No Excuses: "I Don't Have Money" and other BS.

Hey Kids. Today is part one of my impromptu series on "No Excuses" because frankly, I am getting to the point where I'm wanting to LAUGH when I hear the myriad excuses people offer for not getting healthy and fit. I will post on the many different lamea** reasons I hear over and over, and today I'm addressing the "Well, yea, if I was like Madonna/Demi Moore/Gwyneth Paltrow/Jennifer Garner and I had all the money in the world and a nutritionist and a personal trainer to get me out of bed every morning, I'D BE FIT TOO!!". 

My first response to these people is to first of all consider the following:

 

Hello. I could find about 200 more celebrity examples and I certainly know plenty of VERY WEALTHY individuals who also DON'T HAVE A JOB (i.e. husbands work while they, um, well, um....SIT a lot.) and are FAT. Also, please note, I am not in any way putting the pictures of Oprah or Kirstie up here to poke fun. I'm simply making a point, and both women have admitted very publicly their weight struggles. Both women have relatively unlimited funds and both have continually struggled with gaining weight.

I watched a few episodes of Kirstie's show on E (which to be honest I found rather disturbing, for myriad reasons) and I recall when she first hired a trainer. She has one of like 10 personal assistants that work for her come into her room to wake her up (apparently she needs more than an alarm clock) and she tells them, I don't want to get up, and they say, well your trainer is going to be here, and she's like, "tell him I don't feel well". 

Do you see the point? YOU HAVE TO WANT IT. And, at the end of the day, you have to DO THE WORK and you have TO EAT LESS. Sure, you can pay a crapload of $$$ to go to a private spa where you are locked in and someone watches every move you make. I'm sure if you did the Optifast thing like Oprah did and/or a spa getaway where everything was monitored, you could EASILY SURELY lose weight. And guess what, when you get back to real life?? 

It all comes back. And then some. Why? Because your mindset didn't change. You had someone diet FOR YOU. You had someone WORK YOU OUT. 

Get a clue people. Yes Madonna has personal trainers. Sure, Jennifer Garner works with a trainer. But have you noticed, these fit celebrities or people that you know IRL- they have a healthy approach to LIFE. They are active, they eat healthy, they appear to enjoy being active and healthy as opposed to being a glutton and indulging enough for 5 people.

If your body isn't as fit as you'd like, it's simple. YOU ARE EATING TOO MUCH AND NOT WORKING OUT ENOUGH.

End of story. Not having $$$ for a personal trainer or nutritionist or chef or a gym membership is a bunch of baloney. You don't need a gym- just ask:

• Craig Ballantyne, Turbulence Training
• Cathe Friedrich, www.cathe.com 
• Check out Collage Video for hundreds of workout DVDs that can be done at home with a minimally equipped home gym.
• Check out P90X or Insanity or TurboFire or anything from Chalene Johnson
• Check out Valerie Waters who trains Jen Garner but also has AMAZING kick butt workouts using 2-3 simple tools from YOUR HOME or hotel room! HELLO!!
• How about FREE? Go to YouTube and find thousands of free videos, there are full Taebo workouts that require no equipment and tons of body-weight exercises you can do. 

Check this out:

Taebo or kickboxing- no equipment. Can be done inside or outside. You just need clothes. Please.

Yoga and Pilates type workouts can be done in a studio or outside or inside. Again clothes are preferred.

There are about 2000000 different forms of crunches, sit-ups, pushups, and plank moves that can be done anywhere with no equipment. 

HELLOO. *Ahem*

Get your plank on. How about outside "equipment" like stairs?? Impromptu plyometrics and sprints is some killer cardio: no equipment or gym membership needed.

Wow look at this crazy person. She must have millions and some insider secret to know how to RUN.

Like I said- yoga has about 2 trillion poses that can be done anywhere.

Ok. I'm sorry, what other excuses about needing a ton of money to get fit can we discuss?? 

Anyone else answer this question a lot? Anyone disagree? 

Now go out there and get started on your new body. TODAY.