Dallas Boot Camp FitnessREAL Eating, REAL Movement, REAL Thinking, R.E.A.L. Living

Changing to be healthier, sexier, leaner, faster & stronger is pretty easy when you follow basic REAL food tips & general guidelines.  There is a common belief that losing weight & feeling better is hard & that “diets” & no fun restrictions are a must (I thought the same thing when losing my 84 pounds… frankly, losing 84 pounds sucked, hurt, was hard & did not feel good!) Well, I think now, that is pretty unnecessary & a waste of some very useful belief points : )

My tip… ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS CHANGE JUST ONE THING & MAKE IT BETTER! Thats it! (This is my challenge for all my boot camp participants.  Can you handle this simple challenge?)  I promise ALL campers that take this challenge… their body, mind & health will be completely different & better at the end of any 4 week NDBC program!  IT’S TRUE!

The North Dallas Boot Camp & it’s creator LOVE FOOD! NDBC thinks it’s important to educate boot camp participants, as well as clients on real food & what it really looks like, taste like, feels like! Join Suzan Mackay & myself at Whole Foods Market for a store tour. The next store tour will be Friday the 11th starting at 5:30 p.m. We will  meet at the Forest location located at 11700 Preston Rd Dallas, TX 75230

Color, Fun, REAL

Some of the topics we will be discussing are:

• what is REAL Eating & REAL food?
• what does seasonal mean & why is that important?
• what is raw food?
• organic
• grass fed meats
• how to value shop
• services you can use for convenience
• Whole Foods Market & educating the community

For more information about the Whole Foods Market Food Tour please contact NDBC here, or Suzan Mackay  (suzan.mackay@wholefoods.com) at the Preston & Forest Whole Foods Market location

REAL energy for REAL health!

I think you should really tune in NOW. This is a big one….. nutritional supplement companies are supposed to do 2 things for us as a consumer. Their purpose (at least what they tell us) & intention is to provide convenient high quality nutritional supplementation, for the busy lifestyle to make losing weight & being healthier easier.

Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case. Today, some really cool studies have shown that about 95% of companies that produce these supplements for us, are actually producing a product that can be, & HAS been very dangerous for the human body & it’s health!

Several of these companies are using ingredients (referring to ingredient lists printed on products) that are chemically binded “all natural,” & man made neurotoxins (let me remind you this is not all the products, all companies.)

Losing weight really can be easier, faster, healthier & more importantly, FEEL GOOD; & you have to remember adding in the fun parts : )  Taking nutritional supplements is safe & healthy when taken from NutriHarmony.  NutriHarmony is one of the very few companies that I trust as far as providing the best quality ingredients for it’s customers!

• multi-vitiamans
• high quality calcium
• 97% absorption rate with most of the products
• high quality whey protein for building sexy lean mass
• high quality energy drink that’s NON-TOXIC called Enfusia
• digestive supplements for less pain, less toxicity & all around better health
• an effective lean maximizer

Getting on an efficient & effective NutriHarmony program has proven to help all the people I know who use the products get REALLY healthy results, faster! Lose weight, be healthier, FEEL better & LIVE better with the help of NDBC & enjoying some of the REAL food formula products from Nutriharmony.

For more information please click here to visit the NutriHarmony website or contact NDBC today by clicking here.  To schedule a free consultation for REAL better living today contact Mario A. Esparza at FEELBETTER@thenorthdallasbootcamp.com

NDBC would like to help make losing weight & FEELING GOOD a little easier for EVERYONE this holiday season!

For the months of November & December NDBC will be adding another convenient class time & tweeking boot camp programs just little in order to help with the fun, crazy holiday schedules that are coming up for us all!  That means ZERO missed workouts  because of T-Day or X-Mas!

NDBC HOLIDAY BOOT CAMP SCHEDULE:

November schedule: Monday Nov. 2nd – Thurs. Nov. 19th

December schedule: Monday Nov. 30th – Thurs. Dec. 17th

• Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
• 6a.m. – 7a.m. ♦ 7a.m. – 8a.m. ♦ 9a.m. – 10a.m. (new added class!) ♦ 6p.m. – 7p.m.
• 12 classes, 4 days a week, 3 weeks $150!

Click here to register now or to view the full schedule (FYI the 6am & 6pm classes have just a few spots left!)  You can also contact The North Dallas Boot Camp by clicking here.

Inspiration comes in many forms. As I am about to finish my first week of my second month of boot camp (it’s that good!), I noticed something today as I was getting dressed. When I buckled my belt, I needed to buckle it in one hole. My inspiration today was noticing my waistline is a little smaller.

As I mentioned before, I am refusing to hop on the scale and I haven’t been measuring myself (although I probably should at least do that). I have simply been focusing on making it to bootcamp three times a week and making better food choices.

This month has been challenging. I moved into our new home and picked up a new client the weekend before my first day of boot camp. So I have been making an effort to keep up my normal schedule, fit in my new client, unpack, reorganize, show up to boot camp, and make better choices in my diet. In the beginning, it was difficult figuring how I could fit everything in while all of my belongings were in disarray. The first week of class I was tired and sore from the workout, but I stuck it out.

