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Week 1 – Food Habits

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facebook_-1637640826I’m thinking I can take on a new habit in each of the following categories each week:

(1) Improve diet,

(2) Exercise,

(3) Take away stress.

  1. These are changes I plan to keep forever so I’m not taking them lightly.  I have given this alot of thought!

My Research:

Been reading about “The Lunch Box Diet“.  The main idea is to pack your lunch with low glycemic foods in three categories; (1) Carbohydrates with low glycemic loads (less than 10) which you need for energy, (2) Proteins (to build muscle among other things, and (3) Good fats.  You eat throughout the day when you get hungry.  You don’t eat until you are full, just until you are satisfied for now.  This is what’s called “grazing”.

There are certain foods to avoid:

  1. Granola-(It’s full of sugar and fat)
  2. Vegetable and sunflower oil-(Instead use olive and canola oil)
  3. White rice and pasta-(Because they cause your blood sugar to spike)

The idea is to eat a regular breakfast, “graze” on your stuffed lunch box all day, and finish up with a regular dinner.  Sounds doable to me.

Another suggestion is to avoid weighing yourself regularly. Yes, you may throw away your scales!  Weight fluctuates on a daily basis and it can be very discouraging if the scales don’t show weight loss or even show a gain.  The better way to gauge improvement is to measure your true waist.  In this way you can determine loss of the bad visceral fat around your belly that is packed around your organs.  Even slim built people can have this visceral fat without knowing it.

Visceral fat is deadly and is allowed to collect around the midsection when we have a high glycemic diet, get very little exercise especially aerobic type, and have stress building up with no relief.

The Lunch Box Diet takes the scientific information from the “Zone Diet” and puts it to work in a way people can easily use everyday.  With everyday type foods you choose for yourself.  Not special, complicated recipes with special foods.

 

 So…

Week 1 Habits

Diet

  1. Drink water whenever I think I need something to drink.  If that doesn’t satisfy my craving, I can go ahead and drink whatever  I wanted first.  (I’ve already switched to Diet Dr. Pepper and Diet Green Tea from Sonic.)
  2. Take my lunch box to work everyday full of good foods with low glycemic load (less than 10). And, avoiding foods with high glycemic loads (more than 20).

(Okay, that’s 2, but I’ve already been doing the water thing and it’s easy!)

Exercise

  1. Faithfully work the Best Horse program with Double Nickle

Stress

  1. Take 20 minutes to sit down and do NOTHING!  No thinking, planning, or reading  Just rest my brain.

 

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Okay so there it is.

I’m starting Friday.

 


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