diet.com

diet.com is a website for tips and tricks on health and dieting. They are very similar to ediets.com but a lot more towards health. They have great articles on dealing with stress and fitness. You can join their diet plan for only $2.29/week (varies on specials). One thing they do have great video on fitness workouts.

Also, they have a blog and forum board which you can get feed back from other people to are struggling on loosing weight and other issues. diet.com have great recipes from different meals, cuisines and nutritions. The tracker device is an entry that you can put your time in for calories and what exercise you have done.

Join in for the expertise of diet nutritions and doctors from diet.com.

Whole Grains - Attacks the Belly Fat

You do the crunches, the sit-ups and all the core exercise, but you want to loose more, fast, of the belly spare tire fat. Whole grains attack the fat around your stomach, mid-waist area. So, instead of choosing the white bread or the flour pasta, choose the whole grains or wheat. They are now making whole grain/wheat potato chips (its about time).

Here are a few words and foods, you will find on the some packages of foods or on the nutrition labels and ingredients that you should be looking for:

• Whole wheat
• Whole oats/oatmeal
• Whole-grain corn
• Popcorn
• Brown rice
• Whole rye
• Whole-grain barley
• Wild rice
• Buckwheat
• Triticale (wheat and rye)
  
• Bulgur (cracked wheat)
• Brown rice
• Bulgur
• Oatmeal
• Whole-grain corn
• Whole oats
• Whole rye
• Whole wheat
• Wild rice

Weigh In - Ugh! Gain 4 lbs.

I beginning to hate Wednesday weigh-ins. Due to the stress from work and the lack of sleep, I didn't do so good on my diet and weight. I gained 4 lbs. BUT I did go to my doctor's appt. this morning and in 2 months, I have dropped my cholesterol from 217 to 178. My diabetes drop from 7.5 to 7.0 which is good but not good enough (6.5 is the regular). My high blood pressure seems low but better than high (98 over 70).

I think I will go away on a little weekend vacation to re-group and get some sleep from all the stress and lack of rest from the past 3 weeks. I'll probably sleep over at some hotel with a pool and gym to work out at and watch some TV "cable" and order some room service. Just maybe relax my body in some hot tub and hopefully that will do the trick and get back to my normal routine of life and dieting.

Always Think Positive, Never Negative. Thinking negative will bring you and your body down to a stop and your problems will be solved or recover.

Rough Day

I had a rough day, yesterday. I just wanted to go back to bed and sleep the day away.

Have you ever had those days, anything or anyone around you just arritate you? Something just tick me off, inside and I want to scream (I did it in my car during my lunch hour). But the screaming didn't work, I even went to the store to walk it off but no luck. I felt anger, upset, pissed off with the world and everything else around me. I didn't want to think about paying bills, my sugar level or even dieting. After work, I bought a chocolate brownie and large pizza, so I didn't have to worry about doing the dishes.

I know it was a big mistake on buying the pizza and brownie, and I regret it of eating it. I threw away the bread of the pizza except 3 slices and the brownie, well, that was gone fast with a glass of milk. I know my weigh-in tomorrow will be bad.

And I know I when I'm pissed off the next time with the world, I should brush it off my shoulders and walk it off, maybe window shop and try to keep an open mind and think of other things.

Play the Food VS Food

It can be difficult when you go out for lunch or a snack to a fast restaurant. Let play a game and see if you can choose the right choice.

Sesame Bagel with 2 Tbsp. Cream Cheese VS 2 Egg McMuffins.

Glazed Doughnut VS Old-fashioned Cake Doughnut.

McDonald's Quarter Pounder with Cheese VS Burger King Whopper with Cheese
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Results:
1. Two Egg McMuffins has more protein and less fat and calories than the bagel.
2. Glazed Doughnut is 3X less fat and 2X less calories than the old-fashioned doughnut.
3. McDonald's Quarker Pounder with cheese wins with the half the fat and 300 fewer calories.

Broccoli Cheese Soup

1 cup skim or lowfat milk, steaming
1/3 cup lowfat cheddar cheese
1 cup broccoli, steamed
1/4 cup onions
1 teaspoon cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon chicken or vegetable bouillon, soup base

Place all ingredients in a high speed blender or food processor. (Have your milk steaming and your broccoli cooked. Cut up your cheese and onion and put in your cornstarch and soup base of your choice.) Have some crackers with it. This is a perfect meal when its cold and you want something healthy and tasty.

(High speed blenders - go to speed 1 (15 seconds) and slowly increase speed to 10 and run it for 1-2 minutes.)

Women Health Website

Women's Health is a great website on step by step exercises. They have wonderful articles on weight loss, health, sex relationship, beauty, life and nutrition. Check it out for your self. Also, they have a free newsletter you can sign up for weekly articles and fitness.

Temptation in the Work place

Today, at work, someone brought in Wedding cookies, from pastry with icing to finger sugar lady-locks to brownie bars to chocolate candy. I don't know about you, but cookies/bars are my best nibbling snack friends. I love to have cookies with my hot tea in the morning, it's so gooood. But I have to be proud of myself, I didn't have one cookie or bar. Yeah! I mostly, just stayed out of the kitchen.

Temptation in the work place is are to over come the snacking. Try to fill yourself with tea or water. Have your green tea or black tea to kill your appetite. Have a piece of sugar-free gum, something to chew in your mouth. Or even have those 100 calories bars (Hershey's or Kraft).

Most of all, stay out of the kitchen. If you have to go in there like get water or you lunch from the ice box, just focus on one thing by getting you item. DO NOT browse around and start looking what in the venting machine or on the table for the donuts. FOCUS and GET OUT.

Cool Ad

This ad is a creative advertising of fitness company that I want to share with you, all. Makes you think. It has a saying at the bottom of the ad, "Everytime you want to put something in your mouth—think twice."

Break

I have been very tried, lately with work and life, itself. Last week, I worked a 10 hour shift and there was no lunch break or time to breath. I was lucky to get a chance to go to the bathroom. Everyone get those days at work when it comes to deadlines or even life with go shopping and getting chores done. Your head want to explode with all the pressure. Your body get so exhausted and leak that you just want to take a break of all duties. And that what I did. I put the scale, workout dvds, calories book and even the sports bra away for one week (well, maybe a week and half).

I felt awful later because I went on the scale and saw that I gained 5 lbs. I don't feel good about it but I do feel a little better with less stress. I believe, it's OK to take a break to release the stress of pressure. Like doctors says, stress does gain weight.

So, beside relaxing and doing nothing, I got a canvas and painted my stress and went wild and crazy on it. I have not painted for more over 10 years and it was a mess but fun to do. I call it 'Night Eclips'. It look better when its in the dark with candles are lit.

So, what I am saying, it is good to take a break from dieting to release your anger and stress from your body. Do something fun, something you always want to do, will be a good start to go back and face your problems and aggression.