FitDream Ezine 1/8/09

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Vol 1  Issue 46                                                                    January 8, 2009

Hi Everyone!

Lots of NEW avenues, features, and events on the plate for the new year.  I’m excited to have so many new opportunities to connect with women about health and fitness – and I’ll keep you informed as we go along and new developments take place!

For now, I am experimenting with publishing the FitDream Ezine in its “technicolor” version right here on the TruthAbout blog.  The primary reason for this is because it has come to my attention that SO many email boxes are automatically shuffling anything with images right into spam boxes.  This would explain emails that I receive, such as this one from Maria just yesterday:

Hi Lani!  I loved the first three issues of your ezine that I received a couple of months ago.  Are you still sending them out?  I just thought I’d check because I was watching for them and they stopped showing up in my email box.  Please let me know when you will be sending them out again so I can watch for it! Thanks for all you do!  Marie.

Well, Marie, a quick check of my records show that you have been sent every single FitDream Ezine since those first 3 you received – but the have all been unopened!  This tells me that, as you were obviously watching for them, they were somehow diverted so that you of course thought they weren’t being sent!

Here’s another email I got this week:

Lani, I look forward to your ezine each week – I sometimes print them out to read at lunch!  It’s a good thing I know when they are scheduled to come because I have to check my spam box every Thursday morning to find it.  Even though I’ve given “permission”, somehow my server always filters it there.  Thanks for all the great, useful info!        ~  Becky

This same scenario is being repeated multiple times – which has inspired me to devise a different method to get these to you!

I am sending out an “image free” message with a link right to this location so that you can easily find YOUR issue front center.  It also means there will be an easy way for you to relocate each week’s edition to get back to later on if you don’t have time to read all you like when you first open!  The current issue will only be up, however, until the next issue is published.

I hope that the transition to this flow is easy for you, and thanks for bearing with me as I make this transition to continue to bring you good information – uninterrupted! (And Becky, you’ll be glad to know it’s easier than ever to print these out for later reading – simply find the “pring” link at the bottom of this entry!)

Hearts, hugs and stars

Feature Article: Health Or Beauty For Weight Loss Success?

Upcoming Special Event:  Woman’s Fitness BluePrint Winter Session starts soon!

Health Or Beauty:  What Drives Weight Loss Success?

by Lani Muelrath, M.A.

One of the first questions I have for a new client, when they come to me to help them achieve better fitness, weight loss, or energy, is this:

“What it is that you want to achieve in terms of your fitness?

A close second question is “Why do you want to achieve this?”

This second question always seems to inspire deeper thought.  It has always seemed like an important part of the question, to me.  This is because I have consistently observed among clients that the answers to these questions have great bearing on their progress toward their goals.

So it is not surprising that during the course of my regular review of the literature on all things health and fitness that a particular study drew my attention.

The Study

The study to which I refer involved gathering information from a field of subjects in 3 different categories:

1)  weight loss maintainers (3 years)

2)  weight loss regainers

3)  stable obese – no weight loss achieved

The goal of the study was to ascertain what factors made the difference between these 3 groups.

What’s different about those who KEPT the weight off from those who regained – from those who never were able to lose weight?

The Primary Focus

This was not an attempt to be an exhaustive study.  Rather, the researchers hoped to find some common element among the “maintainers” that would provide valuable feedback as to why these particular were able to more successfully maintain their weight loss than the regainers.  Or the “stable obese”.

Health Or Beauty?

They uncovered some interesting – and useful – information regarding the motivation of the “maintainers” and the “regainers”.

What do you think – were the “winners” motivated more by health concerns (medical risks of being overweight) or psychological factors (attractiveness and confidence)?

But….before  I tell you the results of their study, I want to know what YOU think made the biggest difference between the “maintainers” and those who didn’t!

Then I’ll post the rest of my article next week.

Tell Me What YOU Think!

I hope you’ll play along with me and I look forward to what YOU think may have, literally, tipped the scales in this study!

Simply link to this article in it’s location on the main page of this blog HERE.  Then find the “comments” link below the article and tell what you think may have made the difference between the regainers and the maintainers.

Perhaps even draw upon your own experience!

Here are my questions for you; you can respond to any or all!

1) Why do YOU think that some people are able to sustain weight loss, and others not so well?

2)  Do you think more successful losers are motivated by “health” or “beauty”? (as described above)

2)  Which factors in weight loss do YOU think should be addressed? (The study I am reviewing examined just some of the factors)

I look forward to hearing what you have to say about the KEYS to maintained weight loss success.

And then I promise to spill the rest of the beans about the rest of this research study next week!

Lani

Earlybird Special Through January 15, 2009  or while there are still seats

Enjoy over 15 Testimonials and Inspiration  HERE

Take 10 Weeks And Change Your Life….

Award winning holistic fitness coach and entrepreneur Lani Muelrath, “The Fitness DreamMaker,” has been a leader in the health and fitness industry for over 30 years and currently holds faculty positions at San Francisco State University and Butte College in California. She has a Master’s Degree in Physical Education as well as multiple teaching credentials and fitness certifications in addition to her position as Head T-Tapp Trainer, including Pilates and Yoga. She created a unique in home, WebCam fitness training program that has served as the model for similar programs nation wide.

Lani created and starred in her own television show on CBS, “Lani’s All Heart Aerobics” and served as Fitness Reporter for the Evening News.  She travels internationally as a fitness coach, consultant, trainer, and motivational speaker.  Her seminars, one-on-one as well as group coaching programs, including Woman’s Fitness BluePrint:  An Action Plan for Success,  and retreats offer vision as well as concrete steps toward making your fitness dreams come true.

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