First of all, if you will be flying to your destination, be sure to eat a healthy meal in advance of your arrival at the airport. People tend to eat more when under stress, and if you arrive at an airport with an empty stomach, you are likely not going to have healthy eating on your mind, which means you will spend more money on unhealthy food. While the airports are taking strides to provide travelers with healthy choices, the majority of the food you will find is loaded with trans fats and high in calories. It is smart to bring along some healthy snacks to munch on during long flights and layovers. These will curb your appetite while also supplying your body with some nutrients and energy.

It is often difficult to find a health friendly hotel and area. Most hotels these days recognize that their clients will often be interested in staying healthy, and as such, will often have special meals available to cater to such clientele. When you order room service, be sure to ask for specific items on your order, such as low fat or low salt meals, as there are a number of hotels that will make an effort to accommodate your requests. They want you to come back and tell your friends about the service you received, after all. Sometimes, we arrive and find ourselves in a frenzy due to the lack of amenities to meet our needs. To prevent this from happening, researching reviews from other travelers is a very helpful tool. On my last trip to Florida, I found myself wondering how I would ever be able to maintain my healthy lifestyle. Fortunately, I did my due diligence and found a great site that called Gogobot that allowed me to plan out my trip from start to finish ensuring I could remain healthy along the way. The site offered travel reviews ranging from the hotels in Miami, to the restaurants, even on things to do. Tools like this are lifesavers when it comes to your nutrition on vacation.

When you arrive at your hotel, look for the foods you know to be healthy: whole grains, vegetables, and fruit should be your primary sources of nutrition. This doesn’t mean that you can’t indulge in sweets and fats every now and then, but they should not become the focus of your meals simply because you are on vacation.

Look for healthy restaurants if you are in an area where you will be able to travel out and about on your own. Try not to go to fast food venues or all you can eat locations, as neither will encourage you to develop healthy eating habits. If you can look at the menu of a restaurant before you leave the hotel, you are more likely to make a good choice and not end up at a place with lots of grease and trans fats. When you get to the restaurant, try to add as many vegetables as you can, and try to stay away from the meat products. If you choose to eat meat, look for fish, then chicken, and then red meat last of all. Most all restaurants will cater to your wishes if you would love something special ordered. Make sure to scour the menu for a healthy option and find one that is not sacrificing in flavor as well.

In conclusion, it can be challenging to keep up our healthy lifestyles when we take a break from regular life by going on vacation. Fortunately, it is more than possible to continue to eat healthy and choose nutritious meals even when you are thousands of miles away from home.

Guest Blogger : Cole Millen

The Level 10 Body Transformation Challenge encourages participants to reach their ultimate goal and be the best they can be whether it be weight loss, body fat loss or even gaining lean muscle. The Level 10 Challenges will run locally, regionally and nationally with the best achievers being recognised with the chance to win £000’s in prizes.

What does the challenge involve?

• Performing personalised body analysis with participants
• Offering customised programmes and meal plans
• On-going consultations to support participants to reach their Level 10
• Providing nutrition and exercise education
• Weekly meetings to help follow up with your challenge participants
• 12 Week Contest to Transform Your Body
• 6 Categories of Competition
• Customers can compete for £000’s in prizes and giveaways

More details on the Level 10 Challenge

Tom Holland is lifestyle and fitness expert committed to helping people better their lives through fitness and through his message of “Believe in Yourself.” He has encouraged and coached thousands of people to reach their fitness goals; from losing weight to climbing mountains, running marathons and completing Ironman triathlons.

He is the co host of Herbalife’s work out dvds program 24Fit, which has designed by renowned physical therapist Robert Forster. Its soon to be released in the USA.

Join the Weight Loss Challenge to help reach your goals. Over a 12-week course, gain the knowledge and confidence, for healthy lasting weight loss.

Wondering how you’re going to fit into those new clothes in your wardrobe? So now discover a fun way to do just that and manage your weight, through:    Support from your own personal coach

• Education on nutrition and eating well, for long term weight management
• Opportunities to meet like-minded people every week
• Inspiration in a fun environment, to achieve healthy results

Join the Weight Loss Challenge in Leicester, a 12-week course to gain the knowledge and confidence, to achieve healthy lasting weight loss, well beyond these 12 weeks.

It’s a ‘challenge’ because you could even win a cash prize if you are one of the top achievers in your Weight Loss Challenge.

