You are walking down the street and you look around; what do you see? Do you see people that are too fat or too thin or what? Are you a part of any of these groups in society?
We all want to bee thin or buff - for guys- or with curves, right?
Some people go to extreme measures like not eating but one thing a day and drinking caffeine or caffeine products to kill the hunger, or vomiting every time they eat something, or exercising five hours a day,e.t.c.
But is this right? The answer, in my opinion, is NO
IT IS NOT RIGHT TO STARVE YOURSELF OR HURT YOUR BODY IN A WAY THAT CAN DEFINATELY MAKE YOU SICK, WEAK, DEFENCELESS, AND EVEN BRING YOU DEATH.
There are many healthy ways to lose weight and to get the body you want.
-For example eating 3 meals a day with at least 2 small snacks (when I say snacks I mean nutritious ones like fruit, yogurt, granola, natural peanuts, e.t.c)
-Exercising for about and hour or maybe 2(this includes about 35- 45 min doing cardio or on the treadmill, running, e.t.c.)
-Getting a good night sleep of about 7 to 8 hours (if your body rest right you will have more energy during the day and who knows you might even be able to learn better)
-In the meals; trying to eat things with little sugar -candy, deserts, you get the picture- eating lots of protein like chicken, beans, fish, pork, and a small amount of compound carbohydrates like pasta, bread, rice, but eating a lot of other carbohydrates like vegetables which are great.
-Not eating meals after 8 pm but one may have a little snack if one gets hungry later like a bowl of healthy cereal, or milk, but nothing like bread, or pop tarts.
-Being active during the day. This will help you burn calories and have fun.
Many people don’t understand why they should eat so many times a day and think that if they eat less then they will get thin. I understand were this people are coming from: when one has excess calories that one needs to burn, then one decides not to eat so that the body can use does calories already in our bodies. WRONG, even when it makes perfect sense is not right. When a person eats less meals than their body needs they slow down their metabolism which is what makes everybody burn calories when they are working out or being active, the faster your metabolism is the more calories you burn but this does not mean the faster your heart rate the better, NO, when your heart is faster than it should be for what ever once age is and height and weight, that means that your heart is WEAK, and that it is having a hard time maintaining your body in good conditions. Many times if a person has a very peaceful heart rate it means that their heart is in top conditions and that it is having no difficulties in supplying and helping the body that it is in but other times it may mean that the person has a heart disease or something of that sort.
KNOW, the kind of people that cannot control their weight at all then that may be a bit more serious, something of relation to family history or high cholesterol, maybe even diabetes; IF THIS IS YOU READING I THINK YOU SHOULD GO TO THE DOC. and ask them about it because you might be in time to help yourself.
Now I want to touch the FAST FOOD AND ' FREEZER DINNERS’ matters.
WE ALL LOVE FAST FOOD, it is fast and it taste delicious but even when we do not want to realize it, it is BAD FOR THE BODY, it has extreme amounts of calories, cholesterol, sodium, Fats, e.t.c.
AND WHEN I SAY EXTREME AMOUNTS OF CALORIES I MEAN THAT A BURGER, SOME MEDIUM FRIES AND MAYBE EVEN A DRINK OR A SUNDAY HAVE MORE THAN ALL THE CALORIES THAT A PERSON IN A 2,000 TO 2,500 CALORIES DIET( an average persons diet scale)SHOULD HAVE IN THE ENTIER DAY.
I know it is hard but be aware of this and check what you eat before you eat it. Now I am not saying that fast food is not good every once in a while but it is not healthy to eat it once or twice every day.
I could go ON AND ON AND ON ABOUT THIS SUBJECT BECAUSE ONE THING BRANCHES INTO ANOTHER BUT IM GOING TO STOP RIGHT HERE!!!.
A LOT OF PEOPLE TAKES THE EXTREME BY STARVING THEMSELVES OR NOT CARRING AT ALL. I SAY THAT THE RIGHT THING TO DO IS TO HAVE A HEALTHY DIET AND A GOOD EXERCISE RUITINE BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT IS GOING TO MAKE YOUR BODY HEALTHY AND LAST LONGER.
