Get your body ready for regular exercise with regimen post-pregnancy exercise and with diet plan at home.

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It’s safe to exercise six-weeks after delivery if you are ready. Though, it’s always better to consult a doctor before getting started on it, specifically if you had a C-section or any other complications.

You can do this routine in your daily life to come back in shape as before:

Various Exercise for Post Pregnancy Exercise:

  1. Leg extension: In this exercise, you need to lay on your back, bend legs and extend them to vertical. This exercise will be beneficial for your quad, front thigh, and around your knee.
  • Curl Leg: Attain next to a wall and hold the wall, but don’t lean, and bend a leg to your butt. Spread it all the way, with foot flexed. Just careful that you are not feeling of burn in the hamstring or back of thigh and butt.
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  • Adduct and Abduct your leg from your body:
  • For adduct lay on your back, extend legs vertically together. After that open legs to straddle close as much as you can, so it can work for your inner thigh muscles.
  • In abduct you have to lay on your side, while bent both legs slightly. And lift your top leg slightly above horizontally back down. Ensure about one thing that flexibility and balance should be in you when you are lifting your leg straight versus, which will be turned out or in. This will work for the outside of your thigh.
  • Calves: For this stand with your feet together, also you can hold the wall and go as high as you can. But, be careful when you raise your heels, at that time your ankles should be in line, not subsiding in or out.
  • Lunges: This is specifically to get back your lung capacity back in this exercise when you stand please step back with each leg one at a time. And don’t turn the foot of your leg in front, and also make sure you touch the knee of the leg you step behind to the floor. Substitute each leg one by one.
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  • Crunches: For crunches, you need to lay on your back, while bending your knees and arms on your stomach. Then lift your head and shoulders enough away from the floor. It will give you relaxation in your head and neck portion.

Diet Plan for losing the baby-weight for post-pregnancy:

Diet plan of your is an important part of a post-pregnancy program to lose your baby weight. Also, don’t board on a diet plan, while you are still breastfeeding. It’s significant to chart a balanced diet which supplies your body with the nourishment needs post-baby.

Attempt these tips and plan as your diet to get yours on track.

  • To balance hormones, red meat, nuts, egg yolks and oats are great, which will be with vitamin B6.
  • Your body needs to be cleansed from all the chemicals from not smoking, limiting alcohol, caffeine, and eating organic.
  • For the holistic wellness, and for keeping your BMI balanced.
  • Try to take digestive and fibrous foods such as fruit, vegetables, whole grains and beans.
  • Follow this healthy diet plan to carve down your post-pregnancy body by Tayler Walker.

What will be great for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner?

  1. Breakfast:
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  • Omelet and slice of wholegrain toast, with some mashed butternut squash.
  • Great to have GMO, dairy-free soups, smoothies and full-grain bowls to eat in the morning.
  • Baked oatmeal is considered as an incredible as breakfast or midday snack for you and your children.
  • Lunch:

  • For the lunch, grilled chicken served with a salad can make your day with nourishment.
  • Also, Sweet potato fries and maple yoghurt dip with cottage cheese, and generous colorful vegetables with a knob of butter.
  • Walnut fall salad with apricot made with baby kale, walnuts, grapes, quinoa, and red onion.
  • Dinner:
  • Steamed salmon with sweet mashed potato on a bed of green leafy vegetables, will give your refreshment with the test.
  • Improve your diet plan after adding spinach, broccoli, kale or Swiss chard in your diet plan.
  • Bean soup with various beans, brown pasta, brown rice, and chopped tomatoes, onions, vegetable stock are heaven for a new mom.

Conclusion:

For healthy eating recipes, great meals, healthy snacks, workout routines, fitness and travel fitness, different modeling tips and beauty all of this exercise and diet plan to stay always healthy and fit.

From Coffee to Wine: Tips to Break the Cycle

From Coffee to Wine: Tips to Break the Habitual Cycle

From Coffee to Wine: Tips to Break the Cycle

Happy Monday! I recently embarked on a journey. A journey I did not even realize was necessary until it began. A couple of months ago it hit me. I wake every morning up with a need for coffee to start my day and found myself winding down in the evening with a glass of wine 3-4 times a week. Our generation, the modern 30-something woman is all about trying to live the most balanced life we possibly can. We are coffee/matcha fueled powerhouse moms, working women, trying breathlessly to balance work, exercise and social obligations without taking a moment to breathe. We are a culture doused with anxiety and depression at alarming rates and comforting ourselves in excess. After 68 days of only drinking coffee, water, tea and kombucha I wanted to share a few thoughts and tips to help you do the same.

