Healthy body, happy life!
Strength training is a must for women when it comes to weight loss and maintenance. Especially as we’re aging. Yet most older women don’t even think about adding strength training to their exercise routines, if they even exercise at all! This is a big mistake because that “toned” look and higher metabolism we all want comes from having muscle.
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Body shaming is the act of negatively judging or humiliating someone based on the shape or size of their physical body. We all know what that means, right? We should never make someone feel bad about being overweight. Well, that’s certainly one part of it but I think it’s a bit short-sighted. Let me explain this a little better.
Cardio, or aerobic activity, is one of the three main types of exercise that we all need in order to be healthy. The other two are strength training and flexibility. But why exactly is cardio so important for exercise? The number one answer is that it helps us to live longer! But there are other important benefits too. Continue reading “Why do cardio for exercise?”
GBOMBS is an acronym coined by Dr. Joel Fuhrman to help us easily remember what to eat every day to improve our health. It stands for greens, beans, onions, mushrooms, berries, and seeds. So if you’re confused about how to have a healthier diet and maintain a healthy weight, then just remember GBOMBS! Continue reading “Tips for a Healthier Diet. #6 – GBOMBS.”
A fourth way to adopt a healthier diet is to make your own homemade snacks. Why? Because we practically live on snacks! Ok, maybe it’s not quite that bad. But statistics do show that adults are now getting nearly one-quarter of their daily calories from snack foods. I’m labeling a “snack” as anything we eat in-between meals along with the treats at the end of meals. Continue reading “Tips for a healthier diet. #4 – Make homemade snacks”
Research on over 10,000 people that have lost weight and kept it off lists “eating breakfast daily” as one of their healthy habits. The following are the other most common habits they engage in.
Continue reading “Tips for a Healthier Diet. #3 – Eating Breakfast Daily.”
Have you been trying to figure out how to achieve a healthier body but not making much progress? From my own observations, people tend to look to exercise as the one way to reach that goal. But in my experience and research, I’ve learned the best way to get a healthier body is to first change your diet. Continue reading “Change your diet for a healthier body”
We’ve all heard that we should be drinking more water, but why? Because getting hydrated helps with both weight loss and better health. And I’ll share those details with you in this post.
But even when we know things are good for us it can still be hard to follow through on adopting new healthy habits like drinking enough water. Continue reading “Get hydrated for weight loss and better health!”
I was having a conversation with a friend recently. She was complaining that she hasn’t lost any weight at all even though she’s been walking “miles every day”. And she’s been doing that for years now. I tried to explain to her that walking for weight loss can be very effective if it’s done in the right way. But her routine needed a rehaul. Continue reading “Walking for weight loss: how to get much more out of it.”