Foods.
Once I'd made the decision to opt out of "mayo" altogether, 2 things took place:
1) withdrawal from the taste and texture perk my Veganaise provided.
2) find an acceptable – and I mean it had to be g-o-o-d – substitute.
Let me save you some time if you are in the process of, or considering, same:
1) withdrawal: frankly, this just takes time. I missed Veganiase on sandwiches, as sauce base, in salad dressing – for about a month to 6 weeks. Then it faded. Then on one occasion I took a bit off the wrong plate – the one with the mayo in the dressing – and was astonished at the grease feel in my mouth. A little awareness of how we become accustomed to tastes – and then learn to love them (there's a BIG lesson there).
2) substitute: let's face it, if you are trying to take something that is composed almost entirely of eggs and oil without the use of eggs and oil and have it taste the same, you are in for a huge disappointment. I even tried Nasoya Nayonnaise and had to return the jar. It was SO not the point. Maybe it'll be up your alley, but for me, it wasn't even in the same traffic zone.
Then a moment of enlightenment. More on Hummus Is The New Mayo
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Chronic inflammation spells bad news for our health, plain and simple.
And though inflammation is a natural and necessary way that the body stimulates healing, when inflammation becomes continuous and chronic, it becomes damaging. The most common causes of inflammation in the body are physical inactivity and diet.
And until recently, high-intensity exercise has been considered a factor in inflammation as well.
However, new information tells us we've only been seeing a part of the picture. This is good news!
Microscopic view of cell inflammation
Exercise scores again: a new look at the evidence
For some time, high intensity exercise has been seen as a source of inflammation to the body. By high intensity, we're talking something that pushes the muscle to perform and makes you reach deep to build new muscle: interval training, intense resistance training, long distance running.
The kind of training that you know from the burn you feel in the muscle that the muscle is breaking down a little bit.
Yes, this natural response is inflammation at the muscle as the body scrambles to repair and build new muscle (see Taking the mystery out of how muscles are made).
However, that's just a piece of the puzzle.
This "pro-inflammatory" view has also been adopted also due to the detection of the release in the body of myokines, a type of cytokine, as a response to muscle contraction. And cytokines are seen as pro-inflammatory markers. One cytokine that has been correlated with high intensity muscle demand is one known as IL-6.
But hang on a minute. This IL-6 release in response to intense exercise is evidently not the whole story.
Though the release of cytokines as been lumped together as pro-inflammatory when detected in the system, evidently it makes a difference what the cause of the cytokines release happens to be.
Are you still with me here? Let's take a closer look.
Whenever we move, our bodies release signaling molecules that communicate to the rest of the body. More on The Anti-inflammatory Effects of High Intensity Exercise: More Reasons To Go For The Burn
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