ALSO NO DRUGS, DRINKING, SMOKING, (IT REALLY HELPS NOT TO DO ANY OF THESE THINGS)!!!!!!!!!
take care of the body you have because you wont be able to change it never ever, and love yourself no matter what!
Young people i know it is hard, i mean homework, parties, friends, teachers, school, family, and eveything in between just makes everything more complicated but take at least one hour to work out or you can apply to play in a sport you may really like or would like to learn about and participate in, IT FUN!!!!!
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hmm... just a few things. I see where you're heading with this but there are some things you might want to edit or maybe I just didn't understand.
1. When you were talking about healthy ways to lost weight, did you mean to say "trying NOT to eat things with little sugar?" Or maybe you just meant to try to eat desserts that didn't have very much sugar in them?
2. I don't think it would be a good idea to assume that we *all* love fast food. I mean, many people do, but that's not a guarantee for everyone. And depending on what one gets I'm not entirely sure that *all* fast food is actually bad. I agree that much of it is, but not all of it, especially when eaten in moderation. I think part of the reason fast food is actually so harmful to many of those who eat it is the quantity it is eaten in.
3. It's not just young people that have a hard time with this. I know plenty of older people who smoke or eat more than they know they should (no, really, they vocalize that). I can't say much of anything on the drug front, though
I really do think that you have made plenty of good points but you might try to avoid assumptions that some (or all) things apply to every person.
www.progressiveu.org/blog/toriavic
hi, thanks for the comment. let me clear things up. um when i said little sugar i meant in all the ways possible to consume little amounts of simple sugars like the ones in candy and the ones used to bake cakes and stuff unless it is like organic or a substitude.
Also when i mentioned the fast food i did say everybody and maybe i didnt add a almost in there but yeah is almost everybody loves fast food.and i must say i am one of them but i have to control it. i also did say that fast food is okay if once eats it everyonce in a while and not 2 or 3 times a day.
you are right when you say that alot of older people have difficulties with taking out time but i am a teenager and soo i wrote it in my point of view.
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/ediblewoman
good point. thanks. lol
You might want to drastically cut down on your CAPS use, as it gets really tiring after the third run through or so. I don't care how passionate you are about something... I'm going to walk away if you start yelling at me.
Also, I highly suggest breaking up your ideas a little more. It's difficult to tell what you're talking about at times, because you jump from one subject immediately to another with no transition in between. And remember... sentences are your friend. One paragraph should not contain one really really long sentence, but should contain 2-3 much shorter sentences.
That being said.... I mostly agree with you. I'm not sure what you mean by 'natural peanuts', because organic peanuts can actually be worse for you than the regular ol' planters nuts. Also, it is recommended that you exercise 30 minutes a day, not 1-2 hours. Also, you shouldn't be doing cardio all the time, because that'll stress your body out. You should switch on and off between weight exercises and cardio. It's far, far more effective.
That's all for now.
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you are so right with the whole caps thing. i use them a lot but i dont mean for it to be like yelling. Also i will start dividing thoughts on my paragraphs but i was kind of on a rush to finish; if you see my other blogs you will see that it was just this time, i hope.
Also what I meant about 1 to 2 hours i was including a good stretch, you know like every part of the body including back, arms, e.t.c., also some time doing cardio and then weights plus other exercises like the ones for hips and glutes which takes some extra time.
When i said natural peanuts i meant peanuts without salt added or caramelized sugar; i know, i should have written my whole thought down.
Sorry for not making everything clear, hopefully when i write my next blog i will be way more clear. I will try my hardest.
Thanks for the comment
You should not be doing cardio and weights every day. Your body will not like you for it, and it can cause some serious damage. You should alternate them, doing cardio no more than 3 days a week. You should also alternate the groups you do weight training with (don't do legs every time you do weights, but do legs, then mid-section, then arms, etc).