Over the years I have seen some friends do a “Dry January” or an alcohol cleanse, but I truly felt that I have had a completely normal and healthy relationship with alcohol. My ability to feel a buzz is sometimes instantaneous and my hangovers are terrible and last way too long nowadays. Because of this, I can easily go out to dinner and stay under two drinks, but it was also just as easy in the same breath to split a bottle of wine with my husband on a Tuesday for NO. DAMN. REASON. After some time, like any repetitive behavior, drinking simply became habitual. Not something I really loved or enjoyed, but did because it seemed to be what my friends, husband and I did when we were together.

From Coffee to Wine: Tips to Break the Habitual Cycle

Not only that, but my husband and I love Napa. We belong to wine clubs, we love to cook and enjoy the entire experience-wine included every step of the way. A couple of months ago I wanted to peel back the onion and take note of the impact wine was having in my life and how I would feel if we cut it out completely. So, at the end of January, with the impending likelihood of COVID-19 becoming a worldwide pandemic, we did what any normal couple would do and decided to cut out alcohol. Our stash of rainy day hard liquor went down the drain and our wine fridge was stocked yet locked and we haven’t looked back.

I would love to sit here and say that I haven’t thought about a glass of wine, but that just has not been the case (more on that later). I simply told myself that if I cut it out for nine months with CJ, how was this any different?

From Coffee to Wine: Tips to Break the Habitual Cycle

Working on letting go? Here are a few things you can do!

  • Sit down and emotionally evaluate the benefits wine/alcohol brings into your life. Like write it down to read in black and white and let it sink in. Other than temporary enjoyment and fun memories of wine tasting. There was not much past that. We recognized our drinking patterns nearly became a habit and how do you break a habit? Well, everyone is different. My husband has a military background and cold turkey is his way. For me, I needed distraction. (More on that later)
  • Find an accountability partner: Thankfully, Cory was there to do this with me, but having someone to work through this process with can be extremely helpful. You can bounce ideas off of each other and help redirect your thinking!
  • Evaluate whether or not alcohol has a negative impact on your life when you consume it. Again, write it down. We wrote down our past relationship with alcohol, how we feel after even just  having a glass or two, the impact it has had on our food choices, sleep and skin. As we age, consumption choices are becoming harder and harder  to bounce back from and alcohol fuels the excess fire.
  • Create healthy distractions/rituals: Again, I wish I could say that once I got past my first week of not consuming alcohol that I did not crave it, but alas, I did and almost gave in a time or two since the Shelter in Place order has brought back my chest clenching, upper body tingling anxiety, but I have had to ultimately find different coping mechanisms and build a toolbox that would benefit me long term.
  • Recognize your triggers: For me, wine consumption always started around dinner time. It was my trigger to start winding down for the day. Recognizing your triggers is extremely important when it comes to almost anything in your life, but especially as it relates to consumption.

My trigger…We love to cook. Cory loves charcuterie before dinner and when the cheese and crackers came out or we started to chop, chop, chop wine followed.

From Coffee to Wine: Tips to Break the Habitual Cycle

The Key for me has been DISTRACTION. I do not try to discharge the thought from my brain because that just makes the thought bigger than it needs to be, but I have adjusted my ritualistic behavior and found distractions that have helped overcome my want for a glass of wine:

