Power EatingWritten by Carole Pagan
Power Eating By Carole Pagan © 2004 It's 11:30 a.m. You're in an important meeting. Your stomach growls so loud that speaker pauses to see just where that noise came from. You feel like crawling under table. You're trying to concentrate, but you feel weak. Unable to keep your mind on your work. You're antsy. All you can think about is lunch. Everyone piles down to restaurant. You are so starving, you order bacon cheeseburger with fries. And they have this great white chocolate cheesecake. Gotta try that! Back to meetings. An hour later, you can barely hold your eyes open. Have you had too many days like that? Here's a great formula for getting through marathon days in top shape. The night before a big day, eat - Spaghetti with tomato sauce Tossed salad Bread Lots of fluids (preferably water) And get enough sleep. For breakfast, eat- Cereal with 2% milk Banana Low Fat Yogurt Juice If possible, grab some fruit or a power bar to eat during morning
| | Calorie Burning 101Written by © Carole Pagan, 2004
You know formula for losing weight, right? Burn more than you take in. So say you're like me, and you eat an average of 2000 calories a day. Yep, I love my food. But I also have to eat that much just to maintain my weight. How heck can I burn all that off? First off, you burn calories just by gracing earth with your presence. That's right. Everything about you burns calories- breathing, heartbeat, digesting your food, even reading this article. You knew this was good for you, right? :) So what did you do today? Slept, say 7 hours- 420 calories Took a shower - 65 calories Ate Breakfast - 35 calories Drove an hour to work - 120 calories Ate Lunch - 35 calories Took a 20 minute walk - 90 calories Worked an office job all day - 800 calories Drove an hour home - 120 calories Stopped at grocery store - 70 calories Made dinner - 50 calories Washed dishes - 45 calories Cleaned a room - 70 calories Sat and vegged in front of TV - 2 hours - 150 calories You burned 2040 calories. In other words, you would maintain same weight you are at. 2000 in, 2000 out. But there is an extra 40 calories in burn column. If you were to keep that up, you would lose a pound in 88 days. Oh my gosh, did I hear some light bulbs going off? But Caaaarole, I didn't feeeeel like going to store and making dinner. I ran through McDonalds drive-thru
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