Eat Your Greens!
Marissa
The really cool and unique thing about greens is they balance out a meal with their bitter flavour. Bitter balances out sweet and is the best way to stop those sweet cravings. If you start your meal with green veggies your taste buds will get that bitter flavour which stimulates digestive enzymes and balances out the sweet flavours that you have in your meal. The sweet flavours in a typical dinner include the carbohydrates such as pasta, bread, rice and other grains. Surprisingly meat is also a sweet flavour. Imagine if you have a meal of pasta with meat sauce and a slice of garlic bread, which all contain “sweet” flavours. You fill up as full as you can and then 30 minutes later you want desert. The easiest thing to change is to add a green veggie; ideally at the start of the meal.
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Marissa Schiesser CNP
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Snowshoeing, it’s just walking on snow right?
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Make Room for Your New Habit
Habits take time to develop. Creating a new habit takes repetition over a number of days, and because it is something you aren’t used to, you will need reminders.
Welcome your commitment to regular exercise by making time and space for it. This isn’t just something you are throwing on your to-do list. This is a departure from your regular routine, and its going to take some resources to sustain.
You will need to set aside time. Time to set and review your goals, and of course, the time for exercise. You will be more successful if you treat exercise like your number one priority everyday and slot in special times for it and protect those appointments like gold.
Make physical space for exercise in your world. Designate special spots in your home or workplace to house your runners and other gear that aren’t hidden away (out of sight= out of mind). If you are exercising outdoors in wet weather, have a designated drying area, and keep your gear and clothes in a place that will remind you to get up and go. If it helps to post signs, pictures or other visual reminders, then do so. Surround yourself with as much as it takes to keep you focused on this new habit, and soon enough it will become second nature to you.
For the first little while, it is the consistent reminders that will help to instill the tendency into your brain. Experts have concluded that it takes 21 days of repetition to make a lasting change. Arm yourself for the 30 day challenge with reminders and your new habit will become a part of your lifestyle!
Lara Williams is a Vancouver-based Life and Productivity Coach and Motivational Speaker for get on with it Coaching. www.getonwithit.ca
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