  • Now during that time, I still take out a wine glass, but I fill it my favorite kombucha & turn up the music. It is still a special drink with a different taste and I get the feeling of the relaxing feeling of the glass without the side affects of the wine.
  • Sip herbal tea, hormone helper hot chocolate or bone broth after dinner helps me feel a sense of calm. Tea and bone broth can have fantastic medicinal and calming benefits. Sip slowly and create a ritual behind it. Possibly journal for 5 minutes or dive into a fun/silly book. Lately, we have brewed tea and started a 1,000 piece puzzle to take us away from the world. It helped redirect our focus onto something mindless yet soothing.
  • Limit other caffeine laced stimulants: Caffiene increases the cortisol levels in our body which ultimately taxes our adrenals which can lead to increased anxiety. Limiting caffeine in your diet can help decrease your risks for feelings associated with grabbing for the wine bottle. Remember coffee to wine is the culture we are trying to navigate and it is a hard one to break! I am a 3 cup a day kind of gal and I am working my way down to 1.
  • Exercise, movement or after dinner walk: We have been enjoying a post dinner walk to help digest our dinner and download on our day. Yes! We are working from home, but we are still working and with the added stress of the pandemic and increased daylight ours, we get some fresh air in our lungs and often return feeling relaxed, digested and with the ability to make healthier choices.
  • Meditation: This one we are working on. I started when I did a HypnoBirthing Practice and transitioned into traditional meditation practice using Headspace. We dabble around with the Calm and Peloton App meditations to her us sleep.
  • Added “Mind Strong” Mornings to our routine: Now this one was created by my husband. Always an early riser, but after having my son, I have forced myself into becoming a morning person as well. Wish there was an easier way to say this, but JUST DO IT. Force it. Rip off the bandaid and give yourself a bit of time to become centered before the chaos of the day gets the best of you. I promise, it will be the best thing you can do for yourself this yeat.
    • Cory get’s up at 4:30 AM to workout and do his own independent work. Then he comes in with coffee for me at 5:30. We DO NOT turn on the news or look at our phones. We do something positive for our minds before anything else.
    • This includes:
      • Reading a chapter of “The Purpose Drive Life” Daily
      • Subscribing to The Daily Stoic and for him The Daily Dad
      • Working Out for 20 minutes or simply talking about the subject we just read.
      • We have done The Five Minute Journal
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What we feel now:

  • Cory of course, lost 20 pounds Lol. I have lost bit, but was consuming less on a regular basis. Also, I have remained pretty much the same weight and am likely intaking more processed sugar thanks to our friend COVID, but overall I just feel better and have the ability to concentrate at a higher level throughout the day.
  • We are able to fall asleep immediately. When we would drink wine it would often lead to us feeling restless or unable to fully digest our meals prior to sleep. It would make falling and/or staying asleep more difficult. Now, lights are OUT by ten and seven to eight hours of sleep is the norm.
  • My skin is brighter, fresh and more clear. Alcohol is dehydrating and since I am focused on decreasing both my coffee and alcohol intake, my water intake has increased and breakouts have also decreased. My skin just feels more alive and vibrant even in the dry Cali weather.
  • I do not wake up cloudy. Even with 2 glasses of wine, it would take me a while to get going. Now, once I drink my water first thing in the AM, I am ready to rock and roll! YES! Even at 5:30 in the AM.

Before we close, Joe Gutierez, Marriage and Family Therapist who specializes in alcohol addiction kindly agreed to chat with me about this topic.

His advice:

  • If you can stop drinking for 30 days straight then you likely do not have an alcohol addiction, you may simply be a heavy drinker. If you cannot stop for 30 days, consider seeking help.
  • If you are a drinker and do not know where to draw the line, he suggests asking an important question: “Does alcohol impact my life in a negative way”. If the answer is yes, you may consider talking to someone and getting help.
  • He also suggests picture putting alcohol side by side with your favorite fresh squeezed juice. 99/100 times the fresh squeezed juice is going to be so much more satisfying and delicious. Finding an alternative is a great distraction (Hai Kombucha).
  • Lastly, he stated that when you are triggered to drink to acknowledge it and know you ALWAYS have options in that moment and to think about weight out thecost vs. benefits of the options. You can drink the wine, but how will you feel after? An hour later? Tomorrow morning?  You could choose not drink and do something more beneficial with your time, what is that that you could do?

Anyways, even if you have a perfectly healthy relationship with alcohol, I truly believe that redefining your relationship to it and how it serves you can be extremely powerful. Right now, with not having commute time or work dinners to run to you can find a few moments for self-reflection and self-improvement. I know that we will re introduce wine back into our lives at some point, but right now, I do not feel the need to. I feel like it will serve in a way that enhances a special meal or a celebration and I will now enjoy it as an occasional indulgence by drinking slower and savoring every sip!

Good luck on your journey and feel free to DM me or e-mail me anytime!

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COVID-19: The Experts From Baptist Health South Florida Weight In

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“This too shall pass.” A simple sentiment stated by Barry’s CEO yesterday after sharing the fact that we will temporarily close our doors due to COVID-19.  Right now we are in the midst of an extremely scary and unnerving worldwide pandemic. The mear word pandemic is one that I literally never uttered until this week. I have lost two blog collaborations due to manufacturing issues and with a two week Barry’s closure, without the ability to work remote, reality has set in for myself and my family.

