Lifestyle Changes and What Foods to Avoid
I believe women have much more common sense after 40. By now we have tried all the fad diets and traveled all the dead end trails to keeping weight off.
I hate to say it but, diets do work. They work for short-term weight loss. However, we are a society that does not like to be deprived, at least not for very long. Once the diet has made us feel deprived, we head straight back to our old habits that got us in trouble in the first place.
So instead of making ourselves feel deprived, we are going to keep all of the foods that we love, but eliminate a couple things that will put our future health in danger.
1. Sugar - the calorie thief. Things to eliminate: soft drinks or any drinks that contain sugar, cookies, candy, muffins. These are empty calories and americans consume way too much sugar. This has a direct impact on our health and the health of our children because it adds fat to our waistline. One factor in developing Type 2 Diabetes is unhealthy fat but, more than just unhealthy fat, it effects our fat to muscle ratio. Another good reason to increase our muscle mass. What is a major cause in this rise in unhealthy fat? Sugar, the empty calorie.
1 can of Pepsi has approximately 10 teaspoons of sugar. Put 10 teaspoons of sugar in a bowl and try to eat it. You would never knowingly do this because you have common sense right? So, our first challenge is to eliminate all soft drinks from our diet and eliminate them forever.
Our first reaction of course is to switch to diet drinks. (Not wanting to feel deprived.) This is a big danger that most people are not even aware of. Diet drinks contain aspertame. Three byproducts of aspartame are methanol, formaldehyde, and formate. Do I need say more? If you doubt that the american public would be put at such a health risk by having these chemicals added to our soft drinks, just consider cigarettes and their affect on our health. It really comes down to big companies making big money and and having billions of dollars to lose. Make your own choice, but for me, I am sticking with the healthy drink. Water.
Our heathy lifestyle change for today is to rid all soft drinks from our diets. We will not replace them with diet drinks that have added chemicals that can do damage to our bodies.
Tomorrow we will gladly say goodbye to commercially fried foods.
