I’m half way up the stairs and I can already hear the humming of workout machines, the rhythmic tapping of a jump rope, and the spray of a cleaner bottle. Just like the other millions of people in the gym, my new year’s resolution is to get into shape.
We tell ourselves we are going to stick with it and form a habit, but it’s not that easy. It’s intimidating. We still have other commitments and overflowing work, so after the first few weeks, we push off going one day by telling ourselves we’ll go tomorrow. We have yet to see any results and honestly, feel a little deterred. In the back of our mind, we compare ourselves to our friends and wonder what’s their secret; for us it’s a constant struggle, but to them shedding a few pounds …show more content…
The food we eat fuels our body for our daily activities, which means we need healthy meals with lots of vitamins and minerals. This doesn’t mean only eat salads and cut out all junk food. It just means eating everything in moderation; having too strict of a diet has actually been shown to be more harmful than beneficial because when you quit eating your normal diet cold turkey, your body interprets this as it’s starving. In addition, Louis J. Aronne, a internal medicine specialist at New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, says that any weight lost from this is most likely due to water than fats. When you cut calories so quickly, the body compensates for the lack of energy by burning glycogen, which is a form of carbohydrate stored in the muscles and liver, and connected to each glycogen there is water. So, ease into it slowly and maybe stop the late night snacking when you’re cramming for a test or the second helping of dessert after dinner. Most people know that eating McDonald's for every meal is really bad for you, but more and more research has been leaning toward quantity have a larger effect on weight loss than the quality of a person's diet. This doesn’t negate the saying “we are what we eat” by the French physician Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in 1826. What we eat is more important that how much time we spend lifting weights. Eating a big fiber filled breakfast fuels the body during the day and eating a smaller dinner allows it to focus on repairing the itself overnight instead of digesting. Sleep is so important for the body because we need theses hours to recharge our brain. Our body works so hard during the day that any scratch, cold, or infection is tended to while we sleep. To circle back to hormones, when you are tired you are under a state of “metabolic grogginess”, a term coined by the University of Chicago. These researchers found that when you are sleep deprived, the
We tell ourselves we are going to stick with it and form a habit, but it’s not that easy. It’s intimidating. We still have other commitments and overflowing work, so after the first few weeks, we push off going one day by telling ourselves we’ll go tomorrow. We have yet to see any results and honestly, feel a little deterred. In the back of our mind, we compare ourselves to our friends and wonder what’s their secret; for us it’s a constant struggle, but to them shedding a few pounds …show more content…
The food we eat fuels our body for our daily activities, which means we need healthy meals with lots of vitamins and minerals. This doesn’t mean only eat salads and cut out all junk food. It just means eating everything in moderation; having too strict of a diet has actually been shown to be more harmful than beneficial because when you quit eating your normal diet cold turkey, your body interprets this as it’s starving. In addition, Louis J. Aronne, a internal medicine specialist at New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, says that any weight lost from this is most likely due to water than fats. When you cut calories so quickly, the body compensates for the lack of energy by burning glycogen, which is a form of carbohydrate stored in the muscles and liver, and connected to each glycogen there is water. So, ease into it slowly and maybe stop the late night snacking when you’re cramming for a test or the second helping of dessert after dinner. Most people know that eating McDonald's for every meal is really bad for you, but more and more research has been leaning toward quantity have a larger effect on weight loss than the quality of a person's diet. This doesn’t negate the saying “we are what we eat” by the French physician Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in 1826. What we eat is more important that how much time we spend lifting weights. Eating a big fiber filled breakfast fuels the body during the day and eating a smaller dinner allows it to focus on repairing the itself overnight instead of digesting. Sleep is so important for the body because we need theses hours to recharge our brain. Our body works so hard during the day that any scratch, cold, or infection is tended to while we sleep. To circle back to hormones, when you are tired you are under a state of “metabolic grogginess”, a term coined by the University of Chicago. These researchers found that when you are sleep deprived, the