Hey awesome ones. Heather here and you know what? I am setting my sights on
losing a little bit of weight and I'm talking around the belly here. I think
all of you guys know but your your tummy and I don't know we just seem to get the
weight going here for some reason. I want to make sure that I lose a little
bit here and other places too and maybe tone up a little bit, but I'm going to do
it without a gym membership, without a personal trainer and without one of
those big bulky expensive exercise machines. How am I going to do that? I'll
show you and it all starts in just a few seconds.
So I think the best way to lose a few pounds and tone your body and all that
sort of thing, it's just to make sure that you're following a routine that
well you actually want to follow and also that you're being realistic. It's
totally unrealistic for me to think of having the body that I had when I was
modeling in the 1980s. I think a lot of you know that I was bulimic and it was
not a healthy weight. If you are one of those women who really does the
bodybuilding and that kind of thing then yeah okay that's a little different, but I'm
talking about the everyday person the everyday woman who wants to just get a
little slimmer and a little bit trimmer. And what I find is the best routine, is
one that you're going to follow. I know for a fact I'm not going to hang out at
the local gym because I know my daughters, I mean they're all there...
they're like 20 year olds and they're playing the big music and it's it's just
not my environment anymore. And as far as the big......I mean they really really
impressed me those big exercise machines that are so high-tech and they cost
thousands of dollars and they're gonna do wonders for you. I also know that
those things are little clunky they're not fitting into my downsized home
anymore and it's gonna end up probably being a
nice looking clothes hanger for me. So that's not gonna work. i really suggest
and I think a lot of you know that I'm 63 years old and I want to find
something that works into my day and into my routine. Something that I'm going
to do on a consistent basis and let's start with number one.
So here's number one of six tips. Toning these flabby arms. My...what happened to my
arms like okay I'm gonna try to do a muscle here.
I used to play competitive tennis and I actually developed I think... Bill what do
you call them?...cannons. Develop these cannon forearms and over the years they
have just turned like super flabby. I don't like wearing short tops you know
short sleeve tops anymore and so what I'm going to do and I will be showing
you what happens maybe six to eight weeks later, but I'm going to start on a
routine to get these toned and and really get a little bit of muscle back
into them. And if you're anything like me you're sitting at a desk most of the day
and I'm going to show you a few routines. Now you can find routines on the
internet, on YouTube where there's lots of videos where the professionals are
showing, but I'm just going to show you something that I can do every single day
just sitting at my desk. Now since I'm not really delighted with the fact of
going someplace and lifting 100-pound weights with a spotter, I've decided to
just have these little weights here and I'm using the five-pound weights. I know
a lot of people are saying you know go for a 10 but to me this is this is comfy
and I think that's the important thing. You know make it comfortable on
yourself and by the way we do have...since I got my computer here...we do have an
Amazon page now with awesome things that we love and all you have to do with this.....
I don't know if you can see this, but just go to the...just for fun travel
exercise recreation...and we'll have a lot of the things that we have here on the
video that we're showing and we'll also put it in the links below as well.
Let's just start with an exercise that's pretty easy. All you do is you just sort
of put your two dumbbells out here, I'm going to call them dumbbells or weights
or whatever and you do what it is called kind of like a water pitcher kind of
thing. Like pouring a water pitcher and you could really feel the tightening
in there and then you pour it out and then you pour it in and then you pour it
out and the nice thing about this is I could be just you know looking at some
emails or maybe I'm just sort of checking the last video that we loaded
and hardly takes any strain but you can feel you can feel the burn, you can feel
the burn. Let's show you one more. All right for the second one I'm just going
to show one arm. Obviously you should be doing two arms or its gonna be really alot lopsided,
but for this one I'm just going to extend and again I might be watching one
of my videos or checking out some emails or something like that and so you're
putting this up here. Then you're going to extend...this is going to really help
your triceps all along here. Help you to get rid of some of that flab and move
your palm upwards and do a little push up like that and then back again all
right. Change the palm push it up and back again and if you want to know how
many reps I do of these well let me tell you. I don't count because I don't want
to be doing that to myself. Maybe it's starting to really hurt or maybe you
know what I'm gonna do it as long as I'm reading my emails. So number two is also
to help you when you're sitting. Now you saw me in the regular office chair but
just to the side when I was doing those exercises with the the little dumbbells
there you'll see that I am sitting on a very interesting...a little chair here and
I'm going to show you some of the things that I can do with this chair in just a
second. So let me show you this chair. It's a very special kind of chair. Right
now it's in the locked position, but all I have to do is put it in the unlock
position and it goes like this. And you're like...Heather...what the
heck is that. Well let me show you what this is. This is like a hula hoop and
well if you're my age, you do remember what the hula hoops were and check this out.
