The Ezine For Every Woman Struggling For The Body She's Always Dreamed Of!

May 6, 2005

Issue # 53

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1. Ramblings
2. Lose Weight by Eating the Right Things
3. Spicy Black Bean Soup
4. The Easy Way Might not Be The Best Way

1. Ramblings

Mother’s Day is approaching fast. If you are a mother, enjoy your day and have your family pamper you!

If you have a mother, give her some special attention for everything she has done for you! One spectacular gift are chocolate dipped strawberries. My mother just loves them (at least once or twice a year, because otherwise she’s really calorie conscious).

The Perfect Gift for Your Mother

2. Lose Weight by Eating the Right Things

Every expert preaches you that diets will work only on a short term basis and unfortunately they’re right.

To stay slim you have to make changes in the foods you choose and eat on a long-term basis. You need to get proteins, carbohydrates and fat in sufficient quantities.

Diets that concentrate on just one of the nutrients can only have a short term effect (ie. For the beach vacation in two weeks), but they should never be used more than 1-2 weeks. Otherwise they could even damage your health.

Protein

The largest portion of your body (after removing all the water) is protein. Your hair and nails have protein in them, as do your brain, bones, heart, kidneys, even your skin.

You must derive enough protein from your diet to keep all the above organs and parts of your body healthy.

When there is not enough protein in your diet, your body uses protein from its own tissues, especially from your muscles. This is fatal, because muscles burn much more calories than fat. The loss of muscles will slow down your metabolism, wrecking even the best diet efforts!

Fat

Even though fat has twice as many calories as other nutrients, it doesn’t stimulate production of insulin, which is the body's fat-making hormone.

Eating fat-free foods does more harm than good to your body, because you need some fat for digesting some vitamins, keep functioning your nervous system, insulating the body, and other vital body functions.

Try to eat mainly the “good” or unsaturated fats, that are beneficial your body. per day). These good fats are found in such foods as olives, avocados, extra-virgin olive oil, safflower oil, flax oil, nuts, etc. Bad fats, or saturated fats, are the kinds of fats that clog the arteries, make cholesterol levels rise, and raise blood pressure. Bad fats are found in meats, cheeses, butter, lard, and cream. Stay away from ALL saturated fats!

Carbohydrate

Carbohydrates are broken down to their lowest common denominator, which is glucose. Glucose is sugar. This is why they are your body's primary fuel source. Your brain requires carbohydrates every second of its life. They are essential to your survival.

But there are also “good” and “bad” carbohydrates, and eating the right carbohydrates, is essential to getting healthy, and to losing any unwanted body fat.

Picking protein, fats and carbohydrates for weight-loss. In short, to see the quickest, most dramatic fat-loss results, you will need to add more protein to your diet, eat a few tablespoons of the right fats, and eliminate all of the wrong fats, as well as all white-flour carbohydrates and sugars from your diet.

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3. Spicy Black Bean Soup

Makes: 6 servings

Ingredients:
- 1 tablespoon fat-free chicken broth
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 2 tsp. minced garlic
- 3 cups fat-free black beans
- 2-1/2 tsp. chili powder
- 1/4 tsp. cumin
- 28 oz. Mexican tomatoes and jalapenos
- 3/4 tsp. lemon juice

Directions:
- Lightly spray large soup pot with nonfat cooking spray. Pour chicken broth into pot and heat over medium-high heat.

- Add onion and garlic to pot and cook until tender and soft, about 2 to 3 minutes.

- Add beans, chili powder, cumin, tomatoes with juice, and lemon juice and mix well.

- Bring soup to a boil; reduce heat to low cover and simmer 15 minutes. If soup is too thick, add 3/4 to 1 cup water as needed.

Nutritional Information:
- Calories: 187
- Fat: 0g
- Cholesterol: 0mg
- Protein: 10g
- Carbohydrates: 34g
- Fiber: 5g
- Sodium: 700 mg

This is a sample of a GHF Diet Recipe - you'll find others by clicking here

4. The Easy Way Might not Be The Best Way

Many of us have been conditioned to believe that easy is best. We're surrounded by examples of this everywhere:

- Why buy the walk-behind mower when you can get a riding one? - Stand up to change channels? Just use the remote! - Why chop, slice and cook fresh food when ready-to-cook and frozen is available? - Exercise to lose fat? I'll just get liposuction someday. - Adopt healthy eating habits? No way-I'll just pop this diet pill or magic herb to lose weight. - Go to counseling or take other self-help measures to feel upbeat? It's easier just to pop an anti-depressant everyday.

Now don't get me wrong, there may be instances where these "conveniences" could be necessary. Someone may need to use a riding mower if they have leg problems and cannot walk to mow the lawn. Someone may be helped by an anti-depressant in conjunction with therapy following the death of a loved one.

But for the most part, the conveniences that surround our lives are the result of, and help perpetuate, the "easy is best" mindset. If it's tough, requires hard work or takes a long time, many people run and hide!

It doesn't help at all, does it, that the images we see on television show problems getting solved in 30 seconds, or at worst 60 minutes? So when our own problems take days, weeks and years to solve, it's too tempting to give up. Call it quits... ...long before we should.

It's sad, but many of us, (and I was a part of this group until my mid twenties), "learn" that things don't go our way, usually. We believe that nothing is easy. And since "easy is best," why bother?

In short, we settle.

Eating right, for example, would require discipline. Can't have that. It's not easy or fun. So we "settle" for being not that fat and indulge in fast food.

Concentrating and studying would earn A's and B's, but it means ignoring all the fun things we could be doing right now. So, we "settle" for just passing grades instead.

Having a vice like a drink or smoke comforts us when we do try something and fail...like we knew we would.

But it doesn't matter what age you are--you can start now to begin learning how rewarding and exhilarating it can be to shoot for something big.

Here's how.

Give yourself guideposts along the way. If your goal has 20 steps, write down what each of them are. When you reach each one, it's time for a little celebration.

How likely would you be to give up and quit after you reached a guidepost and it's time to celebrate? Not very, huh?

Let's say you wanted to run 3 miles per day, 5 days per week. Look at the existing patterns-can't even walk 50 feet without being out of breath. OK. One guidepost could be to go for a 20-minute stroll without getting out of breath. After doing this for a week, you notice you're no longer getting winded. It's time to celebrate!

Smile. Write down how you feel right now. Ask yourself how you did it. Write down the answer. And smile some more. Laugh if you want!

So you go a little longer now-30 minutes. Once you have that down, you maybe pick up the pace from a stroll to a brisk stride. Then you extend your time to 40 minutes. And so on. One guidepost after another...

And let's say that you've done well for two whole months, and then you try to jog instead of walk and get all out of breath, sore and tired. Did you fail?

Listen: Making mistakes ISN'T failure. Failure is quitting. So did you fail? No. With a qualifier. You can't fail if you continue trying, and if you attempt to learn something from your setback. In this case, you just tried to do too much too soon.

When I started climbing out of the hole I'd dug for myself in life, it seemed like I "failed" even more than before. I fell down a lot. After all, I was used to failing...really failing.

And it hurt. Really bad sometimes.

But the big difference was that I quit quitting. I started learning what I was doing wrong and corrected it. And failing some more. And learning. And succeeding. And failing and learning and succeeding again.

And I'm telling you that the procedure that I just shared with you is an often used formula of success in all areas of life. Millions of people have done this. Millions are doing it today to change their lives right now.

You can, too.

Pick a goal. Doesn't matter what it is. Apply the formula. And when you're tempted to quit, look back at the guideposts that you've passed. Smile. Cry. And get excited...

Because you're on the right path.

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