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I love this … obviously translated into English from some other language … enjoy!

Seen on a Health and Beauty Web site: “You have to be on fire 3500 MORE calories than you eat, to lose 1 pound of fat. Consequently how a lot of total calories you would require to burn would depend on your caloric eating. Characteristically though, an important person eating correct and exercising frequently can lose 1 - 2 lbs a week with refusal difficulty.

I weighed in my opinion before I leaved into a sauna and evaluated 148.8. I went into the sauna for concerning 10 minutes, and weighed for my part behind, I after that weighed 147.6. There single pound, other than if you desire to lose a few weight do a lot of cardio action, somewhat than exciting weights. Losing 1-2 pounds shouldn’t be that tough. I would create yourself off simple though and occupation your weigh up so your body is second-hand to it and you won’t totally tire out yourself and weak. To misplace 1 pound per week you require taking in 500 calories a smaller amount, whether by dropping your food, picking enhanced choices or in grouping with exercise. To mislay 2 pounds per week you require doing the similar, but 1000 calorie decrease per day. Unless you go after a thermo genie diet similar to Kinkiness and then you drop much earlier than the 3500 calorie regulation allows.”

Setting Up the Ideal Pantry for the Mediterranean Diet

Rex Says: Helpful hints similar to what we did to make lifestyle changes after I decided to treat my cancer naturally. AS EVER, please let us know if you’d like some help on developing an individual plan @ hungerforhealth@verizon.net. Remember, You’re not in this alone.

“Setting Up the Ideal Pantry” excerpted from What Would Jesus Eat by Dr. Don Colbert.

The ideal pantry for eating the way Jesus ate would include these general good items:

BREAD: Select whole-grain breads or whole-grain pita bread. If you are allergic to wheat, choose millet bread or brown rice bread (available at most health food stores)

CEREAL: Choose GoLean soy cereal, all Bran, Fiber One, Shredded Wheat, Grape Nuts, Natural Granola (without added sugar), old-fashioned oatmeal (not instant), or Oat Bran. If you are allergic to wheat, try millet cereal or any gluten-free whole-grain cereal.

CHEESE: Choose parmesan (freshly grated or in a block you can grate yourself), part skim mozzarella, or feta cheese. If you are sensitive or allergic to dairy products, choose soy cheese. I recommend organic cheeses.

EGGS. Choose free-range eggs

FISH. Choose fish with scales and fins. Avoid catfish and shellfish. Make sure that your fish is fresh and that is comes form unpolluted waters.

FRUIT. Fresh is best. Frozen is acceptable. Avoid canned fruit packed in syrup.

HERBS AND SPICES. Many Mediterranean recipes call for garlic powder, parsley, Celtic Salt (available at most health food stores) and black powder. Experiment with herbs and spices – they are a great way to add flavor to your cooking without adding fat or sugar.

MEAT. Choose free-range meat. Avoid pork.

MILK. Choose skim milk and skim milk yogurt or cottage cheese. Soy milk, rice milk, and almond milk are good choices if a person is sensitive or allergic to dairy products.

NUTS.. Almonds and walnuts are preferred nuts. Keep nuts sealed in the bags after they are opened, and tore them in your refrigerator or freezer.

OLIVE OIL. Choose extra virgin or virgin olive oil

PASTA. Choose whole-grain pasta products. If you are allergic to wheat, try spelt or rice pasta.

POULTRY. Choose chicken and turkey, preferably white-meat portions.

SOUPS AND BROTHS. Choose low-sodium, low-fat, natural soup broths (available at health food stores) that are low in food additives.

STARCHES. Other than pasta, choose brown rice or wild rice, beans, legumes, lentils, coarse cornmeal or polenta, and potatoes (fresh, never instant)

SWEETS. Stock a little honey. Consider using Stevia (a natural food source that is very sweet an can be readily add to foods instead of artificial sweetener). It is good for diabetics and has no harmful side effects. You may also want to have a little naturally sweetened fruit spread (no sugar added)

VEGETABLES. Choose fresh or frozen. Low-sodium canned vegetables are acceptable on occasion. Choose especially from these vegetables: asparagus, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, peppers, olives, onions, spinach, tomatoes,

Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, collard greens, kale squash, turnip greens, and zucchini. Choose dark green lettuce such as romaine lettuce over iceburg lettuce, which does not have nearly as many phytonutrients.