Weight Loss Challenge Leicester

Millions of people, according to Dr William Davis experience some form of adverse health effect, ranging from minor rashes and high blood sugar to the unattractive belly fat that preventive cardiologist William Davis calls “wheat bellies.”

His Book is Called Wheat Belly and explains why wheat causes you to release insulin which is a fat storage hormone.

Other references:

Dr Lori Arnold

Dr Mercola

The effects of NADH

The more ATP energy a cell disposes of, the better its performance and the longer its lifespan. For instance, if a heart cell receives NADH to cover its natural N.A.D.H. demand, the amount of ATP in the cell increases immediately. Consequently, the cells have access to more energy, are able to deliver a better performance and live longer. The conclusion is simple – the more N.A.D.H. is available to the cell, the more ATP it will produce.

Information on NADH

Full Body Analysis
At Arriba! we do not just focus on what the scales say. Each week members receive a full body analysis (don’t worry, it takes a few seconds and you don’t need to get undressed!) which allows us to monitor, amongst other things: Weight, Body Fat % , Hydration Levels,
Muscle Mass, Bone Mass, Metabolic Rate, Metabolic Age and Visceral (Internal) Fat Levels

Cash Prizes

The Arriba! ‘Weight Loss Challenge’ is open to anyone over 18 regardless of what weight loss method you wish to use to lose your weight.

Each participant pays a fee of £39 for the 12 week course.

Each class has around 25-30 participants with a small portion of the fees going towards the admin. costs – hall rental, photocopying, spot prizes etc – the rest goes into a prize fund for the 3 biggest losers (based on percentage body weight lost).

The prize fund*  based on 30 participants, is  £300 for 1st place, £200 for 2nd place & £100 for 3rd place.
Plus we give a prize to the biggest inches loser not in the top 3.

* Prizes based on 30 participants. Prizes are relative to the number of participants.

Each week the participants meet their weight loss coaches to record their  body composition measurements including metabolic age and body fat%, to listen to a talk on 1 of 12 educational topics on diet & nutrition.

Each participant also gets a free 1:1 consultation at the start of the ‘challenge’ as well as weekly follow up coaching and advice from their personal coach between classes.

Huge support, motivation and education is provided within the class environment helping participants to not only lose weight, but also empowering them to keep it off for good.

So, if you are looking for the ultimate support system to help you lose weight, shed inches, feel fantastic & stay that way then give the ‘Weight Loss Challenge’ a try!

Arriba! Weight Loss Challenge Berkhamsted – covering Chesham, Tring, Hemel Hempstead, Kings Langley, Abbots Langley, Ringshall, Dagnall,  Amersham, Great Missenden, Prestwood, St Albans, Hertfordshire

Weight Loss That Really Works! Lose weight, get educated, and have fun

The Community Weight Loss Challenge in Cardiff is a 12 week course run which combines the education and support you need to achieve safe and long term weight loss with a bit of friendly, fun, community competition.

Don’t Struggle on Your Own. Join a Group of Winners

Our weight loss challenge is:

• Open to anyone regardless of how they try to lose weight
• Loaded with useful information to help you lose weight faster & easier
• Big on encouragement and accountability
• Your own personal coach and advice on Proper Nutrition and food choices
• Offers Free Body fat testing and monitoring
• Offers the chance to win  up to £300*

Statistics now show that people trying to lose weight who participate in a support group like this have 250% better results. They reach their goals easier, they stick to the program better and they keep the weight off longer. Don`t delay.

Community Weight Loss Challenge Cardiff

* Prizes based on 30 participants. Prizes are relative to the number of participants, please speak with your Arriba! Weight Loss Challenge Leader for exact details

Every attendee is offered a comprehensive wellness questionnaire, professional body composition analysis and advice on simple changes they can make to improve their lifestyle.

At the end of the 12 weeks, the top 3 challengers who have lost the most weight or body fat will cash prizes – the biggest loser wins!

Weight Loss Challenge in Birmingham

“I realized what my body had been missing!”

Long plagued by muscle and joint pain, Julie noticed that her weight loss coincided with renewed energy. Her lower weight reduced stress on her joints. “Before, my diet had been almost all carbs,” she says. “I had no nutrition going into my body, which meant I was both overweight and malnourished.” * 
With 41 pounds lost, Julie continues to drink a shake every day. No longer a skeptic, she talks to people about Herbalife whenever she can. “Before I was functioning at around 25 percent of my capacity,” she says. “Now it feels like 100 percent.”
“I finally have my life back!”

By Julie A.

Weight Before & After: Before: 171, After: 130, Pounds lost: 4