Morning Stiffness - WAKE UP WITH A PEP IN YOUR STEP!!

You do not, I repeat, DO NOT HAVE TO feel like this guy in the morning!!

One of the main causes of morning stiffness are being overweight. Your  body has to carry all those unnecessary pounds which puts a real strain on your joints, muscles, tendons, and ligaments.

Another reason your waking up feeling the blues is because of a lack of daily physical activity.

The basic causes of morning stiffness are lack of daily physical activity, being overweight, having a poor diet, not sleeping properly, and being in an environment that tends to be cold and/or damp.

Some tips:

• Walking 
• Especially if you have a desk job, get up and move
• Aim for 10,000 steps a day - Get a pedometer - it really helps
• Exercise
• Follow a regular exercise plan to get those feel good endorphins going
• Get your blood and heart pumping
• Clean out those toxins from your body by sweating it out!
• Get a good nights rest
• Turn the phone off, turn the tv off, turn out the lights and just sleep
• Healthy diet
• Fuel your body with clean foods
• Less from a box more from the earth
• If it spoils, usually its better for you

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ALS Awareness - More Than A Bucket of Water

I've been seeing on Facebook, the local news, instagram, twitter, and even the TODAY show people dumping buckets of water on their heads for ALS Awareness.  While I think its great to bring AWARENESS to this disease, awareness is NOT enough to find a cure!

ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. The disorder is characterized by rapidly progressive weakness, muscle atrophy and fasciculations, muscle spasticity, difficulty speaking, difficulty swallowing, and decline in breathing ability.

My awesome friend that I went to college with at Clarion University, Hope Cross Dezember, is a huge supporter of FINDING a cure for ALS. As her husband was diagnosed just 3 short years ago.  I've been able to keep up with her story via facebook and I have never seen a person who has more HOPE that we will find a cure.  Her husband, Steve Dezember II, has rapidly lost the ability to walk, eat on his own, and even to breathe without assistance.  But they have not lost hope or a true love for life as they take road trips, go to concerts, and are the definition of living life to the fullest. They are an inspiration to all people not just those suffering from a terrible disease.  

While I could dump a bucket of water on my head or nominate you to do so as well, I thought I could do more.  Hope and Steve started a foundation called HopeforSteve (how cute) and I am going to donate $ which is the real thing they need to help pay for crazy medical bills, helping Steve have the medical supplies he needs, help Hope to pay for groceries or honestly whatever they need! Wouldn't you feel better knowing your money went right in the pocket of someone suffering this disease to help them to live their lives.  Steve recently tweeted




I am going to take 50% of my profits from Beachbody on all day Thursday, August 14th and donate it directly to Hope For Steve.  So if you have been on the fence or messaging me about a product I enourage you to ORDER on THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2014 to help Hope and Steve!  Sign up here  and I will contact you.  

For more information see www.hopeforsteve.com