VINEGAR. Choose balsamic, red wine, or apple cider.

WINE. Choose red.

YOGURT. Choose plain, skim or low fat

Remember always – what you bring home from the store is what you have available to eat. If you don’t bring junk food home, you won’t eat junk food at home

The Best Diet Pill

Why Proactol is the best diet pill ?

I was trying to lose weight for two last years. During this time, I bought several different diet pills None of them worked for me. Three months ago one of my friend told me about Proactol. At first I was skeptical, but decided to try it. It was a very wise decision. Within three months I lost 40 pounds and eat the same food that I ate before! Thats why I`m think Proactol is the best diet pill.

How Proactol works ?

Proactol is 100% natural diet pill made from the nutritious cactus “Opuntia ficus-indica”. It is clinically proven that Proactol:

- bind up to 28% of dietary fat intake. When Proactol non-soluble fibres come into contact with dietary fats they bind with them immediately to form a fluid gel around the fat this makes the fats complex too large to be absorbed by our body. Unabsorbed fats then pass naturally through your body

- suppress your appetite and food cravings. Proactol soluble fibers are highly viscous when they bind with bile acids to create a very viscous solution which slows down digestion and slows down the absorption of glucose. Our stomach finds the viscous solution a lot harder to digest therefore it remains in our stomach far longer than an ordinary meal usually would. This gives us a feeling of being full for much longer.

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The Five Types of Overeater. Type 1: The Yo-yo Dieter

You'll seek out new diets no matter how many failures you endure

In the next five posts I’ll be describing the five types of overeater and asking you to spot which one you feel most closely fits your type. These ‘types’ are really stages in the lifecycle of an over eater and all overeaters experience at least one (sometimes all) of these stages.

This first overeating type is the most obvious one and if you are at this stage in the overeating life cycle, you will already know that you’re a yo-yo dieter, but this won’t spur you to try to get out of the trap - you’ll just passively keep on yo-yoing out of a belief that there is no other option.

I’d like to introduce you to Wendy who has been in the yo-yo dieting stage since she was a child. She is now 42.

“I’ve been dieting since I was 10. I must have been on every diet going and I have lost quite a lot of weight in the past and for my wedding I managed to get to my target weight with Weight Watchers. I’ve put it all back on again though. I’ve tried Weight Watchers again a few times since then, but I just don’t seem to be able to stick to it. It feels boring. Same old, same old and I get a sinking feeling when I start.

“New diets are the way to go because there is feeling of hope and novelty. I am swiftly running out of diets though! I seem to have done them all. I’ve even done 100 days on a liquid meal replacement diet called LighterLife, I did lose a lot of weight but my hair fell out in chunks and I felt very ill so I had to come off it. I maintained my weight for a while because I’d got used to eating so little, all meals felt enormous! I eventually upped my intake again, began overeating and regained all the weight.

“Most recently I went to Slimming World and I thought that would be my saviour at the time because it allowed me to eat so much. But then I began to feel depressed and I burst into tears when I was out having a meal with my girlfriends. They said not to do the diet and to have a night off if I was getting so upset about it. So I did and after that something took over me and I went on the rampage – stuffing down all of the things I couldn’t have on the diet for two whole weeks. I don’t understand it. It seemed so easy at first and I wasn’t hungry for even one moment.

“I’m a bit stuck as to what to do now and am thinking of trying Atkins once more as you can eat lots of cream and fat, which I like. Although last time I did it I craved bread so much I thought I was going to go mad. I was dreaming about it!

“I think I’m weak and I feel ashamed of myself when I think about how often I’ve let myself down. I am worried about the future and all I can see is ill health and struggling to get about because of my weight. I am so tired of dieting but I don’t think I have a choice if I look at the alternative.

