Wed. July 8/09

Sweet form: chest up, weight on the heals!

Nice work tongith crew, you suffered and survived the first real rain we've had so far.  Some great questions about food out there too.  If you have more questions about that or other stuff just post them, chances are there are 2 or 3 more people with the same one.

So, to try and make things as easy as possible here are a few ways to look at balancing your food:

• Take your plate fill 1/3 with lean protein, the other 2/3 stack on the veges, add a bit of fat.
• Snacks- basically cut your meal in 1/2 or a 1/3...there you go 
• Important to have quality food all the time...really focus on breakfast and before bed snack to start 
• Label reader? 40/30/30= 10g carbs/7g pro/1.5g fat----women x this by 3, men x by 4---minimum 

DON'T completely cut anything out.  Have a goal, my example- Saturday DQ ice cream!  We are much more likely to succeed when we have a goal to work toward.  To say I will never eat x again is lying to yourself therefore setting you up for failure.  Start small, I will only have...3 instead of 4 cans of Coke a day for this week.  I really enjoy potato chips before bed- I will eat some Cheese (protein) with them for the first week, next week I will have 1/2 an apple before the chips, the week after I will eat 1/2 the amount of chips I normally would....you get the idea?

We want to be full all the time, if you aren't hungry you won't eat garbage!

 Its like that movie What About Bob?....BABY STEPS!  Moderation is the key.