Weather the Holidays!

Cut 3,500 calories with smart holiday swaps

I have written before about how to make it through the Holidays while staying on track with your fitness program. How are you doing so far? The attached link that discusses tips for reducing calorie intake over the Holidays was timely for me and I hope that it is timely for you. There is no need to let the Holidays bring you down. Try the tips in the article and find that moderation is the key and having fun is what get you through.

Now this is balance that sounds good

Cutting carbs just 2 days a week can spur weight loss

If you have tried the no Carb diet or the low calorie diet, then you know that both diets can be boring and the lack of variety ends up short circuiting your plans. Now here comes a study that says that a mixture of diets can be effective. No carbs for two days and a moderate diet for the others and you can still lose weight. I hope that ther is not a fault in the research because this diet sounds too good to be true. At any rate, i think that I wil try it!

Learn How To Eat - Really

I  came across the following qoute from a Fitness expert:

The first lesson of proper nutrition is learning how to eat. We do this by sitting down, chewing, breathing, and focusing on our meal, not the TV or computer."

--Lance Breger, co-founder of the Infinity Wellness Foundation, as quoted by the Chicago Tribune

This is a very simple concept but does anyone really practice it?  With today's many options to keep us entertained, is it any wonder that we are not ever really concentrating on the actual act of eating.  Maybe there was a time when we sat around the table together and the focus was the meal but today it seems that those times are few and far between.  I am going to try to learn how to eat and see what happens, mybe you can try it to?