Fitness Tip #1 Drink More Water to get healthier!!

Fitness Tip of the week is designed to motivate and encourage us all to take that extra step towards a healthy mind and body. Lifestyle change is really the key to maintaining a healthy body and these tips can really help!

Follow each tip for a week and retrain your body and mind how to feel the best it can possibly feel! Soon each tip will become a habit and then you are really on your way to fitness success!!! Each week add the new tip while continuing the tip from the previous week. Within a matter of weeks you will have a toolbox full of new healthy and beneficial tools/habits to support you down your road of complete fitness success. If you have any questions or tips you would like to pass on please let me know! What works for you may also work for others. Karleen@BendAdventureBootCamp.com

1. Drink Lots of water! 1/2 -1 gallon a day. I use a 2.2 liter bottle that I drink 1-2 of each day. This will hydrate every cell in your body and bring life back into your body. Do this every day and you will notice a difference in your overall health, digestion as well as energy level and skin quality. Most of us live our lives very dehydrated so getting that hydration back is the #1 key to our fitness success! When you see a plant that hasn't been watered, you know it looks lifeless and void. The same goes for us, only we get used to this state of dehydration and learn to live with it. Let’s relearn what it feels like to be healthy. Hydrate!

Water is your first step to success!!! Sounds easy enough, right? Being hydrated also fills us up and takes away those hunger pangs. When hungry, drink water first and wait 10 minutes. Most of the time that we feel hungry we are actually just thirsty.

Remember; drink all of your water at least 2 hours before bedtime! If you want to learn this the hard way try drining a quart of water a hour before bedtime, I promise you will only do this once:-)

I find it easiest to have 1 bottle that I use every day. Knowing how many of those bottles I have to drink each day really makes keeping count easy. My 2.2 liter jug keeps me on track. I can pour it into a glass from the jug but at least I know when it is empty, I have given my body what it needs. It was too hard for me to remember how many glasses I drank each day, so for me the jug is my key to success. Find out what works for you and don't give up.

If you have access to filtered or purified water use it. Britta filters are a great and fairly inexpensive way to have filtered water, but use what you can afford. Tap water is better than no water. You may also check at your local grocery store for self-fill purified water. You bring the containers and fill yourself-this can be an inexpensive way to drink higher quality water for very little money. 4-7 gallons a week should be your goal!

Have fun and take note of how your body and mind respond to wonderful and simple water. It may take 4-7 days for your body to get used to this quantity of water, so give it a chance! We all have toxins inside so increasing your water intake may get these little buggers stirred up. It is a very good thing to get them out, but you may notice some "detox" symptoms such at upset stomach, dizziness and other flu like symptoms. Just keep drinking a lot and in several hours to several days you should have a new lease on life!

Please contact me if you have any questions, concerns or suggestions. Karleen@BendAdventureBootCamp.com and visit us at http://www.bendbootcamp.com/
Pass this blog on to your friends and family so they can start feeling the benefits of Fitness Success Today, too!

Have a Healthy and Successful Day,

Karleen

http://www.bendbootcamp.com/

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