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Belly Flab Won’t Go Away?
If you avoid simple sugars such as candy, cookies, juices, pop, cake, and chocolate you will see amazing changes. When you eat Carbohydrate food such as Fruit or Whole grains, be sure to pair it with protein and a fat. This will decrease blood sugar response. Choose Whole grain carbs while avoiding anything with white, such as white bread and white rice. You can find brown rice at your local wal-mart store.

If you follow this principle, you will be creating a very stable and even blood sugar level. This combined with calorie control and exercise is sure to reduce inches around you waist.

The first few days you might feel tired and lethargic. This response is your body withdrawing from sugar. Yes, Sugar is an addiction and when you go cold turkey, you will feel extra tired for a day or two. After this initial phase-in period, you will find that you have extra energy that you no longer crave sweets!

This diet requires LOTS of water, about 64 ounces of pure, unflavored a day. This will keep you from carving sweets and will keep your energy up.

Here are a couple suggestions for starting out. These have just the amount of carb, fat and protein you need.

Breakfast:
· (½ c. dry) oatmeal topped with ½ apple, cinnamon, and one hardboiled egg.
· 1 slice of whole grain toast topped with 1tbsp of peanut butter and tbsp of low sugar jam.
· 2egg served with a whole wheat muffin.

Here are some good snacks for the between meals hunger:
· 1 string cheese with a handful of berries
· 1 rice cake with a smear of peanut butter.
· 1 small Orange with 10 almonds
· A glass of skim milk with 5 wheat crackers.
· A whole grapefruit
· 4 ounces of low fat yogurt with a tbsp a chopped walnuts.

And also if you’re just looking to tone up your muscles, do some situps. Not 15 or 20. I’m talking like at least a hundred at one setting.

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There is a lot of good, healthy info right there, you know. I should read through my blog more often! I wish I were still all crazy about only eating things that were %100 healthy for me. Sigh.

But HEY - Mom and I are giving up Dr. Pepper. Yes, I know it’s terrible, but it’s not good for me. It IS! I know it! I don’t think I’ve gained any weight drinking it, but I think my face does look fuller since I have become addicted to it. I did have ONE cup today and none yesterday, which is pretty much amazing. I can’t believe I actually went a whole day without it, but when you don’t have something within your reach you can’t have it!

Keep all the soda-pop, chips, chocolate, and other forms of non-healthy food out of this house and AWAY from me!

It’s not about being overweight. It’s about being healthy and fit. These are our temples and the Bible speaks about taking good care of them. We can’t act on our fleshly desires… no matter how close the Dr. Pepper bottle is to your cold cup of ice!

Maybe once I get this under-control (Dr. Pepper addiction) I will really work on getting to bed at a descent time. I have actually gone to bed earlier than usually these past few nights (except last night because I had a deadline). I’d like to start running or walking in the morning, but I can’t do that if I don’t get up IN the morning.

So anything that you should give up that would make you healthier, even if you don’t want to? C’mo, I know there’s something… even if it doesn’t have to do with food.