Diets & Weight Maintenance Support Group
Chat about how well your latest diet is -- or is not -- working. This group is a great place to find support and accountability as well as share success stories and valuable lessons with the community. From where to start to weekly weigh-ins, get help from others to reach your dieting and weight maintenance goals.
Ever feel bored trying to stick to the same old foods because we are already familiar with a particular diet style? It's not only okay to switch up what we're eating, but also recommended that we keep things changing.
As always, these FOUR S's of Weighing Yourself are key:
Same TIME of day, on the
Same DAY each week, wearing the
Same CLOTHING, and using the
Same SCALE
Measure yourself - Sometimes your scale wont budge but your waistline will. Here's an article with some ideas!
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Inspiration for this week's article search came from one of our participants' mention of changing up the diet a lot but still losing weight. It dawned on me that I've read that it's important to eat different things in our diets. So, here's a great article on that......
Your Greek yogurt for breakfast, quinoa and veggie bowls for lunch, and salmon for dinner routine makes clean eating crazy easy. The macros and calories are already figured out, so you don't have to bust out a calculator every time you sit down for a meal. And since these foods are all satisfying but not exactly exciting, there's no real temptation to overeat.
It's a good groove, except for this: Your boring healthy diet might be making it harder to lose weight. Turns out, chowing down on a variety of good-for-you stuff can play an important role in promoting greater bacterial diversity in your gut. And that diversity might be key to keeping your weight in checkplus avoiding more serious health issues like diabetes, according to research presented last month at the Institute of Food Technologists' annual meeting.
"Each type of food and micronutrient seems to have a [bacterial] specialist that can utilize it. So maybe the best diet has a little bit of everything," says Mark Heiman, vice president and chief scientific officer at Microbiome Therapeutics.
Read the rest of this article by clicking on the link here:
http://www.eatclean.com/scoops/eating-same-foods-everyday
As always, these FOUR S's of Weighing Yourself are key:
Same TIME of day, on the
Same DAY each week, wearing the
Same CLOTHING, and using the
Same SCALE
Measure yourself - Sometimes your scale wont budge but your waistline will. Here's an article with some ideas!
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Inspiration for this week's article search came from one of our participants' mention of changing up the diet a lot but still losing weight. It dawned on me that I've read that it's important to eat different things in our diets. So, here's a great article on that......
Your Greek yogurt for breakfast, quinoa and veggie bowls for lunch, and salmon for dinner routine makes clean eating crazy easy. The macros and calories are already figured out, so you don't have to bust out a calculator every time you sit down for a meal. And since these foods are all satisfying but not exactly exciting, there's no real temptation to overeat.
It's a good groove, except for this: Your boring healthy diet might be making it harder to lose weight. Turns out, chowing down on a variety of good-for-you stuff can play an important role in promoting greater bacterial diversity in your gut. And that diversity might be key to keeping your weight in checkplus avoiding more serious health issues like diabetes, according to research presented last month at the Institute of Food Technologists' annual meeting.
"Each type of food and micronutrient seems to have a [bacterial] specialist that can utilize it. So maybe the best diet has a little bit of everything," says Mark Heiman, vice president and chief scientific officer at Microbiome Therapeutics.
Read the rest of this article by clicking on the link here:
http://www.eatclean.com/scoops/eating-same-foods-everyday
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Usually I get a daily influx of emails on health topics. An article from Dr. Mercola really stood out recently though because it mentioned that fat cells have their own mitochondria. Not only was this the first I'd heard of this, he also mentioned that fat serves a purpose in our metabolism. Another new factoid for me. The bottom line for me was to appreciate that even our fat cells play a...
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I just do not feel well and I really think that it's because I cried yesterday on my way to work about my Aunt who is in the hospital. I don't think that we will have her much longer. She is very frail. Now she needs help eating. So, this is the third time in a year that I felt this way after crying. I think crying releases toxins into my body. I also worked up a sweat at the gym...
SW 258.8
Loss of 1.2 this week and a total loss of 17.2.
So happy about this because it gives me motivation to keep going. I struggle daily with wanting to eat the wrong things and sometimes I don't win the battle but if I can keep losing then I can keep going.
TWL 14.9#