Archive for February, 2009
Get Motivated to Lose Weight : Look at Before and After Pics
Well, my boyfriend and I are on our journey to lose all holiday related weight and thereupon some right now, and I just got a major boost of encouragement and a renewed sense of purpose by looking at some before and after pictures of regular folks who lost a lot of weight through sheer determination, a healthy diet, reduced calories, and exercise. considering all three of those I feel are needed for lengthy term health and associated weight stability, it truly is an inspiration that these society did that on their own and realized how much better they feel.
One story hit me particularly. It was about a woman who was in a relationship for several years and felt that she could eat whatever she wanted considering she was comfortable in the relationship and felt loved. Not that I don’t feel that being loved is a poor thing, but when we become complacent with a higher weight and compromised health considering we are happy and substance, that does present a problem for both parties.
That’s why I really love doing that with my boyfriend, I feel that we support eachother in our weight loss goals, and that we even have a friendly little “competition” going to see who can lose the most weight the fastest, who works out more, and so on and so forth. He’s a guy though, and men do tend to lose weight faster than women do, so he’s kicking my butt in that arena, I’m reluctant to confess. We’ve both lost a good amount of weight though within about one month. He’s dropped ten pounds and I’m working on dropping my eighth pound, and I feel much better, lighter and happier.
Looking at random before and after pictures of others who have done it makes you realize that although weight loss may be painful at first, you soon see and feel the benefits of eating healthier, exercising, and enjoying the side effects of losing weight. It additionally occurred to me that there is a “detox” period where you will most definitely be craving all that naughty food, nearly unbearably at times, but once you’re past that, it’s not that poor. plus, maintenance isn’t so poor considering you can reintroduce some of the foods you avoided like the plague when you were dieting hard core, you just can’t go crazy with them or you’ll find yourself in the weightloss candidate boat before you know it.
Original post by EatingToLive
My Favorite Lean Cuisines For Lunch
I have to confess, I am one of the most averse to the “teeny tiny” prepackaged meals that are avaiable in your grocer’s frozen section that I know. Every instance I had ever tried one of these frozen meals that are usually 300 calories or under, I thought, ok, now bring on the rest of the meal, considering that wasn’t an entree, that was an appetizer! But, now that I’ve seriously cut calories, and my live in boyfriend is on board too, we’ve started to really stock up on these easy lunches considering they’re tasty, they’re easy and fast, and they’re cost effective.
Plus, you’re not eating out and probably wasting by 700 calories on your lunch alone, and you can additionally supplement them with your own veggies for minimum calorie impact and added fiber. So yes, that one day skeptic has started to really enjoy these prepackaged mini meals! Let me give you an overview of the Lean Cuisine and Smart Ones meals that I like best.
The first one that is my absolute favorite, considering I love Mexican food, but know it’s really poor for me with all that sour cream and other sauces like guacamole and enchilada sauce. It’s the Lean Cuisine chicken enchiladas en sauza. It’s tiny of course, and it comes wrapped in a small corn enchilada warp, but it’s smothered in that really good white-ish sauce that has a tinge of green to it. It additionally comes with rice and beans, and a little bit of corn mixed in. It’s the perfect substitute for really being poor and going all out at a mexican restaurant whether you’re watching your calories.
Also, it only runs 270 calories, so I add fat free sour cream and additionally a bunch of salsa, which has no fat and hardly any calories, so I’m not starving afterwards. Second on my list is the Lasagna Florentine by Smart Ones. Delicious! It’s got veggies in it, and I add about two tablespoons of my own parmesan cheese to round out the calorie count a bit and add some more protein.
Also on my list is the swedish meatballs, and I plus love the Cheese Canelloni. I find that you can really dress these meals up in low fat, low cal ways, and whether you just steam some veggies and put butter spray on them, you’ve got yourself a filling, low calorie meal that makes you feel like you’re “being bad” when you really aren’t!
