You have heard that we should eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and supper like a pauper. You may have also have heard that eating low glycemic index meals and snacks control your blood sugar level – keeping it even and balanced – hence helping you manage your weight and stay healthy.
I [...]
Every time I have learned about goal setting I have heard about SMART goals which tell us how decent goals should be:
Specific - not I want to look better but I want to lose weight
Measurable - just having the goal of losing weight doesn’t do you much good – if you lowered your weight by [...]
Each January all the gyms in the USA are full of new members as people try to lose some of the weight gained over the fattening holidays. By mid February the gyms return to their normal membership.
This happens every year. In fact gyms keep getting new members all the time but very few actually go [...]
On average Americans gain twenty five pounds between thanks giving and mid January while we loose about twenty pounds on average in the following time to next thank giving. Which means we gain five pounds a year on average.
Now, given that many of us don’t gain much if any extra weight each year those who [...]
One great way to manage your weight is to do as the French do and use smaller plates. They use nine-inch plate rather than our eleven or thirteen-inch plates and only 6% of French adults are obese compared to 18% of Americans.
The other thing the French do is to eat slowly, with time between different [...]
In order to manage your weight it is best to pay attention to your eating. This is called mindful eating and improves the health of your mind/body/soul/spirit.
When you are eating mindfully a good meal starts with a moment of thankfulness. If you are religious you can say a prayer of thanks. If you are not [...]
Strategy not to gain weight
When you go to the restaurant remember the pretty pictures on the menu are designed to tempt you to those high calorie larger portion – larger profit foods. The chances are that when you go to the restaurant you are hungry which is the worst time to select your food.
So decide [...]
Mindful eating is being present when you eat and doing nothing else while you eat – appreciate the food and taste it fully that’s ro say -
When you eat, eat
I always eat when I eat – that’s nonsense. That’s not what I meant. I meant only eat and do not do other things – other [...]
Ten simple positive ways of reducing your weight through changing your eating habits
Eat a large breakfast, smaller lunch, and tiny supper. They say eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and supper like pauper.
Use smaller size dishes. The dishes they use in Europe are smaller than those used in the USA.
Drink plenty of [...]
Bacon, butter, cream…
Hmm. Yum, yum, yum.
There are great evolutionary reasons why fat is so tasty. Think of that wonderful blood vessel clogging desert full of cream and sugar. Yum,yum, yum! It tastes great since for all but the last ten thousand years (after the agrarian revolution) of the two million or so that our branch [...]
