Eating “healthy, real food” is too expensive.
When you eat healthy, real food you won’t need to eat the same quantities of junk, fake foods. Real food is much more satiating.
If the entire household doesn’t switch to healthy, real foods and you have to buy real food and junk your grocery bill will be high.
Your grocery budget is an expense you will have to prioritize. Ask yourself “How will I budget for real food” over “How will I afford real food”. Eating less, quitting soda, cigarettes and alcohol are all easy ways to afford real food. The most expensive habits out there are: Starbucks, cigarettes, soda drinking, alcohol and energy drinks/shots. None of these habits are good for you and by quitting them you will save yourself lots of money. If you have been able to figure out how to afford these habits for years you can figure out how to budget for real food.
I cannot afford a gym membership, what are some exercises I can do at home.
Visit my Facebook page “The Gym Cellar” and look through my photos. There are several exercises to choose from. Pick three exercises and do 100 reps of each. Wola, an easy and effective home workout with no gym membership, fancy clothes, shoes or gear required. Just an amazing go-get it attitude.
Is Grass-fed Beef really that much better for you.
YES. It is more nutrient dense (B-vitamins, beta-carotene, vitamin E, vitamin K, and trace minerals like magnesium, calcium, and selenium.) Grass fed meat has Omega-3, the “good” naturally occurring fat. Corn and grain fed meat is higher in saturated fat as the quality of food they are fed.
You are what you eat.
What is the difference between vegetarian fed and Free Range?
Vegetarian fed meat is livestock that was fed grains and corn. Grains and corn are vegetarian foods. Another common term on labeling meat is “Free Range”. Free Range means the livestock has access to walk around outside. There are no regulations denoting how long they have to be outside or the size and quality of their access to outside.
If I substitute grain products with gluten-free will I lose weight?
No. You cannot substitute starch for grains and expect to lose weight. They both spike your glucose levels which causes fat accumulation. Gluten-free products are expensive and have a lot of “fake” food in the product.
What do you consider a “fake” food.
Any food not in its natural state and chemicals.
Are grains really that bad for me?
Yes. Not only do grains contain lectin which is a gut irritant and can lead to tears in your stomach lining which can cause allergies, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, joint pain, eczema, headaches, acne and multiple sclerosis. But grains also produce Low Density Lipoproteins (LDL: bad cholesterol) and triglycerides.
I just don’t have time to work out.
Do you have time in your schedule to be sick? How about doctor’s appointments, possible hospitalizations? Get out of the mind frame that a great work out needs to be a drive to a gym and a 45 minutes to an hour of your time plus the drive home. Your living room, bare feet, a pair of sweat pants a t-shirt, 20 minutes and a great attitude is all you need. Everyone has these items.
I have to take care of a parent/child/spouse who is hospitalized.
I am sure you are wearing comfortable clothes and shoes. While your loved one is getting a test or treatment done hit the stairs. Sprint up those steps, jog down to the bottom, do it again. Running yourself into the ground doesn’t help your loved one. You MUST take care of yourself to be your best for your loved ones. If you get sick, or aren’t 100 percent you can’t help your loved one fight their battle.
My in-laws don’t understand my eating habits and I have to be polite and eat what they make.
Before going to visit your in-laws explain that you will be buying and preparing your own meals. That you are not doing this to offend anyone and that you would be more than happy to prepare something for everyone if they would like. If your in-laws love you they will understand. If they don’t then there really isn’t much lost. The focus of visiting family shouldn’t be the food. It should be catching up on what has been going on in each other’s lives, sharing photos and videos, and doing something fun together. Don’t put value on food, put value on people and the experiences you have with them.
Is alcohol really that bad for me? Will one glass of wine a night kill me?
Yes. Alcohol is that bad for you. Your body considers alcohol poison and your metabolism will put all of its focus on metabolizing and flushing the alcohol out. Any food that hasn’t been digested will be stored as fat while your body focuses on the alcohol. Alcohol also lowers your inhibitions and while your body focuses on the alcohol. Alcohol also lowers your inhibitions and our food choices become questionable. You need “drunk” food to “absorb the alcohol”. You find yourself ordering greasy, starchy foods or hitting the Taco Bell drive-thru. The next morning your hangover has you reaching for more greasy-starchy foods and you are going through Burger King’s drive-thru for cokes and croissant sandwiches and tatter tots. None of this is good for you. There is no faster way to get fat than drinking alcohol in all forms. Wine is not good for you and does not contain antioxidants. Grape skin contains antioxidants. The antioxidant properties are completely null and void when you add in alcohol. Popular studies that wine is good for you heart are bogus. These studies fail to report that the amount of wine studied is so negligible, probably less than 2 ounces. And as a reference most people pour at least a 5 ounce glass of wine.
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