Chalene Johnson 30 Day PUSH Jumpstart

Turbocharge your life and 
create new healthy habits  with 
Chalene Johnson's 30 Day PUSH!  

Chalene Johnson turbocharged my life and helped me loose 60 lbs naturally through her complete system.  Chalene taught me to organize my life, my goals, my priorities by creating a daily To Do List on my phone.  Keeping a To Do List encouraged me to stick with my goals each day so I could manage my time and make ME a priority so I could achieve my goals and in return be a blessing to others.  
PUSH yourself to the next level of true victory and reach your next goal through her regimen.

Chalene Johnson & my family at the PUSH Launch Party 11-11-11

Chalene Johnsons 11-11-11 PUSH Jumpstart Livestream Launch Party  was a huge success, watch the livestream feed and order your book  today www.chalenejohnson.com/pushjumpstart  Join Chalene Johnson's 30 Day PUSH Challenge and share this journey with everyone you know.  The more you tell, the more that join you on this journey the stronger you will become.  A group working together is much stronger than one.

60 lbs heavier

Before August 2010 hated wearing a swimsuit, would hide behind a big mumu dress

I have no problem rocking a swimsuit today after loosing 60lbs.

Taking care of yourself isn't a selfish act, stop feeling guilty about "ME" time. ME time is an opportunity to recharge & love yourself so you can be a bigger and better blessings to everyone around you. When you rob yourself of enhancing yourself you rob all those around you. It's not ALL about"ME" its all about be the BEST YOU, you can be for those you love.

Much Love,

Angie Castro

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Week 1 Boot Camp

  90 Day Boot Camp

Welcome to week 1 Determination & Discipline 

Athletes for God who conquered the 21 Day Transformation Challenge must step up to the role of leadership.  If you didn't do the 21DayTC feel free to start it today and conquer then take your rightful position as a leader next month!    The 21 Day Transformation isn't just about change in Faith, Fitness and Food it's about  developing the leader in you.  

Calling all 21 Day TC Conquerors:  take your lead as a Sergeants to train the Athletes for God.  Accept your role and enlist your team  and take on the 90 Day Boot Camp together.  

This 12 week Boot Camp will teach you how to adapt, improvise and overcome.  Boot Camp training will transform you  into Athletes for God who can and will face any challenge. 

1. CHURCH!!! Athletes for God must be able to quote scripture and use the Word of God when faced with a challenge! Leaders must attend church, if you haven't found a church do so asap, it is a VITAL ingredient to Boot Camp! Faith in God is what keeps you mighty and strong!! 

1 Cor 15:57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

2. Create a group:  Acts 2:1 gather together in unity!!!! Build your teams strength, stamina and confidence.  You do NOT have to be a Trainer all you need is a DVD player and the best Workout Videos to get results:

P90X, Turbo Fire, Insanity or Asylum   www.beachbody.com/angelacastro (some pkgs are discounted, ask me how you can save $50)  

• Take before pictures, measurements and step on the scale on every Day 1, Day 30, Day 60 and Day 90 to see major results.  Pictures will remind you to never give up or turn back!!!
• meet 3-5 times a week., if someone misses a session make sure to follow up with them and encourage them to do something on their own instead

3. Healthy daily diet! You do NOT have to be a dietician, the Beachbody DVD's come with diet plans, recipes, nutrition and meal replacements depending on the package you buy.

• Shakeology: start off with a group cleanse or daily meal replacement www.myshakeology.com/angelacastro

• No more JUNK, if you desire to cheat make it a healthy choice, check out the deserts and treats at Mothers, Whole foods and Trader Joes... IMPROVISE!!!!

• See my LIKE page Angela Castro http://tinyurl.com/angelacastro21DaytTC for TJ's food under notes

Angela Castro
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Day 21 Recap

Day 21

CELEBRATION TIME

Time to Celebrate the growth from 21 Days of Faith, food and fitness by recapping the delicious flavors of Victory! 

Recap Day 11-19

Day 11 Passion: passion gives you energy to push through

Passionately pursue love and hate all that is evil, junk food and laziness and enjoy healthy living to the fullest

Day 12 My Secret: Super Star Mentality  Thanks to today's technology our pictures and videos are immediately shared for the whole world to see.  Be mindful of your actions, every thing you say and do is being posted!

• memorize Gods Word for your big performance: life
• eat like someones photographing your every move (friends, family are your paparazzi)
• workout like your in a movie: your life

Day 13 Environment your surrounding can make you or break you, surround yourself with like-minded people and build a faith, fitness and food family based on your same desires.

