I’ve decided to get started with an 8 week weight loss plan to clean up the extra pounds I’ve gained since the start of the year. I’ve let a few of my good habits slide over the months as my gym had to shut its doors during the lockdown and as I had to adjust my shopping and eating habits to the pandemic ecosystem. Pounds Slowly Climbing On For a while, I thought I wasn’t among the millions of us across the country who were gaining body fat because of all the lifestyle changes. It was a slow climb that I shrugged off as just a pound or two – or even water weight – at the start. But now that it’s been around half a year, I can see that this isn’t just a bit of extra sodium making my tissues retain water. I’ve been gradually working my way Read More
Category: Dieting
Are Low Carb Diets Healthy?
The low carb diet has been touted as a quick and easy to lose weight—but there has been much debate about are low carb diets healthy? Here we will put the science behind the diet in simple terms and then get into answering, are low carb diets healthy? A couple of things before getting started… Before getting started, I’d like to point out that I’m not a doctor and I’m not a dietitian. I’d also like to say that I’m trying to answer the question about if low carb diets are healthy overall. When it all comes down to it, it depends on the type of eating strategy you choose, the specific efforts you make to follow it, and the individual foods that you choose. After all, if you’re eating only bacon for the next month and a half, yes, you’ll be low in carbohydrates, but that can hardly be Read More
How Savoring Your Foods Could Help You Eat Less
Have you ever considered how savoring your foods could help you eat less? If you think about it and you’re really honest with yourself, chances are that you rush through meals and don’t even taste the food itself. We all have too much to do and too little time to do it. It’s only natural that the last thing that we have time for is to sit down and enjoy a meal. However, if you do take the time to enjoy what you’re eating and begin savouring your foods, you might find that it makes a bigger difference than you might expect. In fact, it can change everything from the amount you eat to the ease of your weight management strategy, and it may even impact your mental health, too. Slowing Down and Savouring Your Foods It’s more natural for us to take it easy when we eat. Savouring your Read More
Why I’m Trying a Vegetarian Diet to Improve My Nutrition and Health
I’m trying a vegetarian diet. I’ve been doing it for a bit and plan to stick to it pretty strictly for the first month. My goal isn’t to become a vegetarian. Instead, it’s to immerse myself into it so I’m forced to find out what foods I can eat to reach my nutrition goals without eating an animal to get there. To be clear, I’m trying a vegetarian diet, not a vegan one. I’ll still be eating dairy in my normal amounts, plus eggs and honey. Once I’m done this experiment, I also know I’ll definitely go back to eating fish regularly. I haven’t decided whether or not I’ll eat fish in the midst of this experiment or not. I haven’t so far, and at the moment, I’m leaning toward “no”.