Healthy lifestyle vs.Dieting

In this article I learned about the differences between dieting and choosing to live a healthy lifestyle. Most people fail at dieting because they do not see the difference between a dieting lifestyle and a Healthy lifestyle. With a healthy lifestyle you change how you live you continue making changes to improve your physical wellness not just how you eat. When you diet once you have reached your goal your done. Dieting also leaves you saying “What’s next? “ With a Healthy Lifestyle there is no end so you don’t say what is next. You choose to live as healthy as you can for the rest of your life.

What is the difference between dieting and living healthy? Lets start with the definitions. A diet is all about numbers, your weight, the scale, the measuring tape, how many calories you eat and burn. A lifestyle change is all about lining up eating and exercising with your goals and desires. Success is determined from how these changes make you feel.

With dieting the key to happiness and solving problems is reaching a certain weight. That is why messing up the numbers on a day can be upsetting it means you messed up everything that really matters. In lifestyle change, you know that the reason you are overweight has more to do with something mental and not just about the food. That addressing the problems directly is the best way to solve problems. This means you focus on the whole picture not just the numbers on the scale. Because, even the bad numbers give clues to where the problems may lie.

Dieting involves temporarily changes in your eating. You follow the rules of what diet your on, measure, cut, weight. Stop eating some foods substitute others. Maybe throw in some exercise to burn off some more exercise. When dieting you think that it is the diet causing you to loose the weight not you, the one doing the diet. However after you get to your goal, you get comfortable and all if not more of the weight returns.

Changing to a healthy lifestyle involves permanent change in the way you view food, eating and physical activity. You figure out that the primary problem isn’t how much or what you eat. It is how and why you eat. You figure out that the eating impulsively, mindless eating and using food to control your emotions. That using food to distract you from stress, anger, boredom, depression is the real problem and what you really need to change. You learn to take care of yourself emotionally, physically and spiritually., You learn to stop using eating to solve problems that it really can’t, this is a life long commitment and it is constantly changing due life being in a constant state of change.
Choosing this lifestyle doesn’t mean that surface things like how you look don’t matter. You have to control how much and what you eat it is vital, and caring about how you look is a great motivator. What you need to see is the big picture. The key to getting and keeping weight off is feeling happy and satisfied with your life and controlling what you can control and forgetting about everything else.

What can’t you control: Genes, age, Medical status, previous weight history will affect your weight and appearance. These factors will affect how much weight you can loose and how quickly you can lose it and how you feel and look when you have lost what you are able. When you focus on the numbers you are staking the happiness of your life on the scale. That just makes you worried all the time about how well you are doing and If you are worried or stressed your going to eat once you starting eating, you start gaining weight due to the emotional eating.

Source: Stop Dieting Start Living; http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/motivation_articles.asp?id=620

P90X results

Ok this is my very first results video. I am being very brave. I hope you enjoy.

Balance

Hello everyone,

As most of you know this fall I have decided to go back to school this fall. I got all my personal training stuff in the mail this summer. I put off studying due to family commitments and wanting to spend time with my family. Now I as much as I wish there were more time in the day, my kids are my number 1 concern. I found this awesome article from Chalene Johnson. It is about balance and how to important it is in your life. I loved it and wanted to pass it on to you.

I also want to thank you all for the support and love you have given me during this adventure. I will have my schedule down soon and take my test, so I can officially be a personal trainer. I will keep you in the loop.



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Hope you enjoy,
Tina

Temptations

We all face temptations every day. I am going tell you some to the things that have helped me resist temptation, I hope they help you as well. With Halloween coming up and your kids bringing all those goodies home from trick or treat, Holiday parties coming up, and the grocery store. I want you to be able to fight the temptation of giving into temptations.


5. Halloween Candy
Ration Candy: This is the last resort. This is not the ideal thing but if you think you can just eat one piece. With the kids rationing is a must.

Avoid Candy: This is what you want to do. I want you to think of the progress you have made in your Healthy Lifestyle. Think about what is driving you to the candy. I want you to be able to keep the power to make a healthy decision not to eat the candy.


4. Parties
Now we have a lot of parties coming up at the end of the year. This is when the friendly fire comes out. You have all been there your at a party and your friend goes here is a piece of cake. Well we have to get the it is only one day out of our heads. Yes it is only one day but so is tomorrow and the next day. Pretty soon It's only one day turns out to be 4 or 5 days that your at a party during the month.

3. Ice Cream Store: Ok this is one of my biggest temptations. The Picture was my first dessert when I was 1. The story is adorable I will tell you all sometime, but that is a different blog. I also got my grandfather to drive an extra 30 miles,when I was 5, just so I can have hot fudge cake. When I see this I just tell my self that no matter how good it tastes I will not feel good afterwards. So If you must have Ice cream. Get a small cone from McDonald's. Not this empty calorie loaded version. You could also do what I do, I make a protein shake a little thick and put it in a bowl. Viola, Healthy Ice cream substitute.

2.Eating out with friends:
Your friends haven't jumped on board with the healthy lifestyle that you have chosen. So there food can be very tempting to say the least. But this is where your relationship with food has to change. Dinner with your friends is not about the food. Food is fuel. Dinner with your friends is about the time you spend with them. If you are lucky they will support you and not say " I don't know how you can eat that."

1.Check out at the grocery Store:

This to me is one of the biggest temptations. Scenario: your in the store and done shopping it is almost dinner time and you are hungry. You see withing reach for about 50 cents food of some sort. Now what I have done when I am hungry when I go into a grocery store. Go straight to produce do not pass go. they have ready to eat fruits and veggies in little bags. Find a check out and buy them and eat. Not only can you make it through the check out you can also get out of the grocery store with more money in your bank account. Cause you just saved your self from buying all the junk you would have bought because you are hungry.


I hope these tips help you out. They have helped me. Remember Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.