Day 14 Rewards rewards inspire you to stay on track

• Attend Church service LIVE: enjoy worship and the power words from your Pastor, words of wisdom, knowledge and truth 
• Buy CD of LIVE message or a message that relates to a struggle you want to overcome
• Rest: reward yourself with a 20 minute cat nap or more
• Save every penny you don't spend on junk food and buy yourself a non-food related gift

Day 15 Volunteer blessing to give, when you give you receive great blessings and joy.

• Volunteer your time to build relationship with like-minded people

• Volunteer and distract yourself from food and laziness

Day 16 Give Thanks not Complaints 
Complaints put your dreams on hold, thanks make your dreams come true. 

• Don't complain about not having time to read Gods Word or not knowing Him, praise Him and thank Him that you are able to read His Word.  Most people around the world don't have that luxury.
• Don't complain about exercising, give thanks that your able to workout, many people are stuck in hospital beds.
• Don't complain about eating healthy and calorie counting, give thankful you are blessed to have so many food options and give thanks for the knowledge to count calories.

 Day 17 No Judgement Love don't judge!

"If you judge people, you don't have time to love them." ~Mother Theresa 

• If you judge yourself you cant walk in love, God is love, choose love, choose God! 

  Day 18 Improvement   Continuous Improvement causes us to think about the upstream process not the downstream damage control. 

  Choose an area in each Faith, food and fitness which you would like to improve on, you know best.

  Faith: reading Gods Word, building a relationship with Him, praise & worship, prayer or all the above.

  Fitness: workout daily, increase intensity, change it up or your you make up your own answer to your problem, only you know best

  Food:  eat cleaner, less junk more fruits and vegetables, drink more water.. again you know best

  
  

  Day 19 Overcome Emotional Eating

  Review Day 19 blog for it is LOADED with helpful information! 

  
  
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Day 20 Review

Day 20 Recap

21 Day Transformation Challenge

Day 1: Convenience

• Download your favorite Pastor online or via podcast
• Put all your workout gear in one area for easy access
• Use clothes as a measurement: remember to try the garment you used on day 1
• Place healthy foods so you can easily grab them when your hungry

Day 2: Preparation

• Prepare your mind with the Word of God
• Prepare and pack your workout bags
• Prepare all your healthy foods for the day just in case your out longer than expected

 Day 3: Motivation

• Seek God first and foremost
• Seek mentors, Pastors, fitness Instructors, personal trainers, health magazines, books, a nutritionist, healthy recipes, webmd, livestrong
• Help others: helping others motivates you to stay on track
• For more see Day 3 blog

Day 4: Emotions 

• Wake up 15 minutes every day to spend more time with God, Praise Him!
• Journal positive emotions so you can reflect back on such great emotions
• Out with the old in with the new: rid the junk and bring in healthier choices

Day 5: Renew

• Renew your mind with the Word of God 
• Renew your desire to exercise: put workout clothes on to get in the mood before you leave work and drive straight to the gym or home to workout
• Renew the flavors in food, limit or eliminate the salt

Day 6: Never Give Up

• Don't sweat failure, if you fall brush it off and get right back up and into the game
• review the first 5 days of this challenge and get your mind back into the game
• Triple Threat it ALL: Faith: read the Word, pray and praise! Fitness: strength train, cardio workout, abs! Food: 3 Shakeology/ 3 day cleanse

Day 7: Recharge

• Reflect back and recap your successes and take it easy! 
• Rejuvenate: Go to church, their is nothing better than LIVE Worship and LIVE Word of God.  
• Relax: don't sweat dining out, you've got it mastered, order specifically to your dietary needs: no butter, no salt, etc
  

Day 8: Intensify

• Memorize scripture daily
• increase the intensity of your workout 
• intensify your diet, eat cleaner, less junk

Day 9: Change ~ Child-like

• Have faith like a child, trust and believe God whole-heartedly
• Have fun working out like a child anxious to play at recess
• Eat like a child, smaller plates, smaller portions, only for fuel

Day 10: Athlete

• Victorious, overcoming mindset by always putting God, your coaches Word first 
• Workout harder by pushing yourself like your training for a big game, the game of LIFE
• Fuel up on healthy foods, vitamins, nutrients, supplements etc

Angela Castro
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Overcome Emotional Eating

Overcome Emotional Eating

Day 19

21 Day Transformation Challenge

1. FAITH~ 

Overcome Emotional Eating by putting God first (Matt 6:33) and foremost each day, creating a daily relationship with Him will strengthen (Eph 6:10), enable and empower you to take on every obstacle and overcome each battle by faith. The more you know God, the more you know Him, the more you trust, rely and turn to Him, just like you would a best friend.  Make God your best friend not food and turn to Him in prayer and praise just like Paul did in Acts 16:25 &26.

