Knowing How to Eat

Growing up our parents have us on a eating retrial and we have to eat when mom cooks. Depending on the family size you could eat two plates if the family was big, a buffet if their only a few family members. But the question is what meal do we consume the most food? Most people will say dinner, a few would say lunch, and a few would say breakfast, but our healthiest meal is breakfast. This is because when we wake up and we eat a healthy bit breakfast that will be our energy source, nutrition source, and mental source for the day until lunch. For lunch we're supposed to eat a good sandwich maybe a subway sandwich, but eat a huge lunch isn't healthy, because our bodies are still going off of breakfast. Meaning when dinner comes around we can eat a good plate of food, but not as much as breakfast. Growing up eating breakfast woke my mind and body up. Our mental force will be a lot stronger with a great breakfast. Because the carb (energy) that we consume gives us energy while the sugar energizes the mind, and the fruits and vegetables which are healthy for our brains. A good breakfast fuels you up and gets you ready for your day. The article, Why Breakfast Is The Most Important Meal Of The Day says that, “The consumption of an early morning snack increases the metabolic rate (how fast you burn calories) and kick starts your body into gear, telling it what to expect the rest of the day. If breakfast isn't had, your body doesn't process your next meal as quickly and tries to hold onto those nutrients. Since it didn't get any morning fuel, it tries to hold onto the afternoon meal as long as possible instead of burning it right away.” Also test have shown that those who skip breakfast have a tendency to consume more food than usual the next chance they get to grab a bite to eat and also have a high tendency to snack on high-calorie foods. When we skip out on breakfast we’ll tend to eat more at lunch to satisfy our hunger and we’ll tend to over eat. Demine Stracker’s article Why Breakfast Really Is the Most Important Meal states that, “Many teens skip breakfast as an attempt to control this excess weight gain yet previous studies have shown that individuals who consume breakfast daily have a lower body mass index (BMI) than those who skip the meal.  Missing out on those vital calories in the morning may contribute to overeating later in the day, selecting unhealthy snacks due to uncontrolled hunger and therefore foster weight gain.” As a result of eat correctly we’ll see our metabolism change, our energy levels increasing, and the amount of food consumed in a day will decline. Breakfast should be treated like our nutrition and medicine for the body to be healthy.

http://www.fyiliving.com/diet/nutrition/why-breakfast-really-is-the-most-important-meal/

http://www.thekitchn.com/why-breakfast-is-the-most-impo-1-113418

Sugars Lead to Depression

When we walk into a grocery store we always make our way down the sweets section or we'll by past and act like we don't see all the delicious sweets, and we can even smell them from the entries of the store. Our bodies crave certain foods and our tongues even have certain taste buds. Our tongue has a sweet, bitter, and even sour taste bud, but there are ways on beating the hunger for something sweet. What the world needs to know is that sugar is bad for our health unless we are physically active every single day for 90 minutes a day. What most people look at is the calories yes calories are good to know, but sugars are what put the love handles, that we all hate on our bodies that we love so much. Most weight that is put on are from sugars and by eliminating the amount of sugar from our diet can decrease the amount of extra fat we have on our stomach. When we drink a soda particularly a Dr. Pepper or a Coke, these drinks contain 56-70 grams of sugar which is high when it comes to a beverage that we consume. Other drinks like lemonade aren't good for us either, because they contain so much sugar. Everybody wants to say that it organic sugar or natural sugar. Okay that sound awesome, but our bodies can't recognize sugars, meaning sugar is sugar. But if we look at drinks that are naturally sweeten contain more sugar than a drink that isn't naturally sweeten. When we drink fruit drinks that are naturally sweeten we see that they contain a ton of sugar which most people don't see. For an example V8 Fusion is naturally sweeten, but it contains 65-72 grams of sugar. MyFoodDiary.com stated that, "Sugar the body energy...If a lot of sugar is eaten at one time, blood sugar levels can spike causing diabetes." So sugar gives the brain energy and is good for the red blood cells, but too much sugar will cause harm. We enjoy sweet foods just as our bodies do, but when it comes to a good diet, sugary food need to be eliminated. Makers will continue to buy sweet foods and even sugary drinks, because they sell and the profit is extremely high, but if the eyes of the public see that these drinks and foods that contain so much sugar are killing us, and the sugar is putting the love handles on us these products won’t be sold. As a result they’ll have to produce drinks and even foods that don’t contain so much sugar. Sugar taste so good and is good energy for the mind, but too much sugary will be the death of a person.

