Lisa McGregor

7 Ways to Improve Eating Habit

 

    Eat breakfast. You’ve probably heard this before: and there is no way I am not going to tell you again how important breakfast is as a part of healthy lifestyle. Eating early in the day or at least an hour after waking up can help you boost up your metabolism all throughout the day.

 

Not only will it gives you the starting energy to do your tasks, it will also help you consume fewer calories than other who do not eat breakfast. In a study made, women who practice breakfast will consume an average of 100 calories less during the day than their counterparts. Plus, breakfast will help you alert and focus at school or at the office. So eat in the morning and watch the weight melting off.

 

·         Drink Plenty of Water. Water plays a vital role in keeping our organs functioning. Proper hydration may also be the key in losing excess fat, in a study conducted, ice water can actually speed up the metabolism. Water keeps us hydrated and satiated so start drinking 8 glasses a day.

 

·         Never Skip Lunch. When we skip lunch for the purpose of saving some calories we actually doing the body wrong. Our blood sugar level drops, metabolism slows down and starvation will eventually leads you to eat whatever you have in hand when you got home. Instead of skiping lunch, eat a light lunch. Fix some turkey sandwich along with grapes and carrot sticks.

 

·          Snack Wisely. When having your snack make sure that you mind what you eat. For snacks, vegetables, fruits, yogurt and cottage cheese are the ideal food.

 

·         Eat Fruits and Vegetables. When I mentioned fruits and vegetables in snacking wisely, it does not mean that these friends should not be involve in any of your meal. The truth is, the more fruits and vegetables in your diet the more healthier you will become and less heavier you will be. According to many experts, there should be 5 servings of different fruits and vegetables in a day to reach maximum health potential.

 

·         Never go on a late dinner. This is the counterpart of eating early in a day. When we eat late or an hour before going to bed, the body will not be able to digest all the food you will consume because it is in its resting mode. When food are not properly digest it turns into fats. Making you look and feel heavier the following day.

 

·         Keeping a Food Journal. This is very important especially for beginners because a food journal will tell you your progress. Just be sure that you are being true to it and never miss a single food you put into your body.

 

I hope this article has helped you a lot in understanding 7 simple ways to healthy eating habits. I want to share with you more health tips and weight loss techniques. Just visit me at http://www.capsiplexusa.com for more information. Thank you so much and stay healthy!

How to Get Over of your Weight

 

When we say healthy weight loss, strict dieting and merciless exercise, is not under its spotlight. We strongly believe that healthy weight loss is about making you feel healthy and happy with the effort you are doing therefore delivering positive result to your body. Healthy weight loss never upholds so-called ‘celebrity secrets’ for we all know that very few of those secrets are good for long-term practice.

We appreciate your time dropping by this article and we hope that after you have read it, you will carry with you some useful tips and knowledge about Healthy Weight Loss.

Step one:

Position yourself up for Success. True success starts in the mind, and let me stress that out again “it starts in the mind”. What you think of will eventually translate into actions. You cannot expect weight loss if in your mind you are beating yourself up with negative thoughts like ‘I just can’t do it’, ‘maybe I’m destined to be fat forever’ or ‘eventually my old habits will creep back’  unconsciously you are setting yourself up for failure. That is not how you fight bad eating habits, so think of winning thoughts, be kind with yourself and feel good about the body you have right now yet accept that you needed some modification to excel your potentials furthermore.

Patience is a Virtue. We always tell our precious clients that if you want a long-term lifestyle shift you have to practice enormous amount of patience. Bad habits are not develop overnight that is why it is impossible to get rid of them instantly. What you can do is too appreciate every small achievements you made, a simple walk in the park can go a long a way. Healthy living is a never-ending journey, once you have reached your ideal weight it does not end there, it goes on and on and on. So do not be so hard on yourself if it is taking you so long to lose at least a pound each week, as long as you are losing weight and you enjoy what you are doing, that is still consider as healthy weight loss.

Step two:

Never deprive yourself with so-called ‘sinful foods’. Certainly there is no sinful foods but there is overindulging. The key is moderation. Certainly, a spoon full of ice cream will not make you fat instantly but if you overindulge, there is where the problem starts. A little bit of this and that in some days of the week will certainly keep you happy and prevent you from craving and constantly thinking of those pleasure foods.

Step three:

Remember that it’s how you eat that matters. Although what type of food you eat matters too, how you eat them might just be the key in keeping a happy relationship with food and with yourself. Foods are not enemy, they are actually essential of life, if we enjoy the company of food and we appreciate what it can bring to our overall wellness therefore we will learn to appreciate every bursting flavors it can give to our sense of taste, making us eat slowly and chew thoroughly.

