I don't feel so sluggish anymore, because I'm really watching what I eat and what goes into it. As well as exercise (that old dirty word.) Over a month and half ago I began "Insanity" which apparently is a part of the P 90X family and I got my lazy bottom up and started exercising, heaving and gasping for breath! But now, as I continue it I feel my body changing, it doesn't get tired like it did. It craves the exercise. I'm not striving for a number on a scale but just to feel healthy! I'm also changing little things in my eating style. First, I'm not going to get on any diets! It's a bad word and usually unsuccessful because you always "stop a diet." I really encourage just slowly changing eating patterns and grocery store trips.
If you think eating healthy is expensive take a look at this from a different perspective...
Don't fool yourself into thinking that cancer is only genetic! Can you read the labels on your food? What are all those various long words and why is there corn syrup in almost everything? Look up what super foods are! Green tea is one of my favorites! I make it hot and pour it over ice, no sugar needed! Also I try to fit Kale into different meals, eggs, sandwiches, salad. Blueberries are my favorite! They are a great source of antioxidants. I add them to yogurt for a post work-out treat! Salmon (if you are a fish person) is a healthy fat. It's good for your brain, heart and skin! Cook with olive oil not vegetable oil!
Drink more water! Warning: The USDA is trying to approve a genetically modified salmon! Splurge for the wild-caught! Watch packaging, Walmart sells so-called "Wild-caught" Salmon but the back lists that they are farm raised in China.
This venture into eating as many non-processed foods as possible began with an idea last year after we went to Japan. The Japanese try very hard to keeps gmos out of their food. There is a reason Japan is one of the healthiest countries in the world! I thought this, "If my family and I continue to eat processed American food with little amounts of fresh vegetables (a big thing in Japan) fruit (expensive in Japan but accessible) and fish (everywhere in Japan!) then we are going to feel as if we are starving if we don't start to change now!"
You may think that sounds silly, but I was there! When you haven't the background of home-cooking from scratch expect what you've taught yourself it can be a challenge to come up with meals to eat in a foreign land. Thankfully I've purchased a Japanese cookbook that actually babysteps me through a Japanese grocery store.
I'm not a nutritionist nor expert by no means on exercise or healthy eating, but you don't have to be! This is common sense. I'm not through.......my rant and information will continue after I charge my computer one day........
