This week I enjoyed a lunch meeting with a very lovely woman who, in her own words, is all about health. Interestingly, we are close in age, are the same height and weight, and we both love to stay very active physically. We enjoy having a lot of energy and make our health a priority by eating well and exercising every day. In fact, we met at a Nutrition for Life class I teach at the San Mateo Adult School. She is a very bright, educated, informed professional woman and we love talking about pro-health strategies together.
I smiled when I saw that the lunches we selected were very different. As a vegetarian for practically her entire life, she ordered a beautiful all-veggie sandwich on a small French loaf of bread. I ordered a tuna sandwich with piles of veggies on multi-grain bread. On our own, we ordered a to-go box with our lunch and packed up half to take home. The reason I got such a kick out of oir respective lunches was because here we were, two practicing health nuts, each ordering things that the other one would not touch. A fat loss review can help you produce a clear describe of what you need to focus on to carry out your fat reducing goal if you're a beginner; or serve as a reminder for the ones who are at an intermediate or more boost level of their weight-loss program. Promptly after are seven steps that can serve as guidelines for your own weight loss system. The first thing that one must understand is that losing weight and losing fat is not exactly the same thing. Many weight loss programs have misled people into believing that it is the same, but most diets and weight loss plans only work by causing a person's body to burn more muscle tissue and water than actual body fat, more help please visit The Fat Loss Factor. She doesnt eat fish and I dont eat bread from refined flour. This just seemed so perfect to me and confirmed my deep belief that the path to optimal health is not a one-way highway. In fact, we pick what works for us as individuals. Hopefully our choices are informed and we get good measurable results as a result. My friend and I both enjoy radiantly good health even though we make different choices.
In my typical moderate style, I thought to veer off my regular course today and share with you, my readers, today a list of non-dogmatic recommendations. Dare I call this the Everybody should do this list? If pressed, I could probably find a justification for doing the things below on occasion. But suffice to say, this is a pretty no-brainer approach to health, weight management, and taking good care of your body. Each of these examples is based-on true life observations I have made paying attention to people around food, eating, meal selections, and so on.
- Thai food is very popular. One dish, Pad Thai, has a main ingredient of slippery rice noodles, a form of processed and dried pasta made from rice that is rehydrated during the preparation of this dish. If you are going to have this starchy dish for your main course, adding veggies and some protein would be smart. Still hungry? If there are some veggies on the table, might that not be a better choice for more food than more noodles? When you eat a lot of carbs, it takes about twenty minutes for your brain to get the message that you are full. Proteins and (artery-friendly) fats deliver this message in about five minutes. Adding veggies and some lean protein to your plate provides a much more balanced approach to meals than a huge pile of refined carbs and empty calories. You can also be more sensitive to the feeling of fullness while boosting the quality of the fuel you put in your body. Everybody should do this.
- Think you are too busy to exercise, eh? If you persist in being too busy to exercise, you might end up having fewer years to enjoy. Exercise adds years to your life! Even a twenty minute walk will help you feel refreshed and get your heart a friendly work-out. Don't think all or nothing. Get outside, weather permitting. Breathe, stretch your lungs and your legs. If you work many hours, you can go back to whatever you were doing feeling refreshed, which can lead to more productivity. Everybody should do this.
- Smoking compromises the function of our lungs and promotes a variety of cancers, emphysema, heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis and a host of other potentially preventable diseases. According to the Mayo Clinic, it is not inevitable that weight gain follows stopping smoking. Giving our lungs the chance to deliver essential oxygen to every cell in our bodies is the most basic of health practices. Everybody should do this.The science of skipping breakfast goes like this: if you wait until you are starving around 11:30 you are more apt to eat more or devour huge sums of refined carbohydrates. If you get this hungry, your body knows to grab the quickest fix to this perception of starvation. Firing up your metabolism within about thirty minutes after you wake up can help you burn calories more efficiently throughout the day. This promotes weight loss as well. (Cmon folks we are talking about a nutritious dense breakfast here. Going to a restaurant to eat a big stack of pancakes drenched in a brown liquidy substance is like doing drugs in public.) Starting the day with a healthy breakfast gets you on the right track for the rest of the day. Everybody should do this
- The science of skipping breakfast goes like this: if you wait until you are starving around 11:30 you are more apt to eat more or devour huge sums of refined carbohydrates. If you get this hungry, your body knows to grab the quickest fix to this perception of starvation. Firing up your metabolism within about thirty minutes after you wake up can help you burn calories more efficiently throughout the day. This promotes weight loss as well. (Cmon folks we are talking about a nutritious dense breakfast here. Going to a restaurant to eat a big stack of pancakes drenched in a brown liquidy substance is like doing drugs in public.) Starting the day with a healthy breakfast gets you on the right track for the rest of the day. Everybody should do this.
- Pop quiz: For how many meals should you eat when you sit down during breakfast, lunch or dinner? The answer, just one! If you sit down to breakfast thinking that you cannot eat until lunch, you will overeat. Same for lunch. If you sit down for lunch, erroneously thinking you cannot eat again until dinner, you will over fill. This would be like trying to get enough gasoline in your car in San Francisco to last the entire trip of driving to Chicago! Just like those excess calories, the gas will spill over. In our bodies, it spills over to abdominal fat and other undesirable conditions. The mere act of over-stuffing our bodies causes a spike in insulin, the fat storage hormone. Sorry, you just cant justify eating like a baby elephant if you want to look great, feel great, have plenty of energy, and lose weight. If your life depended on it and it does eating just enough to satisfy your hunger for that meal will give you a jump on better health. If you get hungry in a few hours, have a low-glycemic bar, or bring a baggy of carrots or sliced red peppers. If you tell yourself this is too difficult, you might want to compare this to the difficulty of developing Type II Diabetes. (In case this sounds harsh, consider the raging epidemic of this potentially preventable disease.) Regarding eating enough to handle the hunger per meal and using healthy snacks to keep our engines running throughout the day is another good baseline pro-health strategy. Everybody should do this.
I have prided myself on being moderate. But here I have indulged in a little black-and-white, suggesting absolutes around health. I picked some basics. There are countless choices to make throughout the day. Everything counts. It all adds up. Each time you move toward the body, energy level, state of health, and your ideal size, you have made the world a better place. Whose life might you inspire when you are a role model of healthy living and healthy eating? Take really good care of yourself today. You deserve to be well.
Rosie Bank is a Certified Nutrition and Wellness Consultant. She is the author of Bodies, Health, and Consciousness; Lessons in Embodiment; andYou, Inc. Rosie teaches Nutrition for Life at the San Mateo Adult School, where she also teaches a course in entrepreneurialism, beginning February 21, 2012. As an Independent Associate with USANA Health Sciences, Rosie teaches busy professionals how to optimize their health, have more energy, lose weight, and keep more of their money. She offers her Feel Great Lose Weight webinar monthly. For more information, including a Free Report entitled It Pays to be Healthy, and to sign up for Rosies free newsletter, Healthy News You Can Use, visit www.rosiebank.com
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