Proclaim your victory by faith!

2. FITNESS~

Push through it!

Distract your mind with exercise: exercise releases anger, stress, worries, anxieties, emotions, etc.  Don't react to your situation when your emotional, take a time out and distract your mind with exercise so you can breathe, release the tension, recoup and rethink your situation out more clearly.   A clear mind allows you to use wisdom and guides you towards prayer and praise verses food and negative words.

Dancing to Praise & Worship music is a great combination of faith and fitness!

Exercise Bonus:  Causes you to crave healthy foods...

3. FOOD ~ Food is 80% of the challenge so lets dive a bit deeper and focus on food...

• Be mindful of why you are eating: emotions, boredom, failure, procrastination, laziness, food pictures, friends, smells.  Journal and take note of whats influencing you to eat when your not hungry
• Take your journal notes and do your homework: research, Livestrong, webmd, medicinenet, mayoclinic, etc
• eat 5-6 small healthy meals every 2-3hrs to stay fueled up so your mind can work properly, able to handle any battle
• Drink plenty of water, think clearer... dehydration causes headaches, which equals emotions
• Food prevention: remove unhealthy foods your home, office, lunch setting so you won't binge when emotional
• never go anywhere, especially parties, grocery shopping and restaurants on an empty stomach, empty stomach equals trouble
• step away from the buffet, the banquets, the bread basket, peanut dish, the candy jar and get distracted, ask to help clean, organize, set up, take pictures of all the guest, engage in conversation, keep busy
• be prepared always, have gum, water, nuts, small meals & snacks with you at all times in case you get stuck somewhere longer than expected
• never skip meals! skipping meals & binging on one meal a day is how a sumo wrestler trains to gain weight, so think of a sumo wrestle when tempted to skip a meal
• never eliminate too much, too fast, take baby steps, take each day, one day at a time or you will go wild and binge when a problem or emotion occurs.
• Prepare before dining out: have a meal set in your mind and refuse to look at the menus if possible, for pictures or descriptions of food can cause an emotional reaction, which may cause you to fail.  Always order specifically to your needs: "spray, no butter, chicken or fish, double up on veggies or add brown rice  please"... be loving, kind, and thankful when ordering!! :-D  
• Sleep:  skip the late night cravings and drink water, brush your teeth and go to bed.  Lack of sleep equals lack of control, give your body the rest it needs to function and think properly! 
• Children rarely eat all their food so cut back on their serving sizes to ensure you won't indulge on their left overs. 
• Check your BMI and keep record of your calorie intake, this time consuming task will distract you from mindless eating and keep you accountable.
• Count your calorie intake and out take: when you see how many calories is in a bag of potato chips or cookies vs calories  burnt you will think twice about indulging or binging

Start cleansing

My favorite replacements
Pray & Praise vs Binging

Exercise vs Binging

Shakeology vs Binging

Please POST what you discovered and learn about Emotional Eating below.  And please post what other challenges your facing when striving to live healthy daily so I can help you tackle your next obstacle. 


Angela Castro
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Day 18 Improvement

Day 18 Improvement

21 Day Transformation Challenge

Improvement ~ Today you get to choose the area you want to improve on!

Continuous Improvement causes us to think about the upstream process not the downstream damage control. 

Read Ephesians 4 and rely on God

 1. Improve your Faith 

Philippians 3:14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Choose to improve:

• Building a relationship with God: know Him and hear from Him! Romans 1:19 &20
• Praising and Thanking Him more:  edifies our Spirit, brings joy, victory and faith Psalm 92:1
• Studying His Word (study the a topic you need to improve on: patience, diligence, love, peace etc)
• Attending Church/ finding a church: get enriched & blessed!  Luke11:28
• Listening to your Pastor via CD or podcast::  Ecc 10:12

2. Strengthen your weakness

2 Corinthians 2: 9 & 10 ...“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. ¹⁰ That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Get determined and improve where you are weak: 

• Stretching: reduces muscle tension, Increases range of movement in the joints, enhances muscular coordination, increased circulation of the blood to various parts of the body, increases energy levels (resulting from increased circulation) ~spark people
  
• abs : strengthen your core, strengthen your back, improves posture
• strength train: burn more fat, leaner body, healthier & longer life
• proper form: to prevent injury
• increase weights: to always progress
• cardio: raise heart rate, lengthen, strengthen your life

3. Tighten up your diet ~ eat cleaner & healthier


2 Corinthians 6: 19 & 20 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; ²⁰ you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.


