Top Five Quick tips for Carbs

Carbohydrates.

This is all around — carbs are everywhere.

You can find carbs at the store, at the restaurant, and at your friend’s house.

Low-carb diets are all the rage and many people attain fat loss. It is however, difficult to maintain after a couple months.

Equipping yourself with greater understanding of carbs has been known to make people delicious, interesting, and fit.

Carbs are a…

1. Great source of fast energy

When you need it, quick energy can be a vital power for life.

2. Carbs are best eaten for…

  • Breakfast
  • Within 0-two hours before physical activity
  • During physical activity
  • Right after physical activity

If you use it, you will burn it. Feel better, grow stronger simultaneously.

3. Post-workout carbs HIGHLY recommended for recovery

Do you want to feel better the next day after a hard workout?

You need carbs post-workout.

It boosts recovery, and gives you an opportunity to enjoy eating carbohydrate food — guilt free.

4. Complex carbs are more complete

Complex carbohydrates often come in foods that contain more nutrients. Molecules break down slower and the energy is released over a period of digestion.

This source of carbs gives you more leniency in energy consumption. In other words, even sedentary people lose weight through an educated selection of complex carbs.

5. What are the BEST carbs?

The BEST carbs are nutrient-dense. Lots of bang for the buck.

Fruit: Energy and live-giving nutrients

Vegetables: Disease protection, lean tissue, protecting cells.

Quinoa, brown rice, lentils etc.: Some foods are not good for certain individuals (such as Gluten). So discover the best foods for your body.

BONUS: Getting creative with Carbs

Fruit can be the guilt free carb source for delicious taste.

Healthnut with hands on the cookie jar.

Unleash the artist by painting a sunset of fresh fruits into a sweet salad delight.

Health and vigor upon you, my fruit eating friend.

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Empty Stomachs are Hazardous to Weight Loss

Leaving the house on an empty stomach can ruin a day of dieting.

A regular customer visited the store today with the full intention of heading to the gym afterward. But he didn’t eat breakfeast…

There he was, before 11AM, minutes prior to our opening hours, feeling hungry. The Popeye’s restaurant next door produces a fried, oily smell that travels from Walmart to Les Schuab.

So he went over to Popeye’s and stuffed himself with fried chicken gizzards.

To successfully lose weight, you must eat.

There are some foods that even if you tried to gain weight, you would be unable. Leafy green vegetables are notorious for boosting health, preventing disease, and filling you up without hardly any calories at all.

In our urban jungle, you cannot trust the food sources. Restaurants are the guiltiest perpetrators since they rely on taste and not health.

Eat breakfeast in the morning, have fruit for snack before you leave the house. Do what you have to do, but DO NOT let yourself get on an empty stomach — that is when the worst decisions are made.

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3 Simple Ideas for your Slim Waist

Weight loss should be easy!

In fact, weight loss is easy as good choices become habitual.

Fitness is habitual

You’re a busy person, with places to go and people to see. You’ve tried to slim down before, but each time you grew frustrated with the effort costs and lack of results. Pause, for a moment, and focus not on weight loss — but on these 3 Simple Ideas that can improve your life and slim your waist.

Idea #1: Eat Carbs+Protein with Breakfeast, everyday.

Have you ever said, “I don’t have time for breakfeast” or worse, just have a donut and coffee?

Breakfeast accomplishes two things:

  • Refuel you after a long night of sleep
  • Provide energy for the first half of your day

Together, both of the above sends signals to your body allowing you to eat a higher dose of carbohydrates and protein that can actually help you lose weight!

Example breakfeast: Oatmeal (carbs) + Whey (protein). OR… Yogurt (protein) + Berries (carbs).

Idea #2: The (EllisonFitness) Grapefruit Diet

Grapefruit, you make me healthy

Versions of the Grapefruit diet have been floating around since the 1930’s. These previous diets mostly consist of very low caloric intake, but I do NOT believe in starving yourself.

Grapefruits are considered a SuperFood based on high vitamins, phytonutrients, bioflavonoids, and enzymes that boost digestion and metabolism. Grapefruits are also in Season.

How: Prepare slices of grapefruit in the morning, and consume 1/3 grapefruit Before each meal.

Since grapefruit prepares you for digestion and contains dietary fiber, you may be compelled to eat less food in your meals because you will be easier satisfied. This, of course, is in addition to all of the metabolism boosting health effects of Grapefruit.

Eat on!

Idea #3: Walk, Talk, and Enjoy it a Lot. Or Take a Hike!

Fall in Ravenna Park, Seattle

Enjoy the seasons, wear warm clothes, and go for a stroll in the park with friends. This type of exercise not only burns calories, but also puts you in a more balanced mood — allowing for better weight loss progress. We know that a positive social support system is Essential for healthy weight loss.

Feel free to run up the paths, explore new areas of the city. Or better yet, go hiking! Since Hiking requires long endurance, your body can better utilize Body Fat as a source of energy — more than jogging! This means you burn more fat, and keep more lean muscle!

Any additional walking will make slimming down just that much easier!

Simple tips, not miracles.

Weight loss is a process that happens over time. It requires a combination of Healthy Food, Physical Activity, and a Positive Social Support System. Add more activities that include these three pillars of health, and you will be closer to the slim waist of your dreams!

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