Nutrition Offer

Hey Family

I have a special offer for each of you, scroll down to the bottom to see my offer.
Otherwise, please read the other facts I think you should know too!

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What you eat is a critical part of weight management and overall health.
I will spare you all of the science details but here are a the most important principles:

- Weight loss is based on Calories In VS Calories Out
- Focus on Fruits and Veggies
- A "diet" is a misnomer, this is not something you are doing for a while, it is a lifestyle change. And that means making changes gradually.

For instance you could start doing each of the following at the beginning of every month:
First start with eating out less. Then cut out soda. Next try to buy low fat groceries. Add a vegetable to dinner. Stop eating everything in front of you, just eat until you're satisfied. Eat only one dessert a day.

There are 6 months of nutrition changes all added gradually. Just an example!
In this example for instance, you could keep eating multiple desserts a day for a few more months but in the mean time you started eating one more vegetable a day and stopped drinking soda.


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Here is an interesting program called the National Weight Control Registry

NWCR

- It is a registry that you are invited to join if you lose more than 30 pounds and keep it off for more than a year.

Here is some quick info about all of the registry members:

98% of Registry participants report that they modified their food intake in some way to lose weight.

94% increased their physical activity, with the most frequently reported form of activity being walking.

There is variety in how NWCR members keep the weight off. Most report continuing to maintain a low calorie, low fat diet and doing high levels of activity.

78% eat breakfast every day.
75% weigh themselves at least once a week.
62% watch less than 10 hours of TV per week.
90% exercise, on average, about 1 hour per day.

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Special Offer



With the software I have and the things I have learned, I am offering a free personal nutritional evaluation and health profile. A $200 value! (I don't really know but I'd love to do it for you)

In the evaluation I will tell you:
- Your BMI, body composition, associated risks, your "ideal" weight, and a weight loss goal/plan
- Exact macro and micro nutrient distributions in your diet, associated risks, and recommendations for dietary changes.
- General health evaluation and expected benefits from successful completion of weight loss program

I will need 3 days (Thur, Fri, Sat) of EXACT food logs and also 15-20 minutes of time to ask you questions over the phone.
If you are interested in getting your FREE personal nutrition evaluation and health profile, let me know via e-mail, text or facebook and I'll set it up.

If you order now, Chelsy will give you FREE recipes for healthy, tasty meals including: vegan, vegetarian, gluten free or lactose intolerant meals.

But seriously if you want some good tasting meals that are healthy Chelsy is excellent. (And she seriously has vegan etc. recipes)

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You're worth it! Slow but simple changes!

-- I have another blog post coming up about the importance of working hard NOW (ie the first 6 months) and what to expect in your weight loss and how to keep it off.

Lots of Love!
- David

Here are some great tips!

Check out this great link (click here) To see a list of busted work out and fat burning myths. They have some really great info that I highly recommend everyone taking a look at. Good luck!

- Julia

Why I Only Lost 2 Pounds

I've been swimming a lot. about a month now and all of it has helped me tone my upper body muscles(I'll work on my lower half soon).Im getting ready for football for next season(i haven't played in 5 years!). My "abs" biceps and triceps shoulders and "pecs" have gotten really well AWESOME! Im excited and ready for track and football. Swimming is great for conditioning for sports. This is why i only lost 2 pounds.

Exercising regularly but still eating poorly

So I dropped around 9 lbs in January. I've been exercising an average of every other night for quite a while. It's been very difficult to maintain any kind of healthy eating though, mostly due to my work hours and whatnot. If I can just get my act together and eat at the right times, it will be a start. That is all.

Being sick helps!

Becky and I have been doing pretty good on our diet. We got off track last week with our exercise because somebody was sick in our house, not allowing us to leave. I was really sick for almost a week and got my weight down to 207.8, but I have gained a bit back. We have done really well with not bringing junk food into the house and we haven't had meat, or milk for pretty much the whole month. The times that we had it in front of us didn't appeal to us much. We feel healthier and stronger!! Our only setbacks are lazy days where we don't exercise. As soon as you don't get a workout in, it makes it harder to choose healthy foods. However, since its not in our house, we have to scrounge to find something bad. Keep up the good work everyone. This is fun, and I am living in less fear of having a heart attack every day!!

Going strong...mostly

I made some delicious totally vegan healthy soup the other day. It had vegetable broth and mushroom broth, potatoes, carrots, onion, garlic, cabbage, lentils, salt & pepper, italian seasoning. Just throw all of the chopped up veggies and everything else in a big pot and simmer it. I also made homemade egg-less whole wheat rolls. Mmmm. It was delicious! We have also been making salads pretty much every day. We make a bed of greens, put on top of it some black beans, corn, onions, carrots, celery, salsa, crunched up tortilla chips, small amount of cheese, and small amount of Marie Callendar's Chipotle ranch dressing or Litehouse Jalapeno ranch dressing. It is a delicious southwestern salad that fills you up completely. Eat that at around 4 or 5 pm with a tall glass of water and you will be full all night.

We did have a bad day yesterday. We got Little Caesars on the way home from swim lessons. It was ridiculous. I felt bad, but I also felt like I was going crazy not allowing myself any junky food. I know it has only been a week and a half, but it feels like forever. I decided to only order one large pizza so we would not overeat. I ordered it over the phone and made the mistake of sending Jake inside to pick it up. He walked out with 2 large pizzas and a crazy bread. Yes, it was a better deal because the one pizza was $7 plus tax and they had a deal for 2 large and free crazy bread for $10. I guess my point for not doing the better deal was that we wouldn't be tempted to eat a bunch of it and have to have leftovers in the fridge. Oh well. What's one day, right? I did an extra long and harder workout today and only ate healthy, so I think I made up for it.

I have had a struggle with my sweet tooth, however I have found a healthy option for when I get a hankering. Silk Pure Almond Dark Chocolate Milk. It's delicious and it is totally dairy free. However, it is not delicious right after eating a handful of M&M's. ; ) It's good stuff and helps me not binge on unhealthy chocolatey goodness.

I do this all because, I'm Worth IT!! I'm good enough, smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!

Healthy Lifestyle Info and Guidance

Hey everyone, I'm loving the posts and the goal setting.
Remember that the effort you put in now will improve your health, your appearance and decrease medical complications later in life.

You're worth it!

I have a lot of things to say and a lot of interesting studies to share with you but I will spread those out during the next 9 months. What I wanted to start with were some resources for you during the year.

There are a lot of nutrition and health myths out there and a simple internet search isn't always going to give you reliable information.
There is good stuff out there however. I recommend www.livestrong.com



Through my experience this site is probably the best for providing accurate, reliable and easy to understand information. Other sites are either unreliable, biased, lack scientific citations, are trying to make money or are hard to understand.

At livestrong, simply type some key words in the search bar, then on the left hand side of the search results click "Articles". There are many articles about one topic written by more than one author. Choose one that looks like a good place to start.

This next step is important
After reading an article, look on the right hand side and click a related article. Read at least 3 or 4 articles about a given topic to get the whole picture. Different health specialists with different backgrounds write the articles and it is important to get a whole picture of the topic.


Another source of help is me!
While I am not an expert in nutrition or exercise I do know some things off hand but I also have access to textbooks and online databases (through BYU) that have valid, up-to-date information on most anything nutrition related.

So if you want to learn more about food or exercise feel free to ask me anything and I will either answer it, look it up or point you in the right direction. I am here for you!


Good luck everyone and stick with it. This is an important goal to reach.