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Successful Journaling Is The Secret To Women’s Fitness

December 5, 2011 By Karen Ficarelli

Journaling is one of the most powerful ways to accelerate your personal fitness development. By transforming your thoughts into writing, you gain insights you’d otherwise never see. It’s as if once relieved of the initial thought, the brain becomes free to set about thinking of ways to achieve it. Writing your thoughts and goals on paper helps to release your mind so that it can think of fresh new ideas.

Journaling can provide huge advantages to your fitness program. When you write down your goals, both short- and long-term, you free your mind from the worry and guilt that comes from knowing you need to do something healthy for yourself. Journaling helps us to take control of our lives and puts an end to any nagging thoughts that might be rambling around our heads. It helps us to organize our thoughts so that they become part of the goal-setting phase.

First you need to set goals then begin to think of ways to achieve it. Next make a commitment to record everything you eat and drink each day. Finally, you must write down all of your fitness activities and chart your progress and achievements. This will give your brain a clear view of what is working and what is not. If you continue this each day, you can make any changes needed in your diet or the amount of activity in order to increase your results or to keep things coming along as they are.

Journaling helps to keep your mind excited about your goals. Your brain needs constant stimulation and keeping a record of your goals, daily activities and achievements will reinforce positive thinking and mental well being.

In addition to your women’s fitness program, journaling really is the key to realizing the goals for your entire life. Take part in it everyday to solve problems, to gain clarity and to verify your progress in everything that you do.

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Journal Your Way to A Thinner You

October 31, 2011 By Karen Ficarelli

Are you interested in reducing your waistline, losing some weight and becoming a thinner version of yourself? You might be interested to know that reaching your desired women’s fitness goals is only a pen and journal away. That’s because it has been proven that those women who keep a journal of everything that they eat and drink and all of their activities have a greater chance of success than those who do not.

Journaling offers many advantages to your fitness program. When you record your goals both short- and long-term, you challenge your mind to do something healthy for you. It frees you from the worry and guilt of knowing you need to do something beneficial for your health. Journaling helps us to take control of our lives and puts an end to any nagging thoughts that might be rambling around our heads.
Journaling helps to encourage your mind to take part in your exciting new plans. Your brain needs constant stimulation and keeping a record of your goals, daily activities and achievements will reinforce positive thinking and mental functioning.

Maintaining a diet and fitness journal has been proven to be the number one motivator for helping you succeed with your goals. Writing down everything you eat and drink and all of your activities each day will help you track your progress as you move toward your fitness goals. So, what are your fitness goals and why are you participating in a fitness program?

First of all, focus on how you are going to look when you have reached your ideal desirable size. Visualize your body in that sexy black dress, a new swimsuit or your favorite tight jeans. Allow yourself to feel as if you are wearing those items now. How do you feel now that you have achieved your goal? Get emotionally involved with the result. Your subconscious, meaning your mind, will believe whatever you tell it, real or imagined.

In an area of your journal for goals, record your long-term and short-term goals. Give yourself a time frame for reaching these and then keep track of how close you come. The journal is a great way to monitor your behavior and boost motivation.

Writing is easy and can be done almost anywhere at anytime. I like to take time each morning writing my goals and then my affirmations. Throughout the day I record my meals and workouts and at the end of the day, usually after I have cleaned the kitchen after dinner, I sit down and reflect on my progress.

Find your special place to write in your journal. This is a crucial part to your fitness program and one that is fun to do too. It’s the one area where you can let your creativity soar. If you can believe it, you can achieve it. Happy Journaling.

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Journal Your Fitness Goals And Achievements

September 26, 2011 By Karen Ficarelli

A primary part of my women’s fitness program is keeping a fitness journal. Journaling is a great tool for newbies or seasoned athletes. Anyone can use journaling to help them reach their goals. No matter what you desire in life, goal planning by writing out your dreams and plans for yourself will help to bring about your success.

Each exercise session can be recorded in your journal and you can track your achievements from one workout to the next. This will help you to know what is working for you and when you need to take the exercise to the next level to obtain satisfactory results.

Ladies who have been working out for a while may feel that a journal is no longer needed. But if you are serious about fitness, you will find that a journal can provide a running track of your journey to success. You can easily chart your progress as you advance to the next level of all of your exercises, tracking the difficulty of each one.

If you are increasing weights, a journal will help you keep an accurate record of what you lift each time. When you are building muscles through strength training you may find that you are hungrier and may consume more calories. While this may be necessary, the journal will help you keep track of how much you eat and drink versus the amount of activity that you are doing.