Study and learn about your current so called favorite cravings and replace them with a healthier choice.   Be determined to learn to fall in love with life giving foods and soon you will create new healthy cravings!  Study via: Webmd, sparkpeople, livestrong, etc


Eat healthier & cleaner:

 Don't have time to eat tons of veggies or fruits enjoy 20 vitamins and minerals by drinking Shakeology daily: www.myshakeology.com/angelacastro

If you over eat, curb your appetite: 
suppress your appetite with Shakeology www.myshakeology.com/angelacastro

If you need to cut back calories: replace a meal or do a 3 day cleanse with Shakeology www.myshakeology.com/angelacastro

Enjoy your blessings!!! mmmuwah!

Angela Castro
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Day 17 No Judgement

Day 17

21 Day Transformation Challenge

No Judgement

"If you judge people, you don't have time to love them." 

~Mother Theresa

 Don't Judge, Love!  Don't Judge yourself, accept who you truly are and get rid of the failure mentality the enemy tries to bestow on you!  A failure mindset will only hinder your faith walk of Healthy Living for the mind, body and soul.   Don't take ownership in it, rebuke it and walk in love knowing who you are... You are more than a conqueror through Christ who loves you, YOU are Victorious Athletes for God, whom God loves and enriches with blessings, wisdom, knowledge, power, control, healing, wealth, confidence... accept it, take ownership of it by speaking it, walking in it and acting on it! Love yourself and who God created you to be, a model of Him, created in His image and likeness to walk in love and overcome all things including the enemy.  You have ALL the control, take it back, take back what is rightfully yours!  

Do all things with love. 

Walk in love and forgiveness not judgement:

You are forgiving and good, O Lord, abounding in love to all who call to you. Psalm 86:5

Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God. 

Ephesians 5:2

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 

John 13:34

1.Don't Judge Others : Accept others as God accepts them with love and see their heart not their faults! 
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:8
People often judge you for being simply who you are:  positive, happy, down,  fit,  fat,  poor,  rich,  blessed, old, young, black, white, a Pastor,  a mentor, a teacher, a child of God... the list goes on and on.  Ever stop and ask why?  1. Lack of Knowledge 2.Pride 3. Deceit, lies of the enemy

John 8:7 Jesus asked  a group of men accusing a woman of adultery..."If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."

1. Lack of knowledge of Gods Word:  Don't be so quick to judge, we all fall short of the glory of God.  Walk in love always, forgiving and praying for those in need.

Who can say, "I have kept my heart pure; I am clean and without sin"? Proverbs 20:9


2. Pride: Judgement is another form of pride, don't be so proud you think you know it all so you can judge others, the only one with the right to judge is God.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 1 Corinthians 13:4

Before his downfall a man's heart is proud, but humility comes before honor. Proverbs 18:12

• Do not be prideful, do not be judgmental, for it only hinders your walk of Healthy Living for the mind, body and soul. Choose to walk in love and enrich your life.

3. Deceit, lies of the devil:  there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.. John 8:44

If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 1 John 1:8

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. John 10:10


2. Don't judge off appearances

I use to judge people who were fit assuming they were naturally fit, born athletes or blessed with good genes, until I learned most fit athletes have a story, a success story.  And the same goes for most people over weight, they have a story of a tragedy,  injury or loss.  Don't judge, get to know people, learn their stories, see their hearts and be blessed by their words and let them inspire you to progress in your walk of Healthy Living!

My transformation began when I saw and heard many before and after stories from friends, instructors Pastors.  Knowing the truth will set you free, free from judgement and free to learn.  Learn by asking, listening and seeking help from those around you, ask their story.

3.  Love Don't Judge:  Don't judge people blessed with high metabolisms, be thankful you have to eat healthy for your healthy choices strengthens and lenthens your life.

Don't judge and don't be deceived, just because they  get to eat whatever they want doesn't give you the luxury of joining their diet habits.  

Angela Castro
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