1. Staying hydrated
2. Getting enough sleep
3. Getting regular exercise
4. Eating a balanced diet
5. Relaxing
If you are spending money on weight loss products, food supplements or diet pills and not taking these matters into account then you are not addressing the foundations of weight loss.
If you are hoping that they will magically transform you perhaps you need to get honest with yourself and take responsibility for your lifestyle.
If you don’t want a plateful of hidden calories make sure you don’t get them by speaking up and clarifying what you want.
Here are some tips:
Give VERY specific instructions on how you want your food prepared.
Don’t be afraid to ask for no sauces and skip the “pre-made” salad dressings. Request olive oil and slices of limes or lemon instead.
Ask how things are prepared — it’s their job to answer your questions, you’re paying them to be an expert and deliver to you exactly what you want.
These include grains that have been made “white” by stripping the germ and/or bran from the grain, white flour, white rice, white pasta and couscous.
Anything called “starch” – corn starch, modified food starch, etc.
Avoid grains that have been turned into flakes, puffs or shreds etc. Rarely are made from whole grains, but in any case are generally processed to the point where they are very glycemic.
Ingredients
▪ 4 eggs, room temperature
▪ 1 cup coconut milk
▪ 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
▪ 1 tablespoon coconut nectar (coconut sap)
▪ 1/2 cup coconut flour
▪ 1 teaspoon baking soda
▪ 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
▪ 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
▪ Coconut oil for frying
Instructions
1. Preheat pan or griddle over medium-low heat. Beat eggs until frothy. Mix in milk, vanilla, and coconut nectar.
2. In a small bowl combine coconut flour, baking soda, sea salt and cinnamon and whisk together.
3. Combine dry mixture with wet mixture and blend or beat for about 30 seconds. Scrape down sides of bowl then mix for another minute or two or until the coconut flour is completely mixed into the batter.
4. Grease pan with coconut oil. Pour batter to create pancakes that are about 3 inches in diameter. If the batter seems too thin you may need to add a small amount of coconut flour to achieve the desired consistency.
5. Cook for approximately 3 minutes, flip and cook an additional 2-3 minutes.
Serve hot with coconut oil, coconut nectar, agave nectar, honey, syrup or fruit.
Some people wonder why they never lose weight or change the way they look. We can be experts at making excuses and justifying our actions or should I say lack of actions.
“Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don’t count.” –Robert Anthony
“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.” –William James
“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.” –Napoleon Hill
“Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.” –George Claude Lorimer
“Days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months and months turn into years and so on until one day it’ll be too late.” –Barnsley Personal Training Gym
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Your body only knows nutrients contrary to what you may believe. If you only had a slice of cake and a slice of pizza both 500 calories each in a day it wouldn’t help you lose weight.
If this were the case there would be a lot more thin people especially those who live on low-calorie diets. A calorie in versus calories out approach is absurd! It may look like the right thing on paper but in reality and particularly in the long run it doesn’t work.
Your body sees foods as chemicals and nothing more. Restricting calories and getting the balance wrong and regularly including bad quality calories that can be found in processed foods forces your body to react. Before you know it the nutrients don’t get to where your body needs them and hormones are released to cope with the biological stress. This leads to muscle loss and a slow metabolism ending with you piling on the pounds.
Bodyweight exercises are a very convenient and challenging way to train. The places you can workout are limitless meaning you can save more time and do the things you want.
Most bodyweight exercises can be modified to suit individual strength levels. The important rule is to be patient and progress at your own speed until you master the technique.
With bodyweight training it is beneficial to change to more difficult exercises as soon as you can reach high reps.
TRX, Swiss balls and chin up bars can make bodyweight training even more challenging.
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