Healthy Life – Live Healthy Life

If anyone had told me I could go a day without misusing food I would have laughed. After years of using food to not feel my or deal with my emotions I had no idea how to cope with life other than to self medicate. I thought I was alone and that no one else did what I did. I was filled with shame, guilt and remorse. I thought of myself as weak willed unable to stick to my guns. I didn’t know that I had an allergy to sugar, wheat and flour.

My food addiction began as a child I turned to food as comfort, as I matured my disease grew with me, I needed to do more in order to not feel and incorporated drugs and alcohol my disease continued. I was blessed to get into recovery from drug and alcohol addiction 15 years ago, a year later when I reached my highest weight of 460lbs. I surrender to my food addiction. My life was so small due to how large I had become, I was unable to work and physically unable to function. I had small children and I was so depressed and unhappy I felt there was no hope.

Then a light bulb went off I was lead into recovery for drug and alcohol why couldn’t I recover from the eating disorder of compulsive overeating? I realized that it wasn’t the food that was the problem the food was the symptom. I needed help from other individuals who could help me address what happened that lead me to food in the first place. Inpatient treatment worked, it allowed me the opportunity to stop blaming others, and accept responsibility for my behaviors and actions.

I was surrounded by people who knew about the disease of addiction, I was in a safe place everything was confidential and I finally allowed someone else to help to learn how to help myself. I was given the gift of complete desperation from that I was able to re-create a life that is beyond anything I could have imagined. Today I live and I am present, the lights are on and I am home. My wish for anyone reading this article is to let them know help is available with eating disorders just ask!

There’s one one common misconception people have in mind that makes them think fat loss and weight loss is the same. This is not entirely true. They are slightly different but this small difference could means getting firm, developed abs or getting flat, plain abs.

First of all, to uncover your abs you need to get rid of belly fat that covers them. From this, you see that the goal should be fat loss. But if I lose fat, I lose weight…so if I lose weight, I should lose fat too, right? Not necessarily true. Your body weight comprises of many substances: water, fat, muscle, etc. Now, if you only use weight scale to measure your progress, how do you know which substance you lost most?

Many people has been deceived by weight-loss companies that your weight on scale is everything. They keep promoting their bogus pills and supplements to make you eat less. This is not a good thing. When your body senses that you are not eating enough, it begins to break your muscle tissue down and converts it to energy – making you lose weight but not in a healthy way.

If you lose weight by stripping fat, of course it is a good thing. However, if your loss of weight is caused by muscle loss, you are in deep trouble. If you keep losing muscle, then there’s no way you’ll gonna get that 6-pack abs because your abs muscle will just keep shrinking. Even worse, losing muscle means lowering your metabolism rate as well – making you burn less calorie, thus you need to eat less and lesser to keep losing weight. And if you do reach your target weight, you must maintain your diet for the rest of your life or you’ll gain back the weight you lost. Certainly, this is not something you want.

In order to lose fat without sacrificing muscle, diet and exercise are indispensable. By diet, I don’t mean drastically reducing your meals. Your diet should always be adequate to support your daily bodily functions. This includes consuming enough protein, carbs and fat (yes, you read it right…fat). These are the essential needs and must never be compromised. To put it simply, your diet should consists of as many natural, unprocessed food as possible. It almost always comes back to the overprocessing of food that wrecks your metabolism and promotes fat storage.

For exercise, focus more on workouts like weight lifting and sprinting. The reason why these kind of workouts are recommended is because they stimulate a huge amount of muscle groups. With enough intensity, it can boost your metabolism rate for up to 48 hours due to your body mechanism to recover – resulting in your body burning more fat even while you’re sleeping.

Now that you know the difference, make sure you focus on body fat ratio to measure your progress. By itself, your weight on scale is pretty much useless. Remember, it’s the excess of fat that ruins your appearance and health.

If you’re sick and tired of keep hearing the same old weight loss and diet tips that DON’T work, discover the 4 greatest fat loss myths that’s been keeping you from your goal…

There is a myth that says that it is harder to lose weight after 40. And sometimes our reaction to this is just to give up and resign ourselves to a body image that we do not love. It is only a myth. On the other hand, what we get is the results of our beliefs. So, if we think having a lovable body image after 40 is hard, then sure enough it will be hard. Recently after turning 44 and having had two children in my 40′s, I have found some secrets on how to lose weight after 40. Are you interested in reading them?

#1 Accept yourself just the way you are

We sometimes deny our reality because we do not like it. It is best to accept it, acknowledge it, and then get to work on it. When you accept where you are, and love yourself just as you are, then you can take control of it. Remember also, you are not your body. Your existence goes beyond your body.

#2 Take baby steps

Don’t expect to lose all the weight in a week or a month. You took a long time to put all the weight on, so why do you expect to lose it all in a week. The slower you lose weight, the longer you will keep it off. This is about a permanent lifestyle change rather than a quick temporary change. Even if you do not diet, just loving your body, will help you to look after it.

#3 Love yourself

If you accept yourself then you can start loving yourself This is crucial If you love yourself you will change all negative talk about yourself into positive talk and that will go a long way to achieve results. Apply the law of attraction. Think what you want to attract. Do not say “I want to lose weight”, rather say “I want to be healthy and slim”. Remember, what you think, you attract. Besides if you love yourself you can take the time to look after your body; time to exercise, time to drink lots of water and time to prepare healthy foods for yourself.

So to summarize, accept yourself just as you are, take baby steps, love yourself and apply the law of attraction to your health. You will soon achieve your goal.