Vitamins are NECESSARY to keep your body healthy. Everybody needs to take at least some vitamins.
Here is the catch:
- not everyone needs the same vitamins
-and NO multi-vitamin will give you everything you need in the right dose
All vitamins can be found at a health food store near you. Make sure they are all natural and are what you truly need. If you want more than I suggest below, you can always research it, or go to your local health store and ask. They are there to help you, so let them.
To start of light, flax seed is always a great helper. It is a dose of nutrition that has a little bit of everything to help you fight disease, heart problems and keep you generally healthier. There is a similar vitamin out there called Omega-3 which comes from fish. If you are taking flax seed you don't need Omega-3 and if you are taking Omega you don't need flax. They are very similar and do more or less the same things for you body. I am personally a much bigger fan of flax seed. Omega-3 always gives me that "fishy" aftertaste and since it has the same benefits as flax seed (and arguably flax seed as even more) I would rather stay way from the "fish."
Another good thing to take when trying to maintain and healthy weight is green tea. IT MUST BE ALL NATURAL GREEN TEA. There are a lot of scams out there that say they are green tea pills that help you "dramatically cut weight" and they are actually filled with tons of other unhealthy things to help your body drain quickly. Green tea is a natural caffeine which boosts a persons metabolism. If you drink a lot of green tea in daily life, you may not need to take the pill form, but the pill form is 100% natural and tends to give you more green tea than you could drink in a day.
There are many other vitamins to take. I personally take calcium magnesium zinc (for migranes), Vitamin B (helps with nails, skin and hair), Vitamin D (aids in the absorption of calcium, helping to form and maintain strong bones), Vitamin C (which helps to keep you from getting sick) as well as the two mentioned above. For my body these are the perfect antidote to help me stay in the best health possible.
Vitamins on top of all the extra added benefits also help your weight fluctuate less. Before I started taking vitamins I could gain or loose up to 4 pounds in a day. Vitamins help your body rid of the things it doesn't need and store the things it does.
Check it out!
The Health Guru
Monday, May 31, 2010
The number 1 Rule!
Rule number 1 that everyone should abide by:
Drop foods that are obviously unhealthy. Fast food, too much red meat, sodas, energy drinks, grease, excessive breading, etc. There are plenty of things in our diet that we eat knowing we shouldn't.
The first thing out of my diet was sodas and fast food. Although there are days that all I crave is In N Out and a coke, you want to get to the point with your body that 95% of the time, that isn't what you are eating, or what you want to be eating.
"Healthy" food can become just as addicting the "bad" food. Everything is okay in moderation, but what helps create a more successful ability to moderate is to cut out foods that you know you're body doesn't need but craves far too often.
More to come!
The Health Guru
Drop foods that are obviously unhealthy. Fast food, too much red meat, sodas, energy drinks, grease, excessive breading, etc. There are plenty of things in our diet that we eat knowing we shouldn't.
The first thing out of my diet was sodas and fast food. Although there are days that all I crave is In N Out and a coke, you want to get to the point with your body that 95% of the time, that isn't what you are eating, or what you want to be eating.
"Healthy" food can become just as addicting the "bad" food. Everything is okay in moderation, but what helps create a more successful ability to moderate is to cut out foods that you know you're body doesn't need but craves far too often.
More to come!
The Health Guru
Let me explain...
About a year and a half ago I made a decision to loose weight. When I did, I changed my lifestyle, as well as my diet. I didn't do anything that was a quick fix, and everything I changed, I changed for life. There is no doubt in my mind that through training and fitness and the plan of getting healthy there will be days of set back. They are normal and they are to be expected. Just don't let those setbacks bring you to your old lifestyle.
After I lost 25 pounds I continued on my healthy eating train and continue to love every day of my new diet, and my new goals which are more active and outgoing then ever before. Shortly there after, I started getting texts, emails and phone calls asking for advice on how to eat healthier and take off those few pounds that just wont budge.
I am not saying that everything in this blog will help, or will be things you haven't tried before, but keep on reading and you will see that there is lots of new information constantly out there. I will include healthy recipes (some of which you may not like and that is okay), new work out tips, the new foods to eat, and all sorts of other tips I learn. My goal is to give people who are interested a way to get and stay healthy.
Eating right and moving more is a lifestyle change. There will be no "diets" or fads. I'm giving you readers the same things I use. I'll tell you if they work, if I like them, and if I don't but I'll put them here for you to try too. Everyone is different and everyone's body wants different things.
I hope those of you who stick around, and try to shed those extra pounds enjoy what I have to say. If you loose weight, and keep it off, this blog can also help give you new ideas on how to just stay healthy. This isn't just for loosing weight, its for always wanting to be that weight. Who doesn't want to always feel confident?
I know I do. I work hard on staying healthy, here are tips for you to do it as well.
Enjoy,
The Health Guru
After I lost 25 pounds I continued on my healthy eating train and continue to love every day of my new diet, and my new goals which are more active and outgoing then ever before. Shortly there after, I started getting texts, emails and phone calls asking for advice on how to eat healthier and take off those few pounds that just wont budge.
I am not saying that everything in this blog will help, or will be things you haven't tried before, but keep on reading and you will see that there is lots of new information constantly out there. I will include healthy recipes (some of which you may not like and that is okay), new work out tips, the new foods to eat, and all sorts of other tips I learn. My goal is to give people who are interested a way to get and stay healthy.
Eating right and moving more is a lifestyle change. There will be no "diets" or fads. I'm giving you readers the same things I use. I'll tell you if they work, if I like them, and if I don't but I'll put them here for you to try too. Everyone is different and everyone's body wants different things.
I hope those of you who stick around, and try to shed those extra pounds enjoy what I have to say. If you loose weight, and keep it off, this blog can also help give you new ideas on how to just stay healthy. This isn't just for loosing weight, its for always wanting to be that weight. Who doesn't want to always feel confident?
I know I do. I work hard on staying healthy, here are tips for you to do it as well.
Enjoy,
The Health Guru
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