Small Steps to Health

Acknowledge the Impossible and Accept the Reality of Your Body Image

June 29th, 2008 by asithi · 1 Comment

Tagged Body Image, Body Image, weight

My friends will laugh if they know that I have been watching America’s Next Top Model for the last three seasons. My husband is confused since he hears my constant gripe about society’s relentless pressure on women to remain youthful and thin.
The impossible
The reason I watch the show is that it helps me acknowledge [...]

Eat 200-300 Calories Less for Weight Loss. What Does Calories Look Like?

June 26th, 2008 by asithi · 8 Comments

Tagged Healthy Eating, Weight Loss, calories, healthy eating

For most of us, our food choices will have the biggest impact on whether or not we will loose weight. In general, we know that daily caloric intake should be our weight multiply by 10. Then you throw in some multipliers such as your activity level plus your age, and voila! You arrive at your [...]

Your Dream Weight and Your Happy Weight

June 24th, 2008 by asithi · 8 Comments

Tagged Body Image, Body Image, diet, Motivation

What is your dream weight? Mine would be at 125 pounds. I am 5′3″. I haven’t seen this weight since freshman year in college. I rather be able to maintain this weight for life than to win the lottery. But I think I have a higher chance in winning the [...]

The Diet Mentality - What We Hear and What We Do

June 22nd, 2008 by asithi · 3 Comments

Tagged Emotional Eating, Gender Differences, Motivation, Weight Loss, diet, health, Motivation

Like children, sometimes what we hear and what we do when it comes to improving our health are two different things.

What we hear:
What we do:

Eat less at night.
Eat nothing at night.

Eat smaller meals.
Eat carrot sticks.

Your caloric needs will eventually decrease with weight loss.
Start counting calories and eat as little as possible as soon as you [...]

Shopping and Vanity Sizing

June 18th, 2008 by asithi · 4 Comments

Tagged Body Image, Body Image, shopping, weight

Lisa over at Workout Mommy wrote a post about vanity sizing that resonates with my complaint about women’s clothing. I hate shopping for clothes because it takes too much time. I hate picking something up from the rack, trying it on, only to discover it is either too small or too larger when [...]

Importance of Breakfast for Weight Loss and Funny Clip

June 13th, 2008 by asithi · 6 Comments

Tagged Health and fitness humor, humor

Enjoy the funny breakfast clip.

Breakfast is the most importance meal of the day for weight loss or at least that is what most people say. And that we should eat breakfast within 1-2 hours of waking.
I think that is good advice in general, but might not be true for everyone. For those dieters that [...]

Breakdown of Calorie Expenditure in our Bodies

June 11th, 2008 by asithi · 4 Comments

Tagged Weight Loss, calories, fat storage, metabolism

There are many factors that affect how our bodies convert the food we into energy.  Most people, including myself, have no problem with eating enough food to supply our bodies with the energy we need to function (though it is questionable whether we are supplying our bodies with premium or regular fuel).  This post is [...]

Funny clip about the Exercise Ball

June 9th, 2008 by asithi · 4 Comments

Tagged Health and fitness humor, humor

The thing about human nature is that we have a tendency to want to change the environment around us. If we are going to get healthy, we want to share this new discovery with everyone, no matter how annoying we might sound. I was raving about using the exercise ball instead of an [...]

Stop Middle Age Weight Gain

June 7th, 2008 by asithi · 3 Comments

Tagged Aging Bodies, Gender Differences, Overeating, Weight Loss, middle age, Weight Loss

I asked a co-worker once how she could be satisfy with a small microwave dinner for lunch every day, approximately 250-300 calories.  She was 53 and I was fresh out of school.  Here I was, wolfing down 400-500 calories every day and still hungry by 3pm.  She said to me : ‘When you get older, [...]

Gender Matters when it comes to Sugar Addiction

June 4th, 2008 by asithi · 9 Comments

Tagged Gender Differences, Overeating, Weight Loss, sugar addiction, women vs men

Do you find yourself depressed, moody, erratic, volatile, forgetful, and impulsive when you do not get your sugar fix? Can you say no to a small slice of cake without eating half the cake? You just might be addicted sugar like I am. Sugar addiction is a result of low serotonin and [...]

Men’s Fat Cells and Testosterone

June 1st, 2008 by asithi · 4 Comments

Tagged Gender Differences, fat storage, Weight Loss, women vs men

Did you know that being overweight or obese decrease the amount of testosterone in a man body?  Testosterone is as important to a man as estrogen is to a woman.  This hormone that the male bodies produce gives them the physical upper hand over women by giving the males more muscle mass and less fat [...]