Healthy Food And Working Out Is All It Takes

All it takes is healthy food and working out. No rushing, no starving, no pills, no silly fake gimmicks. It's possible. Quote by: Sailor-Moonn.Tumblr.com from her before and after picture post.

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Hungry For Change - You Must Watch This Video

Disclose.tv - Hungry For Change

I am only about 10 per cent through this video at the time of posting but it is so good that I had to stop watching just to post it on here for you to watch too. It is mind-blowing! I'm sure the content will resonate with most of you seeking real solutions to your own healthy weight loss.

Spoil Your Appetite For Junk Food By Eating Healthy Food Instead

Remember when you were little you were told, "Don't eat that before dinner it will spoil your appetite". Why not try to spoil your appetite for junk food by filling up on nutritious food instead?  Think about it...there is only so much space in your stomach. If you fill up on healthy food there'll be less space in your stomach for the unhealthy stuff you're usually tempted to eat.

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Pay the farmer now...or pay the doctor later.

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Weight Loss Begins On Your Plate

Weight loss is about 80% diet and 20% exercise, so make sure you're eating the right quantity and quality of food that will make success a certainty.

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Try New Food Combinations.

Experimenting with new food combinations is a great way to make healthy eating more exciting. 

This is a picture of one of my meals today. It's a mixture of  a chopped celery, raisins, cranberries and goji berries. It's the first time I've eaten raw celery because I don't really like the taste very much but it tastes great when mixed with the berries and raisins. 

Focus On The Foods That Help You Lose Weight

Focus on the foods that help you lose weight - If it doesn’t help you lose weight, don’t focus on it…don’t even bring it into the house!

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Plan Tomorrow's Meals In Advance

Weight loss printable - Plan Tomorrow's Meals In Advance. Planning your meals in advance is a great way to motivate yourself to stay on track. Print out this sheet and use it to plan the next day's meals.

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Almonds Are Good For You

Almonds may not be considered a typical diet food because they have a reputation of being high in fat and calories. These nuts do contain fat, but most of it is the heart-healthy unsaturated kind, which can help you feel full. MayoClinic.com adds that a diet that includes nuts such as almonds may also reduce your risk of heart disease by helping you lower your LDL, or dangerous, blood cholesterol levels. Adding almonds to your weight loss plan will provide a healthy amount of fiber to keep you full and enable you to reduce your overall calorie intake. -www.livestrong.com

I Love Kiwi Fruit

When was the last time you had some kiwifruit? It's sweet, low in calories and packed with nutrition. It should definitely be part of your weight loss shopping list.

Steps To A Healthier You

MyPyramid contains eight divisions. From left to right on the pyramid are a person and six food groups:

Physical activity, represented by a person climbing steps on the pyramid, to illustrate moderate physical activity every day, in addition to usual activity. The key recommendations for 2005 (other specific recommendations are provided for children and adolescents, pregnant and breastfeeding women, for older adults and for weight maintenance) are:

Engage in regular physical activity and reduce sedentary activities to promote health, psychological well-being, and a healthy body weight. (At least 30 minutes on most, and if possible, every day for adults and at least 60 minutes each day for children and teenagers, and for most people increasing to more vigorous-intensity or a longer duration will bring greater benefits.)

Achieve physical fitness by including cardiovascular conditioning, stretching exercises for flexibility, and resistance exercises or calisthenics for muscle strength and endurance.

Grains, recommending that at least half of grains consumed be as whole grains

Vegetables, emphasizing dark green vegetables, orange vegetables, and dry beans and peas

Fruits, emphasizing variety and deemphasizing fruit juices

Oils, recommending fish, nut, and vegetables sources

Milk, a category that includes fluid milk and many other milk-based products

Meat and beans, emphasizing low-fat and lean meats such as fish as well as more beans, peas, nuts, and seeds

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The Health Benefits of Apples

It seems that 'an apple a day really does keep the doctor away'!

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Eat Healthy - Eat Clean

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HEAL-thy

It's no coincidence that four of the letters in the word healthy are 'HEAL'.

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Healthy Food Tastes So Good

I remember in the past that I used to see healthy foods like salads as tasteless rabbit's food...how wrong I was. I think many of us who are overweight live under this myth that healthy food tastes bad and unhealthy food tastes good. I realised that it was a matter of habit, once I gradually changed my eating habits, I began to discover that healthy, clean foods are super-delicious.

The salad in this picture was one I made for myself, and believe me it was delicious. Salads are so versatile because you can add just about anything to them. I did not need to add a high calorie dressing to it because the ingredients I used (especially the guacamole) really added lots of flavour.

I took this photo with my I-phone and did not realise it would come out so well, so I am really enthusiastic now about posting more pics of my meals and recipe ideas in forthcoming posts.

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