Posts Tagged ‘healthy lifesytle’
Mindful Eating for Weight Loss
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
It's that time of year when our favorite holiday dinners, parties, and treats beckon. Use Donate Your Weight Strategy #1: Bite, chew swallow, wait and Strategy #2: Leave a little food on your plate...to support your healthy lifestyle and weight management goals throughout the year.
ABC news has a brief video on Mindful Eating and resulting weight loss. For more click here
Stop Overeating Now – 10 Simple Strategies
Thursday, December 8th, 2011
Do you find yourself struggling to stay on track with your eating and weight loss goals? Give these 10 simple strategies a try:
1. Forgive Yourself
Get off the “I already blew it so I might as well eat everything in the kitchen” mentality. Let go of judgment. Regardless of how much you ate, eating more is not the solution. Put down the food. Walk away, take a deep breath. Tell yourself, “I always do the best I can. I forgive myself and let go.”
2. Eat small meals every 3-5 hours
Eating regularly helps prevent low blood sugar or severe drops in your energy level. It also decreases temptation to choose quick, “pick me up” foods and keeps your metabolism revved up.
3. Drink Something or Chew Gum First
Sometimes habitual eaters mistake feelings of hunger for the need to drink something or chew something. If you take a pause to drink or chew gum, it could help save you from unnecessary eating and the resulting fat storage.
4. No More Fad Diets or Starvation!
Fad diets and starvation lead to the Deprivation Response which means you want more and more of whatever if is you’re not supposed to have. Take all foods out of jail and allow yourself a wide variety. This will help insure long-term, stress-free success and a healthy, active metabolism.
5. Surrender to Your Cravings from Time to Time
No really, you can do it. It’s not reasonable to expect yourself to NEVER eat sweets or fats. Moderation is the key to long-term success. Occasionally check in with yourself and ask, “what do I REALLY want?” Fully enjoy your favorites. Eat slowly, chew throughly, savor the flavor and the freedom of allowing yourself to eat a variety of foods.
6. Focus on Quality, Not Quantity
Settle for nothing less than the best when possible. A high-quality, fresh, homemade meal is satisfying on more levels than a frozen meal you heat in the microwave. The increased satisfaction you experience will help curb your tendency to want more, more, more.
7. Slow Down …Come Up for Air
Chew slowly, put your utensil down between bites. Swallow completely before taking your next bite. Have a slow contest. . Count to 10. Read something or say the following affirmation between bites: “I love to linger over every bite. I savor the flavor.”
8. Don’t Forget the Rest of Your Physical Needs
Some of us use food as a all-in-one cure for exhaustion, sadness, anger, thirst, boredom and more. Your body needs more than food. It also needs sleep (at least 6-8 hours a day) and exercise. Don’t forget to indulge your other senses besides taste such as sight, sound, smell and touch. Look at art or nature, listen to music, light a scented candle or get a massage. Your craving to eat when you’re not hungry may be related to deprivation in other areas of your life.
9. Reclaim Your “Me” Time
Is there a hobby you left in the garage? Dust off your tools and dig in the dirt. A little time alone or engaged in your favorite pastime can be so fulfilling that you actually forget about food. It’s almost impossible to engage in hobbies like gardening, crocheting, graphic design, sewing or writing and eat at the same time because your hands are too busy and you wouldn’t want to get dirt on your food or put your greasy fingers all over your project…would you?
10. Stay Away From the Scale
The metal monster called the scale has incited many a food frenzy. Be it the celebratory “I lost weight, I’m going to treat myself” or the perfectionistic punishment of “I didn’t lose (or I gained) so what’s the point?” Most of us can rarely remain neutral or objective when it comes to those numbers on the scale. Take your power away from the scale. Throw it out the window or sell it at a garage sale. It’s not your friend!
Following these 10 Strategies in your life will help you make dramatic changes in your body image and self-esteem. For added support, try the Donate Your Weight Program. It combines hypnosis, behavior-modification, self-talk and more to help you create a life free from diets. Remember, restrictive diets don’t work but that doesn’t mean you have to be overweight check out the Donate Your Weight Program today.