Never skip breakfast. I cannot help myself but hate ‘so-called experts’ that promote skipping breakfast. Let me emphasis this for the last time ‘breakfast is the most important meal of the day’. You cannot practice healthy lifestyle and expect healthy weight loss if you do not value the importance of breakfast, besides, there is countless experts and researchers findings that say the same value and importance of breakfast.  Breakfast gives you the starting energy that you needed for the whole day of work and eating in the morning gives the body enough time to burn more calories.

Step four:

Add some splash of colors in your plate. A healthy person must have healthy plate, and for us, we identify healthy plate if it resembles the colors of the rainbow. Your plate must contain green stuff for calcium, magnesium, iron etc. it must also includes yellow, orange and purple fruits and vegetables for sweetness that will decrease your cravings for refined and process sweets. Add  variety of fruits and veggies  for some good old fiber and vitamins.

Step five:

Who said you should avoid carbohydrates. we actually encourage our clients to add significant amount of carbs in their diet especially if they are choosing a heavy workout sessions but be sure that you are dealing with healthy carbs. Healthy carbohydrates contain whole grains for long-lasting energy, beans, fruits and vegetables.

And oh, never forget to have some healthy lean protein and healthy fats in your diet, some major sources of both are fish, peanuts and soy products.

Hi friends! Lisa McGregor here. I am inviting everyone to join our online community of health enthusiasts and together let us all celebrate healthy living. Join hundreds who already experience the benefits of www.capsiplexusa.com

Remember, healthy living is not about Perfection, it’s about Persistence!

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Shedding Pounds without Obvious Effort

If there is one thing sweeter than sugar cane, is this new way of shedding pounds. Our body, according to physician Adriane Fugh-Berman, can actually lose pounds without obvious physical exhaustion or even strict dieting. According to the expert, one must follow these six ways to boosts calorie burning non-stop around the clock.

·         One must have a hot soup before meal, this will help the digestive track to feel satiated thus keeping you from overeating and refilling your plate.

·         The golden rule, do not eat before going to bed because there will be less calorie expenditure, remember that you are in a resting mode, during this time the metabolic rate of the body is dropping thus consuming high calorie and high fat food will only increase your fat storage, making you look bulkier and feel heavier the following day.

·         Pretend as if you are a New Yorker. In a study conducted, comparing metropolitan people  versus suburb-ians (if you allow me), they have found out that those living in urban places tend to have lower BMI than of those who live in more laid-back environment like provinces and less stressful and fast-phase places. In addition to the study, lifestyle differences play a major key. People in urban tend to walk a lot, run and move a lot to avoid the traffic while people in suburbs tend to relax often and move less.

·         Spice up your life. Hot is always sexy, and this may imply true to this next claim. Did you know that by eating spicy food especially those with red pepper could actually help you lose weight of up to 278 calories?  Red pepper contains a substance called Capsaicin, which gives the fruit its pungency and spiciness; this is the same substance responsible for elevating metabolism and suppressing the appetite.

·         It is not yet clear whether our stomach actually feel satiated from solid food than of liquid even with the same calorie counts. However, in a study made, people who ate 260-calorie beverages tend to eat the same calorie content at their meal than those people who eat 260-calorie solid food who significantly reduces cravings at their actual meal. Therefore, this claim suggests that we must limit our caloric beverages.

·         It is important that you keep track of your weight everyday and it is proven more effective than of those who weight themselves a week after, you must buy yourself a good and accurate scale to give you a clear message of your true weight.

And there you have it. I hope this has significantly changed your perspective about losing weight. If you still want the good old fashion diet and exercise, it is your privilege but if you want to try something new like these six ways, it will be a new gained knowledge in your part. Remember, love life and live it well!

Hi friends! Lisa McGregor here. I am inviting everyone to join our online community of health enthusiasts and together let us all celebrate healthy living. Join hundreds who already experience the benefits of www.capsiplexusa.com

Remember, healthy living is not about Perfection, it’s about Persistence!

http:www.capsiplexusa.com

How you can turn your Working place into a Workout Place

 

I can still remember when I am about to start my first day at the office, one of my major concern was gaining extra weight around my waistline because of the undisputed 8 hours of moving nothing beside my fingers kind of job.

But today, we will bust out those old worries and learn how we can turn our typical office job into 8 hours of calorie burning routine.

In a study conducted by the Mayo Clinic under the supervision of Dr. James Levine, 18 Minneapolis office workers lose a total of 156 pounds in a program they called as NEAT in 2007.

