Boot Camps Get the Weight Off for Spring

If you want to shape up, look and feel great and experience permanent weight loss then try going to a boot camp. Boot camp for moms is the place for you to meet these goals. Not only will you get the weight off and keep it off at but you will get the weight off fast! Some people see losses in inches or of at least a pound or two after just two or three workouts!

Losing weight is hard enough. Losing it and keeping it off is even harder. Weight loss trainers understand this. That is because many of them have 'been there' when it comes to have a few too many extra pounds on with no idea how to lose it fast. They also know you are a busy mom and every minute counts.

If you have always thought that other trainers or weight loss experts have looked down on you for craving food or being tired during a workout, you are not going to find that kind of attitude at the new work out boot camps for moms.

The routines that have been designed so that when you participate in a work out you burn the most fat possible in the shortest amount of time. You have a busy schedule and need to make the most of your workout while you can so the moves are deft, efficient and burn the most calories possible without harmful exertion.

The best way to avoid exerting yourself or to avoid tiring yourself out is to be assessed. At no point will you be put in a position where you feel 'burnt out' after a routine if you go to a good boot camp. They known a discouraged and tired out mom is simply not going to come back…

A lot of these boot camps will whip you into shape for spring without having to pay the high price of hiring a personal trainer. Boot camp staff will also help provide you with diets and eating guides that can help you still lose weight without feeling deprived. Eating right is part of the battle when it comes through sustaining yourself through a workout.

Another great thing about these boot camps is that if you do not lose weight you get your money back. Many of these boot camps will refund you if do not lose a full dress size after a month of working out.

As a busy mom it is very important to keep fit. We often forget to simply because we are always putting other people's needs before our own. This is a mistake because we have to take care of ourselves before we can take anybody else.

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Drug Or Alcohol Addiction in Your Family

If you are in love with an addict then you have some thinking to do. Most people who get involved with addicts spend far too much time following their heart. They think they are being understanding and compassionate towards the addict when in fact they are enabling the person.
If you are going to have any type of lasting relationship with the often emotionally unavailable addict you need to understand the concept of unconditional love. This means not having any expectations of the person who is sick with the disease of alcoholism. In fact, the more you humor an addict in the name of love, the more codependent you are with the addict or alcoholic.
Another word for unconditional love is 'tough love.' This is to avoid 'enabling' which only makes the alcoholic or drug addict you are in love with more destructive to you.
Enabling is a term used in Twelve Step recovery to describe the behavior of family members, or other loved ones, who rescue an alcoholic or drug addict from the consequences of their own self destructive behavior. If you are in love with someone you may feel that rescuing him or her is what must happen but that is not true.
No matter how devoted you are to someone, you should not rescuing anyone who is caught up in any of the compulsive or addictive self destructive behaviors that are symptoms of codependency. Besides doing drugs or drinking too much these behaviors include gambling, spending, eating disorders, sexual or relationship addictions; and the inability to hold a job.
A person who is acting out self destructively has no reason to change if they do not ever suffer major consequences for their behavior. If they are rescued from consequences, they are enabled to continue practicing their addiction.
This might be confusing because the term unconditional love implies that we love them no matter what we do. This is true but when we do love the addict it is supposed to be with a sense of loving detachment. This means that we let them make their own mistakes without meddling or interfering.
The theory behind codependency is that we react to the alcoholic to spare ourselves the pain of having to watch the alcoholic destroy him or herself. They are being selfish which is human and normal. The idea is to set oneself up as a victim and abuse or shame the loved one so that they feel shame. Unfortunately feeling more shame makes the addict want drink even more.
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Rescuing someone who is actively practicing addiction of some kind, is also a form of enabling. It is dysfunctional because it supports the person in continuing to practice their addiction. A person in recovery working on getting healthier may need some help from time to time – and that is great, that is being supportive in a positive manner. Helping someone to continue to self destruct is not support is codependency. It does not really qualify as love.

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