Nicki Anderson
NASM, CPT
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Healthy Weight, Healthy Living Beyond 40 Expert
Nicki Anderson Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Healthy Weight and Practical Fitness Motivation after 40!
- Career Focus
- Author, Speaker, Business Owner, Personal Trainer
- Affiliation
- Reality Fitness, Inc.
For over twenty years Nicki Anderson has been inspiring others to healthy living through practical application. Her first book, "Reality Fitness; Inspiration for Your Health and Well-being" shares her history dealing with teen obesity, how she overcame it and now inspires others to do the same.
In 1991, Nicki started her business, Reality Fitness, Inc. a unique, award winning studio that uses a wholistic approach which helps each client to realize a healthy body and a healthy weight!
Nicki is the health and fitness columnist for Chicago Suburban News and Naperville Magazine. Nicki sits on the Editoral Board of IDEA Fitness journal. Nicki is the author of other industry books, including 101 Ways to Motivate Clients and Increase Retention.
Nicki's philosophy is, "Dump diets and live life! For years people continue to go on diets and fail. Why would you want to do anything that sets you up for failure? Life is short, if you want to lose weight, it's a matter of finding out what works for you. Move more, eat better, laugh a lot!"
Nicki encourages people to look at their life, assess what needs changing and most important, make sure the changes make sense. If so, changes need to made gradually. That is the secret to long-term, heatlhy living.
Nicki lectures all over the world inspiring others to find their unique route to success and embrace it!
Free Articles & Book Excerpts
Nicki Anderson Books
Reality Fitness; Inspiration for Your Health and Well-being
http://www.realityfitness.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=7&zenid=ce6d61fa7bb8e8ffb6a891e858c49fe6
52 Weeks of Extraordinary Living! Motivational Quotes to Help you Reach for Fitness Goals!
http://www.realityfitness.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=2
Nicki Anderson's Single Step Weight Loss Solution : 101 No-Nonsense tips for Healthy Liviing, Weight Loss and a Diet Free Life Loss
http://www.realityfitness.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=33
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Biggest Loser May Just Live Up to Its Name
I don't know about you, but my hunch is that you know someone that would risk the reputation of someone else so they could make themselves look better. It has never been more apparent than on the recent episode of, The Biggest Loser. Not only did 1 contestant head to the hospital, but 2 contestants. I don't watch the show, I refuse to, but I have clients fill me in and I read the recap on various websites.
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Discovering Your Route to Healthy Living
Living a healthy lifestyle isn't about discipline or will-power it's finally getting to the point where the decisions you make are based on what's best for your health, your body and your life! - Nicki Last year, I did a piece for Family Circle Magazine. They interviewed health and fitness professionals that had lost a lot of weight and kept it off. Hence, I was interviewed based on my 50 pound weight loss close to 30 years ago.
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Holidays Can Be Healthy, It's All in the Planning!
Growing up, Halloween was my favorite time of year. Since my dad was a dentist, it was the only time of year that I was allowed to eat all the candy my trick-or-treat bag and stomach could handle. I looked forward to Halloween the way some people look forward to birthdays: some cherish the presents, for me it was the Snickers®. Although my children are all grown and way past trick-or-treating, I have great memories of dressing them up, going from house to house. The highlight, of course, was helping them sort candy. "One for you, one for Mom.
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Don't Make Dieting Your Resolution!
Each time I turn on the TV or the radio I hear, "Lose 20 pounds by Valentines Day!" or "Lose all the holiday weight for just pennies a day!" And my all time favorite, "Do you suffer from abdominal fat? (duh) In just weeks you can lose the fat and get the abs you've always wanted!" Do you have abdominal fat? PUHLEEEEZZZZEE! No, I just suffer from ankle fat and I'm dying to get rid of it, any ideas? O.K. where was I, right, the plethora of post holiday weight loss ads.
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The Damage Diets Do
I think one of the most damaging things diets have done is taken away hope for people. Understand that every client I have ever met with in the last 16 years has been on an average of 20 diets (some more) and have never successfully lost weight. When I say successfully, I mean maintaining a ...
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Thinking Differently to Bring the Weight Loss You Desire!
This past week I had a consultation with a woman who has battled weight her whole life. After talking to me she said she'd sign up right away except she needs to talk to her husband first. After she spoke to her husband, he wanted to meet with me and hear what I had to say that was different ...
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Food - Enemy or Allly?
I know I've probably mentioned in my previous posts, but here it is again, if I wasn't a personal trainer, I'd be a chef. There is nothing that brings me greater joy (next to motherhood and training of course!) than creating a meal for family and friends. I believe that creating an amazing meal ...
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Rush is Wrong About Exercise!
It seems as though Rush Limbaugh’s battle of the bulge has created some pretty imaginative scapegoating. A couple of weeks ago, Limbaugh came out and said that thanks to “exercise freaks” our health care system is stressed. He cited that those that exercise and involved in activities such as soccer, baseball, mountain bike, running, etc.
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Airbrushing is Nothing New
It's been said that unless an issue affects you directly, you often don't pay attention. When it comes to weight topics, I'm usually the first in line to hear what's being said and quick to offer my perspective. This past week, I was in Califo ia for a health and fitness conference. As I was getting myself ready to lecture to a group of fitness professionals, I was watching morning television.
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Exercise Not Only Secret to Weight Loss
The recent Time story in which the author leads readers to believe exercise is really not beneficial for weight loss has certainly garnered its share of criticism. Health and fitness professionals are weighing in and sharing their thoughts. This past week, Registered dietitian, Keri Glassman offered some insight about weight loss and exercise on the Early Show . "Exercise is important, but it may negatively affect your weight loss for three main reasons: Exercise makes you hungrier, causing you to eat more.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Nicki Anderson
Diets allow us little food, little comfort with little learned. - N. Anderson
Junk food is to the body what fad diets are to the mind. - N. Anderson
Thin and fit are no more related than smart and sensible. - N. Anderson
If you have made mistakes, even serious one, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. - M. Pickford
Just one healthy habit you implement today, will prevent planting the seeds of regret later. N. Anderson
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