Boot Camp: Day 3 - Top 10 Weight Loss Camps: Biggest Loser Resort

The Biggest Loser Resort has many locations around the US, including Malibu, CA; Ivins, UT; Chicago, IL (open May 2013) and Niagara, NY. Choosing a fitness retreat (or extended stay boot camp) that offers multiple locations may make your decision easier.  Distance and weather can make your experience a good or not so good one. For instance I would not travel anywhere that may have snow, my preferable experience would be warm and tropical without too much travel expense required.

Image courtesy of Biggest Loser Resort

The Biggest Loser Resort has tailored their fitness and nutrition programs to meet the needs of those that are exhausted by the endless diet cycle. If you seek a permanent lifestyle solution this may be the one for you. To help you decide I have included a video from the Biggest Loser Resort, a tour of their Malibu, CA program.

Video: BLR Insight: Malibu, California

The Biggest Loser Resort understands the importance of the need for adequate relaxation after a day of hard work and devotion. Many of the wonderful services are included in the resort rate, but keep in mind some services are additional, including:

• private nutrition consultations
• private training sessions
• and spa treatments

There are so many choices and you are probably at a point in your life where you are about to give up, so how do you decide? Well, you can read all of the facts and spin things around in your head until you decide to head for the fridge.

• Or you can read a few things and look for signs, what intrigues you? 
• What are you looking to get out of this experience?
• What do you really like? Stop telling yourself no, and start telling yourself yes. 

Part of overeating and an unhealthy lifestyle is putting yourself and your emotions aside. If you want to look better and most importantly feel better, than start acknowledging who you really are! And if this is part of your journey than one of the best steps that you can take is acknowledging what you really want, DON'T JUST SETTLE!

Boot Camp: Day 2 - Top 10 Weight Loss Camps

Entering Day 2 of the Top 10 Weight Loss Camps:

Images courtesy of: Shane Diet & Fitness Retreat

Dare we ask the question: What makes a weight loss camp or fitness retreat great?

• No hidden costs
• Pleasant staff
• Great environment
• Good health food (trust me there is bad health food)
• Comfortable lounging
• Resort location
• The ability to recognize the whole person: emotional, physical & spiritual 
• Caring & compassionate
• Firm and able to discipline without belittling

Day 2, we have chosen the Shane Diet & Fitness Resorts, they have multiple location around the country including the Westin in San Antonio Texas and the Honors Haven Resort & Spa in New York's Catskill Mountains (lovely).

1. Their motto: Live Laugh Loose!
2. Their claim to fame: "Shane Diet Resorts is not a traditional fat camp or fitness boot camp. It’s a weight loss vacation held at luxury resort and spa destinations for those who are determined to live happier and healthier."

Shane Diet Resorts received the 2012 Spa-Finder Wellness Award for the countries top weight loss spa.If  or when you’re ready to lose weight and get healthy, Shane Diet and Fitness Resorts has designed a a pretty extensive weight loss program for creating a new you. Shane's program encompasses:

• a fun and healthy fitness vacation package
• their approach to weight loss combines personalized attention from amazing professional staff
• delicious, satisfying and healthy meals
• nutrition guidance
• fitness education
• customized workouts
• behavior coaching

Video: Meet Arielle, a guest at Shane Diet & Fitness Resorts

The Shane Experience is all about you.Their promises:
"You will be in the hands of our expert and deeply caring staff. They will customize the weight loss program to meet your individual goals and needs. You will live, eat, workout and socialize with other people you can easily relate to at our luxurious resort and spa. People who understand your weight loss issues and are as hopeful as you are to build a new and healthier life for themselves."

For a list of what to bring visit their online list: What to bring? Shane Diet & Fitness

McMurry University in Texas: Weight Loss Volunteers Needed

McMurry University in Texas is currently seeking weight loss volunteers for their kinesiology department's  90-day weight loss study. Interviews for the weight loss study will begin Friday, February 8 From 11 a.m. - 1 p.m., and 5 - 6 p.m. in the human performance laboratory (pe #214) at Hunt Physical Education Center and will continue each Friday until all openings are filled.

Image courtesy of GMA Online

The purpose of McMurry University's study will be to determine if  exercise, diet or portion control alone creates the most effective changes in weight and size. Standards for exercise within the weight loss study will include low intensity and cardiovascular training, nutritional selections, and portion-size.

All of which have proven to be most effective in previous clinical trials for weight loss. The weight loss trial will last for 90 days. During these long excruciating days in which you will be hoping to loose weight effectively regardless of their trial, you will be put through a serious of other exercises including:

• a briefing
• screening
• informed consent
• random categorization?

FYI in order to participate your body mass index must be 26 or greater. To figure out your BMI or Body Mass Index visit:  National Heart and Lung Institute's BMI. And if you have any of the following medical conditions, you need not apply:  cardiovascular, heart disease or diabetes mellitus patients will all be excluded.

Dr. Buck Willis and Dr. Paul Smith will discuss the categorization, safety, risks, experimental design, benefits, accountability, and security at the weight loss volunteer meetings. To RSVP leave a message on Dr. Willis' voice mail at 325-793-4993.

Boot Camp: Day 1 - Top 10 Weight Loss Camps

What a great idea, weight loss camp! A place where you can avoid the worldly issues and focus on just you. No temptations, all the support that you need and health, simply and serenly surrounding you.

