On The Right Path

Your health is a journey, not a destination. It is one thing to know you want to lose weight, tone up, reduce stress and improve your mental focus, but getting there proposes a challenge and your mind makes it seem confusing at times. Taking the first step can be difficult if you have been in a dis-ease state for awhile now. It's important to gain knowledge about your true self before setting specific goals in order to know how to succeed. With proper knowledge, leadership, motivation and right tools from yourself, you will have the ability to succeed in developing a healthier and more balanced being. It takes a sense of purpose to seek commitment to obtaining balance and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. It's never too late to improve yourself; life lasts a lifetime. Love yourself by dedicating to yourself...Get on the right path! Your path!

KEY POINTS ON NUTRITION

·       The right amount of food per day is the first and most important step to achieving permanent and predictable weight loss through raising your metabolism.

·       Process food leads to new body fat storage.

·       Too much time between meals can slow the metabolism.

·       Five to seven small meals/snacks can maximize metabolic rate and keep body fat loss consistent.

·       Well-planned and spaced meals will lead to steady, high energy levels throughout the entire day.

·       You don’t need to give up any of your favorite foods. If you do, you’ll get frustrated and be miserable. The key is eating reasonable amounts of food, even if they are unhealthy. It’s all about portion control.

·       Don’t eat too little—it will cause your body to slow your metabolism. This is why so many people gain weight after giving up on a diet.

·       Eat a variety of nutritious foods. When you eat, you are fueling your body. A person is bound to fail if they start a weight loss program and the program dictates exactly what foods they should be eating.

·       The type of calories you consume is MORE important than the amount of calories you consume. Because of this, you are either gaining weight, or losing weight.

·       Consider protein bars or shakes for snacks if protein levels are too difficult to achieve.

·       There are different kinds of fat. Some fat is healthy fat. You need fat in your diet to be healthy. Stick to poly and mono saturated fats.

·       Just like fats, there are good and bad carbohydrates. Try to stick to complex, unrefined carbohydrates. These kinds of carbohydrates provide you nutrition and fiber, which keeps you full longer.

Exercise Aides in Reducing the risk of Cancer - Dr.Mercola

 Exercise—If you are like most people, when you think of reducing your risk of cancer, exercise doesn't immediately come to mind. However, there is some fairly compelling evidence that exercise can slash your risk of cancer.
One of the primary ways exercise lowers your risk for cancer is by reducing elevated insulin levels, which creates a low sugar environment that discourages the growth and spread of cancer cells. Controlling your insulin levels and optimizing your vitamin D level are two of the most powerful steps you can take to reduce your cancer risk. For example, physically active adults experience about half the incidence of colon cancer as their sedentary counterparts, and women who exercise regularly can reduce their breast cancer risk by 20 to 30 percent compared to those who are inactive.
Additionally, exercise improves the circulation of immune cells in your blood. Your immune system is your first line of defense against everything from minor illnesses like a cold right up to devastating, life-threatening diseases like cancer.
The trick about exercise, though, is understanding how to use it as a precise tool. This ensures you are getting enough to achieve the benefit, not too much to cause injury, and the right variety to balance your entire physical structure and maintain strength and flexibility, and aerobic and anaerobic fitness levels. This is why it is helpful to view exercise like a drug that needs to be carefully prescribed to achieve its maximum benefit.
It's important to include a large variety of techniques in your exercise routine, such as strength training, aerobics, core-building activities, and stretching. Most important of all, however, is to make sure you include high-intensity, burst-type exercise, such as Peak 8. Peak 8 are exercises performed once or twice a week, in which you raise your heart rate up to your anaerobic threshold for 20 to 30 seconds, and then you recover for 90 seconds.
These exercises activate your super-fast twitch muscle fibers, which can increase your body's natural production of human growth hormone.