Ever have trouble with late night cravings? You know, when you go through the refrigerator and pantry thinking that if you don't get that, "???????" you're just not going to make it till morning? I put the question marks there because we never really know what we are looking for but we keep looking all the same. I found out that it's really your body telling you that something is missing that it needs. It's not the chocolate or chips but the minerals or vitamins that it's looking for. Through our eating habits we have told our cells in our body and brain that the place to find those missing elements is in the pantry or refrigerator.
I have now found the perfect thing to help me never have those late night cravings again. I decided to start feeding my body what it really needs each night around 9:30 and BAM! Cravings gone. What is it? It's actually a complete meal that's low in calories and high in vitamins and minerals. It's called "Shakeology.
You really should check this out.
www.BeachBodyCoach.com/paulh
This really works and I'm living proof. It will work for you also.
Just my thoughts,
PH
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Simplicity is Sweet
Simplicity is Sweet: Finally satisfying that sweet tooth is a huge accomplishment. Once you realize that it's possible the effort to get there is worth the price. Some of us have a hard time with sweet things. We walk by and they seem to call out our name. Those little morsels of fried dough and sugar with all the colorful flavors hidden inside just waiting for our mouths to explore. Is your mouth watering yet? Relax and have another cup of coffee while we explore the idea of "Satisfying that sweet tooth". We have all heard this common saying and yet have any of us ever really thought that it was possible? To be able to look those sweet temptations right in the eye and be able to say, "today you no longer tempt me and I can with great ease chose to not pick you up".
At our church on any given Sunday morning you can come in and be welcomed by warm smiling faces and have a cup of coffee, a doughnut or two, and or some fruit. I noticed a few weeks ago that as I stood there in the welcome area that all those tasty blueberry doughnuts were staring at me. I knew from past experience that those little sirens of temptations were singing there songs to me. But this time there songs feel silent on my ears. There in that silence as people all around me were talking, laughing and sharing life together, I felt this great sense of freedom. I felt that my life had actually become less complicated and that was a eureka experience for me.
In my quest for a more healthy lifestyle and changing my eating habits I came to realize that I had actually made my eating habits more simple. It was and still is a learning process to figure out what is and is not healthy to eat. But as it becomes more natural and just more of my own DNA it actually becomes, well, "Simple". I'm not eating things I don't like just so I can loose weight and on the flip side I'm not depriving myself of things I want. Actually I just started to make decisions about my food intake based on what I want out of life not just what I wanted out of that doughnut. I found out that there are things I normally eat that are healthy and then there are things that I normally eat that are not as healthy. All I really did was decide to eat the healthy items 90% of the time. To actually make those healthy items my "Go To" food choices. I really did not have to "Find" foods that I could stomach just so I could loose weight. I'm not "Depriving" myself of things I enjoy. I'm actually eating as many times a day as I want and I'm eating what I want. I would call that a "Simple" diet.
In this complicated world we live in it's nice to find some simple things that will actually improve your life. For me simplicity is the sweetest treat of all. When I feed my body what it "Really" needs it's not screaming at me to eat the things I used to eat just so it, "my body" can try to find something in there that it can live off of. I asked my doctor one time, "why is it that sometimes I have this uncontrollable craving for chocolate?" His answer, "Magnesium, you body is trying to find it and chocolate has a lot of it in there". My body was not craving "chocolate" but the substances in it that it remembered, where to get it. I told it that it could find "Magnesium" in the foods I usually ate. Now, my body finds what it needs in different things.
My advice, keep it simple and there you will find your sweet spot and actually satisfy your sweet tooth. If you need some help getting started check out my website, www.BeachBodyCoach.com/paulh
Just my thoughts
PH
At our church on any given Sunday morning you can come in and be welcomed by warm smiling faces and have a cup of coffee, a doughnut or two, and or some fruit. I noticed a few weeks ago that as I stood there in the welcome area that all those tasty blueberry doughnuts were staring at me. I knew from past experience that those little sirens of temptations were singing there songs to me. But this time there songs feel silent on my ears. There in that silence as people all around me were talking, laughing and sharing life together, I felt this great sense of freedom. I felt that my life had actually become less complicated and that was a eureka experience for me.
In my quest for a more healthy lifestyle and changing my eating habits I came to realize that I had actually made my eating habits more simple. It was and still is a learning process to figure out what is and is not healthy to eat. But as it becomes more natural and just more of my own DNA it actually becomes, well, "Simple". I'm not eating things I don't like just so I can loose weight and on the flip side I'm not depriving myself of things I want. Actually I just started to make decisions about my food intake based on what I want out of life not just what I wanted out of that doughnut. I found out that there are things I normally eat that are healthy and then there are things that I normally eat that are not as healthy. All I really did was decide to eat the healthy items 90% of the time. To actually make those healthy items my "Go To" food choices. I really did not have to "Find" foods that I could stomach just so I could loose weight. I'm not "Depriving" myself of things I enjoy. I'm actually eating as many times a day as I want and I'm eating what I want. I would call that a "Simple" diet.
