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This week’s question is as follows:
I’ve already planned to run 2miles and walk 2miles a day.
I don’t drink pop so thats a good thing.
So.. Any suggestions?
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We’ve had a reader question come in on the subject of diet tips. Let’s take a look:
What a great diet tips question:
What a great diet tips question:
First you need a plan. You need to have a clear goal of why you want to lose weight, how much weight you want to lose and when you want to have lost the weight. The wehn part needs to be realistic, however. So lets say you have something coing up ion a few months, then challenge yourself to lose say 20 pounds by August, if this event was in August. Then you need to plan out smaller goals to help you get to that such as eating healthy for a week and exercising for 5 days in a week. These small goals will make you feel great and help you get closer to your big goal. You also need to plan your days and plan your meals. Everyday have a game plan of what you will eat and at what time. Make sure to eat 6 meals a day with no more than 3 hours between each meal. Then plan out what meals making sure they are balnaced meals. You want lots of veggies and fruit, but you also want lean meats and whole wheat carbs. Once you get that, purge your kitchen of all distractions, either donate the bad food or throw it out. The stock up on good foods and get going.
For your exercise, you can also do things such as walking or running for your cardio. The point of cardio is to get your heart rate up so you want to do something that will do that for you. The jump rope is good, but jump ropes work better for circuit training when you combine cardio with strength. If you want to do circuit training, just google it and you will get tons of ideas from people like Jillian Michaels. However, one piece that was missing from all of this was strength. You need to get some weights and devote at least 2 days a week to strength training and 3 days to cardio. You should not really exceed 30 minutes for your daily exercises, especially if you do it 5 times a week. Doing more than that is counter productive. So with the weights, just go to the store and do bicep curls with a weight. If you can do 10 reps and feel tired, that is a good weight. If you do more or less than 10 reps that is a bad weight. You may also want to get an exercise ball because these things come with exercises you can do and some come with dvds showing you how to do them. These balls are great for your stomach muscles. As far as strength exercises go, there are tons of them you can do so I would suggest just looking at that up online.
Finally, set a start date for this and get to it. Stop thinking and just take the plunge. Good luck.
Keep the diet tips questions coming! I liked this one:
This week’s question is a good one. Let’s have a look:
instead of juice or coke, drink water.
and make sure you get protein (meats), and fruits and veggies, and carbs (bread, pasta, etc) because if you don’t, you’ll kill your metabolism.
for meat, make sure its always lean meat. stay away from pork, unless it’s lean, because usually pork is pretty fattening. chicken is good if it’s grilled instead of fried. and steak is really good for you.
for fruits and veggies, eat basically whatever you want, but put low-fat sauce or no sauce on them.
for carbs, you dont want to eat too many a day… so whole wheat bread, rice cakes, whole wheat pasta etc, are good.
for SNACKS. (mmmm, snacks)
fruits, veggies, rice cakes (good with salt and pepper), fat free yogurt, protein smoothies, corn chips and salsa (look for the healthy choice ones)…
are some of my favourites.
i hope this helps and good luck! (:
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