Your journal can also help you chart the amount of water that you drink each day. When you are involved in a strenuous workout, staying hydrated is vital. Your journal can help you count the glasses of water that you consume each day. Every part of your well being can be recorded in your journal.

Begin today writing down your weight and measurements and what you hope to change and achieve. Place your journal in a convenient place where you can consult it regularly. Make journaling a part of your day just as eating and exercising are a part of your regular routine.

Your journal can keep you focused on your goal and provide the proof that your hard work produces real results. Remember: If you believe it, you will achieve it. Happy Journaling.

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Form A Habit With Your Fitness Journal

August 22, 2011 By Karen Ficarelli

Diet, exercise and journaling are the three main components to the Fitness4Her women’s fitness program. Each of these plays a major part in helping women look and feel their very best. The good news is that women’s fitness is easily attainable and all it takes is learning to make a habit out of good choices and healthy behaviors.

You may have heard of journaling, or even tried it to some degree, but maybe you just couldn’t get into it. Maybe you have trouble thinking of what to write and can’t see the benefit of spending time writing when you could be doing something much more fun. If those are some of the things keeping you from journaling, you probably have never done it for any prolonged length of time. But did you know that successful Journaling could be as simple as just forming a habit?

Most women have habits, both good and bad. Habits are easily formed when the same behavior is repeated over and over. The brain begins to form an easy pattern for the behavior and after a short while it seems natural to repeat the actions. The habit of journaling is easy to form and what makes it so great is that journaling frees your mind for other tasks at hand.

When you learn how to make journaling a part of your life, you will liberate your mind to think new thoughts and generate new ideas. Once you release it from the confines of the same old thoughts bouncing around in your head, you give your brain the power to move forward. As you read your thoughts and goals on paper, you will begin to think of what you want next, how you will bring your goals to reality, and look forward to charting your achievements.

Maintaining a fitness journal will help you to successfully lose weight and get in shape. If you will write down everything you eat and drink, and all of the exercises that you do and how much time you spend doing them, you will be successful in your women’s fitness program.

Set the goal, believe it, and achieve it. Sound too easy? Journaling will help you bring it to reality. Of course you will need to make changes in your diet, you will need to exercise at least 30 minutes each day, you will need rest and rejuvenation time for your body and the journal will keep you focused on these goals.

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The Secret to Writing Your Fitness Goals

July 18, 2011 By Karen Ficarelli

Maintaining a diet and fitness journal has been proven to be the number one motivator for helping you succeed with your goals. Writing down everything you eat and drink and all of your activities each day will help you track your progress as you move toward your fitness goals. So, what are your fitness goals and why are you participating in a fitness program?

Perhaps your goal is to lose weight. But how much weight do you want to lose? One of the best things about a fitness journal is that you can record your current weight and measurements so you’ll have a starting point of where you began. Once you have those numbers written down in front of you, ask yourself again, how much weight do you want to lose or better yet, what size would you like to be? Be specific with your goal planning by pinpointing exactly what you wish to change.

A great motivator to making changes is to identify what those changes will mean to your everyday life. Why do you want to lose weight or change your size? Is it so you can wear certain styles, look good in your clothes or are their health concerns with your weight? Write down all of the reasons that you desire to lose weight. This is a crucial part in goal planning. Discovering and documenting the why behind our goals really does make them easier and more logical to achieve. Remember this is part of the brain game and your mind must be able to grab the concept in order to play along.

Focus on how you will look when you have reached your desirable size. Visualize your self in that sexy black dress, a new swimsuit or your favorite tight jeans. Allow yourself to feel as if you are wearing those items now. How do you feel now that you have achieved your goal? Get emotionally involved with the result. Your subconscious, meaning your mind, will believe whatever you tell it, real or imagined. As I have said many times before, your mind does not have eyes to see or ears to hear, it can only react to the stimuli that you feed it.

Make short-term and long-term goals and strive to set specific dates as to when you will achieve these. For instance your short-term goal could be to walk an additional mile or two this week, while your long-term goal might be to walk 10 miles per week within a 60-day period. When you write all of your goals down on paper, you reinforce them to your sub-conscious and allow your mind to find ways of attaining them.

Keep updating your goals as you progress through your fitness program. Even if you are the perfect weight and size you can use the fitness journal to maintain your wonderful shape. Those athletes who are looking to step up their routine will find the journal indispensable for tracking your advancements. It’s a great way to challenge your own abilities and work towards higher goals.

Do your mind, body and spirit a big favor by starting a fitness journal today.

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