NEAT or Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis occur naturally, according to Levine. Some of the activities that are under this NEAT program are walking, bending, stretching, standing up and fidgeting during resting metabolism. In addition to what he propose, a little bit of creativity in the work place, knowledge about food and by infusing small but often movement in workplace will simply start melting the weights off.

In 2007, Levine’s team of experts launched a six-month experiment with 18 office employees of small financing business in Minneapolis. They first, renovated and redecorated the office. The typical table and chairs were replaced oddly enough by desks that came pre-attached to treadmills.

They also installed a walking track within the circumference of the office. The idea is to keep employees walking at work at a pace of 1.1 miles an hour. Levine also enrolled the participants in food education seminars. Educating them about the importance of food in their lives and changing the perspective of food from comforter to fuel.

Moreover, Levine stressed out that what they want office people learn in this study is not to focus on losing weight rather in living their life in a dynamic and positive ways.

Not more than a year, the participants lost a total of 156 pounds, 9 pounds each person. Significantly, as the employee tend to become active and physically fit the revenue of the small financial firm increases up to 10 percent.

Memoirs of a Former Fat Girl

If one must embark in a healthy lifestyle, one must feed itself with the right mindset and knowledge about what healthy lifestyle is. It is not always about the food but it is how much you know about the food.

When I was in college, and I was living on my own, I use to eat huge amount of fast food in a day to avoid hassle in the kitchen and conflict in my already unorganized schedules, nevertheless I graduated with type two diabetes and high-cholesterol level. Until I come across my breaking point when my little niece refuse to go with me in the mall because she was embarrassed of my size.

I finally set my mind to lose weight, got myself in different gym and diet plans, some worked but nothing seemed to last for life. I remember when I almost gave up when my dad approach and comforted me with kind words. I appreciated him with his effort to make me feel good about myself again but very few of what he said stick to my mind and these words change my life for better, he said ‘weight loss is not suppose to be perfect, nevertheless it should be persistent.

Moreover, dearest friends, that remains true to me, even though I have lost a whooping 200 pounds off my body and continues to maintain my size 8 figure, it did not mean that along my journey were always sunny and smooth sailing. I write this article with a purpose to somewhat make you feel you are not alone with your battle over obesity. I have been there and here is what I do to reach the status I have today, I hope you will enjoy reading it.

·         First, you must have the winning thoughts. Enough with “I can’t or it’s too hard”, those thoughts are lies! They are distractions. They are there to prevent you from reaching your full potential. You are not born in this world to become a failure. People who fail are those who nurture failure thoughts. Always look for a glimpse of hope, keep it sunny even when things around you are dark and cold. Keep it warm inside even when family and friends seems to not appreciate your efforts. Just keep on moving forward, after all its all about you in the end.

·         Research as if you mean it. If you want to learn, you cannot just wish that someday you would wake up with the right knowledge about proper eating habits, or about food and their purpose in our body. You have to crave knowledge or else you will be stagnant in your current self. Surf the net, talk to successful dieters. Be involved with health communities and love learning everything that is healthy.

·         You are your greatest motivator. Let us face it, not every day your spouse or your best friend will cheer you up and spit out encouraging words. The best thing that you can do for yourself is be your own best trainer.  If it is passion to be healthy then no one else to motivate you or can ever pull you down.

I hope this has helped you a lot. However, my personal weight loss memoir does not end there. Keep in touch with me next time. I will be writing my exercise routine and my diet plan. See you around my friends!

True Healthy Weight Loss

 

When we say healthy weight loss, strict dieting and merciless exercise, is not under its spotlight. We strongly believe that healthy weight loss is about making you feel healthy and happy with the effort you are doing therefore delivering positive result to your body. Healthy weight loss never upholds so-called ‘celebrity secrets’ for we all know that very few of those secrets are good for long-term practice.

We appreciate your time dropping by this article and we hope that after you have read it, you will carry with you some useful tips and knowledge about Healthy Weight Loss.

Step one:

Position yourself up for Success. True success starts in the mind, and let me stress that out again “it starts in the mind”. What you think of will eventually translate into actions. You cannot expect weight loss if in your mind you are beating yourself up with negative thoughts like ‘I just can’t do it’, ‘maybe I’m destined to be fat forever’ or ‘eventually my old habits will creep back’  unconsciously you are setting yourself up for failure. That is not how you fight bad eating habits, so think of winning thoughts, be kind with yourself and feel good about the body you have right now yet accept that you needed some modification to excel your potentials furthermore.

