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Enjoying the Holidays without the Guilt |
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Written by Dave DePew
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Monday, 23 November 2009 23:18 |
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Eating healthy takes preparation and persistence, this is increasingly challenging during the holidays, especially when surrounded by your favorite treats. What is a person to do when every time you turn around you are tempted with homemade treats, mouth-watering family dishes, and an army of candy trays?
When you add up the holiday parties coupled with all the preholiday get-togethers the endless string of temptations can prove to be great, but your will to maintain a healthier lifestyle must be greater.
Fortunately, there are steps you can take to enjoy the holidays without experiencing the overwhelming guilt of eating too much and the pounds that are sure to follow.
Surprisingly, a healthy lifestyle filled with nutritionally balanced foods does not have to conflict with your enjoyment of the holidays. Having a healthy holiday is less about “good” or “bad” foods, but is more about good and bad eating habits. With that said, I have compiled a few tips and tricks that can help you navigate your way successfully through the holiday eating season.
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Knee Pain? Do The Roll Before The Run! |
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Written by Dave DePew
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Sunday, 22 November 2009 06:04 |
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If you exercise you need to learn about the benifits of the foam roll. The foam roll is great as a self massage device. The foam roll has helped me most of all with the Iliotibial band (ITB) stretch. The ITB is a band that runs from the top of the hip to the side of the knee. When the ITB is tight it pulls the knee and can cause all sorts on knee pain. Iliotibial band syndrome is always best to rule out when experiencing knee pain. The best way to treat Iliotibial band syndrome is the following exercise on the foam roll.
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A Natural Tendency to Procrastinate? |
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Written by Dave DePew
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Sunday, 22 November 2009 05:17 |
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It is so amazing how as humans we have a natural tendency to procrastinate the things we feel will be painful. Who wants pain?
The reality is that a majority of the time we build things up to be far more painful than they really are.
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Written by Dave DePew
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Sunday, 22 November 2009 05:09 |
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Understanding the decision to change is a very important one. Having the right tools and the right information, specific to our circumstances, is critical for our journey. Once we formulate the belief that we can accomplish this we are on our way. The right tool is a self-discovery. No person knows you better than you know your self. With your commitment you create the way to reach your goal!
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Written by Dave DePew
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Saturday, 21 November 2009 03:58 |
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The reasons why we choose to loose weight are as numerous as the weight loss programs available. Whether your desires are grounded in medical, physical or emotion reasoning, is not what makes the difference. What matters most is that you have a strong, compelling reason to start loosing the weight. In short, you have found YOUR motivation.
Now that you have your motivation, you need to start each day with this question:
>>> Do you sincerely believe that you can achieve your weight loss and fitness goals? <<<
It is only by continually being proactive in strengthening our belief system that we will accomplish our goals.
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