Eating Healthy On A Budget

Today I have a guest post from Molly Green of www.Econobusters.com

If you have the mindset that eating healthy is expensive and beyond your means, then please read this post. Molly has sound advice for homeschool moms who wish to change their families meals to fit, healthy fare. Enjoy!

EATING HEALTHY ON A BUDGET
Molly Green, www.Econobusters.com

I have to admit that sometimes it seems like it would be much easier, and possibly cheaper, to grab a “meal in a box” out of the freezer section of the grocery store, warm it up in the stove or microwave, add some side veggies and call dinner “done.” However, over the years I have found that this is not the healthiest or the cheapest route to take when feeding my family.

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6 Steps to Getting Lean Quickly

Americans want things fast and they want them now. That includes getting lean. I know women get discouraged when they don’t see the scale move on a daily basis.

In fact, if they get on the scale and see it move up 5 pounds, they panic and starve themselves for the day. This is not healthy.

Due to hormones, barimetric pressure, foods you consume and drink, your weight can fluctuate between 5-10 lbs.

I like women to focus on their circumference measurements and the way their clothes feel and look on them. The scale never gives an accurate description of your progress.

One of the ways to help you get lean quickly is getting a gazelle like focus on your nutrition. Many popular diet programs allow things like processed, convenience foods as part of their program. This really does not help you get any healthier and definitely does not aid in teaching you how to change your lifestyle to one that will keep you strong and disease resistant.

To help you get lean quicker follow these steps:
1. Eliminate processed frankenfoods from your diet.

2. Eat whole foods in their most natural state.

3. Increase your intake of fresh fruits and veggies. Eat them with EVERY meal and snack.

4. Eat starchy, high glycemic foods post workout only.

5. Strength train and perform intervals for your cardio sessions.

6. Rest

These 6 steps will get you lean quickly and your results will be permanent.

Hugs~~

If you want to learn more about eating this way for life, check out Dr. Jon Berardi’s Precision Nutrition. Hugs~~

Garden Planning

I hope everyone had a fantastic Easter celebration yesterday. My family enjoyed a wonderful service, church breakfast, Easter dinner and later in the evening, a flashlight egg hunt.

In between church and our egg hunt, I was able to get into my garden to clear it out for Spring planting. I had let the garden get overrun with weeds last year after a really bad hail storm (softball sized hail ripped my plants apart). I lost a lot of plants last year and didn’t have the heart to get back in the garden to clean it up. Read more

Fight Fat with Fat

I read an interesting article today on brown fat versus white fat.

I have not read the actual studies so I am using this article as a reference only. Apparently we have brown fat which is “good fat” that burns more calories than white fat which is the “bad fat”. This brown fat sits in the neck and collarbone area, women and lean individuals have more of it. It is metabolically active and is most active in infants or when an individual is sitting in a cold room.

I certainly hope the general public does not fall for this next “exercise pill”. Please explain to me how popping a pill an sitting in a cold room is going to aid in the loss of excess bodyfat? Society is already doing too much sitting. Stop putting patients on diets and recommending ineffective exercise programs.

Instead, get to the heart of the problem -the emotional issues, teach sound nutrition and get your patients in touch with a fitness professional that understands the roll of metabolically active lean tissue. All research on finding a “weight loss cure” in a pill is a waste of money, time and intelligence.

I’m personally fed up with it all.

April Workout of the Month

Okay ladies! Here’s a really fun one to burn the fat and build the muscle. I call it “Pharaoh’s Revenge”! Campers LOVE to hate this one. I’m challenging you now.

There are 5 rounds of this workout. Do each exercise consecutively without rest until the end of the circuit. Rest 1 minute before starting the next round.

Round 1: 30 sec. each exercise
Round 2: 45 sec.
Round 3: 60 sec
Round 4: 45 sec
Round 5: 30 sec.

The Pyramid
Squat and Press
Rows
Swings
Push Ups (no knees allowed)
Alternating Reverse Lunges
High Pulls
Planks

Have fun!

Gardening, Groceries and Fat Loss

It is a beautiful day in NW Indiana! The girls are all outside enjoying the sunshine while I attempt to get some work done. I just finished running around town looking for some businesses to do some cross promotions with my boot camps. Met a lot of interesting individuals.

I was disappointed to find out that I am unable to put little yard signs up anywhere as it is a zone violation. Phooey! I am currently advertising on the local Christian radio station but it hasn’t been very fruitful.

I worked out with my 9 am boot camp class. The last day of camp in March we did a Meltdown 300 Challenge and I recorded everyone’s scores on our blog. So, today, being the last day of camp in April, we did the challenge again to see if they could beat their original time. It has been fun watching everyone push themselves and beat their scores.

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Grocery Tips?

I had a marvelous time at the IAHE Convention. I didn’t get to meet any of you so that made me a little sad, but perhaps next time. Read more