INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT CALORIES AND LOSING OR MAINTAINING WEIGHT

My wife was watching a T.V show called cook your self thin and on there they had a very interesting and simple to use way to know how many calories you should eat per day. Basically it is deciding on your ideal weight so lets say you wanted to weigh 150 LBS. You times your ideal weight by 10 and thats how many calories you should eat that day. So you'd want to eat no more than 1500 calories. Pretty simple and easy to remember when deciding how many calories to hit your ideal weight.

Eating smaller meals often.

A lot of times people think that if they skip breakfast and have just lunch and dinner they will loose weight when in reality you will gain more weight. Your metabolism is kind of like a fire. You don't start a fire with a huge chunk of wood. You typically start it with kindling and and build it up slowly. Once it's going you don't leave it and then toss another chunk of wood on it. You add wood regularly to keep it going.

With our meals, we should eat a decent size breakfast, not gorge ourselves. Between breakfast and lunch and between lunch and dinner its important to have a healthy snack to keep your metabolism burning strongly all day long.

Importance of Exercise

Medical science has proved the importance of exercising for at least 30 minutes a day. Additional study's have proven that exercising on an empty stomach in the morning can burn up to 1 and 1/2 times more fat. Exercise can be very difficult to find time and motivation. One of the easiest ways to exercise even if you don't have access to a gym membership is to walk. Walks in park, walks around a track and walks around the park can be fun, convenient and most importantly healthy.

Some of my personal favorite healthy Foods.

When I eat healthy consistently, I notice a huge difference in my energy level and over all self esteem. Some of my favorite healthy breakfast foods are egg whites, fresh fruit and whole wheat homemade bread. For lunch, a quick cheap and healthy meal is a can of tuna or canned chicken breast with a little low fat BBQ Sauce. One of my favorite snacks to have between meals is edamame. Lots of protein for those looking to beef up. For dinner, baked chicken breast with a fresh spinach salad is excellent and very low fat. For more health ideas for meals, click here.

Eating Healthy, living healthy.

I know for for myself, eating healthy really takes a lot of of self control and self discipline. I went a year and a half without eating hardy any sugar, white flour or drinking carbonated drinks. I felt amazing. Had a ton of energy, felt good inside and on the outside with how I looked.

Why is it then that we fall off the band wagon and stay off? All of us want to be healthy and all of us want to look good. Most of the time its mind over matter. A couple things I've found that have helped me personally as I've tried to be healthy.

1) Don't give in a little bit. A lot of times thinking a little won't hurt, hurts quite a bit. A piece of pizza for example. When I'm trying to eat healthy and they bring pizza into work and I eat a piece, the rest of the week is ruined eating healthy habit wise. When I turn down a piece of pizza I have the self discipline to eat healthy the rest of the week. For 101 Healthy recipes, click here.

2) When you do give in and have that one piece of candy or that one piece of pizza don't give up. Most of the time that is why we splurge thinking, "well, I ate this piece, might as well eat another" If you slip, forget about it and move on.

3) Working out. Everybody wants or at least knows they should do it, few actually do. For me, when I work out I feel so much better about everything. When something unhealthy is offered to me I wouldn't want to waste the last 2 hours I spent at the gm by eating a couple donuts. Work out 3-5 times a week for a 30 minute period of time and see the difference it makes, Physically, and mentally. For more info on great workouts tips and suggestions, click here.

The Skinny on Good Fats

When you hear the word FAT, automatically negative thoughts come into your mind. Images of Fat people and thoughts of unhealthy foods appear. There are good fats that that are very healthy and far too often we go without eating. Monounsaturated fat and Polyunsaturated fat, also known as omega-3 fatty acids are the good fats.

Foods that contain these good fats are things like Avocados, olives, most nuts, salmon, tuna and flax seed to name a few. Polyunsaturated fats play a very important role in brain function, assist with normal growth and development and can help reduce the risk heart disease. Monounsaturated fats can help in reducing bad cholesterol, which lowers the risk of stroke and heart disease. They can also help in the development and maintenance of the cells in your body.

The Bad Fats

Unfortunately, when we talk about the fats that a majority of people are eating, we are referring to the bad fats. 60 Million people in America are considered obese. Even if you don't have time to exercise a ton, watching what you eat can really help. In the post above I talked about the good fats. Here are the 2 main types of bad fats, Saturated Fat and Trans Fat.

The reason these are called "bad fats" is because of the effect they have on your body. The number one thing that they do is raise your cholesterol which leads to heart attack and stroke. Eating unhealthy doesn't feel very good. If you've eaten healthy for a period of time and then grab a cheese burger from a burger joint, you can feel it.

We aren't able to eat healthy all the time. Fat and Sugar Digestive Enzymes contain some of the most powerful ingredients to help lower blood sugar levels as well as assist in lowering your cholesterol. 2 of these main ingredients are Lipase and Chromium. Lipase breaks down fat so your body can use it as energy instead of storing it. Without Lipase, the fat we eat is stored as body fat and can cause plaque build up in our blood vessels walls. Chromium can help in keeping the bloods sugar levels balanced.

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