Original post by EatingToLive
Guide to End-of-Life Care
Years ago, dying patients in most communities often had a individual option whether they needed hospice care. Now they have a number of more; competition reigns. that is one crucial reason why a Brown University researcher and end-of-life expert has helped develop user-friendly guides for both doctors and patients about the best hospice care options in the marketplace……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Metabolite culprit for aggressive prostate cancer?
Scientists from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a panel of small molecules, or metabolites, that seem to indicate aggressive prostate cancer. The finding could lead to a simple pop quiz that would help doctors determine which prostate cancers are slow-growing and which require instant, aggressive therapy……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Peanut Products to Still Be Wary Of
With the ever expanding recall of peanut related food products, it’s no wonder that I got so paranoid last week that I threw out of a couple glass jars of Planters roasted peanuts. I remember my boyfriend complaining that he had eaten a few handfulls of them a couple of times and though it was odd that he had gastrointestinal discomfort and his stomach got huge and uncomfortable for hours afterwards, but we didn’t think anything of it at the duration considering it was about a month ago and none of the salmonella warnings had taken place yet.
I thought perhaps he had developed a peanut allergy of some sort, considering he said it happened to him both times he ate peanuts, and that still may be true, but I find it strange that it never happened when he ate peanuts before, particularly since we practically subsisted off of them when we were doing the low carb diet thing a couple years back and he didn’t have any issues.
Well, there are tons of products now on the salmonella peanut recall list, including candy bars, diet and nutrition bars, peanut butter, and most any other product that even has traces of the nuts in them. So far, six humans have died, and an untold number of citizens have been affected with salmonella poisoning, and the peanut plant that is blamed for the outbreak has apparently laid off most of it’s workers which made a peanut paste and manufactured the peanuts and shut down production.
It’s too poor that had to happen. Salmonella usually does not affect those that are in good health, but it can attack those that are younger and have not developed strong immune systems yet, and it can be particularly dangerous to the elderly.
Original post by EatingToLive
Pasta Sales Up In Devastated Economy
Uh-oh, that could spell trouble for America’s waistline! Pasta sales have picked up quite a bit from the economy being in shambles as of late. And who can blame citizens for loading up on that delectable stuff? I certainly know that whether I didn’t want to be consistently by my target weight, I’d eat the stuff every day - loaded with those fattening but yummy sauces that seems to be made of mostly butters and heavy creams.
But, since pasta is very fattening, particularly when eaten every day or in large quantities, due to it’s high glycemic index, little to no fiber composition, and the large amount of calories and carbs for the teeniest servings, I don’t indulge all that often these days since I’m trying to lose weight and soon after subsequently keep my weight under control.
Pasta sales which were frequently undermined by the low carb trends and glycemic index awareness (why is most of America still overweight soon after, I never did quite get that), have shot up about 5% from last year, which is quite impressive considering their relative demise by the past ten or so years.
This has additionally made the price of wheat, the base ingredient in pastas, to go up. Yep, it’s the same thing that you find in bread and lots of other products based on grains, so you can expect those prices to be impacted as well unfortunately. I hope that that doesn’t affect us too much, considering a lot of professional financial gurus are saying that with the depressed dollar and all the other financials going on right now we may get hit with ridiculous inflation here coming up soon as well, which is something that economy just does not need right now. Inflation usually means food prices go up too.
Pasta is such an easy to assemble product, and you can diversify it a lot, from your typical boxed macaroni and cheese to the more sophisticated uses of pasta, it’s cheap and very easy to compose - you just throw it in a boiling pot of water, wait a few minutes, and it’s done. The simplicity isn’t what’s selling it so much right now in that economic climate though, it’s mostly cost effectiveness.
Original post by EatingToLive
Reducing preterm births
New research that may explain why taking progesterone to prevent preterm birth is only effective for some women was unveiled today at the 29th Annual Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) meeting The Pregnancy Meeting. The drug, 17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone caproate (or 17P), a synthetic anatomy of the progesterone hormone naturally produced during pregnancy, has been demonstrated in clinical trials to prevent some recurrent preterm births but not all……..
Original post by Heather Craven
