Eric Sedletzky
Contributor
It’s actually very simple.
If you want to lose weight and be healthy you can do several things:
1. Exercise.
Do a few sit ups, push ups, stretches,
deep knee bends (squats), and other isometric excercises each day for 15 minutes, that’s not a lot of time. Park at the far side of the lot when you go to the store and walk. Shore dive more and make several trips packing your gear. Do something everyday to break a sweat.
2. Diet.
I don’t mean a temporary “diet”, I mean a permanent way of life eating habit that becomes your normal diet.
Eat meats, good beef, chicken, fish, eggs, other seafood like shrimp, scallops, shellfish, oysters, clams, etc. Avoid or limit processed salty meats like sausage, bacon, or other highly processed meat products.
Eat lots of greens, the full gamut of produce in the store. Try all the oddball stuff you’d never consider, kale, rutabagas, leaks, and other onscure veges, their good!
Eat more fruits, berries, apples, all of it. Don’t over do the super sweet stuff.
Avoid sugary juices and drinks, water is better. Drink a lot of water throughout the day.
Avoid or completely eliminate any processed sugary and starchy stuff like cakes, cookies, donuts, pork buns (chinese), things of that nature.
Completely eliminate raw sugar, it has zero nutritional value and it is your enemy!
You can step it up and eliminate bread, white rice, and white potato products like fries, but out of any of the white starchy things a plain potato is probably the best.
3. Habits.
Do not gorge! Portion size has everything to do with it. Just because you are eating healthier foods doesn’t mean you can’t still get fat! So don’t overdo it!
Even healthy foods can have high calories. If you consume excess calories you can store them as fat.
Reduce your portion sizes and eat 5 to 6 times a day. Figure out what three square meals a day looks like and divide each of those in half. Your body will make much better use out of small meals, and in fact you could even reduce each quantity by a little more and get more benefits because your system will not get overloaded by larger portions, and none of it will go to storage. It’s a much more efficient way of eating.
Drink lots of water.
Do lots of diving in cold water in a wetsuit. Diving wet uses a lot more calories due to your body making sure it’s warm. The more you dive wet the more your body learns to burn calories to stay warm and the more efficient your furnace becomes. After diving wet you’ll be starving because your body will want to replace all those calories you burned. Have control and only eat what you know is the correct amount, not what your stomach wants. If weight loss is your goal, diving in a wetsuit in cold water is about the best way to do it.
If you want to lose weight and be healthy you can do several things:
1. Exercise.
Do a few sit ups, push ups, stretches,
deep knee bends (squats), and other isometric excercises each day for 15 minutes, that’s not a lot of time. Park at the far side of the lot when you go to the store and walk. Shore dive more and make several trips packing your gear. Do something everyday to break a sweat.
2. Diet.
I don’t mean a temporary “diet”, I mean a permanent way of life eating habit that becomes your normal diet.
Eat meats, good beef, chicken, fish, eggs, other seafood like shrimp, scallops, shellfish, oysters, clams, etc. Avoid or limit processed salty meats like sausage, bacon, or other highly processed meat products.
Eat lots of greens, the full gamut of produce in the store. Try all the oddball stuff you’d never consider, kale, rutabagas, leaks, and other onscure veges, their good!
Eat more fruits, berries, apples, all of it. Don’t over do the super sweet stuff.
Avoid sugary juices and drinks, water is better. Drink a lot of water throughout the day.
Avoid or completely eliminate any processed sugary and starchy stuff like cakes, cookies, donuts, pork buns (chinese), things of that nature.
Completely eliminate raw sugar, it has zero nutritional value and it is your enemy!
You can step it up and eliminate bread, white rice, and white potato products like fries, but out of any of the white starchy things a plain potato is probably the best.
3. Habits.
Do not gorge! Portion size has everything to do with it. Just because you are eating healthier foods doesn’t mean you can’t still get fat! So don’t overdo it!
Even healthy foods can have high calories. If you consume excess calories you can store them as fat.
Reduce your portion sizes and eat 5 to 6 times a day. Figure out what three square meals a day looks like and divide each of those in half. Your body will make much better use out of small meals, and in fact you could even reduce each quantity by a little more and get more benefits because your system will not get overloaded by larger portions, and none of it will go to storage. It’s a much more efficient way of eating.
Drink lots of water.
Do lots of diving in cold water in a wetsuit. Diving wet uses a lot more calories due to your body making sure it’s warm. The more you dive wet the more your body learns to burn calories to stay warm and the more efficient your furnace becomes. After diving wet you’ll be starving because your body will want to replace all those calories you burned. Have control and only eat what you know is the correct amount, not what your stomach wants. If weight loss is your goal, diving in a wetsuit in cold water is about the best way to do it.
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