Why the Sauna is Apart of my Routine!

             I’m always asked what is the point of the sauna? If I’m being honest, I used to ask the same question. Just did not seem logical to sit in a hot box and sweat to near death. But after doing some research and encouragement, I went for it. The Sauna is required for me after each workout for at least 15 minutes. You will be drenched, you will want to climb out of there, you will not understand why you chose to do it but it will be all worth it! Let me tell you why….

The skin is the largest organ in the body and through the pores it plays a major role in the detoxifying process alongside the lungs, kidneys, bowels, liver and the lymphatic and immune systems. The skin produces cool sweat to regulate the body’s elevated temperature. It also has the ability to transform toxins from lipid-soluble or oil based, into easier to eliminate water soluble. Sweat carries toxins OUT of the body and flushes them through the pores.

SWEATING IS THE BODY’S SAFE AND NATURAL WAY TO HEAL.

Benefits of the Sauna:

• Improved Blood Circulation: The sauna increases and improves the rate of blood circulation and breathing.
• Weight Loss: Sauna is similar to mild exercise, it burns about 300 calories per average session. Regular sauna treatments combined with a healthy diet and moderate exercise will help you lose weight and stay fit and healthy.
• Skin Cleansing: A profuse sauna-induced sweat followed by a shower cleanses your skin far more thoroughly than just taking a shower. It makes the skin soft and healthy with immediate noticeable effects.
• Body Relaxation: Stress build-up creates tension in the body manifesting in various aches and pains. The heat and humidity of the sauna diffuses the pain and relaxes tired muscles.
• Mind Relaxation: The sauna is essentially a place to relax. Regular sauna users all agree that it effectively helps relieve physical and mental fatigue and stress.

 

Try it out and watch how your skin glows, watch how the pounds shed and feel the difference in being truly relaxed – mentally and physically.

Leave me a comment. Have you ever used the sauna? Is it a part of your routine? Will you try it now after learning its benefits?

-CheInspires

 

http://www.pureinsideout.com/benefits-of-sauna.html

 

 

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F#ck F.E.A.R – Paint Wars 2016

     Being the fat kid in school, I recall not being able to keep up in gym class and being made fun of because I was different. Being made to do it by the gym teachers or take an F (when we all knew that academics meant everything to me). It was humiliating and sadly has been engrained in my mind for almost 20 years now.

I have ALWAYSSSSS wanted to participate in fitness events. NEVER HAVE. Fearful of what others would think of me – “she’s too big to be out here” “she won’t be able to keep up” not to mention the stares and laughs. Not worth it!

Since being on this journey, I am saying Fuck Fear!! There is nothing and no one that will hold me back from accomplishing my goals. This journey is very lonely. It’s hard not having those in your corner that truly understand that you’ve made up your mind to kick being fat. However, my support system did not flinch when I asked them to participate in this event with me. Shout Out to my girls, Tanisha of @TheMackinProject, Jae – @GirlPowerHour, Nikki – @HeelMyHeart, Latorria, Nicole @everybodyluvsnikki. We all dressed up, supported each other, smiled, laughed and had fun the entire time. Thank you sisters, you just don’t know how much it truly means to me.

 If you are reading this and you have a fear that you want to conquer, GO FOR IT. You have nothing to lose but the shackles that have you bound. I am no longer that fat kid that is afraid of what others think. I’m living.

FEAR = Face Everything and Rise! What do you have to lose? Set Your Goals, Do The Work, SMASH THEM, Make New Goals!

-cheinspires

Give me my LIFE BACK…..

Lets go back to as long ago as I can remember……I’ve always been overweight. I am sure that I weighed close to 400 pounds in high school. I was made fun of, laughed at, butt of most jokes. It was the most debilitating and humiliating experience of my life. It still shakes my core when I think about it. Into my adult life, I was always the smart one, career driven, money maker but never had a “real boyfriend” only met men online because I could be whomever I wanted to be and never had to meet them. CATFISH! It all caused me to overeat and love on something that wouldn’t make fun of me or judge – FOOD! It was always there, always satisfying, always forgiving, never judged.

Fast Forward to 2010 (pic on the left), I was a new parent. I weighed 325 pounds. I was sad, depressed, unmotivated, heartbroken, alone, lost – I could go on and on and on. High blood pressure, diabetes, arthirits, joint pain were all apart of my everyday life. It took me years – 1501 days (4 years) to be exact to beat this addiction and TAKE MY LIFE BACK.

How did I beat my addiction? Yes, it is an addiction. Addiction is defined as “the fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity.”

• First, ADMIT that there is a problem
• Second, GET HELP!
• Third, DO THE WORK!!

 

Looking forward to sharing this journey with you all. I’ll start with my breakthrough and what made me take control.

I’m sure many can relate to me, I am an open book. I want us to take over lives back and LIVE. Food is here to sustain us not control us. Be mindful. Join me on this journey!!

 

Highest recorded weight – 325
Current weight – 218