You are what you eat -its an ongoing process. It is a CHOICE what you put in your body. Every 35 days your skin replaces itself. Your liver about 30 days. Your body makes new cells from what you eat. Its never too late... HEALING begins at your next meal.
Free Hikes Erie County Parks
Don’t let a little chill in the air stop you from going outdoors. Grab a hat and a jacket and get outside!
Join a Park Ranger every Sunday morning for a walk around the trails of a different Erie County park each week. This month’s hikes feature Akron Falls, Ellicott Creek, Como Lake, and Isle View Park. Check out @ErieCountyParks for more information.
#LivingWellWNY
As we celebrate our 15th Anniversary... we'd like to offer you a gift
Body Be Well Solutions is celebrating our 15th Anniversary with a special gift for YOU!
Purchase a package of 2 -60 minute gift certificates
receive a 15% discount off both!
Purchase one for yourself and one to share!
This special pricing offer has a limit of 2 packages, per CUSTOMER and expires on 12/24/2019
Sharing the Healthy Love / Happy Valentine's Day
Body Be Well Solutions is extending you an opportunity to save 15% on any purchase of nutraMetrix or TLS / Transitions Lifestyle Systems products
This special Valentines savings can be taken advantage of by:
Anymore who has already made a purchase through us, although has not in awhile
Anyone who is currently purchasing regularly
Anyone who is curious about trying our products
Anyone looking to get a jump on savings on bolstering their immunity
This is a one-time coupon, valid for one-time use per EXISTING or NEW CUSTOMER!!
When the Body is Not Functioning Properly
Generally when the body is not functioning properly, there are 2 reasons why. Either there is too much of something or not enough of something.
A couple easy examples:
When someone is very dehydrated the body will exhibit symptoms of thirst, headache, fatigue or hunger. Their body is in need of water. If the symptoms are due to dehydration, they will dissipate within a few minutes of drinking 8 ounces or more of water..
When someone has a hangover due to too much alcohol consumption they may exhibit a headache, nausea, fatigue and brain-fog. Their body has an excess of alcohol and their liver is struggling to process it. Generally, water, rest and time will address this symptoms. Additionally, ingesting some type of healthy fat will also support the liver’s recovery.
The same is true for many other "mild" symptoms which can be attributed to ones body having too much or not enough of something.
Sinus congestion and excessive mucus could be a reaction to a difficulty in digesting dairy products... Yes, it is not always a symptom of digestion when something is out of balance.
Interesting…. Anxiety, constipation, heart palpitations and cravings for chocolate have been traced to a deficiency of magnesium.
The season is changing... so can you
Health is a relationship you have with your body.
Powerful and interesting way to look at it.
Are you treating your body with respect? Are you being supportive of its needs? Are you protecting it from harm? Are you nourishing it? Are you showing it love?
What is a habit?
"We are what we repeatedly do"
-Aristotle
Habits make up a portion of our day, while we are running on auto-pilot. More of these are good and some not so good. In reality, one does not quit a habit, without replacing it with another.
The challenge is to identify the triggers for the bad habit and incorporate new ones with healthier choices.
Trying to quit smoking? Trying to cut back on or quit sugar? Trying to drink more water? Trying to exercise more?
For many its a physical addiction to the bad substance. For many its a stress relieving or social habit. For many unfortunately it maybe both.
Being healthy is not linear
We have our good days, and our bad days…
We have our healthy choices and our not so healthy choices.
We have episodes of resilient wellness and experience periods of illness.
It’s not a perfect path… but that is part of what strengthens us in mind, body, spirit and soul.
#health, #wellness, #itsajourney, #itsaprocess, #resilience, #strength, #bodybewellsolutions
How you age is a CHOICE
Have gratitude and laugh frequently -they’re both contagious and fountains of youth
A body in motion, stays in motion -take a walk, try yoga, just move
You are what you eat -eat your veggies, drink your water, nourish your body…don’t just feed it
Use it or lose it -have a purpose and stay connected, get out there… you’ve got good stuff to share
#healthyaging, #yourchoice, #ageisjustanumber, #bodybewellsolutions
Can't find a "DIEt" that works for you?
DIEt Focuses mentally on
Food as Enemy
Deprivation
Short-term, Quick Fix
Numbers and a Scale
One Size Fits All
HEALth Focuses mentally on
Food as Fuel
Healthy Choices
Lifelong Healthy Habits
Wellness from Within
Your Choices, Your Habits, Your Wellness
Ready to focus on Your Health and HEAL?
