Eat This Not That!  - Don’t let winter make you FAT!

Ok biggest loser fans the Holidays are hear and so is the COLD weather.  Following the words of Biggest Loser fitness trainer BOB,” Don’t let the winter weather make you fat.” Eat This, Not That!  This and make good choices when deciding what to eat.

Just today I found myself reaching for a big bowl of Cheese Broccoli soup. Sounds good doesn’t it?  It was great at the moment but needless to say not the best choice for healthy alternatives at lunch. At that moment I realized I started to fall into my normal winter habits, warm foods full of FAT….

Did you know the average serving of Cheese Broccoli soup contains 140 calories with 64% of those calories from FAT, that’s right in addition that little ½ cup serving was loaded with 10 grams of FAT.

If you’re like most Americans, on Thanks giving alone you will consume around 4,500 calories in one day.  This is more then double the average Americans daily calorie intake.   What makes that worse is that during the winter months and especially around the Holidays you will eat an average of 600 more calories per day then you do during other times of year.  Simply stated before you know it you could pack on an additional 6 – 10 pounds by January. That is if you aren’t aware of what you are eating.

I’ll skip the rest of the diet lecture and instead gave you this quick trendy tip pick up a copy of, Eat This, Not That! Simply stated it helps you find healthier alternatives to some of the old staples you might be thinking of putting in your mouth this time of year.

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The Facts on Acai Berries and Green Tea Helping with Weight Loss:

Harvested by Brazilians for hundreds of years as a food staple and for their rejuvenating and detoxifying properties, Acai berries (fruit of Amazonian Acai Palms) have been all over the media, from articles in fitness magazines to features on popular television programs like 0prah and the Today show, and thousands of people all over the world say that Acai berry products help them live a healthier life that is full of energy and vitality.

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No. 1: Açaí

Nature’s Energy Fruit

It may seem odd to start this list of superfoods with one you’ve likely never even heard of. But studies have shown that this little berry is one of the most nutritious and powerful foods in the world! Açaí (ah-sigh-ee) is the high-energy berry of a special Amazon palm tree. Harvested in the rainforests of Brazil, açaí tastes like a vibrant blend of berries and chocolate. Hidden within its royal purple pigment is the magic that makes it nature’s perfect energy fruit. Açaí is packed full of antioxidants, amino acids and essential fatty acids. Although açaí may not be available in your local supermarket, you can find it in several health food and gourmet stores (often in juice form). A new product featuring the unsweetened pulp is now also available, and I highly recommend that you choose this form of açaí.

Açaí pulp contains:

• A remarkable concentration of antioxidants that help combat premature aging, with 10 times more antioxidants than red grapes and 10 to 30 times the anthocyanins of red wine.
• A synergy of monounsaturated (healthy) fats, dietary fiber and phytosterols to help promote cardiovascular and digestive health.
• An almost perfect essential amino acid complex in conjunction with valuable trace minerals, vital to proper muscle contraction and regeneration.

The fatty acid content in açaí resembles that of olive oil, and is rich in monounsaturated oleic acid. Oleic acid is important for a number of reasons. It helps omega-3 fish oils penetrate the cell membrane; together they help make cell membranes more supple. By keeping the cell membrane supple, all hormones, neurotransmitter and insulin receptors function more efficiently. This is particularly important because high insulin levels create an inflammatory state, and we know, inflammation causes aging.

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Hoodia

Hoodia gordonii is awfully popular diet aid that is sweeping the nation in popularity. This plant grows in Kalahari Desert of South Africa and is customarily mistaken as cactus, but the reality is it is a tender plant. The plant matures after about four to seven years. They conducted few tests and they found out that it has active ingredient which they called p57. They called it that since it was their 57th project that time. Phytopharm was the first company that acquired the rights of Hoodia.
Yes, there are plenty of different diet tablets out there and each claim that they can make you shed the pounds but nothing beats Hoodia gordonii since this works by fooling you in to feeling that you are full without eating at all. It can even boost your metabolism; all these can make you shed pounds. You never know, those fake products can be damaging to your wellbeing. For you to get the genuine one, you should buy with a credible company. Take a look at the company if it’s been in the business for long time and has satisfied tons of clients. There are plenty of company that offer this diet tablet, you can do a little research and find the one that is credible enough to reassure you that you will get real ones. Yes, you have to spend small effort and time in finding the right company and real Hoodia, but it is worthwhile in time, since the genuine ones can effectively make you shed the pounds. It might not be that straightforward but you can do it slowly. You can change your habits few steps at a time. You have to eat healthy foods and drink tons of water. Just make efforts to select the one that may make you enjoy.

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So my simple story starts with a cup of coffee, well OK about 5 cups a day but it wasn’t killing me, right???? No, but it was.  It was making a big impact on the amount of water I was drinking in a day and that was killing my desire to drink the right amount of water in the day.  

If you thought that drinking water wasn’t an intrigue part of your weight loss, think again. I always knew how important diet and exercise were to my weight loss, but never thought about the importance of hydration? So when I started to do some research on the best ways to improve weight loss I was amazed at how much damage I was doing by drinking my daily fix of caffeine.   

In fact did you know that if you drink coffee or other heavily caffeinated drinks such as Coke or Pepsi you should add an extra glass of water for every glass you have. Needless to say I was doing the opposite of what I needed to do to improve my weight loss and something needed to change.  The average person needs to drink about 64oz of water a day to sustain healthy hydration levels.  Even more important you need to keep things like hotter times of year, exercise and other activities may also increase your need for additional water intake.  Additional perspiration produced from these activities helps keep your body temperature constant and you need to replace the water you have used 

When it comes to Hydration and weight loss you have to keep it basic the more you move the more water your body craves to keep hydrated. Beware, we’ve all heard the scary stories of death by an over intake of water. Water intoxications otherwise known as hyper hydration or water poisoning is a potentially fatal disturbance in brain functions that results when the normal balance of electrolytes in the body is pushed outside of safe limits by over-consumption of water.^[1] Normal, healthy (both physically and nutritionally) individuals have little to worry about accidentally consuming too much water. Nearly all deaths related to water intoxication in normal individuals have resulted either from water drinking contests, in which individuals attempt to consume more than 10 liters (3 gallons) of water over the course of just a few minutes, or long bouts of intensive exercise during which electrolytes are not properly replenished, yet massive amounts of fluid are still consumed.  Symptoms of too much water are: dizziness, nausea, apathy, vomiting, and confusion many of the same symptoms will occur as dehydration so you need to be aware of how much you are actually drinking. 

• Be creative, you don’t need to get your daily water intake from drinking actual water.  Your body water intake can come from other dietary intake like fruits and vegetables. I have found an easy way to keep an eye on my water consumption is to carry a water bottle.  I try to spread out my water intake throughout the day and always drink an 8 ounce serving about 30 minutes before any meal. Not only does it help to hit my daily water serving quota but it also helps me to reduce my hunger before sitting down.  Sounds weird but it has been the perfect answer for me to help with over eating at meal times.  Listening to your body is always the answer – it’ll let you know when you’ve had to much or haven’t had enough. 
• Don’t like the taste of water?  With the variety of great flavored waters or sugar free additives on the market, finding a flavor to flatter your taste buds should be easy. 

Still not convinced that drinking water is good for you? Keep reading and learn more about the benefits of drinking water: Water  contains no calories (check Nutritional Info on the flavored bottled water or additives may contain low calorie counts)  Drinking water helps hydrate skin, water is important in maintaining the health of your skin it can assist in a more youthful appearance and improves your skins elasticity. Don’t forget the best benefit of all; drinking water can help boost your energy levels.  

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