Is weight you want to lose?
Weight is not the issue. Your weight on the scale has nothing-absolutely nothing-to do with the problem. We have grown to view the scale as the barometer of our appearance. In reality, the scale has nothing to do with the way we look.
When you weigh yourself on the scale, you weigh your whole body, not how much fat you have. You weigh your hair, your bones, your teeth, your muscles, your organs, and so on. In no way does your body-weight reflect how fat you are. A loss of a pound may indicate less food in your stomach, less water retention than yesterday. It may be a pound of muscle because you starve youself. It certainly does not mean you are any less fat.
You will have many ways to gauge your progress. You will continually be seeing improvements in your appearance. You will see changes in the way your clothes fit, you will be in a smaller size, feel much lighter, harder, and look much heathier.
Exercise alone is not going to help in the fat loss unless you have 2 to 3 hours a day for aerobics. To burn 1000 calories you need to be in the gym for about 2hours. Not so practical for most. Exercise is not the key to reducing Body-fat. It's all in your diet. How many of you who are exercising 5 to 6 days a week but still not getting the result you want?
I'm not saying don't exercise, I'm putting the importance of exercise in perspective.Exercising has many important benifits. You can achieve a great deal of stress relief with exercise. You can achieve a significant amount of fat reduction by combining a properly designed and excuted dietry plan with the right amount of cardiovascular and resistance exercise. You can achieve better skin tone and texture through exercise. You can reduce your level of anxiety by exercising. With a properly designed exercise program you can gain strength, stamina, and piece of mind.
In short, exercise must be combined with proper diet to have significant benefit.
Today's Recipe
Use canned garbanzo beans to make this an easy-to-prepare tasty Meditlerranean-style salad in a matter of minutes.
Greek Garbanzo Bean Salad
Prep and Cook Time: 10 minutes
Ingredients:
1 15 oz can garbanzo beans, preferably organic
2 cloves garlic
sea salt and pepper to taste
2/3 cup minced green onion
1 medium tomato, diced
3 TBS parsley, minced
2 TBS extra virgin olive oil
1 TBS fresh lemon juice
Optional: 1/4 cup feta cheese
1 head romaine lettuce
Directions:
Press or mince garlic and let sit for at least 5 minutes to bring out its hidden health benefits.
Drain liquid from garbanzo beans and rinse under cold running water; this helps prevent intestinal gas.
Mince green onions.
Dice tomatoes.
Mince parsley
Combine all ingredients and serve over a bed of romaine lettuce.
Top with feta cheese, if desired.