Vol. 4, No. 4
April 19, 2007

Downloadable Motivation

Need motivation? Who doesn't, at least once in awhile? Enduranceradio.com, a Mission Viejo-based company, offers interviews with athletes you can download onto your MP3 player. Athletes like Lauri Fauerbach Adams, a 35-year old marathon runner and triathlete. After recovering from a bike crash at the Lake Placid Ironman competition, she made changes to her dieting and training program and improved her performance. You can log on to the site and download her story of the changes she made and her plans for the future. With 150,000 downloadable interviews, you'll have no excuse to lose momentum during your next workout.

If you prefer music to elevate your heart rate, check out marinaonline.com, where $.99 buys you 15 minutes of workout music.  Marina, the founder, former musician and aerobics instructor, lost 100 pounds working out to her own music and now shares the wealth. Or at least the music. Choose from walking and aerobic workout music, high-impact aerobics, body sculpting/stretching music and sitting to the beat, for those less-than-strenuous exercise sessions.  

Reasons for Weight Fluctuations

If you're doing everything right, exercising regularly and cutting back on your portions, don't fret about a pound or two one way or another. For women, especially, fluctuations in water can undermine motivation by adding pounds to the scale that may disappear just as easily. Here are some examples:

Fluid intake: If you drank 16 ounces of water and stepped on a scale, it would cause an immediate "weight gain" of one pound

Not enough fiber: if your digestive system is backed up for more than a day, your scale may register as much as two pounds more than normal

You're on vacation: flights longer than four hours and the inherent air pressure changes can alter the scale from one to three pounds

You ate Chinese: a salty meal the night before can make your body retain as much as three pounds the following morning

Hormonal changes: three days prior to a woman's menstrual period the scale may register as much as a five pound weight gain  

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