As you can see, Wendy has been on and off diets ever since she was a child and has never succeeded at getting out of this trap. She is convinced she lacks willpower and that it is her fault she can’t stick to a diet. She reads the diet magazines and sees the many successes and doesn’t understand why she can’t do it and they can. Despite all the evidence for her repeated failure, Wendy is still on the lookout for a diet that will ‘work’ for her.

If you’re like Wendy and a Type 1, you’re likely to be stuck in the yo-yo dieting trap. Convinced you lack willpower but that there will be one diet out there that will work for you, you either hunt through different diets or ‘healthy eating plans’ trying to find the one that will work or you keep on trying the same one that worked once or twice before for you but which ultimately failed…

…Each time you begin a diet you feel determined and a little high on the promise of what your life will be like when you’re thin. But you eventually (or sometimes immediately) give in to the overwhelming cravings to eat things that are not allowed on your diet plan. You go into an overeating phase, making the most of your temporary freedom, promising yourself that you will start the diet again soon, usually ‘tomorrow’ or ‘Monday’.

You will be heavily influenced by diet industry marketing. You will ignore your own internal evidence that you’ve never managed to stick to a diet and the evidence in your immediate surroundings (most of your friends might be yo-yo dieters too) and that you don’t really know anyone personally who has lost weight using a diet and kept it off for more than five years and you will focus on diet industry’s use of temporary success stories in magazines and advertisements as your guide to reality.

You will never make any decisions yourself about what you want to eat and will always be following someone else’s guidelines. When you’re in a binge phase, you will eat all the ‘bad’ foods but always feel deep down like you ’shouldn’t’ be eating what you’re eating, although this will remain largely unconscious and be barely perceptible. Always thinking: “I’ll get back on it, I’ll get back on it.”

Then you will “get back on it” and the whole yo-yo cycle begins again.

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3 months!!

My little chicky is 3 months old. And it is all still amazing. She holds her head up and smiles at me all the time. Her latest discovery is her hands! She holds onto me when I carry her and she rubs the fabric of her blankets and shirts between her perfect little fingers. Right now I can hear her in the next room ‘talking’ to her bear.

On the TTC front, I am now 99% sure I will be transferring my one little frozen emby in December. In the meantime I have to shift some weight in the hopes of not getting the diabetes back. I have joined WWatchers in an attempt to get motivated and shift it. I am not hugely overweight but in the interests of fitting back into my jeans (AND my health!!) I have to get moving. I would like to start TTC (and go back to work in July) smaller than I was before my BFP.

I live in a beautiful part of the world where it never gets cold! In fact it is too hot (for me) to excercise sometimes. Today I will be meeting up with a girlfriend to do a fast-walk around the river, it is 5 minutes drive from my house and really beautiful. At the end we are planning to swim at the local pools that are riverside. It will be Paige’s first swim. I might post some photos of it tomorrow.

Here is an updated picture of my darling.

How to Cook Real Food Fast

Ok, so you’ve committed to changing your lifestyle and diet.  You’re going to start exercising and eating healthily, largely by reducing the amount of meat you consume and adding additional vegetables to your diet.  You’ve found a few vegetarian recipes on this blog or elsewhere that you want to try.  But for many of you, that’s where it will end.  Because even though you want to make these recipes, you won’t!  The reason?  You don’t cook.  You eat out a few times a week, your roommate or spouse makes the standard fare once or twice, and for the rest of the week you manage to get by on whatever looks safe for consumption in the fridge.  You know it’s not healthy, so you tell yourself (again) that maybe this weekend you’ll plan some meals and get on top of things.  And of course the same scene plays out week after week, month after month.

I know because I’ve been there, and I know that I only started eating right when I started cooking.  I was conscious about my diet long before I learned to cook, but until I started cooking I just didn’t eat many vegetables.  It was so easy to put a piece of chicken on the George Foreman grill, heat up a can of sliced potatoes, and call that a healthy meal.  After all, it didn’t have anything “bad” in it, and it was better than the Ramen noodles that other college kids were eating.