Because I live in a home with another 30-something, healthy adult and an infant, our odds of losing our life to COVID-19 is low, but if we contract the virus and are asymptomatic, how could that ultimately affect the elderly around us? The thought of spreading the virus to an elder is enough to help make a socially conscious choice to simply stay at home and “flatten the curve”.

Voluntary Quarantine is half the battle, but what are some other things we can do? I reached out to the experts at Baptist Health South Florida for some advice.

According to this article from Baptist Health South Florida, they encourage elbow bumps instead of handshakes or fist bumps and encourage you to keep at least SIX feet of distance between yourself and another person.

“This is not the time for shaking hands,” said Aileen Marty, M.D., professor, Infectious Diseases, at Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine during the panel discussion.

The article also states 3 main symptoms to be aware of:

  • Fever
  • Cough
  • Mild Respiratory Distress (shortness of breath)

If you have any of these symptoms and feel the need to be tested use this infograph to determine if a test should be administered:

I have never washed my hands more in my entire life! Nothing can replace antibacterial soap and water. Even hand sanitizers. Although, they are helpful in killing germs, when your hands are extremely dirty or greasy, they may not be able to protect you from infection.

When should you wash your hands? The CDC recommends handwashing:

  • Before, during, and after preparing food; and before eating food
  • Before and after caring for someone who is sick
  • Before and after treating a cut or wound
  • After using the toilet
  • After changing diapers or cleaning up a child who has used the toilet
  • After blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing
  • After touching an animal, animal feed, or animal waste
  • After handling pet food or pet treats
  • After touching garbage

For my South Florida readersBaptist Health South Florida is offering a free visit. Use the code CARE19 if you have any concerns, symptoms or are in need of a medical professional.

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Propel Hydration Workout Series-Taylor Walker Fit

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Propel Hydration Workout Series-Taylor Walker Fit

A special thank you to Propel Water for bringing us together and sponsoring this post! If you are in L.A. make sure to get your tickets to the fitness festival today. Click here for more on the sweat fueled event! 

Last week I had the opportunity to travel to IDEA World Fitness Blogfest with Propel ElectrolyteWater.  Propel Electrolyte Water has created innovative and fun fitness CO:LABS nation-wide for an incredible sweat-fueled  series that will culminate with a fitness festival in L.A. August 12-13.

At BlogFest we were able to dive deeper into powerful topics in this ever-changing and growing market that is fitness blogging which was fantastic, but I would have to say the best part about attending was the S-W-E-A-T and spending time with my favorite blogger babes! The first morning in town the ladies and I decided to meet at 6:30 A.M. for a team workout! There is strength in numbers and we created a quick circuit of medicine ball lunges and squat presses, burpees, treadmill sprints and Spiderman planks. It was just what the doctor ordered to get used to the desert air and get our mind and bodies ready to take on the day. Over the course of the two days we also had our Propel Workout where we took a low weight-high rep class the Victoria Secret Angels made famous: Model Fit Sculpt. You may have even seen my Instagram Live from that workout, and I am truly sorry for the many shots of my boo-tay (pun intended). I had to set it up quickly, but if you missed it this workout is similar to barre in that it helps your body create the long-lean muscle mass that many women covet.

We also had the opportunity to try Strong by Zumba which admittedly was one of the hardest classes I have taken in a long time. We rounded out the week with Pop Pilates by Cassey Ho. Cassey is a YouTube sensation and now I can see why! Her energy was off the charts and it was the perfect core driven class to lengthen and tone.

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The ladies and I were so inspired by the week that we wanted to team up  and create a workout exclusively for you…our fabulous readers!

  1. Start with a Cardio Burst from Amber of Every Once in a Style
  2. Move on to Arms with Jeana of A Sweat Life
  3. Get that booty burn with Legs and Booty Blast with me!
  4. Follow it up with Abs from Torey’s Treasures
  5. And finish up with flexibility/regeneration with To Live and Diet in LA

Next up is my leg and booty blaster:

Repeat each exercise for 1 minute each 3x through! 

Place the band around your thighs making sure it is not around your knees. Start with your feet hip distance apart and squat down. Straighten your and extend your leg at the top. Do 30 seconds on the right and 30 seconds on the left.

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Place the band around your ankles and perform jumping jacks for one minute.

