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A Handful of Tips for the Road…

From http://blog.loopcycling.com/

I have thoroughly enjoyed my time blogging for LOOP over the past 4 months. In honor of my last blog, I thought I leave you with some tips for the road! Eat well and prosper…and always enjoy the ride!

Tip #1
Are you training for an endurance event? If so, be sure that you are planning and practicing your “event eating.” If you are training for more than 90 minutes you should be refueling your body during exercise. You need between 120-240 calories of carbs every hour to spare muscle glycogen stores and maximize your endurance capacity. Try snacks like pretzels, candy, and carbohydrate gels to provide lasting energy.

Tip #2
Bananas are a great fruit when it comes to fitness. They are easily transported in your gym bag or purse, they are available year round, and they are a good source of potassium, fiber, and vitamins C and B6 to keep your immune system healthy and your electrolytes in check after a tough workout. Try slicing and freezing bananas for a cool, grab-and-go summer treat. Pair with peanut butter for a balanced snack.

Tip #3
Slow down and savor your food! Eating your meals and snacks too quickly can block the release of hormones that tell you when your body is satisfied. Having your meals in a more relaxed atmosphere where you can focus on your food will help you to avoid overeating and may help to prevent weight gain. Not sure how to slow down? Avoid distraction during meals, put your fork down between bites, and chew your food well.

Tip #4
Are you eating spinach? If not, why? It’s packed with fiber, vitamin A, vitamin C, and folate. It can be eaten raw or cooked and incorporated into your favorite foods. Spinach can fit in every meal: add it to your eggs at breakfast, eat a spinach and spring greens salad at lunch, and chop it up to add into your favorite family casserole, enchiladas, or lasagna for dinner. Start eating this versatile veggie today!

TIP #5
Ever walk into a grocery store and feel a bit lost? Grocery shopping starts at home. Plan your weekly meals ahead, prepare your grocery list and then hit the aisles. Avoid going to the grocery store hungry and stay on task while shopping. It’s easy to be distracted by end cap deals, but if it’s not on your list, you probably don’t need it. These simple tips will help you save time and money.

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It is tiring every time you turn your head or turn on the radio or television one or more ads will appear claiming to be for quick weight loss. Really, especially with the new year that is all you hear about. Every single time the television is on, an ad talks about how great their program can help you lose weight and not do anything differently. Then you jump in your car to get the kids, and guess what's on the radio? You got it another ad about how this system will help you lose weight and oh, this one says it is natural (and you don't have to change your habits with this one either). Remember, natural doesn't mean anything if it isn't healthy. Opium is natural. Marijuana is natural. That doesn't mean you should use it. And finally, you think it couldn't get any worse, but you take a deep breath, yet you are bombarded by it:

  • Your friends are telling you about the latest and greatest - Facebook, Twitter, Emails, Phone calls etc
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It is everywhere. As if we didn't feel bad enough that we let the last few stressful years of our busy lives take over and add extra weight - now they have to keep telling us. Well, ladies, it is NOT your fault. These are gimmicks and great marketing techniques - not great weight loss techniques. If these silly ideas worked then 2/3 of the adults wouldn't be overweight and the average person would not gain a whopping 12 pounds over the holiday season.

Whether it is a little or a lot, these 5 secrets are ideal for weight loss for women (excellent weight loss for men too, but let's not tell them yet).

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This is a journey. This is the most important step to understand and to accept! You didn't gain the weight overnight, so you probably won't lose it overnight. It is important to set realistic goals and practice commitment. Any diet that says you don't need to do anything other than buy their product and you will lose tons of weight fast is either 1. A lie, 2. Unhealthy or 3. Both. Set small goals that build into a big goal.

To maximize weight loss for women it is essential to combine as many of the following as possible as often as you can without feeling deprived. It is important to learn to incorporate the cravings you have so that you'll stick to this new lifestyle.

