Healthy Snacks For The Whole Family
In the midst of everyone’s busy schedules packed with work, school, after school activities, social events and errands, planning a healthy snack time can fall through the cracks. This can be true for not only you but for your kids as well. Unhealthy snacking can quickly erase a day of clean eating and exercise, not to mention fill your kids with sugar.
Are Your Kids Making YOU Fat?
Back into the swing of things and we already feel the Snack Closet calling our name. We buy snacks for lunch, snacks for after school and snacks for sports. Stealing one or two handfuls for yourself and then another for “just in case”. Before you know it, you ate half the bag of Goldfish. If only they didn’t eat those darn Goldfish! If only they ate vegetables and fruits. Not the candy, cakes and cookies…not to mention the ice cream!
BACK TO SCHOOL – BACK TO YOU!
MAKE MONDAY A WEIGHT LOSS DAY AND GET RID OF THE WEEKEND BLOAT!
Mondays can be tough days. They tend to make us feel bloated and tired after a long weekend of socializing. Even if it’s just socializing with the immediate family, statistics show that we eat 80% more on the weekend than during the week.
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ARE YOU THAT ATHLETIC CAREFREE PERSON YOU ONCE WERE?
If someone twenty years ago was describing you would it sound like this?…..Athletic Very Active, Awesome and Energetic, positive and carefree, loves life?
Well if you want to regain the old you- youth and all… there is only one way to do it. PROPER NUTRITION AND EXERCISE. Regardless of what you read you can’t get your old self back from a pill or a boxed food.
When you are active in any way on a daily basis you will feel a sense of belonging, purpose and meaning.
Any problems and or issues you might have is left behind giving you a mind vacation that is long lasting.
If you are lost and were once an active, energetic ,active person you can be found by starting an exercise program today.
Remember a simple walk will start the process to a better you.
Are You hungry?…
Many times we reach for a snack is it because we hear a growl in our tummy or is it because we choose not to listen to our minds. Is the snack what our body really wants or is it just something to do at the time. The next time you are having a snack attack ask yourself these questions before you reach for those unwanted calories:
1) Are you thirsty? 9 out of 10 times we are more thirsty then hungry. When we do not properly hydrate it shows through our dry skin, and chapped lips. It also appears in our hunger. When we are thirsty we reach for food instead of drink. Most of the time we do this because we don’t even realize that we are thirsty and not properly hydrated. So next time you reach for a snack drink 8 oz of water and then see if the snack is still as appealing as before.
THINK BEFORE YOU ACT…..
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POSITIVE THOUGHTS….
THIS WEEK INNOVATION CHALLENGE IS TO LIVE LIFE WITH POSITIVE THOUGHTS…
BE happy in the present moment and recognize that there is much to be thankful for. Stop complaining about the small annoying stuff in favor of counting your many blessings. The glass is no longer half empty; it is half full. Cherish your body and life. Understand and believe that a healthy, fit body is the most fundamental component necessary to sustain life. Physical health and fitness are the basic building blocks that give you the opportunity to bloom and grow. Be happy about who you are and what you have. If you need to improve your health, start taking positive steps to do so. Find and live for the bliss in simple pleasures of a daily life well lived.
If You Want to Lose Weight – Don’t Do This….
One of the most common dieting mistakes is constricting your calorie count. Think about this – if someone covers your mouth and one of your nostrils (very similar to when your nose is stuffed), and your air is constricted. What do you do when you finally get some air in? You gasp and breath and suck as much in as you can. Very similar to when you constrict your calories and then all of a sudden you find yourself grabbing everything and anything in sight. If you restrict anything too much you are setting yourself up to abuse it in the future.
Tips on Choosing Healthy Meals when Dining Out
The biggest problem with Dining out is choosing a healthy meal once you get there. With often so many unhealthy meals offered it can be difficult to make the right choice. Almost every restaurant today offers at least one healthy meal on the menu. If they don’t, you can always ask them to make a dish the way you prefer it.
- Check out the menu before you go. Most places carry a menu right online. It’s very helpful to know exactly what you are ordering.
- Bread….When you get to the restaurant and they are seating you – tell them immediately no bread for the table until dinner arrives. You will not only being doing yourself a favor but everyone at the table a favor. Most people fill up so much on the bread they don’t enjoy the dinner they ordered. If the bread arrives the same time as your meal you are less likely to pick from it.
- Drink Alcohol? Order your drink with dinner and not before. It’s wise NOT to drink an alcoholic beverage before you order dinner or before dinner arrives. When everyone is ordering drinks you can order water with lemon. Tell the waiter that you would like your alcoholic beverage when dinner arrives. This will help you in three areas: First the water with lemon will hydrate you before you drink your dehydrating alcoholic drink. Second, you will fill up on the meal with your drink and be less likely to order a second drink. Third, if you have the drink before dinner you will be more likely to make a poor choice for your dinner option.
- Eat slowly. Really think about and enjoy your meal. Chew each bite and try not to get so caught up in the conversation at the table that you shovel the food in your mouth without thinking – and before you know it you look down and it’s all gone. Really think about and savor each mouthful. Put a little moan into it. Everyone at the table will be envious of how much you are enjoying your healthy choice.
Healthy meals can be just as delicious as unhealthy meals with a gratifying end. Think about after your meal and how happy you will be that you did not overdue it. That you feel a healthy full, and not overly stuffed and sick. You enjoyed your healthy meal and one drink and stayed on track to maintain or lose the weight you have worked so hard to do. It’s always very important to think about the choices we make in life. When it comes to food and being healthy – making the right choices will keep you on a healthy successful path to a fit and healthy future.
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Plan a Healthy Year
As part of “2014 NO EXCUSES” we want you to do something really healthy this January. Schedule all of your Doctor Appts for this coming year. Depending on your age and sex – you should look to have the following tests every year. Full Physical (with blood work & urine) in addition to regular blood work ask to check thyroid and sugar; Have your yearly Mammogram & Sonogram; Gynocologist (pap & uterine); Colonoscopy (every 5yrs except when family history- yearly); Cardiologist (Heart & Stress test).
We are very fortunate to live in a world where we have access to so much preventative measures and medicine. But they cannot help you if you don’t go and get checked. Way too many lives have been shortened due to disease and illness. We should no longer depend on family history alone as studies have shown environment also plays a large role in our well being. Fortunately, we know that if we catch something early our chances for survival can double and triple. So why wait? If you make your appointments every January you will always remember to do it and you will always start your year off right. Consistency is key in finding early diagnosis and better recovery.
We are all busy and it’s easy to put off important appointments, especially when we feel great. But you don’t want to wait to have a test because you don’t feel well or because you are already showing symptoms. I often compare it to hydrating. When you are thirsty your body is telling you that you are dehydrating. If you wait to drink water until you are thirsty – you are most likely already dehydrated. You should be drinking enough water throughout the day so you are never thirsty. Same goes for testing. If you wait until you have symptoms it’s most likely something is there and then its just a matter of what it is, and how bad, and how far its spread. If you go before the symptoms start and something is there- you most likely caught it in plenty of time for a complete recovery.
Looking good and feeling great are important – but only when our inside is as healthy as the outside. Make your appointments today and start your “2014 NO EXCUSES” on a healthy path to a long healthy life.
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