Benefits Of Excercise
Feel Fit, Feel Beautiful with these Health Tips!
Food intake
You should eat small meals 4-5x daily. This will help keep your metabolism moving. Note: The average person in America only eats 1-2x daily in large meals. This tells your body you are starving it and it will store the food as fat (even if the food is healthy).
Balance your meals
You should balance each meal with protein/carbs. Portion sizes are very important and a small plate will help you. Note: Every meal Protein should avg. 4oz and complex carbs should be ½ cup cooked. Veggies are unlimited. This varies on your weight and goal.
When you go out to eat at a restaurant, ask the waiter to box ½ your meal to go and bring your other ½ on your plate. This will help you from overeating when you are full. Most portion sizes at restaurants are 2-3x what you should eat.
You should drink 1 gallon water a day. Water helps flush toxins, digest food, lose weight, hydrate and much more.
Excercise regularly
You should exercise 3-4x weekly at a minimum. Cardio and strength training are equally as important.
You can benefit from a strength training session that lasts only 20 minutes, even if it only 2-3x weekly. Exercise training has evolved over the years and you do not always have to be in the gym for 1 hour or more. There are ways to benefit anyone’s busy schedule.
Don't forget your veggies
You should eat 7-9 servings of fruits and veggies daily. If you exercise, you should eat 9-14 servings daily. Be careful not to overcook your veggies because you will lose nutrients. If you struggle with this you can take a whole food product called Juice Plus and this will at least get you 5 servings + whatever you eat too. See next page for more details or go to Bethankful4Juiceplus.com. Changing your exercise program and keeping a variety of different foods in your daily diet will help you not to plateau or become stagnant in your goals. Doing the same thing over and over, your body gets used to it.
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