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well i do and it has work just fine with me but everybody is different. also there are a few exercise maganizines like: 'muscle and fitness' that happen to have routines were the person will do about 30 min of cardio and then the weights but you are right in that one shouldnt do every single part of our bodies every time we go to the gym.
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There are also diets that claim that they do wonders... most of them are frauds. What's your point?
I've studied the human body pretty intensely, including taking physiology and learning how muscles work and such, as well as immunology to learn what stress can do to your immune system. Doing cardio every day for an hour or more IS NOT GOOD FOR YOU. End of story.
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i never said it had to be done everyday. first of all i clearly stated that it was good to excersice 2 or 3 days a week maybe even 4. soo.. what is your point. cardio can never be bad for a person unless they go beyond their own body limits. CARDIO IS NEVER BAD FOR A PERSON.!!!!
The whole "don't eat after 8pm" thing is a fallacy. Calories are calories are calories. It doesn't matter when you eat them. They will, however, give you energy (duh), so eating just before bed time isn't generally a good idea because you're more likely to have a hard time falling asleep (though a light snack, such as crackers or whatever, is usually acceptable because it's also not good to go to bed starving, the small snack curbs the hunger pangs).
Also, it is possible for people with diabetes to control their weight, they just have to be careful to make sure their sugar levels stay balanced. The same goes with people with high cholesterol. There are people that can't control their diabetes or lower their cholesterol, but the numbers are roughly half and half or so (and in many cases that I've seen of uncontrolled diabetes, the people didn't take steps to control it when they had the chance).
Finally, portion sizes and reading nutrition labels are key. Frozen dinners, when one pays attention to what's in them, can actually be quite good, as well as healthy for you. Eating slowly is also another key to managing weight, since you'll eat less before your body registers that it's full.
Personally, I use the tracking tools at One Touch Gold, a website mainly designed for diabetes (accompanies the testing supplies for the same company), but it works quite well for tracking one's mealtime, daily, and weekly nutrition and exercise habits and goals. It also provides recipes, exercise suggestions, and calculators to help in the process of losing, gaining, or maintaining weight.
And on a side note, some basic HTML will go a long way in writing for the web, because in the Internet world, CAPS = YELLING. Passion is great, but we like having our eyes bleed from all the caps about as much as we'd like having our ears bleed from all the shouting.
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do. ~D. Dale Gulledge
hi when i say dont eat after 8pm is because later than that, if one is not very active, our bodies will have a slower metabolism which is going to make it harder to burn does calories that a person may have eaten and the snack thing i am sure that i mentioned it in the blog.
When i wrote down those illnesses they were just to give examples and not because does were necessarly going to affect everyone how hadthose kinds. Frozen dinners, when you read the nutritional lables, you will probably see that they have a big amount of sodium to preserve the food longer which is not good but i will not denie thatthere are some good choices out there.
when i say dont eat after 8pm is because later than that, if one is not very active, our bodies will have a slower metabolism which is going to make it harder to burn does calories
Again, that assumes one settles down after 8pm. Many people don't (some don't even get home from work until then). The key is not time as one sees it on a clock, but time relative to one's sleep/activity schedule.
Frozen dinners, when you read the nutritional labels, you will probably see that they have a big amount of sodium to preserve the food longer which is not good
Anything that is not home made, from scratch, from the freshest products you can find, and with out any sort of condiments (such as marinades for meats) have a huge amount of sodium, so unless you have the time and money to buy and prepare such food, you can't get away from the sodium. It's as pervasive in our society as high fructose corn syrup.
And, off-topic but it needs to be addressed, spell-check is your friend. Take a little extra time to re-read and proofread what you write, it will take you a lot farther.
