Good Food / Bad Food - What's Left to Eat?

Written by Kathryn Martyn, M.NLP


We've enteredrepparttar Twilight Zone when it comes torepparttar 115119 multitude of diets being promoted today. Starting withrepparttar 115120 Atkins Diet followed byrepparttar 115121 South Beach Diet, both higher in protein, lower in carbs, butrepparttar 115122 distinction should be on quality of carbs, not singling out one nutrient as "bad." If you are onrepparttar 115123 Atkins Diet or South Beach Diet simply adjust from eating low quality carbs like refined flour and highly refined sugar products (comes in a box, or ready-to-eat) to eating more whole food products like fresh vegetables and fruits, yes fruits.

Apples vs. Apple Jacks - You berepparttar 115124 Judge

I knowrepparttar 115125 traditional Atkins Diet (especially inrepparttar 115126 Induction phase) doesn't advocate much fruit (too high sugar, so they say) but think about that for one minute. My strong belief is that an apple is a good food, a bowl of Apple Jacks cereal may not be on an equal level. One is highly processed, sweetened by added white sugar and corn syrup, and one is natural, plucked from a tree and sweetened byrepparttar 115127 sun. Which would you choose? Don't shun fresh fruit forrepparttar 115128 sake of following your low carb diet torepparttar 115129 letter.

Eliminating healthy, wholesome foods is notrepparttar 115130 best way to learn to eat better, but severely cutting back onrepparttar 115131 frequency of eating highly processed foods is. I saw a site which called it GM or MM: God Made or Man Made. If you think of those terms when you go to choose your foods, it starts to make more sense. No one says you shouldn't eat chips, or whatever strikes your fancy, but make them a treat - and eatrepparttar 115132 GM foods more often.

Time forrepparttar 115133 Common Sense Diet

Common sense will answerrepparttar 115134 question about what to eat. If you are on Atkins, South Beach or any variation of low carb diet, avoid processed foods, not natural foods. Stop using "instant" breakfast, and cook whole rolled oats for instance. Sure you might have to get up 10 minutes earlier, oh well. You're worth it!

You can still stay on a higher protein food plan, but this one minor adjustment will allow you to continue with your eating plan for a lifetime, rather than a short-time. I'd go insane if I couldn't eat my daily apple, banana or other fruit. I love fruit. I think there's a very good reason humans desire sweet foods - Vitamin C, and other nutrients, including bioflavonoids.

Our love affair with hating exercise.

Written by Darryn Aldridge


We all have at one time or another muttered and cursed under our breath aboutrepparttar pain of having to exercise, yet deep down we all know that we must.

I mean, all of us know deep down (and for some it really is well hidden), that for us to live healthy lifestyles we really do need to be putting some sort of effort into making proper exercise a reality.

I’m afraid to say that liftingrepparttar 115118 remote controller offrepparttar 115119 coffee table to change channels, or rushing torepparttar 115120 toilet duringrepparttar 115121 ads after drinking 6 cans of beer whilerepparttar 115122 game airs, doesn’t really count for a lot!

So what makes one person leap out of bed inrepparttar 115123 early hours ofrepparttar 115124 morning to go for a run, while others roll over and snuggle deeper in their blankets telling themselves that tomorrow will berepparttar 115125 big day?

It comes down to focus.

What you focus on you will achieve. You see if we focus on allrepparttar 115126 reasons why we shouldn’t, or can’t be bothered to exercise, then we createrepparttar 115127 perfect environment to justify why we won’t, and we then end up not doing a thing.

We dream up great reasons for not doing things. We focus onrepparttar 115128 weather,repparttar 115129 time of day, our current physical condition, in fact we can find anything at all as a great reason not to do something. So what happens now becomes our next major hurdle. You see, we build on these excuses and as time goes by we really do start to believe them, and they start to become our reality.

Do you want to knowrepparttar 115130 truth?

I used to dorepparttar 115131 same thing for years on end. I would tell anyone who could be bothered to listen, that I just couldn’t run to save myself (I was conveniently forgetting that many other forms of exercise was available to me other than just running) and boy did it work for me! I did nothing for years, except put on weight and feel worse about myself.

Cont'd on page 2 ==>
 
ImproveHomeLife.com © 2005
Terms of Use