How to Start an Active Holiday Tradition

I recently interviewed for an article about starting healthy holiday traditions, and I think the article turned out great – things that apply to just about everyone traveling during the holidays and dealing with family and outside pressures that can be unhealthy.

Here is the article featured in Healthy Living.

My grandparents' house, where I spend most holidays, is like a black hole—in a good way: Whenever I'm there, I spend most of my time sleeping, eating, and lazing about, pleasantly sedated by the combination of the blazing fireplace, the comfy blankets that Grandma knits and leaves on all of the furniture, and the inevitable food coma that results after one of our afternoon Pennsylvania Dutch feasts. My parents have actually asked me if I ever sleep in New York, since I seem to need a lot of catching up in that department whenever we're at Grandma and Grandpa's.

But this season, I'm determined to approach the annual trip differently. Holidays are all about tradition, and that's exactly what I need: A new tradition that keeps me, and my family, moving. So I talked to Nikki Glor, a certified personal trainer and fitness instructor at Crunch Fitness in New York City, and creator of her own NikkiFitness DVDs. Chances are, your family may be planning a similarly lazy couple of days; if so, here's now to get them (and yourself) out of the rut.

Read the full article here.

Nikki
Crunch Manhattan Group Fitness Instructor/Personal Trainer

More from Nikki at www.nikkifitness.com:

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Nikki Fitness is a personal trainer, group exercise instructor, writer and publicist living in New York City. She started as a cheerleader at Syracuse University, but became certified in fitness before her beach wedding so that she could get back in shape. Laura, a graduate student, working mom, and military wife, inspired Nikki's Military Wife Workout (MWW) for all military wives. Find more articles by Nikki at her article archive. Learn more at www.nikkifitness.com. For more Nikki Fitness blogs, visit her blog archive.

Comments

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[#2 Posted by: Angel]

Fairy, how come you took the one w/ chromium polynicotinate, green tea, caffeine, acai berry extract and L-Theanine instead of the organic acai berry juice or the organic acai berry capsules?

Click "ingredients" at the bottom:
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[#3 Posted by: Peter]

Acai berries have to be frozen or freeze dried to keep their nutrients according to this page: http://www.top3acai.com/?t202id=7746&t202kw=&OVRAW=acai%20berries&OVKEY=acai%20berries&OVMTC=standard&OVADID=28586995512&OVKWID=225567014012

"Extremely fragile, the berries’ potent benefits are only good for up to twenty-four hours after harvest. Therefore, most of the berries have to be quickly frozen or freeze-dried in order to maintain the health benefits and survive shipping."
Which is logical.

These are frozen: http://www.wonderfruits.com/wonderfruitAcai.php
Here's their ingredients: http://www.wonderfruits.com/realPure.php
That's a lot of fat. Anyone willing to try it? Maybe that's why these free acai magical fat burning juices and supplements are primarily other ingredients.

I don't know the integrity of any of the companies that have freeze-dried acai berries.

So what exactly do the non 100% acai berry juices and capsules have to offer?

Fairy, how much of the weight loss was fat, how much was muscle and how much was water weight?

Personally, I'd like to see the military test out this stuff.

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