But this isn’t a healthy meal, and making it isn’t cooking.  You’ve got to get fresh vegetables, as much as the producers of the processed, packaged foods that line supermarket shelves would love to convince you otherwise.  And the only way you’ll get them is by making real food.  You think you’ll start adding some broccoli or asparagus to the chicken and canned potatoes, but it won’t last.  I’ve done it.  You get lazy, and vegetables are the first thing to go.

You’ve got to cook.  And it takes some work to get started.  You have to plan the meals in advance (I’ve made this easy for you), go to the grocery store (because you know you won’t find the ingredients in your fridge), and as if that weren’t enough, you have to actually cook the meals.  If you can get your spouse to do it, so much the better, but usually the only way to change someone else is by example.

So that’s my argument for cooking.  And you know what?  There’s a really good chance you’ll start to love it.  I did.  I went well beyond the basics, venturing into making fresh pasta, gnocchi, pizza dough (whole-wheat, of course), pesto, and so many more.  If you can’t tell, I got really into Italian cooking.  And it all started with Italian wine, but that’s another story.  But you don’t have to do any of that fancy stuff.  Just get in the kitchen and start with something easy.  I can guarantee it will take you a while at first, but stick it out for a few meals and see if you don’t start feeling terrific about cooking wholesome, healthy meals every night.

So here are my tips to get you started, geared more towards time-saving that turning out fancy food.  If you saw my onion video, you know I’m no expert.  I hardly ever cook without a recipe, and I used to be known for causing one kitchen disaster with every meal I cooked.  But I’ve learned a ton about how to cook faster and smarter, and now the disasters are few and far between.  And best of all, I don’t feel like cooking takes up my entire night anymore.  If a meal takes me more than half an hour, start to finish, I tend to think it’s best saved for a weekend or special occasion.  So here you go:

1. Use a garbage bowl.  Chop everything before you get started, unless there are long downtimes during the cooking (waiting for pasta to cook, for example), and throw packinging, vegetable peels, and anything else you don’t need into the garbage bowl next to you.  Trips to the trashcan add up.
2. Stop measuring!  Unless you’re baking, you don’t need to be precise.  You don’t see recipes calling for 1.2 tablespoons do you?  They just round it to a whole or half number, so they’re not exact anyway.  For dry ingredients, learn what a teaspoon or tablespoon looks like in your hand and just go by that.  Liquid is a little harder, but still just estimate it.  My favorite Rachael Ray tip is that a drizzle around the pan equals a tablespoon of oil.
3. Learn how to chop efficiently.  Most importantly, cut things in half first so that there’s a big flat side on the cutting board.  I’ll post Take Two of how to chop vegetables soon; in the meantime you can find something on YouTube.
4. Spend a little more for quality ingredients.  This is absolutely essential to making your food taste good, and it feels great to know you’re putting only the highest-quality stuff into your body.
5. Make twice as much as you need so you’ll have leftovers for lunch or dinner the next day.  This is such an excellent way to save time, money, and calories that you would have spent eating out the next day.
6. Reuse pots and cooking utensils by rinsing them quickly while you cook, rather than filling up the sink.  I’m still working on this one.  Alternatively, convince someone else that since you’re cooking, they should do the dishes.

And I’ll leave you with one more reason you should cook– when you make your own food, you know exactly what goes in it!  I can guarantee you won’t find yourself yelling “Honey, where’s the high fructose corn syrup?” next time you’re cooking dinner.

Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk.

I have hope lately.  Something I thought I lost long ago.  I wanted to leave and never come back.  I couldn’t stand the thoughts I was having.  Not going to my counseling appointments anymore was for a reason, a stupid one.  I didn’t want her to stop me from developing an eating disorder.  I wanted chain smoke and not eat anything.  I want to lose the weight and stop gaining it, no matter how desperate I get.  I still want to so badly and have not discovered a compromise besides binging and saying I’d stop and not eat the next day.  I am going to buy cigarettes tomorrow, I can’t continue like this.