Discover Secrets To Looking Great This Summer

This is the time of year when everywhere you look you see images of sleek, toned bodies.

It’s also a time when many feel the pressure to resort to crash diets, hoping to fit into a smaller swimsuit size in a few weeks’ time.

It’s also no surprise that weight-loss centers offer specials during the summer months and magazines tout diets that promise losses of 10, 15, and even 20 pounds in less than a month’s time.

Unfortunately, quick-fix and fad diets come with a painful price tag. Only 12% of Americans who lose weight on a crash diet maintain the weight loss for one year.

The rest - 88% - not only gain back the weight much sooner, but many gain back even more than they lost.

The biggest loss that crash diets actually produce is loss of morale. After gaining weight back, demoralized dieters, feeling like failures, abandon all hopes of ever reaching a weight that they can feel healthy and happy about.

Nutrition and medical experts have come down hard on crash diets for these very reasons. Diets can’t produce long-term results because they focus solely on short-term success.

They force you to think about - even count - every bite you eat instead of helping to change the way you think about food. Eating habits are deeply ingrained in our subconscious mind.

Without changing these habits, dieters fall into the same traps of cravings, binging, and emotional eating over and over again.

The reason that so many people resort to crash diets every summer is that there seems to be no other way. Fortunately, that’s no longer the case. Many health professionals, looking for a safe, effective, alternative to diets, have begun recommending a completely different way to lose weight. This revolutionary, anti-diet approach that’s already helped thousands of people lose weight successfully - permanently - is yoga.

Lose Weight This New Year

Studies show the average American gains 10 pounds from Thanksgiving through New Years.

Ten pounds of fat. What came on in a few weeks of partying may take you months to get rid of.

It’s why your clothing gets tighter and you have to inhale to get your pants to close.

But even people who watch their weight tend to gain weight during this period.

Why?

Because your eating is on automatic pilot. You’re at a party; you wisely avoid the cheesecakes and eggnog and reach for a handful of nuts (the healthy food you think). And you just keep eating.

Your body is programmed to store food. And as you get older, your metabolism slows.

You probably remember years ago you could probably eat ANYTHING and not gain weight. Not any more.

So you need to do something to get rid of the weight. And there’s no better time to start than right now.

But the secret to success isn’t lifting weights.

It’s not working out with another personal trainer.

It isn’t spending endless hours on a boring cardio machine.

The answer to your weight problems is thousands of years old. It’s yoga.

And now there’s scientific proof that yoga works for weight loss.

Many forms of yoga raise the heart rate into the aerobic range. But you don’t need to exert yourself to lose weight with yoga. Some studies show even gentle yoga and breathing techniques rev up your tired metabolism so you can lose weight.

A study at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle linked yoga and weight loss. This study of over 15,000 men and women showed people who did yoga lost weight while the control group gained weight.

Another study presented last year at the America Heart Association found yoga helped overweight high school students lose weight while the control group gained weight.

And the famed Dr. Dean Ornish encourages his patients to practice yoga to help ensure weight loss. When you do yoga and make it part of your lifestyle, you’ll soon discover it’s power for weight loss.

My name is Gail Pickens-Barger and I teach individual yoga lessons and group classes right here in the Golden Triangle Area.

It doesn’t matter how much stress you have in your life, yoga will help you get rid of it in a hurry.

You’ll feel more calm right away and with practice, you’ll extend that sense of calm into every minute of your day.

No, you don’t have to be in perfect shape to do yoga.

Yes, it will help you lose weight, lower your blood pressure, and add to your overall sense of being fit.

I invite you to pick up the phone and call me at 409-727-3177 to learn more about yoga. We’ll chat and go over your goals and you’ll be able to book your first session with me.

Warning: My schedule fills quickly so if you are serious about making a healthy change in your life, you’ll want to schedule with me right away.


I look forward to speaking with you.
409-727-3177

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