 Re: GM Diet program
"happycamper722" <hdefago@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> It's not a healthy way to diet. Take the word DIET out of our
> Vocabulary and think Healthy Eating. The only way to lose weight is to
> use small portions and a well balanced diet daily with adding 30-60
> minutes a day of some kind of exercise. Walking coupled with a couple
> of days of extra exercise like strength training or toning exercises.
> My Dr. who is in his late fifties is slim and says eat Green leafy
> vegatables with lean meats. Make sure you get fiber in there too.
> When you follow a diet that you can't eat that way for the rest of your
> life then it's not a good way to lose with.
True, very true. The word "diet" implies a temporary change in eating
habits. What is necessary is to change those habits for the rest of your
life. Fruits and vegetables, a little whole grain, lean chicken and fish.
It's a two-step process: first, change the foods, then change the amount.
Cutting down the quantity of food is extremely important and very difficult
for most people, since we live in an environment of so much cheap, tasty,
heavily-promoted but bad food. Most of us are thinking, "How much can I eat
and still lose weight?" when a better question is, "How little can I eat and
stay healthy?"
Aerobic exercise keeps you heart-healthy and resistance exercise keeps you
strong. But restricting calories is #1. If you are eating so many calories
that you have to "burn off" some of them just to keep from getting fat, then
you need to eat fewer calories. The "burn it off" strategy doesn't work
very well, anyway. The calories you burn up in an hour of exercise you can
eat right back on in about a minute.
mack
austin
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