Discover Our Eating Habits

Discover Our Eating Habits

By Karen Chai

All the more, when our family members enforce main courses during meal times that are full set meal items; they may be topped with ample amounts of carbohydrates, protein, fats and sucrose dense fibres such as fruits for desserts, juices and milk that goes right after. Yes! There goes in all those calories beyond our imagination. Portion control is indeed very important, and it is good practise to eat just enough, instead of eat a lot to fill the stomach everyday. Well, that does not beat an occasional joyful feast applicable for only certain days of the week? Nonetheless, for each day, we should learn about just how much we did consume or should consume:-

Remember What We've Eaten

Always remember what we have eaten just a few moments ago or a few hours ago. Some people even plan ahead their meals one day before, so they would not overeat the following day. That is how careful, we should look into our daily food intake. Make sure they are of balanced nutrition and full of natural goodness for the body. A typical good meal is made out of a proportion of more natural carbohydrates with some protein and less fat. Choose less processed organic goods so they easily go into our bloodstreams to sustain us of a lengthier provisions of slow release of energy.

Drink Instead of Eat More

If we may ever feel like bingeing or munching on something, grab a drink instead of grab a solid. Make a drink through a thoughtful selection hierarchy based on the need for the moment. If one is absolutely craving for a sugary intake, make a hot coffee with little added brown sugar or tea. If one is lightly thinking of wanting to eat something, perhaps just grab a diet soda to temporarily occupy the palates. For better health, choose herbal infusions or fresh squeezed natural juices instead.

Ask Yourself This Question

Discover our own binge habits by each time clearly identifying it within our heads. As soon as we may feel tempted to grab a bite on a snack, ask this question "Am I really hungry or what?" If the answer is no, then logically tell the mind to resist it; if the answer is yes, then logically tell the mind that it is good to have some snack in between. Just be sure that, it is not the whole pack that we are finishing. Practise some good food storage skills, pour the rest into an air tight jar, so we may be able to keep our hands off the rest; this is an important step to take.

Choose Better Food

Choose the better/healthier options available within our reach. For example, between a pack of unopened cookies to some fresh fruits in the fridge to some leftovers from last night. Which would you choose? Choose wisely by asking yourself, "Am I really hungry?" If the answer is yes, choose real foods, else choose the fruits in the fridge. If you are experiencing neither, then ask yourself, "Do I really want to open the pack of cookies now?" If the answer is yes, "think again.." Perhaps, another time? And soon we may be able to leave those cookies alone.

Eat wisely, choose our food wisely, manage our foods wisely and soon we shall have a fitter, better body due "foody-mind" discipline.

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Lean And Fit - The Healthier Way

Lean And Fit - The Healthier Way

By Anthony Falconer

Most people who want to be lean and fit spend 30 to 40 minutes of their time for exercise. They normally do it 3 to 5 times a week just so they could lose those stubborn fats and speed up their metabolism. They even think if you could do more than that it is much more preferable so that you will lose weight immediately.

Most fitness professionals tell you that exercising more each day helps you burn those fats. As much as exercising is healthy, overdoing it is not healthy. Although you will manage to burn a few calories keep in mind that this does not totally transform you into the type of body you really want which is lean and healthy.

When you exercise your stored body fat converts into energy. It may sound good but you have to know that it could also create more body fat as reserve for your next workout. In addition, when you do exercise it makes your cardiovascular system more efficient as a result your heart and lungs are now used to doing the easy work because of your workouts. When this happens your heart will not be able to handle stress thus giving you a greater risk of having future heart attacks.

Instead of letting your body not go beyond its capability, why not challenge it to increase their capacity. If you want your metabolism to work out and burn fats faster, then add lean muscles to your body. When you turn fats into lean muscle it will make you look slimmer and healthier. So do yourself some exercises that creates this effect but not overtly doing it as it can also cause damage to your heart.

Anthony Falconer is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and writes for a few fitness magazines in Toronto Canada. My systematic Lean And Fit workouts help you burn fat without long, slow cardio sessions or fancy equipment. Anthony's bodyweight workouts for fat loss help you lose fat without any equipment at all.

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The Killer - Sugar Cravings

The Killer - Sugar Cravings

By Cheryl Fauvel

Do you have a sugar addiction? sweet tooth that ruins your diet? That after dinner or late night sugar craving that totally sabotages all the good you did during the day? Hm, ok that happens to us all, we get disappointed with ourselves, disheartened and frustrated, but do you no what? If you don't already know this...then you should!

Its much worse than that! Sorry to be the bearer of scary news, but we really do not appreciate how much damage we are doing to ourselves, dieting aside, we need to look at this deeper! Do you know that sugar is a serious addiction, a drug! According to some scientific researchers, this sugar addiction is harder to break than heroin? Because sugar is presently disguised in so many of our processed foods, we don't realise that we are being influenced and obsessed by taste which can be so detrimental to our health. The food industry knows we are addicted and just keep adding more so we stay buying their crap, does this make you angry? It should! We are just piling it in there without realising!

The Sugar Industry tells us that as a carbohydrate, refined sugar is a natural source of energy required for everyday functioning. But do you realise, with each teaspoon of sugar we consume 15 calories, and we still need to consider all the rest of sugar's negative effects on our health.

Scientists and researches are becoming increasingly concerned about our rising consumption of sugar! No it doesn't just make you fat, Sugar addiction is killing you! Don't just listen to me, please do your own research for yourself, there are hundreds of respected sites out there with good information, once you understand and get it into your head how bad this is it will be much easier to control!

I am not suggesting you never again eat chocolate or sugary deserts, that's your choice, but do it in awareness, I am asking you to figure out for yourself how addicted to sugar you are? Then if you want the sugar you have decided in your own mind, not brainwashed and lied to! If you decide to kick this sugar addiction, then there are many ways to help, there are some amazing herbs out there that can help curb the cravings. Don't be fooled by synthetic replacements like coffee and tea sweeteners, they are just as bad if not worse! (OK another article coming on.)

Excuse me being on my soap box, I just get so cross that we are constantly lied to, shown adverts of healthy beautiful people eating pure rubbish and leading us to believe it is good for us! I am all for freedom of choice, but I want to make that choice, don't you? The food industry is more interested in their sales than the fact that they are poisoning their fellow man, and then they add insult to injury by showing us their annual statistics on how well they are doing! They are so clever!

I am thankful that this subject is high on the media agenda right now, I am hoping that we all take heed and get rid if this habit, stop being brainwashed by the food industry and super markets, stop the sugar addiction and recover our health!

To have education and knowledge means you are ahead in the game putting you in a position where you can take control of your life instead of others having that power! Please take care of you, research for yourself, take your control back be healthy be whole, make your own decisions. :) You will find more tips and resources here http://mindandbodyinhealth.com

My Health Success to you
Cheryl Fauvel

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