In this complicated world we live in it's nice to find some simple things that will actually improve your life. For me simplicity is the sweetest treat of all. When I feed my body what it "Really" needs it's not screaming at me to eat the things I used to eat just so it, "my body" can try to find something in there that it can live off of. I asked my doctor one time, "why is it that sometimes I have this uncontrollable craving for chocolate?" His answer, "Magnesium, you body is trying to find it and chocolate has a lot of it in there". My body was not craving "chocolate" but the substances in it that it remembered, where to get it. I told it that it could find "Magnesium" in the foods I usually ate. Now, my body finds what it needs in different things.
My advice, keep it simple and there you will find your sweet spot and actually satisfy your sweet tooth. If you need some help getting started check out my website, www.BeachBodyCoach.com/paulh
Just my thoughts
PH
Friday, March 12, 2010
Staying Focused
Ever have trouble staying focused on your goals? How about your health goals? Sometimes life can through you a curve ball you never expected. Those curve balls can be anything from a job change to sickness or injuries or, well, just life in general. Not sure if you have even read my last post on here or not but you can see that it's been months since my last post. The Reason?
Well last November I came down with Mono. Let me tell you that at age 53 that was not fun and I was about 60 days into my P90 workouts. Then I had 2 relapses with it during the months of December and the first of January. Let me tell you that was a really big curve ball for me. I tried twice to ease back into my workouts only to get knocked to the ground each time. My Doctor told me "Activity as tolerated". My response, "That's what you told me last time and I'm back in here".
So, I thought about my goal of getting healthy and how this was effecting me. I remembered that I wanted to change the lifestyle that lead to my being over weight. That change would then in turn change my weight. So, over the next 6 weeks I focused on my diet and making plans to go back to my workouts the middle of March. During that time I started loosing weight again with the help of "Shakeology", which is a protein drink from BeachBody. Then in March I started working out 3 days a week without doing any weight training. Last week I started working out 6 days a week and still trying to stay away from any weight training. Yes I'm now gun-shy about having another relapse. Next week I'm planning on going back with the full P90X program.
So here is the update on my progress. Since I started working again on my diet with the Shakeology and very slow workouts I have now lost another 12 lbs, which brings me to a total weight loss of 27 lbs since I started this transformation. I just returned home from shopping because I don't have any more clothes that fit. To top off all of this, my wife has decided to join me by starting P90 next week. Life is about to become better than it has ever been.
Let me close this by saying that I was able to keep from becoming discouraged because of having the right goals to start with. We all get sick, injured or whatever. It's those curve balls life throws at us. The way to deal with those curve balls is to remember there are more pitches to come and also more innings in the game than just the one we are in today. Keep swinging and remember why you decided to even walk up to the plate. Mine was to get out of the dugout and into the game. So, today I took another swing and I actually hit one out of the park. Now my wife is coming up to bat. I plan on being her biggest fan.
Just my thoughts,
PH
Well last November I came down with Mono. Let me tell you that at age 53 that was not fun and I was about 60 days into my P90 workouts. Then I had 2 relapses with it during the months of December and the first of January. Let me tell you that was a really big curve ball for me. I tried twice to ease back into my workouts only to get knocked to the ground each time. My Doctor told me "Activity as tolerated". My response, "That's what you told me last time and I'm back in here".
So, I thought about my goal of getting healthy and how this was effecting me. I remembered that I wanted to change the lifestyle that lead to my being over weight. That change would then in turn change my weight. So, over the next 6 weeks I focused on my diet and making plans to go back to my workouts the middle of March. During that time I started loosing weight again with the help of "Shakeology", which is a protein drink from BeachBody. Then in March I started working out 3 days a week without doing any weight training. Last week I started working out 6 days a week and still trying to stay away from any weight training. Yes I'm now gun-shy about having another relapse. Next week I'm planning on going back with the full P90X program.
So here is the update on my progress. Since I started working again on my diet with the Shakeology and very slow workouts I have now lost another 12 lbs, which brings me to a total weight loss of 27 lbs since I started this transformation. I just returned home from shopping because I don't have any more clothes that fit. To top off all of this, my wife has decided to join me by starting P90 next week. Life is about to become better than it has ever been.
Let me close this by saying that I was able to keep from becoming discouraged because of having the right goals to start with. We all get sick, injured or whatever. It's those curve balls life throws at us. The way to deal with those curve balls is to remember there are more pitches to come and also more innings in the game than just the one we are in today. Keep swinging and remember why you decided to even walk up to the plate. Mine was to get out of the dugout and into the game. So, today I took another swing and I actually hit one out of the park. Now my wife is coming up to bat. I plan on being her biggest fan.
Just my thoughts,
PH
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