Tips for your First Week of your Body-for-LIFE Challenge

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If you haven’t yet seen your doctor, get there immediately. Get a physical so you know your body is prepared to make the changes ahead, and that you’re following the program in the way that is best for YOUR body.

Consider asking your doctor to provide you with several health monitors like your resting heart rate, details on your blood work, blood pressure, etc. The changes you discover over 12 weeks may surprise you – AND may even be important to include on your essay!

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Eat a balanced protein / carbohydrate meal every three hours while you are awake.

Use the ‘Authorized Foods’ list on page 83 of Body-for-LIFE as your guide.

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Do AT LEAST 3 cardio workouts each week. Best time is first thing in the morning before your first meal. If you don’t do it then, don’t let this be your excuse to quit. (I almost NEVER do my cardio in the morning!) Try to do your cardio workout about 2 hours after any meal. Eat about 30 minutes after your cardio workout.

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Do 3 weight workouts each week. Consult Body-for-LIFE and/or a personal trainer for correct form, and an injury-free transformation.

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Find the 12-Week Training-for-LIFE Schedule on page 78 of Body-for-LIFE and ‘Check-Mark’ each day you complete. We found that this not only not helped us track our progress, it was a proud, well-earned Exclamation Point for our hard work.

(Also available free on the downloads below — pdf version only.)

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Get FREE Daily Progress Reports to guide you along (.pdf or excel files).

Congratulations.
I’m proud of you. You’re well on your way! As my Dad always says “Once begun, the job is half done!”

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