September 2009
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No treadmill for me today. My legs need to rest.
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Healthy Eating is Expensive [ Not Really ]
How many of us have heard the following?
Eating right is just so expensive.
Healthy eating costs so much money!
I just can’t afford to eat healthy.
I have said it myself. The only problem was I never analyzed the data to see how true my excuse really was.
Well I’m single and on my own, eating out is much more economical for one person.
Yea, that’s what I used to think. Except I...
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Longer Life by Eating Less
Before the work on intermittent fasting, the only real strategy for extending the lives of laboratory animals was caloric restriction (CR). If rats or mice or even primates had their calories restricted by 30-40 percent as compared to those fed ad libitum [“at pleasure” = as much as they want] they lived 20-30 percent longer.
These CR verses ad libitum-fed studies almost uniformly...
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7 Reasons to Eat More Saturated Fat →
Improved cardiovascular risk factors
Stronger bones
Improved liver health
Healthy lungs
Healthy brain
Proper nerve signaling
Strong immune system
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Why It's Okay to Cheat [ On Food ]
I restrict my caloric intake to lose weight as outlined in my plan. However, on Saturdays, I take a day off of the diet and splurge. I was inspired from an article by Tim Ferris,
Rule #4: Take one day off per week
I recommend Saturdays as your “Dieters Gone Wild” day. I am allowed to eat whatever I want on Saturdays, and I go out of my way to eat ice cream, Snickers, Take 5, and all of my other...
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Almond & Honey Butter Cookies →
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Guiltless indulgences: six 100-calorie (or less!)... →
Thanks to Shirley for sharing this!
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Buying Food on Sale
Not everyone may think they have the time to go by the grocery store often but going at least once or more could save you a great deal of money.
Eat it while its in season and on sale.
You may have noticed that I’ve eaten a lot of shrimp and green beans lately. Publix has had “ready to eat peeled” shrimp on sale for $4.99 lb lately. I found that a quarter of a lb is a...
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10 Pound Milestone
I weighed myself this morning and almost couldn’t believe it. I kept weighing myself just to make sure! As of this morning, I’ve reached a 10 Pound milestone! That’s 1/4th of the way. This alone motivates me. I’m going to stick to this plan and make it part of my life.
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Grilled Green Beans →
I substituted the olive oil for zero calorie butter flavored cooking spray.
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