Health Tips

Women – A New Body For the New Year

January 11, 2010
By Courtney M Chason

WEEK 1

You’re starving, I mean really starving. You can get through it by not skipping out on breakfast. During the first days of your diet, you feel nothing but hunger, that is because by eating fewer calories, your body is producing extra ghrelin. This hormone is responsible for making you hungry.

To reduce ghrelin levels while reducing your calories, you need to focus on breakfast. Researchers have found that people who started their day off with a high calorie meal that included complex carbohydrates produced less ghrelin throughout the day and felt fuller longer. Shoot for a breakfast that is roughly 20 percent of your daily caloric needs. This can be achieved by eating a bowl of raisin bran with a slice of whole wheat toast with jam, or a half cup of multigrain oatmeal with a half a banana sliced up into a small container of low-fat yogurt.

WEEK 2

Going low-cal is making you uptight and a little testy. Get through it by reaching out to your friends. It’s no secret that diets are as hard on your mind as they are the body. A recent UCLA study has linked dieting to chronic stress. A major part of your diet is to change your eating behaviors, which can be stressful on a person. Unfortunately, stress is double trouble when dieting. It not only may make you go back to your normal eating habits, but also stress produces cortisol, a hormone which will slow down the weight loss process.

This is when relying on your friends and family for support comes into play, or even get one or two of them to join you in your weight loss goals. Doing it as a group will help all of you stay on track and you can also pick up and motivate each other to keep on track. And just remember you have gone this far, it is only going to get easier. After 21 days a repeated action will become a habit.

WEEK 3

PMS munchies have you craving anything you can put in a bowl.

You can get through it by, Eating more often. During this crazy cravings cycle, skip your normal 3 meals a day program and switch to smaller more frequent meals throughout the day. Eating 4-6 smaller meals a day will help your body to stabilize your blood sugar, cut fatigue (that run down feeling), and can also prevent bloating. This is really how you should try to eat anyhow, because your body has to digest these calories and the digestion process burns calories also. so it is a win-win situation with your weight loss goals.

Just keep going and you will see that it does get easier, and when you can fit back into your favorite jeans, you will say WOW I did it.

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