There are certain things you LOVE…and when you become more involved with your fitness journey, you start to LOOK FORWARD to certain things - you look forward to certain foods, certain outfits, even certain songs. WHY? Because they all motivate you to eat clean and work out hard.

Some of the things I look forward to are:

- Running in the morning (2-3 miles)

- Eating breakfast

- Working hard then realizing it’s time for my 2nd meal of protein shake and 100 calorie popcorn

- Nrgize smoothies after my workout

- Stretching after a long, kickboxing class

- Seeing the definition in my arms when I train

- Saying hello to the trainers and gym employees

- Feeling satisfied knowing I finished a really good day.

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I wanted to share with all of you all the things I LOVE! And that includes all my favorite fitness brands!

Here are my favorite fitness tools:
- Nike (love their capri pants, their shoes, their hair ties and their hats)

- Cybex Arc Trainer: this is my favorite ‘precor-like’ machine to train cardio.

- Free Motion: I love anything that promotes functional fitness!

- Oxygen Magazine: their brand is unique as they always put out quality fitness models, great training articles and good reading information. They also give readers opportunity to engage and aspire to be a model one day.

- Billy Blanks: I LOVE Taebo.

- Zumba: if you are a gym and you are hosting a class, I will be THERE!

- Dasani Water: I LIKE the hardness of their water bottles!

- John Scott Nitro Supplements: I use their protein and fat burners religiously and I LOVE THEM!

- Adidas jackets and pants. I love their stripes! Especially if they are pink or yellow

- Bill Phillips books: Body for Life…awesome starter book! I loved their magazine when it was out!

Here are my favorite fitness foods:

- Low Carb Snickers bar: all time, top favorite. High in Fiber, protein, and not so much saturated fat or carbs.

- Max Muscle Chocolate Protein shakes

- 100 calorie bag ANYTHING. I love the portion control!

- Fat free, high fiber, natural, no salt popcorn

- Asian pears

- Nrgize Smoothies! Especially after a long, good workout!

- Jenni-O: Healthy lean turkey and great on the go meals! (I don’t know a lot about the way they process their meats though!)

- South Beach anything: I like their bars, I like their frozen meals…it is probably the most delicious thing to eat when you are really, really busy.

- Egg Whites and whole wheat English muffin with soy cheese for breakfast!

- Shrimp and Broccoli (I eat once a week!)
SO! What are your favorite fitness things? If you don’t have them..then create a list! Once you starting figuring out what you like about fitness, versus what you don’t like…you start getting more into the ‘healthy world’. You start using our language!

Did I miss anything??!

Love it!