It's like doing the hoola hoop while checking your emails you can be watching you know in my particular case I'm
checking out our videos how do they look after Bill has edited them and sometimes
they're going on for like 20 minutes. And the thing I like about this is that you
hardly even know that you're exercising but you are giving a little bit of a
burnin you can accentuate you know, how much you're doing or how fast you're
doing. You can do it the other way around but yeah you just it's so easy to use
and by the way all of these products that we have, we're not being sponsored
by anybody. I actually have worked on this a little bit with these products of
course with the weights and everything and I know that they're good. They're
good products and this is only about a hundred bucks. We have put it in the
amazon.com/shop/awesomeover50 store It's not really a store
they're just links on Amazon. You don't pay any extra for the products but we've
got it there. We also...it's under fun and exercise...we also have it as a link
underneath and so that you can go ahead and get yourself one of these great
little chairs. And for all the time I'm usually in my office chair but this is
so portable that just sits underneath my desk and I grab it when I want to use
utilize it. By the way of course we're required to tell you we make a
little bit of commission, but you know you guys are fantastic, let me know when
you get something, because it all really really helps us to keep on going. I'm
gonna put a few more minutes on with this baby and get my my tummy going here
maybe kind of like I said really accentuate
what I'm doing and starting to feel the burn. So number three still involves
sitting at my desk. So what am i doing in the kitchen?
Well I did this video on healthy snacking and I want to talk about
snacking because when you're sitting at your desk a lot of times you know your
stomach starts grumbling and you're kind of like okay it's three o'clock I've got to
eat something. You don't want to have bags of chips and all that unhealthy
stuff around, so I did a video on healthy snacking. I'm going to put the link up
there and you can watch that healthy popcorn with maple syrup
and I got a few tips there. One of my favorite...this is really my favorite
go-to snack...is these...well they call them craisins, but they're really dried
cranberries which are pretty healthy for you and then I have a mixture and I
sometimes by the cranberries and then I buy some kind of a nut. Maybe almonds or
something along those lines and I put it in a bowl for when I'm stacking. I
basically have this at my desk. I have the nuts at my desk and I mix them up in
a little bowl. The other thing that you can find is...you can find them....look
this one I've already used quite a bit, but you can find them already ready-made.
And so just look for those on the shelves if you don't want to kind of mix
them yourself, but this is a cashew cranberry and almond mix and I'm just
gonna put it in the bowl for you. And maybe Bill will take a little bit of a
close-up. I know cashews they might have a little bit of calories in them,
but I'll tell you something this is a great go-to. I've...maybe only eat about
this much...maybe even a little bit less and at my desk if you're going to do
this little routine that I'm showing you you've got to get rid of all that junk that
you have in your drawer and replace it with a couple of these. So what if your
eating your snacks and you're getting a little bit thirsty? Well
first of all I have water with me all the time. Like beside my bed. I wake up in
the morning and bring my water with me and i refresh it of course. and all day
long, right Bill, I always have that water beside me. I go for a drive in the car,
water beside me. So this is you know, they say you're supposed to drink like eight
cups a day, so this is a must an absolute must, but what about something with a
little more fun than water Heather. So I love tea. I love herbal teas and one I
found this little baby I think it's the most fantastic thing. It's a little
teapot...it's a little teapot....and what it does is just let me just kind of show
you what what I can do here. It has a strainer with it or you can buy a
strainer if you get it without a strainer. I just put in here a
little bit of tea. Maybe one teaspoon of tea, in this particular case it's like a
green tea and then I just sort of fill it up. I don't know if you can...
you probably can't see this, but I'm just filling it up to the top here and
letting it steep for a few minutes while maybe I'm doing something else in the
kitchen. While that's steeping I also have... and again we'll link to these...a travel
tea container and it also has a strainer in it so you can sort of see the
strainer in there if I can flip it out, but you put the teabags in there and
then they strain through before you drink them. So that's another handy
little gadget. So it doesn't take long to have your tea steeping and it's
probably ready right now. What I do is I just take it out of here and I have a
beautiful cup of tea and it is a natural blend, those four loose leaves that I put
in there. And as you can see...... I'm just going to pour my tea here now.
What I love about this especially at my desk is I can pour as little tea or as
much tea as I want and it's still staying fairly warm in here in the
little teapot. So yes you know...it's fun to go to these tea places and pick
out a tea. I'll also put some on line for you, but green tea is always very very good
for you and you might explain to somebody you know I I need a little bit
of energy do you have an herbal tea for that and
just talk to the people they know what they're doing. Don't buy any that
has caramel and chocolate in it....there's a lot of sweet ones out there too and certainly
if you want to do these exercises that I'm showing you do not get the lavender
ones because some of these teas will put you to sleep.
