You can bet that if you continue to “diet� you will continue to fail. There is something about our subconscious that wants to protect the body from starvation. When you develop the mind-set that you are going to eat less, your subconscious kicks into gear and says “Hold on.� The body/mind does not measure food in quantity but in nourishment. Nourishing wholesome foods are readily accepted by the liver and turned loose in the blood stream to feed your body on a cellular level.
Today’s food supply is seriously lacking in the same amount of nourishment that it offered 10 years ago.
So don’t alert the subconscious that you are “dieting� and cause it to go into a mode where it will increase your appetite and destroy your best laid plans to become the trim and slim person you once were.
Choose your food wisely. Instead of a resolve to diet or eat less, resolve that you will plan what you eat and make decisions based on the following tips:
•. Get Fit With Food.
HDL, the “good” cholesterol, reduces the risk of heart disease and limits the damage of LDL, “the bad cholesterolâ€?. It will make it easier to get fit if you have high HDL and greater body fitness and did better in walking tests than those with low HDL levels.
Exercise, and control weight through a diet in high monounsaturated fats, such as olive oil, nuts, avocados and olives. 2 thirds of a cup of blueberries will bring that good HDL level to the point it will reduce high blood pressure.
Other good stuff. You can eat and be happy by foods that contain Omega-3 fatty acids found in food such as salmon, walnuts, flaxseed, scallops and cod liver oil also help fight depression, mood disorders.
• Get in Good With the Grape
Turns out, juice sippers can en joy the great health benefits of grapes and still
enjoy the health benefits of grapes the same as their wine dinking counterparts. The fruit, consumed in all its forms, can reduce the risk of heart disease, a new study finds.
Grape juice improves blood flow and lowers blood pressure; grape seed extract helps to lower cholestero1.
• Moving On
You don’t have to buy all that runners garb just to exercise. A brisk walk, with a good shoe like New Balance, will up your energy levels by 20%. The sedentary lifestyle of so many of us, young and old alike, let’s you fall into a rut of over-weight and constant fatigue.
30 minutes three times a week at a brisk pace is the minimum required to reduce fatigue. I schedule a daily walk, five days a week of 2 miles, which amounts to about 35 to 40 minutes. (4 mph x 30 minutes = 1.2 miles.)
You want to be panting to receive the full aerobic effects. A rule of thumb is: if you can walk and talk all the while you walk, you are not walking fast enough.
The American Heart Association recommends 30 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise most days of the week. Consult your doctor before making in drastic changes in your regimen.
• Swimming is Good
Exercising in water is especially effective in the reduction of knee pain. Pool exercising or therapy such as strengthening, stretching and aerobic exercises, lighten the body-weight load on joints.
• Putting it All Together
I find that using a rich, tasty nutritional supplement that addresses all of the body’s needs is the easiest and most practical way take care of myself with all of the demands of a hurry-up lifestyle.
You can drink your supplement in the morning and at night. This makes it O.K. to have a nice lunch of your choosing.
The supplement I take requires no other vitamins or minerals. It includes it all. I am not in to swallowing a hand full of pills every morning.
Last but important; An abundance of salt is not your friend. Be aware of your salt intake. Taste your food before you salt it.
See you on the walk path.