Mrs California America

Looking good is something that needs work. Regular maintenance. For the average human that would include a healthy diet, exercise, and knowing when to sit back and relax (i.e. a good sleeping pattern!). This is, of course, an absolute for the average model.

As an ex-avid keep fit fan, I’ve seen how this works from both sides. As a youth I played a lot of sport, and ran for the sheer joy of it. I also ate in accordance with my physical needs, so I naturally leaned towards a healthy, sustainable diet. The modeling lifestyle also dictated that I looked good.

Then life kicked in. Along came the bills and family responsibilities. Somehow life as it was slipped away. A lot like my waistline. Skip forward ten years and we arrive at my desk. Me, skimming the internet, looking for home gym equipment, checking out what’s hot, treadmill reviews, what works.

Then the diet kicked in. I could exercise but I’d need to eat better, right? You betcha. That meant I needed to look at my current dietary standards. They weren’t too bad, considering. We all know what happens when kids join the mix, right?

Anyway, I still enjoyed the good stuff, and had never really developed a liking for sweet and gooey confections, my downfall was the portion sizes. No biggy though – I (honestly) just went out and bought a new dinner service. One with smaller dinner plates. Food piled on made them look over full – perfect.

As a model in my youth to late twenties, I’d done all the right things. As I said before – I didn’t then go and do the bad things so much as ‘get a life’, like any one else. Now in my late 30′s. I’ve been offered the chance to get back into modeling. Seems there’s plenty of work for the mature among us.

And I’m more than happy doing it. This article is written retrospectively. I am back to my earlier levels of fitness. I weigh a couple of pound more. I honestly think I look pretty damn good for someone a year shy of 40. I’m proof that a bit of hard work and attention to detail can result in looking good, feeling even better.

And you don’t need to be in the modeling world to look or feel this way either. You can be ordinary Joe all day long. This isn’t about competing in the looks stakes, this is about you, your health and well-being. Interested? Check out these cool Bowflex tc20 coupons (my home gym equipment of choice, it works a whole lotta body), step back and take a good look at ‘you’.

Analyse your diet, what’s good about it, what’s not. Look at the gaps in your day whereby you’re wasting time, and plan to overhaul your day in order to make time for exercise. Adopt that healthy eating plan. Look good? Work for it, and believe you me – it feels twice as sweet once you achieve your goals!