Thank you so much for your comment and your feedback. You hit the nail right on the head by naming it “instant gratification”. Which is why I believe most women will hit up a cardio workout instead of a strength training workout.

When you as, do you mean is there any other way to feel instant gratification in a healthy way? If that is what you meant, well, I’d say yes and no. Emotionally, you can feel that instant gratification from an elevation in mood levels. Exercise increases endorphins and catecholamines which give us that feel good post workout feeling. Physically, you can feel more limber and mobile after a proper workout session but long term results, well, will take more time

Thanks again!

Sirena

Thank you so much for your reply. And I agree with you on all points. I started using gelatin a few months ago, and I just feel better overall – better skin, digestion, and sleep.

I think its funny how most of my clients cringe when I mention cooking a whole chicken or eating chicken thighs with bones when those are parts I loooooooove! Especially porkchops on the bone, yum!

I didn’t know that NOW had a gelatin, I’ll have to check it out, thanks for the recommendation!

Thanks for reading, and look forward to having you around

Sirena

As soon as it was pointed out to me that gelatin as food has been systematically processed out of the western diet for the last 30-40 years, whereas before that it had been an integral part of the human diet for hundreds of thousands of years, all the benefits of gelatin clicked for me in a real-world way.

Lack of natural gelatin in our diet, through clean sources such as traditional bone broths, is more than likely a direct contributor to the alarming rise in diseases in our culture during these aforementioned last 30 years. Seriously, when was the last time the average American ate homemade real chicken soup from Granny’s recipe instead of from a corprate chemically-proccessed-food can?

Since incorporating clean gelatin into my daily diet, I have personally: slept better, lost weight, stopped losing hair, noticed my skin getting smoother and laugh lines filling in, I don’t feel depressed, my knees don’t creak as bad as they used to, my workouts seem to go smoother, and I can keep up with the kids better.

Personally, I think everyone should make sure they get this stuff back into their diets as a regular part of their life. I’ve been using the NOW brand beef gelatin (because of how gelatin is made, it doesn’t carry madcow), and I get it cheap online from a place called iHerb. It’s tasteless and easy to cook with: I put it in my coffee, soups, teas, shakes, sprinkle it on yogurt, etc. Good stuff.

Thanks again for the great post. Next: sexy bacon fat!

Since this was written on my phone. Sorry for the spelling/ grammar errors.

Thank you so much for your comment. This is precisely what I was pointing to. If we’re not sore, or in pain, then it doesn’t work, right? *sigh*

You did the right thing by taking a step back and re-evaluating your situation. Nice work, and I look forward to having you in March! Yippeee!

Sirena