Patience is a Virtue. We always tell our precious clients that if you want a long-term lifestyle shift you have to practice enormous amount of patience. Bad habits are not develop overnight that is why it is impossible to get rid of them instantly. What you can do is too appreciate every small achievements you made, a simple walk in the park can go a long a way. Healthy living is a never-ending journey, once you have reached your ideal weight it does not end there, it goes on and on and on. So do not be so hard on yourself if it is taking you so long to lose at least a pound each week, as long as you are losing weight and you enjoy what you are doing, that is still consider as healthy weight loss.

Step two:

Never deprive yourself with so-called ‘sinful foods’. Certainly there is no sinful foods but there is overindulging. The key is moderation. Certainly, a spoon full of ice cream will not make you fat instantly but if you overindulge, there is where the problem starts. A little bit of this and that in some days of the week will certainly keep you happy and prevent you from craving and constantly thinking of those pleasure foods.

Step three:

Remember that it’s how you eat that matters. Although what type of food you eat matters too, how you eat them might just be the key in keeping a happy relationship with food and with yourself. Foods are not enemy, they are actually essential of life, if we enjoy the company of food and we appreciate what it can bring to our overall wellness therefore we will learn to appreciate every bursting flavors it can give to our sense of taste, making us eat slowly and chew thoroughly.

Never skip breakfast. I cannot help myself but hate ‘so-called experts’ that promote skipping breakfast. Let me emphasis this for the last time ‘breakfast is the most important meal of the day’. You cannot practice healthy lifestyle and expect healthy weight loss if you do not value the importance of breakfast, besides, there is countless experts and researchers findings that say the same value and importance of breakfast.  Breakfast gives you the starting energy that you needed for the whole day of work and eating in the morning gives the body enough time to burn more calories.

Step four:

Add some splash of colors in your plate. A healthy person must have healthy plate, and for us, we identify healthy plate if it resembles the colors of the rainbow. Your plate must contain green stuff for calcium, magnesium, iron etc. it must also includes yellow, orange and purple fruits and vegetables for sweetness that will decrease your cravings for refined and process sweets. Add  variety of fruits and veggies  for some good old fiber and vitamins.

Step five:

Who said you should avoid carbohydrates. we actually encourage our clients to add significant amount of carbs in their diet especially if they are choosing a heavy workout sessions but be sure that you are dealing with healthy carbs. Healthy carbohydrates contain whole grains for long-lasting energy, beans, fruits and vegetables.

And oh, never forget to have some healthy lean protein and healthy fats in your diet, some major sources of both are fish, peanuts and soy products.

I hope this article has helped you a lot. Keep in touch with us here at http://www.capsiplexusa.com

Shedding Pounds without Obvious Effort

 

 
 

If there is one thing sweeter than sugar cane, is this new way of shedding pounds. Our body, according to physician Adriane Fugh-Berman, can actually lose pounds without obvious physical exhaustion or even strict dieting. According to the expert, one must follow these six ways to boosts calorie burning non-stop around the clock.

·         One must have a hot soup before meal, this will help the digestive track to feel satiated thus keeping you from overeating and refilling your plate.

·         The golden rule, do not eat before going to bed because there will be less calorie expenditure, remember that you are in a resting mode, during this time the metabolic rate of the body is dropping thus consuming high calorie and high fat food will only increase your fat storage, making you look bulkier and feel heavier the following day.

·         Pretend as if you are a New Yorker. In a study conducted, comparing metropolitan people  versus suburb-ians (if you allow me), they have found out that those living in urban places tend to have lower BMI than of those who live in more laid-back environment like provinces and less stressful and fast-phase places. In addition to the study, lifestyle differences play a major key. People in urban tend to walk a lot, run and move a lot to avoid the traffic while people in suburbs tend to relax often and move less.

·         Spice up your life. Hot is always sexy, and this may imply true to this next claim. Did you know that by eating spicy food especially those with red pepper could actually help you lose weight of up to 278 calories?  Red pepper contains a substance called Capsaicin, which gives the fruit its pungency and spiciness; this is the same substance responsible for elevating metabolism and suppressing the appetite.

·         It is not yet clear whether our stomach actually feel satiated from solid food than of liquid even with the same calorie counts. However, in a study made, people who ate 260-calorie beverages tend to eat the same calorie content at their meal than those people who eat 260-calorie solid food who significantly reduces cravings at their actual meal. Therefore, this claim suggests that we must limit our caloric beverages.

·         It is important that you keep track of your weight everyday and it is proven more effective than of those who weight themselves a week after, you must buy yourself a good and accurate scale to give you a clear message of your true weight.