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do. ~D. Dale Gulledge
you got some points in there. Um like i already said before i only mentioned the 'one shouldnt eat after 8pm' because it becomes harder to burn those calories. you are right and not everybody has the same schedule so its harder for the ones that have a crazy one but still a person can control their own schedule and find a way not to have to eat after that hour or later. Also the whole sodium thing you are kind of right, lots of things that are not completely fresh or homemade do have sodium but never ever like frozen dinners. Also it is not hard to give flavor to food at home without salt or with only a little bit of it i say this because my family does this all the time with herbs like basil and onion power also fresh garlic helps with flavor. of course it becomes really hard for people to get used to the difference in the flavors because we have grown used to all the salt but it can be done.
and everything is good in small quantities.
a person can control their own schedule and find a way not to have to eat after that hour or later
Again, it does not come down to time as measured on a clock, but time in relation to one's sleep/wake cycle. And no, not everyone can control their own schedule. For example, I work until 10pm most days. When I was in high school, I played basketball, which usually ran until at least 9pm. However, since I don't generally go to bed until 1or 2am, I can still eat when I get home and not have any repercussions because I ate after 8pm. Now, if I ate dinner at 9, then went to bed at 10, yes, it would cause issues.
lots of things that are not completely fresh or homemade do have sodium but never ever like frozen dinners.
Actually, frozen dinners are no worse than some other processed foods. Most of the sources I've found stated that a frozen dinner has about half the daily recommendation of 2400mg of sodium, or about 1200mg. Compate that to a turkey sandwich (1,410), a cup of soup (1,170), or some lasagna (2,060). While it could be better, even bread comes in at 280-390mg per slice (depending on the type).
I've been tracking my nutrition for about two and a half weeks now, and I've found the only time I eat less than the daily allowance for sodium is when my main meal of the day is almost exclusively salad, and I don't touch the salt shaker....ever.
If you want to see how much sodium you're really consuming, I recommend checking out One Touch Gold. It targets those with diabetes (One Touch is a line of diabetes testing supplies), but the nutrition tracking works well for anyone. Track your meals for a week or so and take a look at the numbers, you may be surprised by what you find.
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do. ~D. Dale Gulledge
okay fine if thats what you say then believe it. im not going to get to arguing or trying to say what i think right anymore, okay???
Being Active Duty military, we are to maintain a standard that is not exactly ordinary but is possibly obtainable. On the other hand some of these things you mention in your article are good but are also in your opinion as you stated. Nothing wrong I see but there are a few items that are questionable. For one thing you have to look at your calorie intake when you are trying to lose wheight. This will help you determine if you are taking in more then you are burning. Also you want to eat 6 small meals a day if you really intend to get thin. Normally containing all of the basic food groups. You can wathc your fat intake but dont cut it completely out. You are right though, you dont want to starve yourself because your body will store the fat you intake later instead of burning it becuase its not sure wether you are going to eat again or not. Also the belemia thing is way out of control I think. But did you know that if you do this you are actually weakening your defenses to disease and infection. I personally dont like throwing up and I cant see how people can do this on a regular basis. Diet and exercise is the only way you are going to safely lose weight. And for those of you who have limitations or maybe injuries that prevent you from exercise, do what I do, water aerobics is a low impact cardio and toning excercise routine that can get you into shape and not put alot of pressure on your body. Oh and because you are in the water, you dont sweat either. Just my 2 cents, take it or leave it.
hi you are right calories do need to be caunted becuase like i mention in the fast food little paragraph a normal person should not eat more than 2,500 calories daily. My dad is also in the military and many of the things i know i have learned from him. And you are right bulimia is way out of control and a lot of really young kids like 9 years old are kinda considering it as an option to stay thin when we all should realize that the only true way to loose weight is by eating healthy and exercising.
Thanks so much for your 2 cents.
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Everyone's body is different. Different things work for different people. Eating a variety of foods is the key. I believe it is ok to have sugary, or fatty stuff on ocassion only because if you totally deprive yourself from something you love (if you do like these things) you may over eat next time you see it.
