Category Archives: Healthy Eating

Stop stress eating – 5 ways to cope with stress besides eating

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I stress eat. In fact, food has always had the power to pacify me. Comfort foods are my number one go-to foods when i’m stressed. Knowing this, has caused me to dig deeper and find a way or some relaxation techniques that would help me out. You know, something in place of food. Some of the techniques I have found:

1) Exercise — Number one! After a great workout I find that I am too tired to stress out!
2) Karaoke – I actually have all of the “Karaoke Revolution” games as well as Rock Band for the PS3. When I am having a rough day… singing it out helps me relieve some stress!
3) Drinking a warm cup of tea in a quiet room.
4) Taking some deep breaths and thinking about “happy” stuff.
5) Dancing — kind of like exercising but on the level where I dance without a purpose.

Do you stress eat? If so.. what ways have you found to *stop*? Where do you focus your stressed out energy?

Become carb-picky!

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I am always looking for informative articles on weight loss. I came across an article on the fatty weight loss blog about lowering insulin levels to lose weight. Basically, this means that by lowering your intake of carbohydrates you can lower your insulin levels and thus lose weight in a fairly quick manner.

I know this to be true for me personally. I have went on low-carb diets and have lost a lot of weight in a short amount of time. I didn’t completely eliminate carbs (close but no cigar), but I became very carb-picky. What does “carb-picky” mean exactly? Well, I would limit my carb-intake to only 4 servings a day and eat only carbs that were high in fiber, whole grain, whole wheat. I took the white carbs and completely eradicated them from my diet.

I can attest to the fact that I never felt deprived, hungry or low-energy. Not to mention, the rest of my diet was well-balanced with lean meats, eggs, fruit and veggies. It was clean eating on a whole different level.

Have you ever been on a low-carb diet? Did you succeed on it? Find it hard?

Weigh in Monday results for 12-13-10

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Hi everyone!

My weigh-in Monday results for this week:

-1 putting me at 308 pounds.

I am pretty excited about my consistent 1-pound-a-week weight loss over the last two weeks. It is the holiday-season and while I am putting in a lot of effort to watch my portions, eat cleaner and eliminate all fast foods… I do have the occasional cookie or holiday treat.

I have also been on a good food-schedule so when the night time comes around, I am usually able to avoid snacking on anything (though I admit that I think of food constantly). I envision myself snacking on various things all throughout the evening until bedtime.  I recognize that it will take a bit to break that habit.

Since there is so much going on right now with Christmas preparation and such… I feel that I will really kick up the heat when it comes to working out– after the holidays.  For now, I am doing 20 minutes on my stationary bike a couple of days a week.

How are you doing with your weight loss this holiday season?