Propel Hydration Workout Series-Taylor Walker Fit

If you need balance find a wall or a chair. With your feet parallel pitch your body forward and your leg backwards before pulling in and driving the knee up. Perform this exercise for 30 seconds on right and 30 seconds on the left.

Reach and Pull In Exercise

Sit on the floor with one leg square in front of you and one knee over the there. Flex your foot and kick your leg back. Bring your arms to prayer position for more of a challenge. Perform 30 seconds on the right and 30 seconds on the left.

Side Body Kick Back

I hope you enjoyed our workout. Make sure to follow all of the other blogs for some MAJOR fitness and fashion inspiration you cannot miss!

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How I Nourish: Healthy Options For Every Day of the Week

Taylor Walker Fit Nourish San Francisco Fitness Blog What I Eat in a Day

How I Nourish: Healthy Options For Every Day of the Week

When I started TWF it was VERY food focused. Why? Because food is fuel and the centerpiece for your health and well being. Food was also the major change I made in my life in terms of health and wellness. You can spend hours in the gym, but if you aren’t fueling your tank appropriately, you will never see any results.  It is just like the old quote goes: “Let food be thy medicine. Let medicine be thy food.” When everything around me gets off track, healthy food choices ensure that I stay on the straight and narrow.

In today’s blog, I just wanted to give you some insight into the food choices I have on rotation throughout the week in hopes of inspiring  you to keep it SIMPLE. REAL and DELICIOUS. Recently, we purchased our first Instant Pot and it has been a game changer. I would highly recommend investing in one. Especially if you work outside the home or are a parent, college student or someone who simply doesn’t love to spend hours in the kitchen.

When food shopping I follow a few rules of thumb:

Protein: If you are choosing meat, try to choose organic,wild-caught and free-range when possible.

Fruit and Vegetables: Choose organic when possible and do not be afraid to choose canned or frozen options. They are usually tons of organic options that are super affordable! I shop at Trader Joe’s and a lot of their non-organic items utilize simple ingredients. Since the Bay Area grocery stores can be extremely expensive it is my go-to store.

Read Your Labels: To me, the ingredient list is the single most important part of a food label. When buying packaged items, choose the least amount of ingredients possible and make sure you can actually read what is in your food. For example, Red #40 is not actually a food and has been linked to hyperactivity in children and is potentially carcinogenic. 

Get to know your portions: Portion control is a major challenge for many of us. In America, we have a big problem with controlling portion sizes. Use this blog  for a few more tips on portion control and with a little practice, you will be a pro!

So without further ado, here are my go-to breakfast, lunch and dinner choices!

Taylor Walker Fit Nourish Healthy Breakfast I Eat in a Week

Breakfast 

Sourdough Toast with 1/2 Avocado and TJ’s bruschetta or Everything But The BagelSeasoning, topped with an egg

Oatmeal: with chia, flax, nut butter, berries and shaved coconut. Sometimes added protein of eg whites or vegan protein powder

Protein Pancakes: 2 eggs, 1 Banana, protein powder, flax seeds

Two eggs scrambled with spinach, tomato and onion in a sprouted wrap or with sprouted toast like Ezekiel or Dave’s Killer Bread with a side of berries

Smoothie: 1C spinach or baby kale, 1/2 C frozen berries, 1 C nut milk, 1 Tbsp flax and chia seeds mixed with 1 serving of protein powder

 Egg Cups or Egg Bake: My favorite are the Mediterranean Egg Cups I created for the Models Do Eat cookbook, but I love them because you can make them ahead, add your favorite veggies and now I can even share them with my little guy. My rule of thumb is to use 7 eggs, bell pepper, spinach, onion and if I want meat I will use nitrate free turkey bacon or organic chicken sausage. If using bacon I will line each muffin tin and fill with veggies

and top with egg mixture. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes or until the middle is fluffy! You can use raw veggies, but I like to cook them down a bit before adding them to the egg. For Bake, add to an 11 x 9 prepared baking dish and add 1/4 C non-dairy milk.

Taylor Walker Fit Nourish What I Eat in a Week

Lunch

Mediterranean wrap: Hummus, Greek olive, red pepper, red onion, cucumber and roasted chicken drizzled with balsamic. Sometimes without chicken. BTW, I love making roasted chicken in the instant pot. It takes 20 minutes and its delicious.

