Weigh Yourself EVERY DAY!
I read a good article on Yahoo. It suggests that you need to weigh yourself EVERY DAY. Personally, I hate doing this, especially because it is cold in my house at this time of year, it is winter after all, and I always weigh myself naked. I would hate for my weight to fluctuate because [...]
Eat More Fiber
Fiber is actually less fattening and more filling at the same time. You won’t be as hungry, and you will be eating fewer calories. It’s a no brainer! We have two kinds of finer to choose from. Fruits tend to have fiber that absorbs water on the way through your body and so helps with [...]
What You Eat Can Make You Depressed
The British Journal of Psychology has reported that if you eat more fish, fruits and veggies, you are less susceptible to being depressed. They speculate that these healthy foods somehow protect you, and that all the junk we tend to eat is harmful to us beyond causing us to have bad hearts and diabetes, and [...]
Minimal Exercises
Parade Magazine had an article about exercising a few weeks ago. They spoke to a trainer in New York named Lacey Stone. She says that you can be in reasonable shape by doing three simple moves. Jumping jacks – these get your heart rate up and burns some extra calories as well as helping you [...]
One Burger = 2 Servings?
I posted a while ago that lots of nutrition labels on food packages and in restaurants are misleading because they list the calories per serving, like the Uno Burger on the Uno Chicago Grill restaurant menu, and you think, hmmm, that’s not too bad, 540 calories (although 320 calories are FAT calories) but you probably [...]
Health Food Imposters
Some food products in the grocery store are packaged to look convincingly like health food choices. This may just be a marketing ploy, be sure you check the ingredient list for fat and nutrition content before you purchase anything that looks healthy. For example, even baked fat potato chips have a lot of calories, and [...]
Can The Diet Soda
In a 2008 study, researchers linked drinking just one diet soda a day with metabolic syndrome—the collection of symptoms including belly fat that puts you at high risk of heart disease. Researchers aren’t sure if it’s an ingredient in diet soda or the drinkers’ eating habits that caused the association. From Prevention Magazine.
The Rest Of Debra’s Natural Gourmet Dieting Tips
4. Be prepared to spend more money on food. It is an oft-cited statistic that Americans spend less money on food (proportional to total spending) than any other nation on Earth. So what do we spend it on, then, that’s so much more important? If you’re trying to cut back on, say, fat (although, really, [...]
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Debra’s Natural Gourmet Dieting Tips #3
My favorite of Debra’s tips! 3. Let go of preconceived notions of what a meal ought to be. Have soup for breakfast, or eggs for dinner (the rest of the world does). Lunch does not need to be a sandwich. Dinner does not need to be accompanied by a roll. When I want dinner in [...]
Debra’s Natural Gourmet Dieting Tips #2
2. Explore the wonderful world of “ethnic” foods. Well, everyone is different. But most of the foods that most of us are trying to avoid are those that tend to sit front-and-center on the Standard American Dinner Plate. For those with food allergies especially, it’s rewarding to explore the culinary cultures of the world. Understand, [...]