Change can be hard to come by in today's world, your daily focus may become dulled when working your rat race job or dealing with cranky people on your commute or even at work and home. So what happens? You turn to...food.

Well, this doesn't seem to be the case while in an isolated weight loss retreat. There is no food to turn too. What are you going to do get angry and eat a bunch of lettuce? No, you will be forced to do something else. Forced (for the better) to turn to another type of coping mechanism. Excercise, talking your problems out, not stuffing them!

So let's talk, Top 10 weight loss camps: Day 1

Image courtesy of Unite Weight Loss Retreat

The Unite Fitness Retreat specializes in

1. Proven Weight Loss Results
2. Nutritional Education
3. Rejuvenation
4. After Care - Unite Retreat provides you with 12 weeks of at home support, accountability, and a successful plan to continue your healthy life-style at home. 
5. All-inclusive pricing - no hidden costs
6. Individualized professional care, personal trainers and more
7. A change of scenery, located in the beautiful state of Utah.

Per the Unite Fitness Retreat here is an example of what your daily schedule would look like:

Your Daily Schedule
This is a typical (each day is a little different) daily schedule; weekends are full of recreational activities, boot camp in the park, yoga, and additional spa time.

5:45 AM
Metabolism Kickstart (coffee or tea and light snack)
6:30 AM
Rise and Shine Training
7:30 AM
Breakfast (Daily goal setting, meet with your trainer)
8:30 AM
Fat Burn Blast
9:45 AM
Personal training session
10:45 AM
Break and a snack
11:00 AM
Water aerobics or fitness boot camp



12:30 PM
Lunch & nutrition workshop
1:45 PM
Behavioral therapy (once a week), yoga, or complimentary 60 minute massage (once a week)
3:00 PM
Daily recreational outing (Hiking, snowshoeing, tennis, cross country skiing, paddle boarding etc.), bring a snack to go
6:00 PM
Dinner
7:00 PM
Foam roller stretch
8:00 PM
Evening group walk, relaxation, or personal time

Just think about it, daily relaxation time for yourself and when you return you are few pounds lighter. Ahhhh....

For more information visit: Unite Fitness Retreat and stay tuned for 9 more blog posts featuring the best in weight loss retreats.

Video: Unite Fitness Retreat Molly's Experience

Super Bowl Halftime Show with Beyonce - But what about her 60lb weight loss?

With all the rumors that circulated regarding Beyonce's expected performance at the Super Bowl, we believe she pulled it off. Drawing from many of her most popular songs Beyonce brought to the floor a sense of energy and vigor, complete with lights and excellent choreography that Beyonce is known for.

Image courtesy of: Daily Mail

In case you missed it here (see below)is a video caption of the Halftime Super Bowl show featuring Beyonce's and Destiny's Childs Halftime performance.
One of the questions that have been on everyone's minds was answered at last night's Super Bowl performance: Will Destiny's Child reunite at the 2013 Super Bowl halftime show? But what about her 60lb weight loss just a few months ago? How did she do it?

In an interview with US Magazine she shares all:

Beyonce ( 5-foot-7 singer, 30): "Y'all have no idea how hard I worked. I had to lose 60 pounds! They had me on that treadmill -- I ate lettuce!"

• five-days-a-week cardio and body-sculpting sessions
• whole-foods diet
• vegetables, protein, nothing packaged

Excerpt from Wikipedia.com, "List of Super Bowl halftime shows" 2021:

"Main article: Super Bowl XLVII halftime show

• Date: February 3, 2013
• Location: Mercedes-Benz Superdome (New Orleans, Louisiana)
• Headliner: Beyoncé
• Special Guest: Destiny's Child
• Producer: Ricky Kirshner^[30]
• Director: Hamish Hamilton^[30]
• Sponsor: Pepsi
• References:

Setlist:

• "Run the World (Girls)" (Intro) / Vince Lombardi "Excellence" speech voiceover
• "Love on Top" (chorus a cappella) (Beyoncé)
• "Crazy in Love" (Beyoncé)
• "End of Time" (Beyoncé)
• "Baby Boy" (Beyoncé)
• "Bootylicious" (Destiny's Child)
• "Independent Women Part I" (Destiny's Child)
• "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (Beyoncé featuring Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams)
• "Halo" (Beyoncé)

Super Bowl Geico Commercial - Weight Loss Between a Guy & Teen Girls

If you have overheard the TV or even listened to commercials on the radio in the last decade you are probably familiar with Geico's rhetorical comments regarding everything related to life's bizarre circumstances. And yesterday's Super Bowl Geico Commercial was no different.

In the commercial, a mid-life man goes on a quest to lose a few pounds. He hires three teenage girls to follow him around and when he's about to take a bite out of strawberry covered waffles, cheeseburgers, and more, the teenage girls appear with "Eeewh so gross." Pretty funny really.

Maybe this will start a new teenage profession, motivational coaching via eewhs and OMGs! But I have heard about people that you can hire to follow you around and slap your hand when you pick up food that you should not be eating, maybe this is just another version or maybe it is discipline by fat shaming! Leave your comments below.

Video: Super Bowl Geico Commercial - Teen Girls