And there you have it. I hope this has significantly changed your perspective about losing weight. If you still want the good old fashion diet and exercise, it is your privilege but if you want to try something new like these six ways, it will be a new gained knowledge in your part. Remember, love life and live it well!

Hi friends! Lisa McGregor here. I am inviting everyone to join our online community of health enthusiasts and together let us all celebrate healthy living. Join hundreds who already experience and benefited from http://www.capsiplexusa.com or get your daily dose of healthy living guide and tips from me Lisa's blog "http://scooparazzi.typepad.com/blog/ 

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Can Low-Carbohydrate Burn Fat?

 

Researchers believe that dietary fat is not necessarily converted to body fat, however carbohydrate is readily converted to fat as  a process of insulin and most overweight people suffer from hyperinsulinemia which is cause by elevated level of insulin in the body due to over consumption of carbohydrates.

Insulin is a hormone that allows blood sugar to be use by the cells. When you eat a meal high in carbohydrates, the increased blood sugar stimulates insulin production by the pancreas and one of the side effects of this is producing hunger signals in the brain and depositing fat in the body.

When you practice eating too much carbohydrates, the body will become resistant to insulin, in this setting the pancreas has to work spontaneously to meet the high demand for insulin. According to some studies, this process caused harmful effects in human body such as premature aging.

If you limit the amount of carbohydrate you put inside the body, the level insulin will decrease and the glucogen, which is responsible for burning fat, will significantly increase.

If you completely restrict carbohydrate in your diet, the body will undergone a process called ketosis. In a manner like this, your blood sugar levels will stabilize, your insulin level will drop and there will be a subsequent production of ketone bodies in your bloodstream thus leads to weight loss.

When you want to reach the state of ketosis, you must restrict your carbohydrate of at least 30 grams a day, this can help you lose weight easily, however experts suggest that Ketogenic diet is not necessary to lose weight. For those who would prefer to have a higher amount of carbohydrate than needed then they must to limit their caloric intake to lose weight.

People with diabetes may vary their diet to their current weight. If a diabetic is skinny, it is not necessarily that they have to adopt the Ketogenic Diet but if a diabetic person is overweight, they must practice this diet to lose weight and stabilize their blood sugar level.

 It is always great to know that modern scientist come up with endless possibilities to address the issue in obesity with safe, effective and all-natural product. Read more about the latest Diet Trend ready to Captivate America only at  http://www/capsiplexusa.com

Children Obesity can be Reverse!

 

Overweight or obesity is the same problem for anyone who experiences it however, obesity to age group may differ in approach. Especially with children, addressing the problem of obesity to them may not only come from their interest and will power, parents and guidance must play a major role to help their youngsters to achieve a healthier life.

Children who experience obesity or being overweight may be prone to dental problem, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and even heart attack. They also tend to have a low self-esteem and resentful of their selves for not being able to have lots of friends and acceptance from their social environment, such as schools.

To address <a href=http://www.capsiplexusa.com/>weight loss <a> to these kids does not mean that you have to put them in restrictive diets. Parents and guidance must realize that their kids needed more than barbells and treadmills, what they really needed are a role model of which they can mimic a healthier lifestyle.

I always tell my clients that it’s never too early nor too late to start a healthy living practices, losing weight is not about fitting to the standards of others but it’s about fitting for life! Children who suffer obesity do not only experience the harsh reality of social acceptance but they are also at risks of many health problems that could occur early or later in life.

Parents must also learn to mind their habits; overweight parents may result to overweight kids. What you do to yourself is what you also do to your kids. You cannot say ‘son do not eat that pizza’ while you’re eating a whole box of it, you are the best trainer and also the worst example your children could have, so start doing what is best for you and for them!

Educate them about nutrition: what could be the best way to develop a healthy bonding between you and your child than to talk about healthy stuff. Learning healthy things together can help you both start the journey towards a healthy eating habit and fun exercise routines. As a parent, what you can do to help your kids to have a healthy options is to teach them about nutritional labels, teach them what they should look for in a packed food or if you have time, you can simply prepare him a healthy snack for the day.

Start counting calories: many adult find this very tedious and time consuming that is why no wonder our waistline is growing so fast as well. Calorie counting is important practice that a kid must learn. If they know the effect of every food they put in their body, they will be more aware and cautious of what they will eat.

Therefore, for parents, there is no better way to stop the Obesity in our country than to help our kids and ourselves about the right practices of <a href=http://www.capsiplexusa.com/< healthy living today<a>.  Proper education about portion control and exercise is the key to help us maintain a healthy and fit body.