Feeling sluggish
Miles walked: 2.6
I was feeling a little sluggish this morning so I hit the snooze button a few extra times. I was not able to walk as far as yesterday as a result. Aimee likes to walk after I get home so I need to try to get up on time in the morning. Before I began walking I read some weight loss tips in Readers Digest. They are taken from a book called "Why French Women Don't Get Fat" by Mireille Guiliano. The article was very timely for me to read right before starting a new lifestyle change.
Excerpt about the book from Amazon.com
Mireille Guiliano is CEO of Veuve Clicquot, and French Women Don't Get Fat offers a concept of sensible pleasures: If you have a chocolate croissant for breakfast, have a vegetable-based lunch -- or take an extra walk and pass on the bread basket at dinner. Guiliano's insistence on simple measures slowly creating substantial improvements are reassuring, and her suggestion to ignore the scale and learn to live by the "zipper test" could work wonders for those who get wrapped up in tiny details of diet. She sympathizes that deprivation can lead straight to overindulgence when it comes to favorite foods, but then, in a most French manner, treats them as a pleasure that needs to be sated, rather than a battle to be fought.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400042127/102-4922943-9808931?v=glance
These weight control concepts are very doable and make a lot of sense to me. I will post them when I get a chance. The RD article refers to more than just French eating habits. Asian and Mediterranean cultures are referenced too. Basically the articles takes into consideration the eating habits of cultures which have a low body-mass index (BMI).
I was feeling a little sluggish this morning so I hit the snooze button a few extra times. I was not able to walk as far as yesterday as a result. Aimee likes to walk after I get home so I need to try to get up on time in the morning. Before I began walking I read some weight loss tips in Readers Digest. They are taken from a book called "Why French Women Don't Get Fat" by Mireille Guiliano. The article was very timely for me to read right before starting a new lifestyle change.
Excerpt about the book from Amazon.com
Mireille Guiliano is CEO of Veuve Clicquot, and French Women Don't Get Fat offers a concept of sensible pleasures: If you have a chocolate croissant for breakfast, have a vegetable-based lunch -- or take an extra walk and pass on the bread basket at dinner. Guiliano's insistence on simple measures slowly creating substantial improvements are reassuring, and her suggestion to ignore the scale and learn to live by the "zipper test" could work wonders for those who get wrapped up in tiny details of diet. She sympathizes that deprivation can lead straight to overindulgence when it comes to favorite foods, but then, in a most French manner, treats them as a pleasure that needs to be sated, rather than a battle to be fought.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400042127/102-4922943-9808931?v=glance
These weight control concepts are very doable and make a lot of sense to me. I will post them when I get a chance. The RD article refers to more than just French eating habits. Asian and Mediterranean cultures are referenced too. Basically the articles takes into consideration the eating habits of cultures which have a low body-mass index (BMI).
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