Master Your Metabolism

If there is one confusing topic out there that has a lot of misinformation, it is how to boost your metabolism.

I ran across this book that can help…

Master Your Metabolism is a book that will challenge your thinking about food and how to lose weight. It’s a three phase plan that will get hormones such as insulin, cortisol, HGH and estrogen in check and put you on track to losing weight and enjoying life.

You may remember Jillian Michaels from the hit television show, The Biggest Loser. She’s a no-nonsense trainer and wellness expert who knows how to whip your body back in shape and master the ruler of your body weight and health…your metabolism.

Jillian found that she’d been clueless when it came to metabolism and it directly affected her endocrine system. When she found a way to rev up her own metabolism, Jillian went about formulating a plan to share with others.

You’ll learn how hormones affect your metabolism and how it can all get out of whack. It’s not hopeless though, you can get your metabolism back to its efficient self. When your metabolism is restored, it resets itself and begins to process food as it should.

Master Your Metabolism is a three-step plan that removes, restores and rebalances nutrients that your body needs to run properly. You’ll be getting rid of anti-nutrients and replacing them with powerful nutrients to help with fat-burning.

Then, you can adjust and rebalance the system by eating foods that act as fuel to have the maximum impact on your metabolism. Lifestyle strategies are necessary to keep your metabolism and health on track.

For example, Jillian advocates removing toxins from your home, add the nutrients you’ve been missing to your diet plan and keeping stress out of your life by revamping your energy.

When your hormonal disorders are fixed and your metabolism is running at normal speed, you’re ready to begin the process of keeping your life balanced by sticking to the program for the rest of your life.

Weight loss naturally occurs on the Master Your Metabolism plan because it isn’t about calories, it’s about feeding your body what it needs to help your metabolism burn fat rather than store it.

You’ll notice that Jillian emphasizes natural and organically grown foods to give you the best results. Processed foods must be avoided and the pollutants that we take into the body on a daily basis for water and air should be minimized.

Mastering your metabolism can’t be achieved in a day, but as you continue with the plan you’ll begin to notice differences in your weight, energy level, appearance and even self-confidence.

Your digestive system will be able to work at peak performance and you’ll begin to look at food as a medicine to heal rather than something you need to fight off hunger. Master Your Metabolism can help you change your life, and add years to it.

You can check out Master Your Metabolism here.

There’s also a cookbook that goes along with it here.

What’s your greatest struggle with metabolism?

Intuitive Eating

One of the more interesting topics around healthy eating I’ve come across is a book called Intuitive Eating.

Consider this…what if your diet plan consisted of being able to eat all the foods you love…any time you want?

Intuitive Eating was created by two authors, Evelyn Tribole M.S. R.D and Elyse Resch M.S. R.D. F.A.D.A., and it lets you do just that.

This common sense approach to dieting is specially formulated for those who have dieted and failed so many times and feel caught in a web of diet programs that don’t work. The authors call it, “Hitting the Diet Bottom.”

Most diets zap your energy and require a lot of planning, measuring and special ingredients. After dieting and feeling deprived for weeks or months it’s just too tempting to gorge on all the foods you’ve missed on the diet you were on.

That’s when the weight creeps back on your body with even more veracity and all those new “skinny” clothes you bought no longer fit. With the IE plan, you don’t have to focus your entire life around shopping and preparing of diet foods and eating such scant amounts that you’re never satisfied.

The Intuitive Eating program operates on three basic rules; 1.) Eat the food you’re hungry for whenever you like, 2.) Eat only because you’re truly hungry and not for emotional reasons, 3.) Learn your inner hunger and satiated cues and rely on them to figure out how much to eat.

The hard truth is…those who struggle with food issues usually struggle with other areas of their lives; relationships, self-esteem and other issues. The Intuitive Eating plan helps you gain control over food, causing a domino effect of getting control in other areas of your life.

For those of you who thought your taste buds and stomach were the main reasons for overeating and cravings, you’ll learn in Intuitive Eating that the mind has even more to do with your weight loss success.

The tips and suggestions in the book are designed to lead you to a new way of thinking about your weight. In fact, the authors suggest you should not even think about your weight, but pay attention to your hunger cues.

After reading the book, you’ll get extra help from the appendices which consist of a question and answer portion and step-by-step guidelines to get you started on the Intuitive Eating program and your new life, free of food issues.

Intuitive Eating was originally released back in 2003, but received an update in 2012.

The latest printing of Intuitive Eating has changed a bit. There are no longer statistics such as weights and heights because time and research have determined that it leads to self-sabotage.

There are also two new chapters added to the book. One is designed to help children become Intuitive Eaters and the other provides scientific evidence that IE can really work to help you get your weight and eating habits under control.

If this sounds interesting to you, check out Intuitive Eating here.

A new Intuitive Eating Workbook was released last year as well, which can help you be even more successful with Intuitive Eating.

Let me know your thoughts in the comments…

A Cool Little Gadget For Healthy Eating

One of my biggest challenges is…meal prep.

Even with detailed instructions or videos, how can I know that I’ve accurately prepared a meal?

I suspect this is a common problem, especially when trying to eat healthy or dieting.

Well, I ran across a cool little gadget that can help you and I make sure we can easily and accurately measure our ingredients and control our portions.

It’s called a Digital Kitchen Food Scale.

It’s designed to focus on the main elements you need to prepare meals and can quickly and accurately weigh ingredients to let you know if you’re getting a healthy portion size. The weighing surface is 6×6 inches and is also able to let you measure ingredients that must be in a bowl.

You’ve got the option of switching between pounds, grams, ounces (including fluid ounces) and milliliters and the accuracy of measurements are within 1 ounce and 1 gram.

Greater Goods manufactures this handy little scale and they back all their products with 100% satisfaction guarantee and a 2-year warranty that takes care of defects and damages. You can also speak to a specialist if you have any questions or concerns about the scale.

Those who have purchased and reviewed the scale love the slimness of the product and the fact that most bowls and measuring cups fit nicely. There are also many comments about the taring or zeroing out feature that lets you subtract the weight of the container before weighing the food.

Its appearance is clean and streamlined and easily fits on your countertop. Cleaning is easy and it shuts off automatically when you’re finished weighing an item. There are only two buttons: one to turn on and off and one to reset the scale to zero.

Besides weighing your own food for diets or cooking purposes, you can use the scale to measure the portions of food for your pets that are on a diet. It couldn’t be easier and you have confidence in knowing you’re getting it right.

Besides being an excellent product for dieters, the Digital Food Scale is also a great choice for culinary experts who desire accuracy and a fast calculation. It’s also easy to carry if you’re preparing or cooking outside your kitchen.

You’ll feel much more confident in your kitchen measurements when you can weigh accurately. Batteries are included and you can rely on the experts at Greater Goods customer service to help you solve any problems you may have when using the scale.

Perhaps the greatest pleasure in purchasing this handy kitchen gadget is the fact that Greater Goods sets aside a portion of all purchases for the Global Orphan Project. It’s an organization that helps orphaned children by providing necessities and support.

So, you’re protecting others as you’re protecting your health and well-being by being able to measure your food portions. It’s a win-win.

You can grab the Greater Goods Digital Food Scale from Amazon for under $10. Not bad…not bad at all.