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How To Avoid The Freshman 15

Posted on May 18, 2010October 31, 2011 by floridav

There seems to be a reoccurring theme when it comes to entering into college freshman year. This trend is called the “Freshman 15”. The term “Freshman 15” refers to the weight gained during freshman year. This happens to many freshman college students that live on campus due to what they are offered in regards to food and of course because the cheapest food is almost always the most unhealthy. If not for that reason but they have a newly found freedom that allows them to eat more, drink more, and with hardly any exercise they can’t help but gain weight.

Luckily, there are ways to avoid all of the temptations but that comes with self awareness and self discipline.? Also, it is important that they learn to know and understand how their body processes the food and the changes that come with age. With age metabolism does change so while the student may have been able to eat as much as they would like when they were younger it does change when they get older. When they get into higher years, the students will learn how to take care of themselves better which will help them lose the weight they have gained.

Dodge the freshman 15 by having mini meals or tiny snacks every three hours. This will help to prevent overeating hence prevention of unhealthy weight gain. It does become a bit of a hard task to figure out how to eat healthy meals and actually keep up with exercising when there is such an intense schedule devoted to education, but it is completely possible to find the best way to do that for you specifically.

One way to avoid the weight gain is to actually look at what foods the dining hall provides. You could go get salad or you could find something that is not only a healthy choice but a more filling choice at that. It is important to consider the fatty extras and how much of them you pile on to your meals. Pick vegetables over the excessive cheese or meat. Keep in mind that even though their ranch dressing is absolutely delicious-it is also absolutely fatty!

When it comes to what is supposed to be on your dinner plate, there should be two thirds whole grains, vegetables, and fruits. Don’t forget that you can ask questions when it comes to the meals. Maybe there is too much butter or cheese, you can ask for something with less butter or less cheese for example.

We all know that there is no way to avoid some fatty food along the way. If you want to enjoy pizza late at night, maybe get something like a salad so that you fill up on salad and don’t eat too many slices of that fatty pizza. If you want to drink at night, don’t skip over meals to control your calorie and fat intake. Eat your meals so that alcohol doesn’t affect you more causing the need to overeat preventing the counter productiveness of not eating and then drinking.

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Focusing on what you love and staying healthy

Posted on May 18, 2010October 31, 2011 by floridav

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Their office is conveniently located just of Dr. Phillips at Much like when you are feeling pessimistic about anything you must look on the good side, if it is time to start eating healthier you must focus on the healthy foods that you absolutely love. This will help you devote your menu to healthier foods and in turn create a healthier you.

Many people go diet to diet without any long term success. This is why we need to focus more on the healthy foods. They are not all that bad and they are not all that distasteful. With so many options out there right now it is shocking that more people aren’t making the effort to change their diet.

There are ways to actually pay attention to things that we love and that is by finding new and exciting ways to make and enjoy them. If you love apples, make baked apples. If you love strawberries, make a delicious smoothie. Throw a banana in there for good measure and you have yourself a party of one.? Many people like chicken a lot and there are good ways and bad ways to eat chicken. Grilled chicken can be delicious if made just right and there are ways to find recipes to help with that.

Make it a fun time going through cookbooks and exploring all of the delicious foods you haven’t tried because we have all been to busy being addicted to trans fat and processed foods.? Other ways to have a good time is to be able to go out and explore. If you are into photography, that could make things a lot more easy to walk around for fifteen to twenty minutes a day taking pictures. Or maybe you could pick up a ball and play wall ball. Get that blood flowing and have a great time at it at that.

Finding the things that you love in life and concentrating on them can really help you succeed. Making things fun always makes things so much easier and we have learned that throughout growing up. That is why when we are in class we really like that Jeopardy game where we are learning everything we need to and being rewarded for it too.

