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Sugarcoated Lies
“It is not good to eat much honey.” – Proverbs 25:27 Sugar, sweeteners, and sugar substitutes. Touchy topic. Still, it can be agreed that we all consume way too much of these things. But why is sugar so bad for us? Did you know that sugar is as addicting as drugs and alcohol? Studies have suggested that it is as addicting as cocaine. If you don’t believe that to be possible, you should know that some addiction centers have actually extended their hotline to help people who suffer from sugar addiction or withdrawal symptoms. But that’s not all. Excessive sugar affects the way your body understands hunger. Your body can’t…
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Inactivity & Idleness
Do you know what one of the biggest causes of weight gain is? Inactivity! But why is it that when people want to lose weight, they seem to only focus on the diet aspect? We SIT here and watch the world become more and more overweight and obese, and we all want to blame the food industry. Fast food, processed foods, growth hormones, excess sugar – yeah, those are the culprits. But if we give those up, why are we still seeming to have trouble losing weight? Because we are becoming more and more lazy! Everything has become so convenient. We don’t even have to physically move our bodies to…
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Are You Feeding Your Problems?
Are you afraid of your food? How many of us have tried “diets” time and time again only to end up going back to binging on junk? Ignorance is bliss right? Sure, we know we shouldn’t eat junk, but if we don’t know the real reason why we shouldn’t, what’s really stopping us? If someone in the 1950’s said don’t smoke, nobody would listen. If someone said don’t smoke because smoking has been proven to kill you. Big change right? How It Affected Me When the doctors first told me weight loss helps keep IH under control, I didn’t pay it much mind because I wasn’t overweight. When the doctors…
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Breakfast
I don’t know about you, but I find that once I make a bad decision in my day, I’m more likely to keep making bad decisions. If I start my day off with a frozen waffle, I’m more likely to skip my workout and call it a lazy TV watching day. I’m more likely to continue eating junk food because I’ve already screwed up once. The key is to start your morning off on the right foot. I’m a firm believer in breakfast being the most important meal of the day. Make it count. Odds are, you currently skip breakfast most mornings. No, a coffee flavored beverage does not count…
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Get Active & Stay Active
Here’s the truth, I’m not a fitness trainer. Exercise has never been a passion of mine the way that nutrition is. But I understand the importance of it. I understand that it is necessary for our bodies to stay active, so I live by Sir Isaac’s First Law: An object in motion tends to stay in motion. An object at rest tends to stay at rest. So if there is one thing you need to know about keeping your body in shape, it’s this: one way or another, stay active. Now, I can only assume you are starting off where I started, the beginning. My Fitness Journey Actually, I might…
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Don’t Go on a Diet
Gained a few pounds? Losing some confidence? Or maybe there’s just a few bad habits and a little extra flab you’d like to nix. I can help with that. And odds are, my approach will be easier than you think (and likely easier on your wallet.) When it comes to diet, where do you even begin? I mean who doesn’t love talking about food? Since it’s almost impossible to get down to the very basis of our diet, we will be taking this one step at a time. Which is ok because in order for something to stick, you need to build up the right habits. You need to start…
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The Foundation of Health
Ask any professional or health guru in the world, and they will all tell you the same thing: a healthy body all begins with proper diet and exercise. In case you misunderstood, I said both proper diet and exercise! The two go hand in hand. Look at any weight loss pill, and you will see the fine print that it works at its best with proper diet and exercise. Well of course it does! Because anyone wanting a healthier version of themselves can only achieve it in that manner. Now that the fundamentals are out of the way, I would like to share with you my own take on what…
