Do not let one unhealthy meal affect your lifestyle

Once in a while, everyone will eat something unhealthy or overeat, this is normal. What's not normal is to make it a trend. Every time you think of that unhealthy meal or couple of meals, just remember, this can be a drop in a bucket if compared to your eating habits in the whole year. Go ahead & grab some cucumbers or carrots & eat them & you will start getting back to your new balanced, natural, and moderation lifestyle.

Watch less TV to loose weight!!

Watching TV less has helped me burn more calories because most of the activities that you would do would help burn more calories that watching TV.

If you weight 200 lbs & watch TV for 10 minutes you only burn about 16 calories, if you do gardening work, you burn 65 calories in the same amount of time !!

Check out this link for some more useful information about how many calories you burn when you do some activities:
http://k2.kirtland.cc.mi.us/~balbachl/calorie.htm

How my 1.5 year old taught me to loose weight

My 1.5 yr old daughter taught me how to loose weight by refusing to eat & being so active. This is keeping her in the 25% percentile or below on the weight scale as compared to other children her age. Here goes your diet; just do like my daughter: eat less and exercise more.

Hold on, I forgot to mention, if you wonder what fills her up: water, she drinks water all the time & this makes her not hungry. I am trying her techniques right now & it seems to work !!

Exercise is part of the balance

We will not be able to achieve complete balance in the diet without adopting a regular exercise routine. Being overweight, it's very understandable that you will not be able to exercise because you feel heavy or low energy, etc. But, you could start with the following schedule:
- Once/week for the first 3 weeks
- Twice/week for the next 5 weeks
- Then select your ideal frequency & stick with it.

The following exercises will help you without putting much strain on your knee if this is an issue for you like most overweight individuals (in the order of least strenous on the knee)
- Swimming
- Elliptical
- Biking
- Walking

Please feel free to post your comments or send me an email with your before pictures, I will keep them for you & then once you loose the weight, I will post them on this blog.

Good luck.

2 reasons why eating breakfast is critical for successfull balanced diet

Eating breakfast everyday has the following benefits:
1 . Boosts your metabolism, you will find yourself more productive & have more energy
2 . This will help you not to overeat on the next meal because you starved yourself in the morning, which would most likely mess your balanced diet.

If you are - like me - not very excited about breakfast, get yourself something quick like a granola bar or a handfull of dried fruits, the important thing is to get those early morning calories for your body to be able to function properly and in a balanced way.