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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Back on the Road to Better Health!

What? Where? When?

If you've fallen by the wayside on your goals to attaining a healthy weight, lets look at it in a new light.

This week, all I want you to do is journal everything and anything you eat and drink! When you've been battling the bulge and riding that dang roller coaster for a while, as I did, it helps to know where you are starting from. What is your personal starting line.

BEGIN: Keep a food/beverage Journal for 5-7 days. Now is the time to get out of the pits and back on the track!

DON'T CHANGE WHAT YOU ARE DOING! (at this point)

Just log what you eat or drink, how much you eat or drink, and WHEN you eat or drink.

Don't forget the nibble of a donut, or eating the last few bites off your child's plate.

JUST DO IT!

I don't care what you eat or drink, we just need to be aware of your current eating habits so we know which track to get on.

Doesn't do much good to drive an Indy car on a Dirt track, now does it?

Thank you, ABC for our St. Pete Adventure last year!

If you've got the Drive, we've got the Vehicle!

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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

I'm a MEAT EATER!

Protein!

"I'm a meat eater, I get my protein from the meat I eat."

I used to think I was "good" in the protein department. I eat chicken, steak, pork chops and ham, I get plenty of protein. My metabolism seemed to be slowing down and I kept fluctuating in my weight and clothing sizes.

I have since learned otherwise. While it is true, I do get protein from those sources, it is not an easily digested and assimilated (absorbed) protein. There is more waste produced when I eat these sources and less absorbed into my system than when I get my protein from a plant source. When I began using these plant based proteins, my energy sky rocketed and I began losing the weight, easily.

"33% of Women are not getting enough protein"

~David Heber MD Director of UCLA center for Human Nutrition

(estimates are that 25% of men are the same)

Protein is important in muscle production and retention. When you don't get enough protein, you aren't getting enough Leucine, an amino acid building block of muscle. When you don't get enough Leucine you get a buildup of subcuteanous fat, that fat particularly in the abdomen.

(Deficiency in Leucine, in part, = Thick Middles)

Protein is important in regulating blood sugar,
hunger pangs & the cravings!

In studies,

Leucine caused a 16% DECREASE in calorie intake -

81% in between meal snack

50% energy increase in less than 48 hours!

In the clinical studies of the Shakes I use, participants maintained 100% muscle mass while reducing their weight and their clothing size - this means they were BURNING FAT!

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Saturday, December 17, 2011

Merry Stressful Christmas!

Life on its own ~~can be~~ is stressful. Add in the expectation of a perfect Christmas, decorating, gifts under the tree for everyone, gifts to ship to those long distance, gifts for the unexpected givers, multiple family parties on the actual day, cooking for the masses, baking for the masses, kids recitals, sporting events, and parties and the stress begins to mount. Then we begin to think about what the gifts, the food, the parties will cost us, come January, when the bills come in and the weight we gained from all the Holiday party foods and we have...

***** THE PERFECT STORM *****

In 1999 I was in a similar situation. Many things around me were changing: marital status, new home, lost 2 dogs, no money, I moved, and I went back to school. My therapist told me, "if you add one more stress inducing situation, I'll shoot you" LOL - I was young and dumb back then, so I took a job 45 minutes away from the university. :-) I also moved away from the therapist. I survived, but I also surged to over 200 pounds. Those 60 extra pounds were horrible, took a great toll on my health and were so difficult to shed. It wasn't until 2007 when I was able to finally drop those stress induced pounds (55) and keep them off.

I'll be doing a series of posts on stress and weight management as we head into the new year. Join me, and share with your friends! I want my story and success to help inspire and encourage others to get behind the wheel, take control and to begin improving their own lives, just as my life and health have improved.

In today's

world it is so easy

to become overly stressed,

chronically stressed, and it has

MANY horrible effects.

I've heard some say, "you can't get rid of the stress."

But what if you can eliminate some, control some, and change

the way you see the rest?

Stress levels have become such a HUGE issue in the American society

that our health is now being effected.

As we finish out 2011 and drive like there is no tomorrow toward 2012,

I would like to take a look at STRESS

and how, with help,

nutritional support,

and determination

we can control IT!

Merry Christmas!

If you've got the Drive, we've got the Vehicle!

Monday, November 28, 2011

It may NOT be the Holiday eating making you fat!

With Thanksgiving behind us and Christmas on the horizon, many of us begin to think about how much weight those big meals will cause us to gain. But what if...it was NOT the big meal on that important day that causes us to gain the weight?

I've recently been talking with many people who were not aware that eating too few calories can cause you to pack on the pounds, almost as easily as when we eat too many calories.

The problems arise the day AFTER a big meal when many people decide to starve themselves to counteract all the calories consumed the day before.

Let me show you what I mean here.

When we consume that awesome Holiday meal, we are at the Feast Response on this diagram. We are eating MORE calories than our body can metabolize. When I don't eat enough calories the next day or next few days, I am then at the Diet location. Too few calories send my body into famine response and my body begins to hang onto every single calorie I eat. THE METABOLISM SLOWS DOWN.

The challenge arises when we go back to our normal eating patterns and our metabolism has slowed down from the previous decrease in caloric intake. Add in stress of the Holidays and you have a perfect storm of weight gain!

This year after your feast, don't fast, take a walk or start a new family tradition of an aerobic activity to burn off some of those extra calories. Try drinking 2 glasses of water before you begin eating your feast for an added assistance in maintaining your healthy weight.

If you've got the Drive,
We've got the Vehicle!

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