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5 Key Reminders to finding Balance
01 year ago
Here is an excerpt from Brian’s blog – he is the trainer I worked with today. Always good to remind yourself of some key things:
Balance to find fat loss – 5 keys « BW-PT.com.
So here it is: 5 key things to remember
1. Do not starve yourself – find the balance
2. Do not kill yourself in the gym – it’s not how much you do only, it’s what you do and how well you do it
3. Rest, but in the proper balance – your body can work on something daily
4. Do not obsess about fat loss – stress causes cortisol to raise – a hormone that triggers insuline uptake and fat storage
5. Consult a fitness professional for a personalized program – have your body type addressed to best attain your goals
Dessert for lunch?!!
01 year ago
Dr. Oz’s 16 Tips for Summer Weight Loss
there is a ton of good info in this article but I liked this part. I may move my nightly dessert to a mid day snack.
Eat dessert in the afternoon.
“The one thing I’m adamant about is not having dessert after dinner,” said Dr. Oz. “You can have sweets, like chocolate, but I don’t want people having dessert after dinner.” Why the hard line? Because following a big meal with a sugary-dessert, he explains, produces a surge of insulin which in turn socks away all the calories you ate at dinner as fat. “Dessert is metabolic suicide,” he said. That said, Dr. Oz recommends — indeed urges you — to eat chocolate every day! “Of all the sweet snacks, chocolate is the healthiest because it’s not loaded with trans fats,” he said. In fact, a recent study just reported that chocolate-eaters have nearly half the risk of heart disease as non-chocolate eaters. Here’s how to make chocolate work for you: Choose dark, rather than milk chocolate or white chocolate. The dark chocolate has many of those indirectly-helpful-for-slimming antioxidants we mentioned earlier. Eat a small amount (say, a quarter of a regular-size candy bar) as your afternoon snack. “Since you’re not eating other food with it,” said Dr. Oz, “you won’t deposit those calories as fat.”
