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Please wait...As a trainer, you should understand that my goal is to help you get healthy above ALL other things, that is why I focus and talk a lot about the importance of nutrition. While many have the goals to lose weight, I want you to do it in a way that is healthy. There are many unhealthy ways to lose weight. What benefit does it provide you if you are still unhealthy and at risk for disease and other ailments? I have spent the past 2 years studying and following various diet regimens, reading up on research studies, and learning from my own mistakes and my body about what works, what doesn’t and what should be implemented into our daily lives. The past 2 years have been an amazing and eye opening experience for myself.
I have been following the raw food diet for a little over a month now and I am amazed in how different I feel. I do not expect my clients or people to just start following the diet because I am doing it, however, the benefits advocated from eating such a diet seem almost endless: lowering cholesterol and triglyceride levels, eliminating cravings, preventing overeating, purging the body of accumulated toxins, balancing hormones, maintaining blood glucose levels and reversing degenerative diseases. There are great health benefits to changing how you eat, including increased energy levels, improved appearance of skin, improved digestion, weight loss and reduced risk of heart disease, just to name a few. Proponents believe that enzymes are the life force of a food and that every food contains its own perfect mix. These enzymes help us digest foods completely, without relying on our body to produce its own cocktail of digestive enzymes. As I tell my clients, it is not the quantity of food you should be concerned as much about, but rather the quality.
Transitioning into a raw food diet can be difficult to start with, and you do not necessarily need to eat 100% raw food all the time. You can simply start a raw foods lifestyle by slowly transitioning into it. Try starting off by eating approximately 70 to 80 percent raw foods in your diet. Have fruit and salads throughout the day and a cooked vegetable meal with a salad in the evening. This should help make the transition easier on your body and hopefully lessen side effects associated with detoxification. This is an emotional time as well, so you should allow yourself plenty of time to make the switch. I began taking a nutritional wellness shake called Rockin Wellness that helped improve my energy, focus, and overall mood as well as to transition into a 100% raw food diet. My cravings for processed foods diminished and I actually crave the shakes and smoothies I make with them. Rockin Wellness is also a completely Vegan and organic mixture of the worlds best super foods.
If you haven't tried a raw food diet, give it a shot, you might find that it is much easier than you realized.
10 Simple Things I Love About No Longer Being Fat
1) I can see my feet. For the longest time I could only see my toes if I hovered forward enough while standing in the shower or laying down and raising my feet in the air, which was also incidentally pretty difficult as a chubby guy.
2) Having the ability to actually touch said feet while standing. My flexibility has improved dramatically that I can touch my little piggies while standing or sitting with my legs stretched. Such a wonderful feeling. Never has playing “this little piggy” been so much fun for me.
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I recently finished a personal 90 fit challenge to myself on March 26th and am very happy with my results. I dropped just a little over 15lbs in weight, but went from 21% body fat to 18% body fat. Was I 100% on my diet the entire 90 days? No, I cannot say that honestly. There were a few weekends of succumbing to my cravings for Chinese food, but the point is that I still pushed through at least 80% of the time with my diet which, as you can see, still allowed me to get positive results.
It’s a trite but true refrain that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. For most of us, it’s been about 12 hours since our last meal and our bodies need a good refueling. Yet, statistics show that as many at 50% of us don’t eat breakfast.
We’re too busy. We don’t like breakfast foods. We’re not hungry. We’re trying to lose weight.
Sad to say, none of those reasons are valid. There are many healthy breakfasts that can either be bought or made that are fast and even portable. There’s no law that says you have to eat breakfast foods for breakfast. You legitimately might not feel hungry in the morning, particularly if you aren’t accustomed to eating breakfast. But you should eat something, even if you make a fairly light choice, like fruit and yogurt. Trying to lose weight is the worst excuse of all. Study after study shows that people who skip breakfast end up eating more the rest of the day than people who eat a solid breakfast every morning.
It is Sunday night. As your head hits the pillow, you decide that this week you really will stick to your diet and exercise regimen. You will not have your usual doughnut in the morning at the coffee shop. You plan to have a salad for lunch and skip dessert after dinner all week. You will also head for the gym after work before going home three times this week.
It seems like a reasonable plan and you have every intention of sticking to it. But as you pick up your coffee on Monday morning, you just can’t help ordering a doughnut too. And since you have already ruined your diet for the day, you grab a fast food meal for lunch, skip the gym and have a big bowl of ice cream after dinner. If this sounds at all familiar to you, read on.
The truth is a lot of people have this mindset when it comes to their health and fitness. They tend to give up when they slip up. But in reality, people who find success will fail many times before they succeed, no matter what their goal.
Losing weight and maintaining the weight loss for an extended period of time requires some simple lifestyle adjustments. As long as you keep your adjustments within a sustainable reach, you should be able to lose weight and keep it off without much shock and interruption to your daily life.
Not surprisingly, losing weight does not have to require extended trips to the gym or engagement in some fad diet. Here are there steps to a healthier day that can help you slim down on...
Losing weight and maintaining the weight loss for an extended period of time requires some simple lifestyle adjustments. As long as you keep your adjustments within a sustainable reach, you should be able to lose weight and keep it off without much shock and interruption to your daily life.
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Anyone that knows me personally, knows how much of a whole and natural food fanatic that I am. I wasn't always this way. In fact, before converting to a more vegetarian lifestyle (I still eat meat on occasion), I ate all kinds of food. Food (and water) is the absolute first thing you need in order to ensure life. Without it you would wither away and die. You need food for its nutrition and for its sustenance. But are the foods you consume today supplying you with good solid nutrition, or are many of them slowly robbing you of your health and taking years from your life?
Here are some things to consider:
THE HAZARDS OF EATING MEAT
Eating meat (particularly pork and red meat such as beef) in of itself is unhealthy especially when eaten in too large of quantities. Certain meats, such as beef, can take up to 72 hours to digest completely. Therefore, if you eat meat two or three times a day, you could still be digesting the food you had for breakfast the other day while you are again consuming another round of it.
This explains why many autopsies reveal from 5 to as much as 40 pounds of undigested meat still in the systems of many people! Now, imagine how unhealthy it becomes if the animal where the meat came from was treated with antibiotics and other artificial health sustainers? These chemicals stay in the meat fibers; and no amount of washing, cooking, or boiling will get rid of them. Do you really want that in your food?