Healthy with Shani

I read an article in a very popular women's magazine the other day which featured their favorite fitness tips. many of these magazines contain very fluffy advice, but tens of thousands of women still seek out that advice, daily. I observed the images which featured models with long and slender legs and arms, and naturally thin waists.  The models were demonstrating things like yoga poses to "tighten and tone" and one celebrity trainer was cited as saying she advises getting firm and toned arms by using "no more than three pound weights." Um....rly? I believe (yeaaah from experience) that if you're overweight and looking for help, reading these magazines may make you harder on yourself because following this advice is going to bring about results so incredibly slowly that you're likely to completely lose interest in your workouts and opt to spend your evening watching "The Biggest Loser" whilst digging into your Twinkie ration but motiva...

My rapid weight loss and self explosion into the fitness world surged a tidal wave that I was ecstatically riding upon until it crashed into the shore and left me gasping for air, trying to clear my lungs of salt water and regain strength from being tossed so carelessly.  But while trying to be strong again and get up, my skin was being burnt from the hot sun that mercilessly beat upon me. I never say that if I could go back I would.  Because I wouldn't know the things that I know now, thus, how would I be the person that I am today? I am passionate about others avoiding mistakes I have made in regard to the "fit" lifestyle and advise against anyone ever going from lifelong fat to competition prep.  I do feel that there are emotional components to being overweight that take time to recover from, and there are also emotional components you must anticipate and be ready for as a competitor for both during preparation and life after show.  If you haven't given yoursel...