For a lot of women PMS (pre-menstrual syndrome) seems to be a big stumbling block to permanent weight-loss and health gain. All good intentions and even some well established healthy routines go out the window when their period is due.

You may be one of these women who suffer one or multiple symptoms. A few days before a period is due, you become bloated, get even more fluid retention, irritable, tired and anxious turning to foods full of processed fats, and/or refined carbohydrates like sugar, cookies, chocolate, or lots of bread, only to feel even more miserable as blood sugar levels yo-yo. Then the guilt and frustration sets in!

Tip of the Day – if you are unhealthy or overweight or both – your lifestyle made you that way and the very idea that sometime in the near or distant future you can return to your old habits – is counter-productive. This is exactly what happen in 95% of cases – going ‘on’ a diet then come ‘off’ the diet.

Quote of the Day -Very little of what people eat goes to nourish them, most goes to waist – Sonia Jones

How to fatten animals ready for market -

The farmer restricts the amount of food the animal is allowed for a few days, then for a few days the animals are allowed it to eat as before. Farmers have found these animals go to market heavier than those who have been fed constantly! This is what most people do, restrict their food for a while (‘on a diet’) then go back to their normal eating habits (‘off the diet’). 

The other interesting thing about fattening animals

* fed on raw food, animals where leaner and slimmer

* fed the same foods and the same amount of food but cooked the animals became fatter!!

TIP OF THE DAY

Being dehydrated or not drinking enough water slows down the metabolism – so make sure you drink enough water for a healthy metabolism.

However drinking too much will put too much strain on your kidneys, can cause an imbalance of the electrolytes – sodium, potassium etc and it will not after a certain point make your metabolism even faster?

You will also switch off the ‘brain confusion’ confusion between hunger and thirst – research has shown that often people eat because they think they are hungry but in fact they are thirsty. So if you are always hungry make sure you are hydrated with water.

GET HYDRATED WITH WATER!

Addictions and cravings

Don’t skip this section, you may think because you don’t take recreational drugs or don’t smoke cigarettes or drink too much that addiction doesn’t apply to you. However, I am talking about the everyday substances you find on the supermarket shelves!

Do addictions and cravings keep sabotaging your good intentions? Sabotage your good intentions of losing weight, getting healthier, and changing your habits of a life time, habits that speed up your aging and degeneration process. Being addicted or having powerful cravings is a real problem for many people.

Research has uncovered that when women get married they put on approximately half a stone (7lbs) in the first 2 years.

It is thought this is mainly due to the fact that men eat in general less healthily than women. Once a woman marries she end up catering to his tastes more, as men seem much more resistant to changes in diet. The other reason men eat more so be careful not to get into the habit of eating more than you did before.

Half the battle is being aware, so you can do something about it.