You had many good points in your blog though. I know someone already said this but online lingo is kind of strange. Caplocks mean yelling. If you want to express something passionately put a ! (explaination point) after a sentence. I used to do this alot and it took me the longest time to understand that I was yelling at someone.
But you got your point across diet and exericise is the key not having an eating disorder. I used to have one so I know what it is like. Although some of the amounts of exercise can apply to some people, to stay healthy about 30 minutes to an hour 5 days a week is beneficial. But everyone has covered everything in comments so i rest my case. lol
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yeah thanks i think you have been one of the nicess person to put their opinion in the comments zone because everybody seems to either say things that i already said on the blog or to question what i have not said or did say, but this is just some pointers people. it doesnt mean that im 110 % right because im not talking out of a newspaper or report but out of my own brain and there will be things i left out and there will be things that i didnt make verry clear but it would be easier to know that you guys are trying to help by being nice and not sarcastic or something like that. I am talking and saying this in general not just for you.
Thanks tough!!!
I don't know who you think is being mean, or otherwise not nice (since it seems you're comparing the other commenter to the rest of those that have commented), but there a specific culture around this site. While this isn't a college classroom, this is a college-level blog site and bloggers are expected to hold their writing to the same standards. Such standards include, but are not limited to proper spelling/grammar (some mistakes are fine, but there is a line), citing sources (it doesn't have to be in MLA or APA or anything like that so long as they are there), proper formatting for web readability (this includes breaking down paragraphs into four or five lines or so, making use of basic HTML for emphasis, not overusing emphasis, especially caps), and verifying that the information is accurate.
If any of these are even considered to be even slightly below the general standards, you'll either get ignored completely, or such errors will be pointed out, usually in a constructive manner, it's that simple. Considering no one has resorted to ad hominems, and has overall been civil to you not only in this entry, but others you have posted, I hardly consider it to be anywhere near the realm of mean or not nice (if you really want to see the fur fly, check out some of the older entries in regards to religion). And actually, the fact that some of us have cared enough to actually say something says a lot about the content of your entries. What you have to say is actually pretty good, however, how you're saying it (or in this case, writing it) is what's hindering you, especially when most of your problems can be solved by simply writing your blogs in a word processor, first.
You've got a lot of potential, you just need to work out the kinks.
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do. ~D. Dale Gulledge
well im still in high school and i just joined this site plus if you want to add the fact that my first language is spanish and not english. Im only doing this because i need the scholarship really bad and i am doing everything possible to also be polite when i comment and try to clear things our, but many times when some of the commentors post their comments and i read them they sound like they are trying to supress what i say.
Fortunately, i do thank the help some are trying to give in relation to my writing skills because even when i do use spell check some things are not really fixed but change into something else.
What are you using for spell check?
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do. ~D. Dale Gulledge
just the normal microsoft word spell check, is kinda old. is not the one from the new window vista program.
it is the 2003 edition.
2003 isn't that old, really, not for the Office suite, anyway.
One of the ways I learned grammar and spelling was actually through Microsoft Word. I'm not sure how well it works now, since I've heard it's become more lax, but it worked for me. I set up the grammar and spell check options to be as strict as possible, that way it showed when I had run on sentences, fragments, passive tones (I got nailed with that one all the time), and various other things. You might want to set it to skip over contractions, though, especially if you're not doing formal writing, where contractions are usually frowned upon.
As for the spelling, dictionary.com and google might end up being your friends there, since they have larger word databases from which to pull words. In general, though, most of your more common words are spelled pretty much how they sound (or you can at least get close enough that spell check can pick up on what you're going for).
It seems to me, though, from looking at your past entries, that you were trying for a while, but then started slacking on the effort and sort of gave up on even the punctuation.
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do. ~D. Dale Gulledge
Yeah i know, is just that some of my entries were written on a rush because i am not supposed to have the computer on after 9:00 pm; parents, crazy, and most of the time i would have other things to do.
Thanks for the advice and i will try to follow it as closely as i can.
Thanks again.!!!!!