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Sheri O. Zampelli, M.S., CCH is the author of Donate Your Weight and developer of the Donate Your Weight Program. For details, visit www.donateyourweight.com
Earthy Ratatouille
Friday, April 8th, 2011
I love finding ways to make vegatables delicious. Here's another great recipe!
Provence Gastronomy - Recipes
Recipe (12 servings; makes about 4.5 litres)
1.6 kg tomato [tomate]
700 g eggplant (2) [aubergine]
500 g zucchini (2) [courgette]
700 g bell pepper (2-3) [poivron]
1 kg onion [oignon] 6 cloves garlic [ail]
Herbes de Provence (basilic,thyme, parsley)
olive oil [huile d'olive]
salt, pepper [sel, poivre]
140 g tomato paste
1. Peel and drain the tomatoes (don't mind the seeds): cut out the stem cores; drop the whole tomatoes into boiling water for 2 minutes. Remove into a collander. The skin should split for easy removal; otherwise, make an X cut in the top, then peel off the skin.
2. Chop the onion and garlic. Clean the bell pepper, cut into small strips.
3. In a large cooking pot with thick bottom, put in olive oil, onions and chopped garlic. Add in the bell pepper. Cover to keep in the moisture.
4. Add the peeled tomatoes and herbs de Provence. If you don't have good garden tomatoes with flavor, add a small can of tomato paste. Stir well and cook for another 15 minutes.
5. Cut the eggplant into rondelles. Cut the un-peeled zucchini into rondelles.
6. Add the eggplant and zucchini to the pot. Cook for about 30 minutes.
Donna Schilder, PCC
The Happy Living Coach
www.TheHappyLivingCoach.com
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Spring Salad with Strawberries and Balsamic Vinegar
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Tonight's dinner was not only tangy and robust, it was a visual treat. This is one of my favorite salads. I get all the ingredients at Costco so sometimes, after a Costco run I will eat it every night.
Ingredients are:
Spring salad mix
Sliced strawberries
Crumbled goat cheese
Sliced walnuts
Kirkland Balsamic Vinegar
Kirkland Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Dash of ground pepper
Adjust ingredient amounts to suit your taste and health needs. Lip smacking, taste bud tinglin' good.
Free “Healthy Lifestyle” Membership Forums Launched Today
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
For the past few weeks I've been posting the Donate Your Weight Podcast in this blog because I thought some of the readers might be interested in listening.
The podcast is about loving your body, breaking free from diets and diet mentality and being liberated from food and body obsession so you can live your life in peace, happiness and contentment.
If you'd like to find out more about the podcast, you can subscribe for free in iTunes
Also, if you want to join the Donate Your Weight Community, we've moved to Facebook. Come and join us by clicking on the "like" button. Playlist for Gal VanIZed Skating
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
When something is galvanized, it is reinforced and powerful. The following songs made it easy for me to get in the zone. Easy to crouch down low and thrust my legs out to each side of me while my arms pumped back and forth in the opposite direction.
I wound down from my skating workout listening to Get a Shot of the Refrigerator by Stereolab off of Fab Four Suture. My cool down consisted of the "drunken sailor" drill all the way down First Street and up Orizaba to Broadway. Drunken sailor is when you cross one leg over the other and try to keep moving forward without falling down.
Prior to cool down I skated and danced my little heart out on the Long Beach Boardwalk listening to the following tunes: (all links go to iTunes)
Banquet by Bloc Party off of Promo Only Canada Modern Rock Radio
Tuning In by Groove Armada off of Love Box [UK]
Home of the Brave by Naked Raygun off of All Rise
Halfway Home (feat. Blackalicious) by DJ Shadow off In Tune and On Time
Potential Rapist by Naked Raygun off Basement Screams
Looking Down the Barrell of a Gun by The Beastie Boys of of Paul's Boutique
Yeah by the Heavy Off the Richter compilation
The Girls Say by Groove Armada off Soundboy Rock