There are so many fantastic recipes that you can make with the simple natural ingredients that fruits and vegetables provide. Whether you are making salads or fantastic meals with small introductions of manmade foods it doesn’t matter, as long as you are eating healthy. There are some fantastic super foods out there that are rich in vitamins and can help you with becoming much healthier. Think about all of those foods that you loved as a child. Many of them are “fruit flavored”. Why not keep it real and go for the good stuff? That is why it is there. That is why it is delicious and that will lead you on a fantastic road to healthy living in no time.

With these tips you will inevitably lose weight. Yes, it takes time but you can do so much with fruits and vegetables. Make your own flavored water with lemons. You can make your own smoothies, juices, soups, and so on! You hardly even need spices. Just go to town exploring! It’ll be worth it.

Eating or cheating?

Posted on May 16, 2010October 31, 2011 by floridav

Life happens. Yes, it does. Sometimes life just does not allow for perfect healthy eating all of the time. So, when you are on a diet and you end up eating that slice of pizza or Christmas dinner–don’t be too hard on yourself because it is just a part of life. So keep that in mind, but also keep in mind that even if you do end up slipping up you should just pick right back up where you left off. Don’t give up!

Many people begin to feel guilty if they skip a work out or end up eating something that is on their “do not eat” list. Many people feel like they have completely destroyed all of their work, but there is probably nothing more wrong than that. If you are one of those people, stop that! Stop feeling guilty and stop giving up! One fatty meal or skipped routine is not going to destroy everything you have worked so hard for, you just need to stop feeling so down on yourself and get back on track!

Yes, we do select structured diet plans and exercise programs. This helps us as many of us do have problems controlling ourselves, but it tends to be unrealistic if you think that you are going to be absolutely perfect throughout the whole entire diet. This is why so many people do not succeed on diets, because they feel like they failed when they didn’t. They were just doing what anyone else would have done and that is sleeping instead of exercising or eating pizza instead of salad one night because you were out with your friends. It is imperative to realize that you are not going to be able to eat diet food all of the time and it is natural to want to eat trashy food in moderation. Once you get that figured out, the easier life will be. Just have enough self control not to throw yourself into a whirlwind of overeating and sedentary lifestyles.

Plan for these temptations and stay positive through this healthy eating journey. Stay confident that even though you will have your treats, you will also be making yourself more healthy by having much less of them. There is no reason that an otherwise healthy person should completely cut out fatty foods, so don’t even try. The balance of healthy and not so healthy foods is what is most important.

This approach will make cheating null in void and that is the main goal of this article. Cheating would insinuate that you did something wrong and you didn’t. So take away all of that guilt and keep on living while working on your healthy eating and exercise habits. Avoiding complete deprivation of fatty foods will also prevent you from a potential binge that will negate a good portion of the progress you have made. Just let things flow the way that they should and you will have nothing to worry about.

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Eat Your Way to a Healthy Weight Loss

Posted on March 18, 2010October 31, 2011 by floridav

Here are 10 points to help you lose weight without going hungry.

1.Always eat breakfast. And by breakfast, I mean eggs. A randomized study last year at Louisiana State University showed that women who ate a breakfast of two eggs a day for five or more days a week for eight weeks lost 65% more weight than the women who had a bagel breakfast with juice, equaling the same amount of calories.? They also had an 83% greater reduction in waist circumference. That is just amazing. Don’t worry about cholesterol, either; their levels were tested and were not adversely affected.

Cut way back on starches. Nothing white. No white rice, potatoes, sugar, bread. Anything refined is not necessary to a healthy eating plan. Beans are a ‘good’ starch option, as are any whole grains.

Never skip a meal. In fact, you should be consuming 5-6 mini-meals a day. If you eat a healthy, balanced small meal every 3-4 hours, you will never go hungry. Hunger leads to binge eating. Since you are eating so frequently, your metabolism will be running effectively all the time.

Avoid fast food restaurants for the rest of your natural life. I’m not exaggerating. It is very difficult to walk into one of those places and get what you need. If for some reason there is no way around it, make sure you stick to your dietary guns and order the healthiest food you can.? Don’t be afraid to remove the buns and half of the burger and get happy in the lettuce, tomato and onion.