How well do you know your chemistry?
Do you know the impact of what you are eating?
Understanding how our bodies respond to what we put into them, and making even minor changes can significantly alter our energy levels and overall health.
Each of our bodies is like a chemistry beaker, everything we put in causes some sort of a reaction.. some good, some not so good and some really awful.
Are you absorbing the vitamins you are taking?
The reason one vitamin can promote so much benefit in the body, is because the deficiency of one vitamin can negatively effect so many bodily functions.
Understanding the Benefits of taking vitamins is based on 3 factors
Quality of Product
Consistency of Use
Your Body's Ability to Absorb
The Isotonix delivery system is different, and important to understand with so many people today having compromised digestive systems. An isotonic solution (liquid) delivery means that the body has less work to do in obtaining maximum absorption. This allows nutrients to pass directly into the small intestine and be rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream. Minimal nutritive value lost, making the absorption of vitamin highly efficient while delivering maximum results. While getting the most product for your dollar… not unnecessary and unknown fillers.
Schedule a session to understand the best options for you personally.
What actually happens to your body when you start doing yoga?
Many thoughts come to mind when you do yoga for the first time…
As you stand in the back of a class, or unfurl a yoga mat at home, it can all seem like a lot of wobbling on one foot as you struggle to figure out a pose. But even if… Read more
Curious if there is a yoga out there for you? Just a beginner? Have some chronic restricted mobility or pain? Check out Mindful Movement ~a yoga inspired program
Looking for more advanced or different types of yoga? Check out the offerings at Be Moved Fitness
“Save $15 on your first yoga session. Offer valid for new clients through 12/31/19”
Making small adjustments on a regular basis to "re-steady" your Balance
It's about Balance. Even the most "practiced" yoga instructor cannot hold a tree balance pose "constantly". Its about making small adjustments on a regular basis to "re-steady" our Balance. The more practiced you are at "re-steadying" yourself.. for Balance... the more habitual it will be. Take your time... and practice some Balance.
Learn to release the old...
Learn to release the old
What beliefs and emotions do you need to heal? Look around at your life right now. What are you thinking? What are you talking about? What issues are cropping up in your life? Who are you talking about? What are you remembering? Who is coming back into your life? What hurts? Is that feeling familiar? When have you felt it before?
Once you’ve identified what you’re feeling and thinking, release it. Let the energy go. Let it leave your body. You can chatter all you want about what’s going on with you, but that doesn’t release the energy from your system anymore than talking about a splinter takes it out. Sometimes the process will sting just a bit when you pull out the splinter. But don’t worry. It won’t hurt for long. And soon you’ll feel better than you felt in a long time.
Often the process of releasing all toxins can be as gentle and natural as the way a flower or a tree grows with sunshine and rain, a little bit of fertile soil, and a little pruning and weeding.
Growth can be gentle now. Growth can be fun. Breathe in new air. Breathe in new energy. Exhale the past, it’s feelings, beliefs and toxins. Let it go. Let yourself be transformed.
Adapted from Journey to the Heart by Melody Beatty
#releasetheold #springishere #bringinthenew #healthychoices #healthyhabits #bodybewellsolutions
Upper Body Tension & Pain? How are you Breathing?
How are you breathing?
Years ago, my chiropractor mentioned I was not breathing with my belly... my upper body was a disaster of chronic tightness and pain.
As I’ve focused on breath regularly through my yoga practice... there has been a significant change in my body tension and my overall sense of well being.
You can train your body to breathe in through your nose, expand the breath into your belly and gently exhale in the same manner. Over time, it’s a Habit you no longer have to focus on... you begin to breathe this way without focusing it, as your body realizes how much more efficient it is.
I’d say it’s worth a try...
10 Reasons You Need A Health Coach
#healthychoices #healthcoach #youneedahealthcoach #bodybewellsolutions
Most of us know what we should be doing to improve our health and prevent disease… but we are not doing those things. The amount of conflicting information is down right overwhelming.
Health Coaching can be a single session or a series of sessions, offered to an individual, a couple or for a family. A session could be as simple as a Grocery Shopping Tour; to truly learn what the packaged food labels are saying and not saying.
This article provides a great overview of what a Health Coach can offer you… especially now that your New Year’s Resolutions to get healthy, are nothing but a frustration.
10 Reasons You Need a Health Coach : article by Beth Anderson
Bottom-line, as much as we are all similar we are different. Being healthy is not one size fits all. There are definitely a set of “healthy foundations” to build from… but after that, the Healthy Choices need to fit YOUR life-style and interests.
