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February 4th, 2012 | 
Author: The top super foods that everyone needs to start eating right way. This list is from the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
1. Sweet Potatoes (loaded with carotenoids, vitamins, potassium, and fiber)
2. Whole-grain bread (high in fiber and nutrients)
3. Broccoli (lots of vitamin C, carotenoids, and folic acid)
4. Watermelon (Good source of vitamin C and carotenoids)
5. Beans (low in fat and high in fiber)
6. Cantaloupe (lots of vitamin A and C)
7. Spinach and kale (tone of vitamins, minerals, and fiber)
8. Oranges (lots of vitamins and fiber)
9. Oatmeal (good amount of fiber, rich in the B complex) My suggestion is Steel Cut oatmeal.
10. Fat-free (skim) or 1% milk (This is the only one I do not agree with)
Take care of your health, it’s your responsibility.
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I thought you may find this list interesting, I know I did. This list is from the Center for Science in the Public Interest(CSPI).
The Top Ten Foods you should NEVER eat!
1. Packaged pie crusts. Loaded with artery-clogging hydrogenated vegetable shortening.
2. McDonalds Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips. No more healthful than Chicken McNuggets, 1500 mg of sodium and 11 grams of fat.
3. The Cheesecake Factory’s 6 carb cheesecake. Over 610 calories per serving and 29 grams of saturated fat.
4. Dove ice cream, 8-13 grams of saturated fat.
5. Mrs. Field’s cookies. One milk chocolate cookie has more than 300 calories and 6 teaspoons of sugar.
6. Starbucks Venti (20-ounce) Caffe Mocha with whipped cream. Almost as many calories as a Quarter Pounder with Cheese.
7. Burger King Quad Stacker. Do I even need to say anything?
8. Campbells Chunky, Select, and red-and-white-soup labels, more salt than the body knows what to do with.
9. Chipotle Chicken Burrito. 1,180 calories and 19 grams of saturated fat.
10. Haagen-Daz Mint Chip Dazzler (three scopes of ice cream, hot fudge, Oreos, chocolate sprinkles, and whipped cream), 1270 calories and 38 grams of saturated fat.
Keep it healthy. Your body and mind will thank you.
This In home gym series workout demonstrates how to exercise the back, legs, and biceps with resistance bands. You can do this whole workout in under 5 minutes.
In Home Gym Series Video: Back, legs, and biceps.
Here is another scenario that I see:
They are the maniac training. Train hard, 5 to 7 days a week, eat healthy, but it still does not seem to lose an additional 10-20 pounds. I do not understand. My friends say you're crazy year, but you will know that you could look better.
With my diet program, we look at your current diet and see where they go wrong. This is the date of nutrients. I'll be your BMR (basal metabolic rate) and calculate the calories you should look at this, and then design a nutrition program that shows you the calories you need for your hard earned muscle, lose excess fat and opened in the summer.
You decide you are going to start a healthy eating plan, on Monday. The whole weekend you ‘let yourself go’, knowing that you are going to ‘start on Monday’. Monday comes, you do really well for the first part of the day, but you have a horrible headache and you are really sluggish. You stick it out, snacking on your carrot sticks and celery. By the time you get home, you are famished. Even though you know you should make a salad, you decide to have a little bite of your kids mac and cheese. The bite turns into a big bowl. Since you blew it already, you decide to have dessert too. You feel guilty, and decide to start again in the morning. You do great the next day, eating very few calories, are famished by the time you get home, and the same thing happens.
In this scenario, you are starving your body during the day, which slows your metabolism. Then at night, you gorge because you are so hungry, and your body is not using those calories, so you STORE them!! Right on your bootie or your belly. And until you kick this bad habit, you will continue to slow down your metabolism and store the extra calories as fat.
Contact me today to get you started on a your own personal training regimen and proper nutrition program to lose fat, gain muscle, and not starve to death! LizFitness@gmail.com.
Are you starved for time? You don’t have the time to make healthy meals, so you just get whatever is quickest for you and your family?
Here is a scenario I hear from the time starved:
You decide you are going to start a healthy eating plan. You do really well for the entire week, and you’re feeling pretty good. The weekend comes, things get hectic, and you don’t have the time to making something healthy, so you get pizza for the family and enjoy several slices. Sunday night is Chinese food. By Monday, your energy is gone, and you begin the same old pattern of work, easy fast food for the family, relaxing on the couch (because you are too tired to do anything else), then bed.
This scenario is a viscous cycle. In short, when you’ve been eating crap, your body has to process it all and filter it. This makes you tired and groggy. Then you don’t have the energy to make healthy meals. So you eat some more, fast, easy crap. Then you sit on the couch and the crap food turns into fat deposits that your body stores for later (on your hips, thighs, and belly). Then you feel like crap, because you’re fat. So you decide to start a diet again. The cycle continues.
This cycle is wreaking havoc on your metabolism. Taking control and learning new habit’s will take just 21 days. With my 4 week diet plan, you will get 16 meals that you can make in advance for your family to enjoy. Yes, you can still have Pizza on the weekend! The Liz Fitness Nutrition healthy eating -program will help you take control of your food so that you will have energy and not feel like a slug at the end of the day.
Losing weight is tough. Here is one of the scenarios I hear all of the time:
You try a new diet for two weeks, and it works! You lose the weight you want to lose! You’re feeling pretty good about yourself, and you let yourself slip a little at the weekend BBQ. It continues through the week, and a couple of weeks from now, your right back to where you started and your jeans are making your butt look big again.
You see other people at the weekend BBQ who seem to be pigging out, but they look great. You wonder why you can’t do that. You think maybe they are just blessed with a high metabolism.
That’s probably not the case. The truth is they have figured out how to turn on their metabolism, so that the occasional weekend pig-out session won’t harm them. They don’t do fad diets. In fact, they probably eat all the time.
It’s simple, really. I can help you get started. It takes 21 days to make or break a habit. Let me help you can begin good habits, drop the bad ones, and turn on your metabolism. And soon, you can be one of those annoying ‘lucky ones’ with the fast metabolism.
