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My Journey - Part 9 - Lets Talk Nutrition it Plays an Important Part of Health and Weight Control
- By Karen Fullick
- Published 07/19/2009
- Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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Karen Fullick
My name is Karen I have written a series of reports about my weight loss journey in which time I qualified as a Nutritional Therapist and made an amazing discovery to Fast, Effortless, Permanent weight loss To receive your free reports click http://www.freetheslimyou.com
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So lets get started on nutrition
As nutrition is an essential part of health and weight loss/control and the feeling of wellbeing, I am going to include emails regarding this subject. It also forms part of my journey as covered in my previous emails. I believe that understanding some of this will help you to start making beneficial changes to your diet, however, it is only a part of what led to my success my amazing discovery To free the slim you is the glue that holds together all of my nutritional knowledge, past experiences, new findings and success!!
So lets tackle the subject of water first.
Water the essence of life
For some reason a lot of people do not like drinking water unless it is mixed with fruit squash, tea or coffee. Mixed with these substances it dilutes its health value.
So I will start by going over the reasons we should drink water and plenty of it at least 1.5 ltrs per day and more if you have exercised or done anything that has made you sweat.
Benefits the scientific bit:
Water is essential for life
Regulates body temperature
Transports nutrients around the body
Involved in every stage of digestion
Carries waste products out of the body
Enables the formation of cells and tissues
Provides a medium in which metabolism occurs
Sends messages between our cells so that our muscles can contract
Prote
cts the nervous system
Carries oxygen and carbon dioxide round the body
Forms lubricant for joints and membranes
How cool is that!!
Things you need to know:
At the point we feel thirsty our body is already dehydrated.
Often when we feel hungry we are really thirsty.
The colour of our urine is a clear indicator of our body water levels. If it is a light straw colour we are hydrated if it is any darker we are dehydrated. The darker the colour the more dehydrated we are.
How can we adjust to drinking water:
If you can drink water go ahead and drink at least 1.5 ltrs a day
For those of you who struggle to drink water there is a correct way of doing this that makes it quite easy.
SIP your water regularly throughout the day. You will soon be able to consume your daily allowance.
Do not drink a full glass of water all at once as this will just go straight through your system and you will be running to the toilet all day. Even when exercising you should SIP.
Build up your water intake if you are not used to it. Any amount of pure water will be beneficial to you.
Drink a glass of water 30 mins before eating you will eat less
Coming next:
Break the chain of Yo-Yo dieting
Until next time
Take care Karen
Nutritional Therapist
Tip of the day
Water will make your skin, hair and complexion look and feel great. If you cannot drink it on its own drink it in herbal teas It has the same effect!
As nutrition is an essential part of health and weight loss/control and the feeling of wellbeing, I am going to include emails regarding this subject. It also forms part of my journey as covered in my previous emails. I believe that understanding some of this will help you to start making beneficial changes to your diet, however, it is only a part of what led to my success my amazing discovery To free the slim you is the glue that holds together all of my nutritional knowledge, past experiences, new findings and success!!
So lets tackle the subject of water first.
Water the essence of life
For some reason a lot of people do not like drinking water unless it is mixed with fruit squash, tea or coffee. Mixed with these substances it dilutes its health value.
So I will start by going over the reasons we should drink water and plenty of it at least 1.5 ltrs per day and more if you have exercised or done anything that has made you sweat.
Benefits the scientific bit:
Water is essential for life
Regulates body temperature
Transports nutrients around the body
Involved in every stage of digestion
Carries waste products out of the body
Enables the formation of cells and tissues
Provides a medium in which metabolism occurs
Sends messages between our cells so that our muscles can contract
Prote
Carries oxygen and carbon dioxide round the body
Forms lubricant for joints and membranes
How cool is that!!
Things you need to know:
At the point we feel thirsty our body is already dehydrated.
Often when we feel hungry we are really thirsty.
The colour of our urine is a clear indicator of our body water levels. If it is a light straw colour we are hydrated if it is any darker we are dehydrated. The darker the colour the more dehydrated we are.
How can we adjust to drinking water:
If you can drink water go ahead and drink at least 1.5 ltrs a day
For those of you who struggle to drink water there is a correct way of doing this that makes it quite easy.
SIP your water regularly throughout the day. You will soon be able to consume your daily allowance.
Do not drink a full glass of water all at once as this will just go straight through your system and you will be running to the toilet all day. Even when exercising you should SIP.
Build up your water intake if you are not used to it. Any amount of pure water will be beneficial to you.
Drink a glass of water 30 mins before eating you will eat less
Coming next:
Break the chain of Yo-Yo dieting
Until next time
Take care Karen
Nutritional Therapist
Tip of the day
Water will make your skin, hair and complexion look and feel great. If you cannot drink it on its own drink it in herbal teas It has the same effect!