About Being Physical

Hi, all. This is my third post for the day.

K, now we've talked about the three pillars. Here's some more on the physical. I look at this at a two-pronged fork: Diet and exercise. You need to fit both into your day, and the diet is definitely the easiest, or is it? Sometimes resistance to certain foods is tougher than the lifting I do--I swear! But you have to eat and it doesn't take anymore of your precious time--except to actually prepare your foods. I was bad about this. I ate out way too often, and still do. But I make better choices which is what's important.

Now, what I'm going to encourage you to do is keep two logs: one for what you eat and one for your exercise (and you can include things like walking stairs, housecleaning, etc. These burn calories.) This will help you stay on track. Now, don't make any drastic changes--yet. First, track yourself for a week and get a baseline and see where you are. This will give you the momentum to change.

The other thing I want you to do is google an exercise guide, one that tells you about how many calories a certain activity will burn, and a food calorie/nutrition guide. Find one that will give you the breakdown of the foods you eat. This is often on the back of the food package but raw foods don't have this. Find something because it's important to know the calories as well as the fat/carb/protein ratio you're eating.

Now, why do this, you ask? And why keep track of these things? Because in all honesty, weigh control is a very simple formula. Calorie input less calorie output. If you keep yourself in a deficit mode--more calories expended than input, you'll lose. If you keep yourself on the plus side, you'll gain. Make sense?

Enough for now. Again, keep track. You can use a little notebook and make sure you put EVERYTHING in it. Even that little hard candy you eat as you walk out of the restaurant. K?

Talk to you soon.

~ Lise

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