Showing posts with label nutrition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nutrition. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

A Change of venue and being your own ally in the battle of the bulge

Hi all,

The MisterGoodBuy Health Spot will change venue a little and now focus primarily on diet and nutrition. This will be a little more focused than a general health and fitness topic. My other blog http://mistergoodbuy.wordpress.com will continue to focus on my daily fitness journal.

So let's talk a little about diet and nutrition as it relates to staying healthy and getting in shape. My son is battling the battle of the bulge and seems to think he can literally have his exercise and eat his cake too! (LOL, I normally don't laugh at my own jokes, but wasn't that a good one?) Anyway... in getting in shape, we need to become our own best allies and not work against our training by packing in calories.

I think one discipline to master is what we eat between meals. Those little nibbles between meals add up to a lot of calories and they prevent true digestion of preingested food, i.e, your breakfast, lunch, or dinner. I tell my son, eat a satisfying breakfast, lunch, or dinner... have your fill and then stop eating!!! This is a unwelcome counsel and a hard lesson for him to learn. Especially, since Dad gets away with regularly breaking this rule and stays so slim. What can I say, some of us who are very active got it like that.

But still I think all of us can benefit by eating healthy satisfying meals three square per day and avoiding the mostly junk foods we eat in between.

Keep up the good work!

Lew aka mistergoodbuy

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

New Health-2-Fitness website

3 Simple ways to vastly improve your health and fitness

Read my brief life story: http://www.health-2-fitness.com

Hi I am Lewis Jackson and I am an avid health and fitness enthusiast. As a youngster, I had a very active lifestyle. My Dad played college football and later became a marathon runner. I literally followed in his footsteps and ran numerous 10ks, half marathons, and marathons. I continued to run through college, but after I got married and built a family, I began to slow down. Health problems involving my teeth contributed to my demise.

However, I fought back and refused to succumb to the damages of a sedentary lifestyle. The importance of exercise, nutrition, and proper rest are now more important in my life than ever. This website shares the resources I’ve found to be most helpful on my road to recovery.

I’ve found regular exercise of 30 minutes or more each day is very important to maintaining physical conditioning. It should not be underestimated in its ability to maintain the circulatory, respiratory, and skeletal systems of the body. We look in the mirror and its hard to detect the body wasting away through atrophy from the inside out. When symptoms of disease or damage occur, it is often too late to affect full recovery. The best health 2 fitness medicine is prevention, even if it is only mild walking each day for half an hour.

Nutrition was something I cheated on as a youth. I loved McDonalds, Burger King, and other processed foods and sugary drinks. My first wake up call was when I learned that many sodas contain up to nine teaspoons of sugar– not to mention the other chemical additives and acids. Even many supermarket foods you buy are heavily processed and contain toxins and synthetics. The nutrition links found on this page will provide alternative food sources that will help rebuild and vitalize your health and fitness from the inside out.

Finally, proper rest and sleep is paramount for full recovery and recuperation from each day’s rigors. You should schedule time for eight hours of sleep each night. Take catnaps to lessen stress on the body during the day. Maintain a positive outlook by feeding your mind and heart positive sources of motivation. It is also important to avoid emotional upheavals and drama in your life. Try to avoid allowing responsibilities to pile up, be proactive, keep life simple, and stay organized.

The three areas, exercise, nutrition, and proper rest, I briefly discussed above are part of what I call my well-being triangle. I hope my brief health and fitness tips have been helpful to you.