Okay since we're still in the kitchen, number 5 is doing my version of the Elaine dance. because I may have
something in the oven and it's going to go on for about 30 minutes. And you know
this music that I have here it's from YouTube. Buty I usually put on something
that I really can rock out with and dance with, but start busting a move here.
All right so if you're doing something like this for a while you're starting to
get that energy level up. You started to get your heart beating...everything's
there in the oven...it's still cooking and while I'm doing this like sometimes...now
make sure you're checking with a doctor or whatever when you do this, but I do
some high kicks. You know I don't like to sound silly but I've got a good support on
my shoes. I'm making sure that I'm well grounded. Do not try this at home if you
can't do the kicks, but it's called dancercise and it's a way you can also
put some moves in for your waist.
And I promise you you'll get a sweat and you will be amazed how much weight you
lose, but play your favorite song, your favorite rock song or whatever it is. So
number six. I would suggest to get yourself one of these wrists exercise
monitors and mine's a Fitbit. I absolutely love it.
But truth be told I've got it a while ago. I'm hardly wearing it. What! What
happened? Well it seems to be that you know it goes crazy when you do 10,000
steps. So I thought to myself...it does these fireworks that come on...it vibrates
and you really feel good about it, but I'm not doing 10,000 steps every single
day. So I started wearing it just when we were going for long walks or you know on
a nice sunny day, forget about that. Let me just show you a few things that this
does. So of course it tells you the time, but tap it...it shows you your steps...tap it
again it shows approximate heart rate...tap it again and distance you've walked and
also calories burned. I love it because it syncs with my cell phone
and vibrates when I have a message. So there you have it. It's really great, Bill
can attest to this. As I mentioned to you we've downsized but it's 14 steps down
for the second floor where the offices are and it's of course 14 steps up it's
also 14 steps down to the basement. I'd be working at my desk and I'd be
saying...Bill are you downstairs? Yeah...I'd say...okay can you bring me
some water? No....I've got this baby on. What I'm going to do is I'm going to
take those steps and I'm going to take them back up just like a Stairmaster
and make sure that I'm utilizing what the functions are for this every single
day. So starting today I'm going to wear it everyday. I'm going to get those steps
and look at those steps. I'm going to be proud of 5,000 I'm going to be proud of
3,000 but you gotta wear it or it's not gonna work.
So there you have it. You know I could have gone on and on with this video but
I didn't want it to go hours. Nobody would watch it. Things like healthy
smoothies and how I really try to only eat desserts on weekends and you know
there's a lot of other ideas that you can do just to help you...you know to keep
that weight down or at least maintained. And the other thing is I'm wearing my
awesome over tee...er... Awesome Over 50 t-shirt and right underneath this video
we have these t-shirts. So if you want to kind of join me on this routine I'd love
to know, you know how it's going for you in the comments. And maybe what you do is
you come home from work, you put on your awesome over 50 tee and you start
dancing around the kitchen like a dancing fool. So they say it takes 30 to
60 days to start to make a routine a habit and it generally works if that
habit is easy-peasy. You know you don't have to put on your coat and get in the
car and drive somewhere and do this and do that. You can sort of just do it at home
or do it in your office. That's going to stick and that's what you want.
You want something that sticks all right. So the other thing that I've done here
is I have taken the before pictures of my bat wings and my tummy and I'm going
to do a follow-up vet video. Look for that it'll probably be maybe in six or
eight weeks something like that. I'm going to do the follow-up and I'm going
to show you that I was doing it and it became a habit and that I saw some
results. And why don't you if you're watching this maybe take a shot of your
own tummy just for yourself of course and let's see if we can work together
and really make this happen. So Bill and I and of course the cuteness factor........
little Hurricane
We all want you to be healthy and happy and we really try hard to make the...
...well we don't have to try, we keep it real here. I mean who else goes in front of everybody
showing your bad arms and all that and doing dancing around like a dancing fool.
Well it's moi. I do it but I do it for you and I hope that we're making you
smile and we're giving you some inspiration. Helping you be a little bit
healthier and you know the Friday videos that we do, we do the beauty, we do the
fashion, we do some exercise. And then on Tuesdays with the food, we've got the fun, we've
got some things for you like travel a few jaunts that we go on and you're
welcome to tag along on the videos. You know we do it all for you. Hey you
know what else? I'm doing Insta gram now. Every single day I put out you know
something that I think people will like, all of our awesome ones out there. And
all you have to do is just search awesome over 50 on Insta gram and you'll
find it. So until next time...I'm going to keep doing this every single day my
routines and my exercise. I'm going to get my heart rate going and move a
little. And until next time, you know do that crazy dancing fool dance, have some
fun working a fun routine that you're going to stick to and keep it awesome.
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