Posts by pi_siren

Ive learned to

-eat breakfast..even if its just a small piece of wheat bread with rose hip jam, it still helps me not to pig out between when i get up and when i eat lunch. 

-bring own wheat bread, gouda cheese, and grilled chicken sandwhich to work..its a lot cheaper and im a lot less sick and drowsy after lunch.  (it gives me the RIGHT kinda energy!)

-cut out on cokes AND diet cokes (although i cant resist sometimes)..all the news about diet cokes really freaks me out.  ive started to drink water late nights and during work instead of diet coke after diet coke.  Plus water seems to help supress my appetite if i sip on it a bit. (I think diet coke actually made me  hungrier lol)

-wine...1 glass a night is enough. 2-3 glasses for special occasions is more than enough.  will never binge again (plus it makes me super hungry afterwards, so id just grab the unhealthiest thing i could find and gobble it up)

-not gorging myself on things i think that are healthy but actually arent.  I use to have the mentality that if I eat this instead of this, it will be all good.  Turns out calories are calories..

-knowing when im hungry and when im not.  I try for "stretches" now..in other words, I eat enough to be full at lunch so that i wont be pigging out on things before dinner.  I used to eat a small bit of something for lunch and then i would say to myself an hour later, oh its ok to eat these cookies because i didnt have much for lunch...some people are successful with eating small meals, but for me small meals means unhealthy things.  I eat at certain times a day and thats it.  Like my mom used to say, dont eat that, youre going to ruin your appetite! its totally true.  Dinners taste better and I enjoy them a lot more if i dont eat a bag of potatoes chips before dinner

I will never, ever subsitute diet foods for the real thing.  I love my heinz ketchup and my full fat gouda cheese.  Some diet foods do taste good tho like the non-fat vanilla youghurt.

thanks for this post!

It depends how much youre doing at the gym and for how long.  I wouldnt suggest doing heavy activity workouts everyday but keep it down to twice a week for only one hour.  As for cardio, if youre of normal health, its safe to do everyday lightly for an hour. or heavy for 3o minutes a day. 

I work out everyday for an hour..somedays i skip if my days too busy.  Only once or twice in the past two years have i had knee problems.  But i think the benefits of a daily work out, such as more energy and better self confidence outweighs t he occasional knee pain/