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You CAN reprogram your mind to embrace the “you” inside. The “YOU” you deserve to be and struggle daily to become. Whether you are seeking weight loss, weight gain, fitness goals, health mindedness or something other… the 80/20 Lifestyle will deliver the results you seek. It will empower you beyond reason and make you more fulfilled and content than ever before. Let’s fall in love with the process.

Your Sister in the South,
Robin Shea

February 15
Getting in the Zone

Five Steps to Changing Behavior

Our automatic response system or Sub-Conscious mind is made up of two programs.  One is nature which is our primal instincts and the other is nurture which is our learned behavior through observation and life experience.  The reason this is important is because our automatic response system is a vastly more efficient processor and the most dominant of our operating systems.  You have heard of the phrase, Automatic Pilot… that is essentially what our sub-conscious mind is, an automatic response to life.  Any time we are not living from conscious awareness, we are...

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November 22
Getting in the Zone

Whole Brain Integration for Fast Effective Lifestyle Change

The Left Brain/Right Brain approach to weight loss
Weight loss - it should be just as simple as training hard and eating right, right? For some people, it IS just that simple! But, for most of us, weight loss is as complex as a Rubik's cube, with thousands of combinations, but only ONE winning combination per person. To further complicate it, our “winning combination” is constantly changing and adjusting based on many outside factors, such as age, stress, exercise, and your metabolism. But what about the other, not quite so obvious factors? While so many of us want...

November 12
Keeping it Clean

Why Whole Grains?

Lets start with the basics… what is whole grain?
All grains start their life as a whole grain. In their natural state, growing in the fields, whole grains are the entire seed of a plant. This seed (or "kernel") is made up of three key parts: the bran, the germ, and the endosperm. Some examples of whole grain foods are:

Amaranth
Barley
Buckwheat
Corn, including whole cornmeal and popcorn
Millet
Oats, including oatmeal
Quinoa
Rice, both brown rice and colored rice
Rye
Sorghum (also called milo)
...

November 12
Managing Expectations

Body Types

It is important to know what body type you are prior to setting expectations. However, your body type in no way indicates your ability to achieve your health and fitness goals.  Let me repeat… your body type in no way indicates your ability to achieve your health and fitness goals. But, setting goals that are in line with the highest and best use of your natural resources is a smart thing to do. It will not only spare you disappointment, but knowing what you are predisposed to will help keep you moving in the right direction.

Have you ever known someone that can eat...

September 23
Keeping it Clean

Sugar is NOT the enemy!

In a world where carbs have been made out to be the bad guy, and sweets are always a no-no, I’m sure you’ve gotten the message that sugar is your worst enemy. It sabotages your diet, packs on the pounds, and causes diabetes, right?

While there is some truth to that statement, in reality, that kind of thinking can lead to some very poor diet choices. Not fully understanding the different types of sugar, and what role moderation needs to play can do more harm than good to your clean, healthy 80/20 lifestyle!

First – let’s look at the different types of...

August 16
Keeping it Clean

The Acid Alkaline Diet, Pop Culture Diet or Much More?

Is the Acid Alkaline Diet a pop culture diet fad or much more, that’s the question?

As our country has entered the new millennium, our choices of food find few limits.  In an effort to find balance (and simply survive) in our modern hurried lifestyles, we often make the mistake of sacrificing quality food and opting instead for convenience.  Because of that, there is an increase in obesity, but also an increase in people turning to medication because they simply don’t feel well. They are sluggish and ill-tempered, which in large part is contributed directly to...

March 31
Getting in the Zone

Re-Wire Your Appetite

First off, you must realize you are completely rewiring your nutritional reward system and the mind exercises are very important to your success. There is NO destination at which any of us will arrive and claim victory; we are on a journey, and embracing and loving that journey is where we find victory. Please judge your success at the end of each day by reflecting on your good choices.Learning to eat clean is an arduous task requiring patience, and an education; clean-eating is the best and most definable nutritional litmus test available. Make it a daily goal to eat as clean as you...

March 30
Enjoying your 20%

My Weakness for Homemade French Fries

Enjoying Life’s 20% Indulgence!!!
Nothing nourishes the body like wholesome, clean foods. The Southern Fried Fitness Lifestyle recognizes the importance of consuming foods in their most natural state in order to maximize the nutrition and health benefits. Besides loving the flavor, freshness, beauty and versatility of our clean diet, we respect the foods nature has provided for us and their ability to energize our bodies, grow and repair our muscles, stave off disease and keep us sharp mentally and physically. This is why 80% of our diet consists of nothing but clean, healthy,...

March 30
Support System

Eyes Wide Open!

In an Instant, My Eyes Were Opened!

I am going to share with you a very tender and personal story that changed my life in an instant. It centers on a beautiful little blue-eyed, cotton-headed boy: my sweet angel, Rylan. I think it is important to mention that Rylan is my third son. Before him came Mac: a sweet, inquisitive, quiet, lovely little boy that entertained himself with his brilliant imagination. And prior to Mac, we had Colton… our first born, showered with attention from birth, not to mention toys and clothes alike (he didn’t stand a chance), but all in all he...

March 30
Support System

Control Your Binge Triggers!

Binge Triggers!

We all have them: situations where we lose control and ravage food. Shoveling it in quicker than we can chew, practically choking on the bites. Next we sense a surge or release (whether norepinephrine, dopamine, adrenaline, or another one of the wacky neurotransmitters that make us do crazy things) and for a brief moment it calms us. SOUND FAMILIAR!

Well, those situations have triggers; by pinpointing our triggers we can design a strategy to protect us from losing control. Part of journaling is to locate our triggers; it didn’t take long for me to find...