http://www.myfooddiary.com/Resources/nutrient_facts/nutrient_sugar.asp

A Partner is Motivation

When you walk into a gym wants the first thing you see? Well when an individual walks into a weight room their eyes always focus on who's in the weight room and if that particular machine they want to use is available. When we get the machine that we want we find ourselves working hard to see that people see us working and not just being in the weight. At times we catch ourselves wanting to get off our weight lose machine or muscle building instrument, because we feel as if we aren't working hard enough. As a result we tend to go on a different machine, but something is missing and we don't feel like we should be working out. This is because we aren't motivated and without motivation we'll find ourselves leaving the weight room early and not producing the amount of work that our muscles want and need. When we workout we need to push our muscles to the next level and at times we can't do that on our own and a workout partner needs to be present. FitnessHealth stated that, "working out with a committed partner is that the partner will motivate you to work out more often. In addition, a training partner will typically push you to work harder." By having a good workout partner that will motivate you, will bring the best out of what you think is nothing. In any situation in life we need someone their to motivate us to keep going, because our mind, body, and faith can't bring us to the promise land it takes someone motivating us. When we go to church the pastors or assistant pastors are our motivators. When we're on a sports team and/or competitive sport our teammates and coaches are our motivation. We can't live this life of ours with motivation or something or someone pushing us to do better so we can be better. When we go into a weight room our mind should be on working out and pushing our muscles to the limit, because the weight room isn't a game. We should be fully motivated entering the weight room, but we should also have a partner to push us to a place we haven't been so we can truly know what it means to workout. A partner brings motivation and the energy to stand on top of the mountain knowing we did all we could.

http://www.fitnesshealth101.com/fitness/general/getting-started/benefits-of-workout-partner

Smiling without looking

Waking up in the morning is a great feeling when the sun reflects off your face. When we walk into the restroom, clean our face, and brush our teeth we find ourselves looking at our bodies and sometimes we aren't happy. We'll turn to the left and right trying to suck in our stomachs to see how we would look a little thinner, but if that doesn't work our day doesn't start off great. We struggle to find a shirt that will fit without showing the love handles, but that only puts us into a depression. Most times we find ourselves wearing the same shirt we wore last week, because that shirt fits perfect. After we successfully found that shirt we then have to put on our pants which sometimes takes longer than the shirt, because we need to know what pants fits us right. After we find that right pair of pants we then head back to the mirror to see how we look, but its not a kool-aid smile. We'll have to settle for a bitter smile and hopefully the outside world will change our expressions. This shouldn't be a routine in our daily lives, because this will lead to depression and a unhealthy life. If we look into the mirror and we don't like what we see the result and thought should be to fix it. By changing our diets and increasing our water intake, and eliminate those sugary drinks we'll see change without working out in the gym. Working out in the gym will tone the body, but eating healthy will bring more years to our lives. By the right foods and not over eating, while being physically active will make our bodies happy and healthy. By making our bodies happy we'll become happy and we'll see how much we'll enjoy waking up in the morning. We'll wake up in the morning and looking for a shirt will get a little easier, and the only decisions we'll have to make is the color and will that match will those shoes. Pants will be a fast decision, because every pair of pants will start to fit and hug your body and/or sit on you right. Then the mirror won't have to tell you that you look good, because you already know that you look good before the mirror tells you. Smiling without the mirror shows that your happy with your body, and the mirror can only give you a compliment rather than showing the ugly side.