Archive for March, 2010
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Do you feel overwhelmed about the prospect of revising ingrained habits? Does the thought of battling strong temptation for the foods that have brought you comfort in the past seem overwhelming? I am convinced that we human beings were not created to handle the type of pain that we sometimes have to carry, and it is no wonder that we find ways to dull the pain. Eating is a convenient, pleasurable way to stimulate brain chemicals that connect to our pleasure center. So how do we negotiate this life that is so wondrous and sometimes so hard without constantly turning to food? We need to learn to go through the pain instead of dulling it. And we need someone safe and caring to go with us through it — someone who will validate our pain, but will not give us permission to keep on hurting ourselves with food. If you are overeating as a result of pain, whether from childhood or a more current wound, you should not try and tackle it alone. Find a caring friend to go on the journey, and together you can encourage each other to make excellent choices!
Tags: binge eating, emotional eating
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Monday, March 29th, 2010
Have you considered changing your eating habits or going on a diet, but the thought of researching, planning, preparing, shopping, and cooking seem like an overwhelming proposition? We are living in a time when work, family, home, and school commitments have us completely overwhelmed and short on our greatest resource — time. That’s where the Medifast Meal Delivery Plan can be such a great resource. Having a supply of healthy meals right at your fingertips can help eliminate those temptations that often drive us to picking up fast food or choosing something convenient and unhealthy. This plan marries together convenience with nutrition so that you can finally be rid of the pounds once and for all. The plan centers around five meals or meal replacements from your Medifast arsenal, along with one home prepared meal of lean protein and three ample servings of vegetables. A manageable plan coupled with great nutrition equals success.
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Living with the emotional burden of diabetes is hard enough, but then there are all the dietary rules that must be followed and the regular checking of blood sugar levels. With so much riding on good choices, it makes sense to consider diabetic diet meal delivery services to help you manage your diabetes. Available through the eDiets program, new registrations can receive one week of free meals with first order. You can also save 25% by using a special coupon code at checkout. This diet plan handles portion control, diet structure, and optimal carbohydrate regulation in order to keep blood sugars stable and ultimately enhance your health and longevity. If you struggle with your weight and are at a pre-diabetic stage, this diet plan might be the best way for you to keep from slipping into a full-blown diabetes diagnosis.
Tags: Diabetic Diet, meal delivery services
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Many of us don’t bother going on a formal diet because we are too busy, and diet’s can be very labor intensive. Who has time to do the research, prepare a menu plan, make a grocery list, shop, and prepare food with our work, family, home, and school obligations? That’s why meal delivery diets like the Medifast Diet can be such a lifesaver. With a delicious and varied supply of meals right at your fingertips, designed to be eaten every 2-3 hours, dieting just became sane again. Why is it that diets fail, anyway? Because they are tough to follow. If you found a system that worked and taught you a way to manage your weight loss over the long haul, wouldn’t that be worth it?
Tags: Diet Tips, Medifast Diet
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Monday, March 22nd, 2010
If you love the idea of fresh, whole, wholesome nutrition, the Mediterranean Diet might be just what you’re looking for. Picture fresh seafood or poultry surrounded by fresh-picked produce, with the bold flavors of herbs, spices and olive oil. Beans, legumes, low fat dairy, and a glass of red wine are all part of this flavorful experience that treats food as one of the great pleasure of life. Food should nourish and fuel your body, and it should enhance your health and make you feel great. The Mediterranean plan is a great choice for people who wish to have a healthy, positive relationship with food and decrease their chance for diet-related disease.
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Thursday, March 18th, 2010
According to Dr. Andrew Weil, MD, long-time contributor to Prevention Magazine, you have to spend at least 3-4 hours per week exercising in order to lose weight. If your goal is significant weight loss, shoot for 5-6 hours per week. Weight loss maintenance requires 4 or more hours a week of moderate to vigorous-intensity exercise. The American College of Sports Medicine recently published a report in February 2009, of which Dr. Weil cites that your exercise regime should include strength training to build and tone muscles. The American Diabetic Association says that a “lifelong commitment to healthful lifestyle behaviors emphasizing sustainable and enjoyable eating practices and daily physical activity” is required for successful weight management. The most potent combination for weight loss is healthy food choices combined with vigorous activity. Not only will you obtain the desired weight loss results, but you will enjoy enhanced energy, mood, and positive self-esteem.
Tags: exercise, weight loss
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Many people find themselves traveling at mach 5 these days, trying to balance work, family, and sometimes caring for aging parents, while placing themselves at the bottom of the list. Over time, you find yourself feeling sluggish and carrying around some extra weight that you never had intended. Meal delivery services can help put you back on the list and protect your health and well-being. With the eDiets plan, there are over twenty diet plans to choose from. Take for example the Atkins plan. While taking advantage of the body’s unique ability to burn fat stores when carbohydrates are restricted, a meal delivery service enables you to seemlessly move from each phase of Atkins until you gradually add back the correct balance of healthy carbohydrates into your eating; this helps you learn how to eat healthy for life.
Tags: Atkins Diet, meal delivery services
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Friday, March 12th, 2010
If you are looking for a review of several of the top diets, a great resource is www.thedietmindset.com. The Medifast Diet is one of the featured plans reviewed, and the benefits of this plan are numerous. For starters, it relies on meal replacements and prepared meals for the bulk of the day. This is tremendous news for busy people who don’t have time to research diets, prepare menus and shopping lists, shop and cook. The plan has many different meal replacements to be consumed five times throughout the day. There is one home-cooked meal of lean protein plus vegetables for the main meal. That’s the meal where you get to get creative within the parameters of the plan. The choices are incredible — oatmeal, eggs, chai latte, soups, chili, puddings, snacks, shakes, and much more.
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
Many people have learned the impact of refined carbohydrates on their health once the Atkins Diet Plan became popular several decades ago. A resurgence of popularity in the 1990′s placed this diet plan solidly on the map as a great way for people who suffered from insulin resistance to heal their bodies and lose the excess fat in a manner that didn’t cause excessive hunger, fatigue and irritability. Additionally, as the goal weight approached, Atkins taught dieters to slowly add in healthy carbohydrates choices in order to see what the optimal level of glucose was that the body operated on. We also found out that there were healthy carbohydrates and not-so-good (or downright unhealthy) carbohydrates such as white breads, crackers, sweets, etc. Atkins will always hold the distinction for helping America achieve solid steps to gaining control of their weight.
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
One of the biggest weight loss saboteurs is our tendency to operate in a state of chronic sleep deprivation. Whether you are under a lot of stress and have a hard time relaxing at the end of the day, or you fall into bed exhausted, only to wake up in the middle of the night, insomnia can derail your weight loss efforts. For reasons that are unfolding as more and more research is done, sleep seems to be the magic pill when it comes to pulling the whole dieting formula together. It seems that when you are tired, your body craves refined carbohydrates for a quick jolt of energy. Additionally, a lack of sleep seems to alter our body chemistry, causing it to not use macronutrients as efficiently as it should. So do a little research — do you need to simplify and de-stress? Is it time to deal with that nagging emotional issue that keeps you on edge? Put yourself first on the list, and realize your weight loss goals.
Tags: Diet Tips, sleep and weight gain
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