Dieting
Want a firm waistline?
Steps to ABSolute perfection!
If you’ve decided it’s finally time to do something about your waistline all the advice you’re going to need is right here.
The first thing to do is to get to know your abs and become personal friends with them, that way you’ll intimately and immediately know whether you’re working them hard enough or not!
Your rectus abdominis or abs is a sheet of muscle that connects your ribcage to your pelvis. It’s surrounded on either side by what is known as the serratus, obliques and tranverse abdominis muscles, and all of these little beauties combined help to stabilize your spine and also transfer power between your upper and lower body (and here’s you thinking all they did was look good on the beach) shame on you!
Strong abs aren’t just for show, by working these muscles you’ll improve everything you do in life and help to protect yourself from back pain as a an added bonus.
I have to stress here that it’s also very important to work your other muscles as well as your abs as it will help to keep your entire body in balance.
By training the large muscle groups like your back, chest, shoulders and legs you will also increase the overall fat burning capability of your system by adding more muscle and gaining muscle or getting leaner is what we’re after. Remember, fat is inactive and odes nothing but sit on your body and make you feel unattractive, muscle is live tissue and burns calories even while you’re sat there watching TV!
By also training large muscle groups it will also have a very positive benefit on your abs as well. Aim to train if possible three to four times per week, although if you can’t manage that do what you can as I personally feel that any training is better than none as long as it’s regular.
Of course the strongest abs in the world won’t show as your coveted six pack if they’re covered in a layer of unsightly flab so be mindful of what you eat and also try to add some high intensity cardio to your routine as well.
Running, jogging, cycling, swimming are fantastic ways to burn calories especially if you do it as interval training where you do short bursts of fast paced exercise followed with a longer recovery period i.e. run, cycle, jog or swim hard for 1 x minute then go easier for 1 x minute and keep repeating the cycle until you’ve completed about 20 x minutes.
Stay focused, work hard but just as importantly have FUN!
Garth
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How does food combining work?
Some say it’s a load of rubbish.
Others swear by it.
Could it be that, fifty years on, Dr Hay’s food combining theories need an update?
To be honest with you, I’m a HUGE fan and I discovered this way of eating in 1996 when I read Dr. Hays book and it was like a window opening in my mind, it just made so much sense!
Once I personally got my head around what was what and couldn’t be eaten with what, it was pretty simple to follow.
The effects I felt were astounding, within a month I had lost a stone in weight, (14lbs) even though I hadn’t set out to intentionally lose weight and the energy I gained on top of the natural energy I already possessed was phenomenal!
I looked better, I felt better and the icing on the cake (figuratively speaking of course) was a hiatus hernia that I had been suffering from over a year, practically disappeared overnight!
The differences to me were so remarkable I actually had the entire creative department of a large London advertising agency following this method as well and having great success with it.
I have no desire or need to lose weight but I still follow the “Hay principles” 70% of the time today because it makes me feel so much better without any feelings of being bloated and I still have “bags of energy”!
The fact that the very words ‘food combining’ sell, strongly suggests to me that the experience of many people tells them that certain types or combinations of food don’t suit them.
That too is my experience. Dr Hay devised a set of rules that have helped millions of people. But are all the rules right? A ‘food combiner’ is not only combining food differently, they’re also eating different kinds of food, and may even be eating less food because of the practical constraints of eating to a set of rules.
How do we know whether the advantages are due to food combining or these other factors and how can they fit into your lifestyle?
The key elements in Dr Hay’s original theory, expounded in the 1930s, was to eat ‘alkaline forming foods’, eat fruit on its own, avoid refined and heavily processed foods, and not mix protein rich and carbohydrate rich foods.
Protein and carbohydrate are digested differently. That is a fact. Carbohydrate digestion starts in the mouth when the digestive enzyme amylase, which is in the saliva, starts to interact with the food you chew. Once you swallow food and it enters the relatively acid environment of the stomach, amylase stops working. Only when the food leaves the stomach, where the digestive environment becomes more alkaline, can the next wave of amylase enzymes, this time secreted into the small intestines from the pancreas, continue and complete digesting carbohydrate.
Protein, on the other hand, is not digested at all in the mouth. It needs the acid environment of the stomach and may hang out there for 3 hours until all the complex proteins are broken down into small groups of amino acids. This only happens in the stomach because of high levels of hydrochloric acid which is needed to activate the protein digesting enzyme, pepsin. Once small groups of amino acids leave the stomach they meet peptidase enzymes, again from the pancreas, which break them down into amino acids, ready for absorption.
The Myth of the Bean.
The overly simplistic understanding of food combining and making them part of a weight management programme is to separate carbohydrate and protein foods because they are digested differently.
The fact that eating certain kinds of beans produces flatulence is often quoted as a negative effect because beans are both protein and carbohydrate. However, it is now known that this is not the reason for beans’ boisterous reputation. In some beans there is a kind of protein which cannot be digested by the enzymes in our digestive system, even when eaten alone. This protein can, however, be digested by the bacteria that live in the large intestine.
So when you eat beans you not only feed yourself you also feed these bacteria. These bacteria produce gas after a good meal of lectin, hence the flatulence. It’s got nothing to do with food combining. This makes sense to me since many healthy cultures throughout the world have evolved to eat a diet in which beans or lentils are a staple food.
Best wishes Garth
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When was the last time you got acquainted with….
your blood pressure?
I’m only asking out of curiosity because I have just conducted a couple of Wellness Days within a large corporate company and out of 250 employees I found that 35 of them had higher than average blood pressure, which is a pretty high percentage and just happens to be one of society’s greatest killers if left unchecked andt could lead to hardening of the arteries, angina or even a heart attack.
The strange thing about it is that none of these people even had an inkling that their blood pressure was so high and I’m talking about 150′s and 160′s over 90 here and these people had no idea that it was so high and the serious implications attached to it!
Undoubtedly a lot of this can be traced back to “high stress levels” within their working environment but a lot of it can be attributed to the present turmoil of the current economic climate and the uncertainty that seems to have turned into a “frenzy” and is causing feelings of huge insecurity.
It’s like a vicious circle; the stress affects home life, which in turn manifests into self disrepair, where you feel so anxious and fearful that you begin to neglect yourself when in actual fact a good hard intense workout is exactly what the doctor ordered and just what you need to help deal with the stress!
In fact even just some form of moderate exercise has been proven to reduce blood pressure but of course if your high blood pressure is medically related and you’re on medication it always makes sense to get your doctors advice before embarking on any form of exercise programme.
Your physical health starts to deteriorate, you’re eating habits become less than desirable and before you know it the compound and end effect has “transmuted itself into high blood pressure” because there is no other outlet and is your bodies way of telling you to do something about your Lifestyle.
If you haven’t had your blood pressure checked recently please do so, especially if you’ve been feeling under undue pressure.
Remember, prevention is always better than cure!
Garth
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30 minutes of your life that could make a difference
The Lifestyle Guy brings us ‘How To Stay Safe and be More Confident – a Woman’s Personal Safety guide’ – the 5 things you should know.’
In his own unique style Garth Delikan shares with Carl Munson and Franji Cassini some great tips on feeling and being safer no matter where you are.
Covering – body language, safety alarms, the power of the voice, personal possessions and mobile phones, Garth also has 4 special tips that can help you:
- make an emergency call even if your phone keypad is locked
- get into your car, even if your keys are locked inside and your spares are miles away
- boost your mobile battery power, even if it appears to be flat, and
- block your handset, should it get stolen
Best wishes Garth
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