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Sunday, April 10, 2016

Get Fired Up And Start Losing Weight!

Youll want some knowledge of what to look for and expect from a weight loss program. You should know what resources are accessible to you and who can provide you answers in regards to what you will need for losing the extra weight. The tips below can help you with how to start.

An important part of any weight loss journey is learning to control your own food. This means learning to cook from scratch, so you eat that you know exactly whats going into the foods. Also, cooking from scratch will enable you to replace ingredients that are high-calorie as cream, with lower-calorie ones such as for instance skim milk.

Dont throw in the towel because of a slip-up. Up for it is not going to help motivate you to continue if you accidentally overeat or forget to exercise, beating yourself. Simply remind yourself to get back on track the next day, and stick to it. Making one mistake just isnt a failure, and it will not set you back too much.

One perfect weight-loss food gets less attention than it should: fish. Why is fish such a great choice? Most fish, even the ones that are higher-fat as salmon and mackerel, are much lower in fat and calories than red meat. They are great sources of high-quality protein. They are high in valuable acids that are fatty. But best of all, fish is delicious! Broiled or grilled fish, fish creole, ceviche, and fish chowders are but a few examples of the wonderful, slimming ways to enjoy this food that is diet-friendly.

When working out, it may be useful to do strength training along with aerobic exercise like running. Strength training with weights or resistance can give you more energy to burn more calories during each workout. Also, you will feel more energetic in your life that is daily help drop some weight faster.

A way that is great can help you lose weight is to reduce the amount of alcohol you drink. Alcohol contains more calories than protein or carbohydrates also its quite simple to drink too much. By limiting the quantity of alcohol you drink, youre going to be more in a position to achieve your goals.

Day to help you lose weight, add walking into your. Do you have children you pick up from school? Simply park a few blocks away instead of picking them up at the front door of the school. Can you commute to work by car? Park as far away as possible from your work and walk the rest of the way. Do the bus is caught by you to work? Pick a bus stop that is a block or two farther away from your home. Invest a time that is little a few dollars for good walking shoes and walk those pounds away by adding additional walking time into the day.

With your future weight loss goals as you have seen in the above tips, there is a lot of knowledge you can acquire before choosing a weight loss plan and it is this knowledge that can help you. Get the help of a health care provider and do what you must to discover what plan is best for your quality of life.
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Sunday, February 14, 2016

Weekend and the Start of Week 3

I hope everyone had a great weekend!  Mine seemed to go a bit too fast, unfortunately.  Since I missed posting my daily logs, today I will have the logs from Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and today.

Saturday: Day 6, Week 2
Food Log: 
  • Breakfast: 1 apple
  • Lunch: lentil chili with polenta jalepeno biscuits
  • Dinner: Dr. Fuhrmans Rainbow Potato Salad, whole wheat bread with chive hummus (recipe coming soon), and corn on the cob
  • Extras: 2 beers with dinner, 3 beers in the evening
Exercise log: Nada... lets call it my rest day

How I felt: On Saturday I just felt like being lazy, lazy, lazy!  All I did in the afternoon was hang out on the couch with Kevin and then make the potato salad and chive hummus for the BBQ that evening.  My friend Stephanie (check out here blog here) hosted the BBQ at her house to have friends come and help her finish a very mighty bottle of beer from Rogue brewery.  It was about three times the size of a champagne bottle, I estimate.  To avoid eating too bad of foods, I brought my own corn on the cob to put on the grill, as well as Dr. Fuhrmans Rainbow Potato Salad, and a new creation of mine: chive hummus (recipe coming soon once I polish off this first batch!).  After the BBQ Kevin and I headed up north of Spokane to our friends new house to play some games.  Overall, I think I did better eating this Saturday than I did the last, although there were plenty of temptations.

Sunday: Day 7, Week 2
Food Log: 
  • Breakfast: none, we slept in
  • Lunch: peanut noodles and veggies
  • Dinner: Dr. Fuhrmans Rainbow Potato Salad, 2 slices Daves Killer Bread with chive hummus
  • Extras: watermelon, 1 Dr. Fuhrman brownie
Exercise log: Does housework count?

How I felt:  On Sunday I felt like in the evening, I just ate to eat.  I even had so much watermelon in the evening to feel painfully full.  At least it was watermelon that got me to that point and not something that doesnt mostly consists of water.  All the same, I know I shouldnt eat past the point of being content.  Gotta work on that!

Monday: Day 1, Week 3
Food Log:
  • Breakfast: watermelon
  • Lunch: Dr. Fuhrmans Rainbow Potato Salad, kale salad massaged with avocado and lemon juice, and 1 apple
  • Dinner: brown rice with Indian red lentils, kale, and onion
  • Extras: watermelon for dessert

Indian red lentils with kale and onion over brown rice
Exercise log: Work softball game

How I felt:  I felt happy with my food choices for the day.  My "exercise" wasnt too extraneous, but our team did end up winning.  Because we had our softball game in the evening, I didnt get around to making and eating dinner until nearly 9:30.  From a girl who grew up in a house that served dinner at 5 P.M. sharp, this threw off my grove a little.  I ended up not being able to go to sleep until nearly midnight and felt a bit sluggish the next day for that.  I guess we learn from our mistakes.

Tuesday: Day 2, Week 3
Food Log:
  • Breakfast: watermelon, 1 banana
  • Lunch: brown rice with Indian red lentils, kale, and onion; 1 banana; 1 apple
  • Dinner: 1 slice Daves Killer Bread with chive hummus, 1 apple
  • Extras: 2 beers

Exercise log: 20 minutes on an inclined treadmill, push-ups, sit-ups, stretching

How I feel:  I was proud of myself that I made it to the gym after, lets say, not my favorite day at work...  Let me explain: I am the party coordinator for all of the events around the two offices I work at.  On Thursday, we have planned a Spring BBQ to boost ccamaraderie and enjoy the decent weather we have been seeing.  To prep for this, I made my shopping list and.... cleaned out the grill.... that hadnt been touched in over a year, and it didnt seem like it had ever been cleaned.  I am not normally a squeamish person, but while cleaning this, I gagged several times and nearly threw up twice.  As I worked on cleaning the scum from burned meat of the past off of the grill, I got to thinking that if this black tar was created on the insides of this grill after a year or two, think of what a lifetime of eating these meats does to the inside of someone.  Certainly not black tar, but Im sure just as greasy plaques inside of their arteries.  I can say this for certain: I will never eat any sort of grilled meat again.  At least that unpleasant activity reaffirmed why I am doing this 6-week Eat to Live Challenge.
How I felt about that nasty grill....
I just want to say, thank you to all who have been following, or partially following my progress.  It means a lot to me to have an audience to keep me accountable and are so encouraging.  Im sorry that this post is a bit lack luster, but like I said earlier: my recipe for chive hummus is coming soon, and it is crazy good!

How was your weekend?  Do you find it harder to stick to your health goals over weekends or holidays (especially as we are getting into BBQ and picnic season)?
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