Anna’s Healthy Breaky Tips!

Posted by Anna - June 4, 2007 on 8:42 am | In Diet, Fitness Gear, healthy diet, weight loss | Comments Off Your momma was right! Breakfast is the MOST important meal of the day . Eating after 6 or more hours of fasting (which is what is happening when you sleep) is absolutely key to maintaining a healthy body weight. Making breakfast a daily ritual will help set your metabolism (your fat-burning furnace) for the entire day, and help you refrain from those mid-morning junk food binges, or pulling into the first fast food drive in on your way to work in the morning. Here are my top foods for a healthy breakfast...(read more)

 


Stroke your metabolism fires

Posted by Anna - May 29, 2007 on 5:00 am | In Fitness Gear, healthy diet, lose weight | Comments Off We all know that the key to losing and maintaining a healthy body weight is your metabolism. The speed of your metabolism will determine how fast your body is able to burn calories. So obviously a faster metabolism has its benefits. The body is like a furnace, and you can think of your metabolism as the fire that fuels that furnace - a hotter fire will burn calories faster. So how do you stoke the metabolism fire? Try 'Anna's 4 Metabolism Stoking Tips' on for size: Weight train - if you don't figure...(read more)

 


Is there a difference between willpower and self-control?

Posted by Anna - May 24, 2007 on 5:00 am | In Fitness Gear, healthy diet, weight loss | Comments Off Every once in a while we all need a bit of a self-evaluation - even good ol' Anna! As soon as summer hits I make it a point to get outside more, eat more fresh produce and clean up any sluggish winter habits. Over the weekend a friend and I had a discussion about my so-called willpower - to workout regularly and stick by a fairly clean diet. Then this morning I uncovered a study by the Mayo Clinic in my latest edition of Oxygen magazine . According to Mayo researchers self-control is much more effective...(read more)