Kitchen Sink Salad: Mixed greens, tomato, beans, pepitas, red or green onion, apple, feta cheese, olive oil and lemon or olive oil and white balsamic vinegar.

Mayo-free Avocado Chicken Salad: in a lettuce bun with a side of fruit

Lentil Bowl: I love the premade lentils from Trader Joes, but they are so easy to meal prep. I add them to a bowl and add greens, potato, carrots, broccoli and my new fav vegan ranch dressing!

Dinner

Lean and Mean: Lately I have really been focused on more plant-based meals and thinking of meat more as a garnish than as the main event! I have noticed a difference in my digestion and bloating! So when building my dinner plate I focus on 1/2 of my plate being vegetables cooked or raw, 1/4 a complex carbohydrate like a potato (sweet, purple, white), quinoa or rice and 1/4 being roughly a 3 oz. portion of meat!

Shrimp or Buffalo Cauliflower Tacos: Marinate shrimp in lime juice, garlic and cilantro for at least 20 min. Sprouted whole wheat tortillas Tacos:Fat free refried beans, avocado, corn, slaw

Trader Joes Cauliflower or Sweet Potato Gnocchi with chicken sausage, greens and mushrooms

Buddha Bowls: Roasted sweet potatoes, broccoli, brown rice, roasted chicken with a drizzle of sauce like vegan ranch.

Bruschetta Pasta: I love to use white flour alternative pastas. Jovial and Trader Joe’s Brown Rice & Quinoa pasta are my favorite options. I add two Sweet or Spicy Italian chicken sausage to a little coconut oil and then add a whole bag of spinach and cook it down. To that I add a container or TJ’s bruschetta which is simply a mix or tomato, onion, basil, garlic oil and vinegar to the pan and cook down. Add pasta and Mangia!

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Kids Day at ShopRite of Hauppauge and the 5 Components of Fitness!

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Kids Day at ShopRite of Hauppauge and the 5 Components of Fitness!

Phew! This past week and half has been an absolute whirlwind. These days traveling to New York is no longer just for play. Since signing with Wilhelmina Models my time in New York is now bombarded with castings, tests shoots and jobs! Now, I am not complaining by any means. I had the chance to shoot with Reebok for Dick’s Sporting Goods and do a killer shoot this week with both the Brooklyn and Williams-burg bridges as my backdrop. I know when I am older I will look back on this time in my life with happiness and so much joy! Getting to inspire others through my passion for fitness is something I am so thankful for! However, the highlight of my week other than meeting my by best friends little baby girl had to be hosting “Kids Day” at at ShopRite of Hauppauge with RD Nicole Petrocelli!

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It was a fabulous day filled with fitness and health related activities for children from 7-11. When starting this blog my goal was to inspire people to live healthy and active lifestyles, just as I did when I was a high school PE teacher. For those of you who don’t know, I have a Master’s Degree in Physical Education and teaching children has and always will be an extreme passion of mine. So, when Nicole and I started planning this event we had decided to have the kids put together healthy recipe books, make some easy and delicious smoothies while discussing nutrition and of course learn major muscles and the 5 components of fitness.

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The 5 components of physical fitness include:

Cardiovascular Endurance: The Cardiovascular System is made up of the heart and lungs and can be strengthened through cardiovascular exercise including; running, dancing, swimming or other activity of your choice. By strengthening the   Cardiovascular System one increases the amount of oxygen delivered tot he body.

Muscular Strength: The amount of force exerted by a single muscle one time. Bench press, bicep curl or leg press.

Muscular Endurance: The ability of a muscle to exert continuous force with continuous effort without fatiguing. Stair climber, Cycling, Squats.

Flexibility: Ability of a joint to stretch in its full range of motion. Sit and Reach Test or Lunges.

BMI or Body Mass Index: The amount of fat vs muscle, bones and organs one has in their body.

Once every component is measured a fitness plan can be developed based on your own individual needs.

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After our fitness discussion we moved onto “Taylor Walker Says” Where we learned major muscle groups and I had Mr. C otherwise known as hubby on hand to help me out. The kids remained active for the entire session and we had an absolute blast! Up next we made three different kinds of mouth watering smoothies.

