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12 Weeks to Weight Loss - Day 18

Day 18

By Paige Waehner, About.com

Updated: May 7, 2004

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Cardio Focus: Active Rest

Move it or lose it, folks! Take the stairs, take walking breaks...whatever you do, keep moving.

Strength and Flexibility Focus: Full Body Strength

Did you try the new strength training workout the other day? If so, are you ready to do it again? If you're sore from the previous workout you can either take a day off or do a lighter version of the same workout. If you're not sore, get busy! Make sure you're lifting enough weight to challenge your body and modify the workout as needed.

Beginners: Try this more advanced Full Body Workout & this Ab workout.

Intermediate/Advanced: Try this Total Body Superset Workout & Dynamic Abs or visit my Workout Center for more ideas.

Nutrition Focus: Vegetables

Today your focus is vegetables. As you probably know, vegetables are good for you--they give you vitamins, minerals and fiber and they help fill you up so you eat less junk food.

Your goal today is to eat at least one vegetable with any one of your meals (or all of them!). Don't forget that a serving isn't all that much. Eat a handful of carrots, a salad and a pile of green beans and you've done it! Don't forget, canned or frozen is fine.

Motivation

Today, you'll motivate yourself by getting competitive. If you workout in a gym, imagine how many people are there right now. Picture them huffing and puffing on the machines, pumping iron, sweating...working! Now, if those people can get to the gym, so can you. Don't let them get ahead of you!


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