1. Reduce Calories Slowly: Reduce calories by about 500-1000 cal a day to lose about 2 pounds a week. Some people lose more, and some less but this is a good rule of thumb. This is considered a safe range to lose so you can keep it off. It's not safe and eventually you will gain more back if you deplete your body of calories too fast. If you cut your calories too rapidly or too low, your body will tend to feed off the valuable muscle. This is disastrous to any weight loss program because muscle makes us look firm and sexy, muscle keeps our metabolisms strong, and muscle is what our heart is made of. Cutting back too fast can damage your heart

How to lower our calories? A key way to do this is by increasing your activity level: workout, walk more (just parking your car farther helps significantly), and take the steps, etc. As an added bonus, more activity will lower your stress, improve your sleep, increase your overall energy and help you stay motivated.

2. Make Healthy Food Choices: This can be tricky when you are surrounded by contradicting information "Eat low Carbs, Eat Low Fat, Eat this...Eat that...". Well, here are the facts. According to University of Illinois, diets higher in lean protein and lean dairy have been proven to help weight loss. Eating less processed foods and less artificial foods is easier for your body to metabolize, therefore, helps with weight loss. Avoid empty calories like soft drinks and flavored coffees. Did you know that just by choosing healthy carbohydrate choices like sweet potatoes, veggies, and quinoa etc, it has been proven that you can reduce unsafe deep belly fat by 11%? It is true. And this deep belly fat is definitely our enemy because it is a contributing factor in heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.

Also, eating foods that are high in leucine, an amino acid, will greatly help your journey to a healthier, sexier you. Leucine has been used for years by body builders and others that want to shed unwanted fat while maintaining lean muscle. Remember it is this lean muscle is that helps us maintain a higher metabolism, and it is muscle that gives us that lean, firm, sexy look that we all dream of, plus a healthy heart as mentioned earlier.

3. Keep a Journal: This is a must. You may not find it enjoyable to see that you just drank all your calories in 3 lattes but it is important to know where the calories are going. An online diary is an excellent resource that can track exercise and food calories to optimize weight loss for women. In a recent weight loss study, people who kept a journal doubled their weight loss in a 6 month period when compared to those who did not keep a journal. It is a powerful tool for weight loss for women.

4. Adequate Sleep: Sufficient sleep is about 6-8 hours a night for an average adult. Sleep helps a number of things besides weight loss. It also helps to reduce stress and repair the body. As we know, stress has tons of negative side effects and a biggie is weight gain.

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Wow....

this dog was born on Christmas Eve in the year 2002. He was born  with   2   legs - He  of course could not walk when he was born. Even his mother did not  want him.  


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His  first owner also did not think that he could survive and he was  thinking of 'putting him to sleep'.  

But  then, his present owner, Jude Stringfellow, met him and wanted   to take care of him.  

She  became determined to teach and train this little dog to walk by  himself.  

She  named him 'Faith'.  

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In  the beginning, she put Faith on a surfboard to let him feel the  movement. 
Later  she used peanut  butter on a spoon as a lure and reward for  him for standing up and jumping around. 

Even  the other dog at home encouraged him to walk.. 

Amazingly,  only after 6 months, like a miracle,  

Faith  learned to balance on his hind legs and to jump to move forward.  

After  further training in the snow, he could now walk like a human  being..  

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Faith  loves to walk around now. 

No  matter where he goes, he attracts people to him.  

He  is fast becoming famous on the international scene and  

has  appeared on various newspapers and TV shows.  

There  is now a book entitled 'With a Little Faith' being published about  him. 

He  was even considered to appear in one of Harry Potter  movies.  

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His  present owner Jude Stringfellew has  given up her teaching post  and plans to take him around the world 
to   preach that even without a perfect body, one can have a perfect  soul'.
  















In  life there are always undesirable things, so in order to feel better  you just need to look at life from another direction.  

I  hope this message will bring fresh new ways of thinking to everyone and  that everyone will appreciate and be thankful for each beautiful  day. 

Faith  is the continual demonstration of the strength and wonder of  life. 

A small request: All you are asked to do is keep this story circulating
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