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Green Smoothie Recipe:2 Tbs Greek Yogurt 1 C of Coconut Water, Quinoa or Almond Milk peeled orange 1/2 frozen banana 3/4 cup peeled frozen mango chunks 2-3 handfuls of organic spinach Ice and blend.Berry Blast Smoothie:1 C pomegranate Juice 1 C Frozen Berries 1 C Kale Leaves 1 Tablespoon Flax Seeds Strawberry-Banana Delight:1 C Greek Yogurt 1/2 C Frozen Strawberries 1/4 C Frozen Pineapple 1/2 Frozen Banana 1/2 C ice cubes 1 Tbs Honey Add All ingredients to blender and blend until smooth!The kids favorite was the Banana Strawberry, but at the end they started to make their own concoctions. Whatever you have at home throw in the blender and make an easy on-the-go breakfast or snack!  This was an incredible event set up by RD Nicole. Check out her calendar of events and if you are in the area head out! You will not be disappointed. The kids we had the chance to work with were incredible and we cannot wait to do it again!

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Get your body ready for regular exercise with regimen post-pregnancy exercise and with diet plan at home.

It’s safe to exercise six-weeks after delivery if you are ready. Though, it’s always better to consult a doctor before getting started on it, specifically if you had a C-section or any other complications.

You can do this routine in your daily life to come back in shape as before:

Various Exercise for Post Pregnancy Exercise:

  1. Leg extension: In this exercise, you need to lay on your back, bend legs and extend them to vertical. This exercise will be beneficial for your quad, front thigh, and around your knee.
  2. Curl Leg: Attain next to a wall and hold the wall, but don’t lean, and bend a leg to your butt. Spread it all the way, with foot flexed. Just careful that you are not feeling of burn in the hamstring or back of thigh and butt.

3. Adduct and Abduct your leg from your body:

  • For adduct lay on your back, extend legs vertically together. After that open legs to straddle close as much as you can, so it can work for your inner thigh muscles.
  • In abduct you have to lay on your side, while bent both legs slightly. And lift your top leg slightly above horizontally back down. Ensure about one thing that flexibility and balance should be in you when you are lifting your leg straight versus, which will be turned out or in. This will work for the outside of your thigh.

4. Calves: For this stand with your feet together, also you can hold the wall and go as high as you can. But, be careful when you raise your heels, at that time your ankles should be in line, not subsiding in or out.

5. Lunges: This is specifically to get back your lung capacity back in this exercise when you stand please step back with each leg one at a time. And don’t turn the foot of your leg in front, and also make sure you touch the knee of the leg you step behind to the floor. Substitute each leg one by one.

6. Crunches: For crunches, you need to lay on your back, while bending your knees and arms on your stomach. Then lift your head and shoulders enough away from the floor. It will give you relaxation in your head and neck portion.

Diet Plan for losing the baby-weight for post-pregnancy:

Diet plan of your is an important part of a post-pregnancy program to lose your baby weight. Also, don’t board on a diet plan, while you are still breastfeeding. It’s significant to chart a balanced diet which supplies your body with the nourishment needs post-baby

Attempt these tips and plan as your diet to get yours on track.

  • To balance hormones, red meat, nuts, egg yolks and oats are great, which will be with vitamin B6.
  • Your body needs to be cleansed from all the chemicals from not smoking, limiting alcohol, caffeine, and eating organic.
  • For the holistic wellness, and for keeping your BMI balanced.
  • Try to take digestive and fibrous foods such as fruit, vegetables, whole grains and beans.
  • Follow this healthy diet plan to carve down your post-pregnancy body by Tayler Walker.

What will be great for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner?

  1. Breakfast:
  • Omelet and slice of wholegrain toast, with some mashed butternut squash.
  • Great to have GMO, dairy-free soups, smoothies and full-grain bowls to eat in the morning.
  • Baked oatmeal is considered as an incredible as breakfast or midday snack for you and your children.

2. Lunch:

  • For the lunch, grilled chicken served with a salad can make your day with nourishment.
  • Also, Sweet potato fries and maple yoghurt dip with cottage cheese, and generous colorful vegetables with a knob of butter.
  • Walnut fall salad with apricot made with baby kale, walnuts, grapes, quinoa, and red onion.

3. Dinner:

  • Steamed salmon with sweet mashed potato on a bed of green leafy vegetables, will give your refreshment with the test.
  • Improve your diet plan after adding spinach, broccoli, kale or Swiss chard in your diet plan.
  • Bean soup with various beans, brown pasta, brown rice, and chopped tomatoes, onions, vegetable stock are heaven for a new mom.

Conclusion:

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