Drink a lot of water. Cut out all carbonated, sweetened beverages.

Stock up on fruits and vegetables. Schedule a weekend cutting session to create lots of handy, healthy snacks such as carrot slices, cucumber spears, broccoli heads, etc. Store in a bowl of water in the refrigerator, or investigate the containers that keep fresh produce fresh for longer periods of time.

If this is too overwhelming, introduce changes gradually. You could start out by keeping a water bottle with you at all times, refilling as often as necessary. Then the following week you can start with the min-meals, etc.

Cut out the salt. If you use table salt, stop. Find a salt alternative, such as Mrs. Dash.

Study balanced diets. If what you learn isn’t coming together for you, consult a dietician.

Don’t be afraid to eat something.? There is no bad food. Just remain moderate. One Hershey Kiss can ease your chocolate cravings. When you do indulge, savor it. Nibble, taste, enjoy.

Don’t be a slave to the numbers on the scale.? Remember, you’re shooting for healthy. Weight loss will follow. Just follow through with all your changes, and over time they will become your lifestyle.

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Avoid the Munchies for Healthy Weight Loss

Posted on March 18, 2010October 31, 2011 by floridav

There actually is simply one rule with regard to staying away from temptation. Plan in advance.

As an example, keep sliced vegetables and fruit available for snacking. If you become hungry when you are preparing dinner, munch on these instead of some potato chips or cookies. Take a baggie of them to work with you so that you will have them readily available for the journey home, or? you may end up pulling into some fast food place and buying what you truly don’t need.

Maintain a food diary, and learn how to spot your emotional triggers. Everyone has triggers which can set us off into a feeding frenzy. When you journal, you will be able to stop what is is sending you into this self-sabotage place.? After you have discovered it, you can do what’s required to prevent it. Stress-eating frequently plays a significant part in the derailment of healthy weight loss lifestyles.

Produce a strategy for coping with temptation. Give some thought to what your favorite dishes are, and prepare a batch, then freeze into individual servings. I’d recommend you do so when you’re not hungry, to ensure the food won’t tempt you. Now when temptation strikes, you’ll be able to defrost and eat a single serving and not blow your diet.

Two of the most damaging binges we can go on are feel good and sugar high binges. Feel good means we eat foods high in fat or sugar, which in turn releases endorphins or serotonin. Sugar high is when we binge on sugary foods and have a blood sugar ‘spike’. This is generally followed by a sugar low.

The bad news about both of these is when you get into the habit of creating either of the binge results, it’s quite difficult to get past it. It can be done, but it really takes significant amounts of self-discipline and hard work.

To begin with,? you will definitely have to begin a regular exercise program. This helps your body to release the endorphins it used to during the binge. Next, eat natural sugars as present in fruits. If you haven’t heard it before, I’ll say it now; diets don’t work. Never have, never will. This needs to be a complete lifestyle modification. And in the event that you discover you are eating for reasons apart from hunger, you will want to take a critical look at that. If you do not, you’ll just fail repeatedly as your mind knows the food issues continue to be unresolved.

Celebrate your success.? Set objectives and as soon as you’ve attained them, reward? yourself. If you are a reader, buy a book and write on the flyleaf ?To Me, in honor of 25 pounds lost? followed by the date. You can get a token engraved, just like alcoholics do for 30 days of sobriety. There are many things you can do to note the success, just give it some thought.

If you are not really a self-talker, now would be a great time for you to start. Go look in the mirror. Look yourself in the eye. Grin at yourself. Tell yourself you will do fine today, and only hold yourself responsible for today. And if you fail? Go look yourself in the mirror. Own it, and let it go. Tomorrow is another day.

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Category: Eating & Nutrition

How To Avoid The Freshman 15

Focusing on what you love and staying healthy

Eating or cheating?

Eat Your Way to a Healthy Weight Loss

Avoid the Munchies for Healthy Weight Loss

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