During the third week, a classmate showed up with a plastic air cast on her leg. She had injured her ankle the night before, but decided to show up to boot camp anyway. Instead of focusing on her injury and what she couldn’t do, she came anyway and focused on her strengths. While we did squats, she did curls. I am not sure if she knows it, but she was a huge inspiration to me in my momentary moving/reorganizing my life chaos.

Yesterday morning, as my 5:45 alarm went off. I struggled to get out of bed, I had worked late the night before and didn’t crawl into bed until way after midnight. Then, I thought of the girl who inspired me last week, got dressed, and went to boot camp. Within 15 minutes of walking through the door, I was awake, laughing and motivated to kick off the day.

The North Dallas Boot Camp & it’s creator LOVE FOOD! NDBC thinks it’s important to educate boot camp participants, as well as clients on real food & what it really looks like, taste like, feels like! Join Suzan Mackay & myself at Whole Foods Market for a store tour. We will  meet at the Forest location located at 11700 Preston Rd Dallas, TX 75230

Some of the topics we will be discussing are:

• what is REAL Eating & REAL food?
• what does seasonal mean & why is that important?
• what is raw food?
• organic
• grass fed meats
• how to value shop
• services you can use for convenience
• Whole Foods Market & educating the community

For more information about the Whole Foods Market Food Tour please contact NDBC here, or Suzan Mackay  (suzan.mackay@wholefoods.com) at the Preston & Forest Whole Foods Market location.

Weekends are where I can take my Foodie moments at a leisurely pace. Last Friday, I ventured to Central Market with a focus on CLEAN and/or LOCAL produce.

In my shopping cart, I placed red and yellow tomatoes, along with brussel sprouts and okra-all grown in Texas. Among other items on my list, I chose a raw blue cheese.

Knowing my boyfriend would come home hungry, I made a treat to snack on while we prepared our dinner.

Photo by Jennifer Browning.

I sliced the red and yellow tomatoes, picked fresh basil from our potted herb garden, drizzled Texas olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Next, I crumbled the raw blue cheese on top sprinkling a touch of sea salt and cracked pepper to finish the dish.

What I liked about the dish was how simple, clean, fresh it was, and my conscience felt good about using mostly local ingrediants. Preparing good food doesn’t have to  be tasking.

Sometimes it is important to keep it simple.  Eating clean & participating in NDBC has really made a difference!  Looking forward to the next boot camp session that will begin next week!  Until next time!  - Jen B.

I am doing something a little different as I embark on my fitness journey beginning with The North Dallas Boot Camp. This time, instead of obsessing about the calories I consume, fat free this & that, fad diets or the weight I want to lose, I am trying  a new method. I am focusing on Mario’s concept to keep it REAL.

That is focusing on REAL Eating, REAL Movement, REAL Thinking…. REAL Living. With that lesson in mind, while I do want to lose weight, weight loss isn’t going to be my main focus as I begin making positive lifestyle changes. Instead of counting calories going in and out of my body, I’m focusing on being active and simply making better choices when it comes to the food I consume. I also want to have fun, be stronger, achieve better balance, and handle stress better.  I figure if I focus on these, then the weight loss will come.

I am now in my third week of boot camp and I feel fantastic. I already notice that I have more energy, I am sleeping better, and I am feeling as though I stand a little taller. Keeping it REAL is already proving to have its benefits….and just think, my journey has just begun.  The REALity is…. changing to be better is still LIVING your life while ADDING more quality to your body, mind & spirit.

I am excited to introduce  an awesome new member to NDBC! Jennifer Browning has been working as a freelance photographer in Dallas for four years. Her work has taken her to Cuba, Haiti, Europe and across the United States photographing people like Jennifer Tilley, Shannon Elizabeth & even former President Bill Clinton & his wife Hillary.

While Jennifer hasn’t put down her camera, most of her work these days is doing grassroots online social networking & marketing for non-profit organizations. Her clients include Project Medishare for Haiti, Inc, The Global Institute at the University of Miami, & locally, Alley’s House.

Jennifer will be sharing her personal NDBC experience with all of you!  Posting anything from food to fun, Jennifer will be giving real life updates on how she is changing her life to feel better & become healthier.  This is a real person who will share all of her REAL eating, REAL movements & REAL thinking to give a real life view of change.

Full Quiver Farms is a local farm that produces quality uspasturized dairy products, REAL farm fresh eggs &

other quality 100% REAL foods for local Dallas co-ops & other all natural stores here in the DFW area.

When a person is able to speak about an experience & is able to create a feel for what may be, true fun, true passion true “love for the job”, they in a sense “paint you a picture with words” & make you laugh just a little… I usually consider that a pretty cool experience.

In the journey of creating NDBC &  learning SO MANY things in the that time, my experiences have  truly been so.  I could write you a few lines of my Full Quiver Farm experience & tell you all about picking up for the co-op… but I would rather show you a few pictures!  So much easier!  Enjoy!

Contact NDBC for information about REAL Food Tours, REAL Eating education or any other REAL Living questions!