Healthy Habits - Fitness and Weightloss

I have been concentrating quite a bit lately on improving my nutrition through raw foods and eating more greens.

It has been fantastic! I really can tell a difference right away in my skin, mood, elimination/bloating, and general energy levels when I am on track with at least two green smoothies and/or good servings of greens and veggies.

So I couldn't wait when Tara Warner said she was doing a Raw Mom Summit.

It's not just about food.

There are calls all over the board about sustainable living, environment, health, nature, and pretty much anything you can imagine about simple and natural living.

I LOVE IT! 

I'm listening to one the first calls right now…

Walter 'Shantree' Kacera - so much that I had never considered about how we grow our food - forest gardens! perennial vegetables, permaculture, nature attention deficite in kids today, and so much more.

A must listen if you want to hear something a little different, thought provoking, life giving and inspiring.

Also the plight of bees and how kids can help.

I am so impressed that I had to let you know right away because the calls are up for free for 24 hours.

You really should head over and have a listen before they are gone.

There will be new free calls every day for the next 9 days so don't miss out!

"The Raw Mom Summit" is an online event starting on June
22nd and ending on June 30th. For 9 days and 9 nights the
wisdom, experience and understanding of over 30 passionate
health pioneers and some of the world's leading experts in
alternative health, are bringing their voices together in
the name of building healthy families and empowered leaders
of the next generation.

You can learn more about this FREE online event by clicking
the link below.

Free Raw Mom Summit calls

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If you glance at the magazines at the check out stands in the grocery store, you are sure to see a great number of weight loss tips. Most of them are weight loss supplementsand fad diet pills which generally do not work. We all know the healthy ways to lose weight involves diet and exercise But the weight loss business is fraught with misleading information and myths. Let us look at some of these myths.

 Myth#1: Spot reduction of fat is possible: This cannot possibly be true .You cannot force your body to spot reduce your fat under any circumstances, no matter what type of workouts you do. [If you only do crunches and leg lifts regularly in the hope of reducing belly fat you will find that instead of elliminating your belly fat you will reduce the muscle mass that lies beneath the abdomen. Your focus should not be on crunches and leg lifts alone; you should also follow a healthy diet that would speed up your metabolic rate and help you burn fat fast.

. Myth#2: A drastic reduction of calorie intake reduces your body fat: This myth has pushed many a person to the brink of crash dieting. People take to crash dieting in the hope of shedding those extra pounds, not realizing that crash dieting could harm their bodies instead of helping them. As a matter of fact, when you starve or fast, your body believes that you are going to harm it and then it goes into the starvation mode. When in starvation mode, the body reduces its metabolic rate and uses the muscles rather than fat, which is kept in reserve for making energy. So the weight being lost is not fat; if anything it is muscle mass. And once you return to your normal diet,you will gain back not only the weight you lost, but even more pounds.

 Myth#3: Doing only cardio exercises will help you lose weight: While it is true that cardio exercises can help you lose fat, it is not true that this is the only type of weight loss exercises available; don’t forget the aerobics. As a matter of fact, the amount of fat you will lose doing either cardio or aerobics is almost same. On the other hand, weight lifting is better than both cardio and aerobics, in that it not only helps you burn fat during the workout, but it also also strengthens your bones.

I hope that I have given you some insights on dieting myths and that you will find healthy ways to lose weight.

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I find sparkling water - either LOW SODIUM club soda or Perrier to be one of the best ways to get myself back on track for drinking water through out the day.

After awhile I can wean myself off, but at first if I've slid out of the habit - the bubbles really help.

With some squeezed lemon, and a little cold filtered water, it's good enough to drink!

So I thought you might be interested in this article, it has quite a few facts about sparkling or soda water that I didn't know about.

SODA WATER - ADD A LITTLE SPARKLE…

Soda water, also referred to as sparkling water, and is plain water with carbon dioxide gas added — it has been "carbonated.". It is the most dominant ingredient of most "soft drinks.". Soda pop, loved my many, is basically carbonic acid — the product of carbonation.

By using a seltzer bottle filled with water and then “charged” with carbon dioxide, soda water (club soda) was produced in the past in the home. Club soda may be the same as plain carbonate water but it can have a small amount of table salts, and sodium trace minerals. Such additives could possibly make the taste of home made soda water slightly salty. This process, occuring naturally in some areas, produces carbonated mineral water.