A Health Coach can guide you through this process. The intent of working with a Health Coach, is to discover YOUR own set of choices that will keep YOU healthy going forward… and not have you tied to a boring structured program… that can become very expensive over time!
The Story Behind Body Be Well Solutions
Rebecca Albert, LMT & INHC, Owner of Body Be Well Solutions
My story is quite simple… I'm very blessed and grateful that a life changing event in my health "pushed" me to make major changes over a decade ago. Those major changes were made One Choice at a Time, and they are now Healthy Habits which keep my Body Well.
Keep in mind, as I age and my life continues to change, I am regularly adjusting my Choices and Habits to maintain ongoing Balance. This includes what I eat, drink, listen to, read and the activities I participate in and people I associate with.
I'm a former smoker, caffeine junkie, binge eater of sugar free, fat free, low calorie packaged food of all sorts. I have been overweight, experienced terrible mood swings, slept very little, had low energy, major brain fog and very poor self-esteem. Eventually all these poor choices and self-perceptions caught up with me and then ...CRASH.
My first step was to quit smoking and begin exercising. Additionally, I significantly reduced my caffeine consumption. I began to recognize there were other ways to relax and unwind without alcohol. Soon after reducing the caffeine and alcohol, I started to understand and appreciate the value of a good night's sleep and how my body felt when properly hydrated by drinking water.
Overall, I began to feel better; these Healthy Choices were moving me in the right direction... but I still had more chronic daily pain than I should at that my age and continued to generally feel sluggish. I was still over weight; even though I was exercising regularly.
My next step on my journey to Health Habits had the greatest impact of them all. I took the approach of “clean low glycemic eating” and began taking high quality vitamins and supplements. This is when things really began to change... and they did so quickly. I lost inches everywhere, especially around my waist. My percentage of body fat dropped into a very healthy range for my age. I lost the "extra pounds and sluggish brain-fog" I was carrying around. More importantly... my daily aches, pains and stiffness diminished significantly, my muscle tone improved and so did my strength and flexibility.
What was so different about this Healthy Choice? By eating clean low glycemic foods, my body was no longer in a constant state of unhealthy inflammation. As a bonus the high-quality vitamins and supplements I began taking with consistency enabled my body to "heal" some of the damage I had caused with so many years of prior poor choices.
As a massage therapist for almost 15 years, I specialized in helping my clients manage chronic pain. After experiencing these changes in my own health, I decided to share this approach of Healthier Choices with my clients. I chose to become a Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. During my training at IIN I studied over 100 different dietary theories, practical lifestyle management techniques, and innovative coaching methods with some of the world’s top health and wellness experts.
I do not believe there is one approach to being Healthy for everyone. However, an essential first step toward Making Healthy a Habit, One Choice at a Time is to understand how our food and beverage choices affect our health. Once we have this foundation, we can begin to find our personal BALANCE of healthy nutritious food and fun and interesting physical activity.
I have been practicing yoga for 5 years and doing so has changed my life on so many levels, it’s difficult to put into words. Physically as a massage therapist, yoga has saved my career, through my body awareness of movement, stillness and strength. I personally believe in myself and my value more than I ever have in my life. Yoga has been the outlet and provided the awareness I needed to understand and navigate through many difficult situations and relationships. Yoga is not just about physical movement; it can be so much more to those who want it. In a sense, the movements of Yoga can offer many of the same effects as massage therapy. Through the guidance of my yoga teachers I’ve experienced a level of connection and comfort within myself. As a Certified Trauma Informed Registered Yoga Teacher, I am sharing this through my Mindful Movement program.
We all have a story... let go and begin to grow
We all have a story. We all go through experiences and relationships that will always be a part of defining who we are. The key is ...they are just one piece of our story... those experiences and relationships are lessons -they do not define who we are as a whole. Acknowledge they happened, forgive yourself if you feel some sort of guilt, take the lesson and “let go and begin to grow”
#change, #letitgo, #lessons, #grow, #healthychoices, #bodybewellsolutions
Healthy Choices Strategy
There is a difference between feeding your body and nourishing it. Learn more about your choices and their impact. How do you start? Take a few days to stop consuming processed, sugary convenient foods and beverages... alcohol, sugar, processed grains and dairy... if you feel as though you have a hangover or are getting the flu... that’s your body naturally detoxing the “garbage” you were “feeding” it.
#understandyourbody, #food, #strategy, #payattention, #changeisgood, #nourishyourself, #observe, #BodyBeWellSolutions