Sparkling mineral water may sometimes cause a little dental decay. The potential problem of sparkling water is slightly greater than "still" water, but the problem remains low. Regular soft drinks cause tooth decay at a rate much higher than sparkling water. The rate is so low it suggests that carbonation may not be a factor in causing dental decay.

Artesian wells are often the source for water that filters among layers of minerals containing forms of carbonates, absorbing the carbon dioxide gas released by those carbonates. This produces natural sparkling water. Shoud the water also pick up enough different minerals to become flavored, it becomes sparkling mineral water.

In its basic construction, soda water is just water and carbon dioxide. A naturally-occuring product of carbonation is sparkling mineral water. A jeweler, in 1794, made a device to produce an artificial carbonated mineral water.

A taste test was conducted involving several carbonated drinks; Perrier, a sparkling natural mineral water, was deemed to keep its fizz the longest.

The gentle fizz of club soda may be a welcome alternative for consumers who feel seltzer to be a bit harsh. As part of the tasting test, club soda seemed to be milder and a little sweeter tasting than standard carbonated water.

Having zero calories, club soda, sparkling mineral water, seltzer, and carbonated water are a dieter’s choice over soda pop and tonic water. Not even if flavored at home with flavor for carbonated water.

Tonic water is a type of carbonate drink containing water, sugar, carbon dioxide and quinine. Quinine's first use in tonic water was as an additive to help cure or prevent malaria. Today it is often mixed with gin and lemon or lime to create an alcoholic drink.

These facts and names are just a few of the ways we refer to soda water.

A FEW MORE TIDBITS ON THE BENEFITS OF DRINKING WATER FOR HEALTH AND WEIGHT LOSS

Wondering why you should be drinking more water, sparkling or otherwise. Here are a few sites with additional info. The why always makes the doing easier. I'm going to get myself a drink now!

The Liver and Natural Weight Loss | SNAP WEIGHT LOSS

Although most people know that they can’t live without the liver, few are aware of the important role that this organ plays in weight loss…

Day 9 | Weight Loss Journals - petecohen.tv - Journal Entries from …

Well thank you all for the support and hints you have given me to help me to drink more water. I especially like the idea of making it special - a 'moment' as we call them in our family…

Healthy Weight Loss Advice - The Importance of Water

So, to achieve the desirable healthy weight loss results you are seeking, you simply must drink more pure water and the right kind of pure water. We say pure because most of our available tap water isn't so great…

ARE YOU READY TO SIZZLE? SUMMER'S COMING UP

Now I'd like to invite you to claim your Free Instant Access to Surefire Weight Loss Success Tips, a free printable created from my own personal weight loss success tips that you can refer to every day to keep up your healthy eating habits, and a new Smart Tip ever week when you visit SIZZLIN' - SMART Tips.

From Jan Ferrante, the Queen of KAOS.

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After participating in the green smoothie challenge that the Raw Diva, Tera Warner put together, I can say that my healthy eating habits grew by leaps and bounds.

My diet now consists primarily of raw foods in the form of smoothies or fruit and veggie snacks. The rest is clean food - I've cut out almost all sugar, gluten, processed foods and cheese.

I do have a few cheats here and there but it isn't the norm anymore. 

GET 5 FREE WEEKS OF HEALTHY EATING TIPS FROM TERA

So I thought you would like to know about the 5 week Healthy Eating mini course that Tera has put together.

If you go to this page and scroll down a bit you will see where to sign up.

There is a lot of really good info right on the sign up page as usual, including 3 Detox Myths.

Tera's website is always a delight to the eye, so bright, colourful and creative.

I look at it just for fun! 

Here's the course outline.

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It hardly seems fair, after Easter weekend, but once again that time has rolled around.

I thought that you'd like to know… the Fit Yummy Mummy Finalists are in!

The good news is that there's a whole lot of inspiration in the pictures and the story's. 

I always love to see how far each of the Club FYM Challenger's have come, but most of all, I love to see their faces.

They never fail to look healthier, happier and more confident.

And that's what it's all about.

You can check out the 10 Fit Yummy Mommy Finalists and cast your vote.

Don't forget to read their essay's, there is a wealth of weight loss and healthy lifestye information there.

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