Plan to Lose Weight

Planning in losing weight doesn’t have to go to the extreme, everything has to do with your lifestyle from eating, exercise, and attitude. How do you plan to lose weight especially for beginners?

All you have to do is create an easy plan or daily exercise journal that you can follow. This means writing down your physical activities, and keeping a food journal.

Here is a basic program to help you get started.

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday

- 3 sets of 10-15 squats using your body weight

- 3 sets of 10-15 sit ups on a stability ball

- 3 sets of 10 push ups (go on your knees if you have too)

- 3 sets of side skater lunges, 8 per side

- 3 sets of 10-12 bicep to shoulder press using 2 to 10 pound dumbbells.

Remember only do what feels safe and go as low in each move as you can. Only use the amount of weight and perform the number of reps that reflect your fitness level. It's not a competition.

Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
Get out there and walk, bike, swim or any other activity that you can handle for 20-45 minutes. Do your best to safely break a sweat and if you can only go for 15 minutes, so be it. Just get moving. You can always increase your time as the weeks go on.

Sunday
Today is a rest day. Now if Sunday is a better day to train, then rest on another day. Create a schedule that works for you.

Food
I'm not going to tell you what to eat I'm just going to begin by giving you a few pointers.

    * Keep a food journal. That means write down everything you eat and drink during your day. Try to not eat a heavy dinner or eat too late.
    * Eat only until you are full (for most of us that is about eating half of the food we already consume). If you need to, just get it off your plate right away.
    * Don't wait to eat until you're starving. This leads to overeating.
    * Always carry a healthy snack to help you get to the next meal: handful of almonds, some fruit, or even a mini sandwich. No snack foods (chips, candy, fast food, fries, cookies, etc.).
    * Only drink water and your beloved coffee without all the other ingredients that turn it into a milkshake. This means no juices or sodas of any kind.
    * Choose your one night to have alcohol if you must, and it's better to have wine rather than beer or sugary cocktails (mojitos and martinis with sexy names).
    * Don't nuke it! Make your food yourself.
    * If you are feeling really motivated, then avoid food made of wheat (pasta, bread, and all baked goods of course). Be mindful that sugar and wheat can really impact your body weight.
    * On Sunday, eat what you want. This is not a license to go crazy -- this just means that you can relax, and get that much more fired up for Monday.

The beginning is always the toughest time, but if you are serious about wanting to make a change, this is a really simple way to do that especially for beginners.

Ways in Better Sleep

A good night's sleep isn't always easy to come by, and here are a few other ways to promote better sleep.

Practice good "sleep hygiene." This does not mean making sure your bedding is clean! It means following good sleep habits, especially ensuring the bedroom environment is conducive to sleep. Among experts' recommendations: Use the bedroom only for sleep and sex; keep regular sleep and wake times; eliminate afternoon caffeine; banish pets (and snoring partners) from the bedroom; ensure the bedroom is a dark, cool, quiet place; and get computers and TVs out of the sleep environment, because they stimulate the brain and their light tells the body "it's daytime," disrupting the internal clock.

Break the rules when necessary. While experts' common-sense recommendations about sleep hygiene should be the first line of defense against insomnia, selectively breaking them can sometimes help, too. TV isn't recommended, for example, but a DVD or show (make it a boring one) may put some people to sleep

Develop a pre-bed relaxation ritual. To develop a nonstimulating evening ritual, you might recall what your parents did when you were young to get you in sleep mode. Or try taking a hot bath or sipping a warm cup of chamomile tea; either will raise your core body temperature, which leads to a drowsy feeling as you cool down.

Try not to self-medicate. There are antihistamines, like Benadryl, which have a sedative side effect. (The ingredient that causes drowsiness is also found in products like Tylenol PM and Advil PM.) But those medications can induce next-day grogginess—what some patients call "sleep hangovers"—and they can actually have an alerting or a disorienting effect on the elderly. Other OTC options include melatonin supplements and valerian extracts, although evidence of the effectiveness of either is slim.

Don't drink to sleep. Sure, sloshing down a little Pinot Noir will put you to sleep, but as the alcohol is metabolized by the body, it fragments sleep, which tends to cause nighttime awakenings and next-day tiredness. The misconception that alcohol helps - It doesn't.

Create a barrier between work and sleep. You want to have some sort of break from the day's stress before sleep. If you know you're going to bed at 10:30, stop your day at 10:15, or sooner if you can. Shortchanging that break can be a recipe for insomnia. Write down all the things you need to worry about on a piece of paper, and do your best to leave them behind. Whether asleep or awake, there's likely nothing you can do about them until tomorrow, anyway.

Don't "catastrophize." People who can't sleep tend to compound the problem by fretting about the consequences of their sleeplessness, like the possibility that they'll do a bad job at work and get fired.

A Wine each day keeps you Healthy

You pop in a frozen dinner, have a glass of wine, and call it a night. Don’t you know a glass of wine each day may be providing you with more than just a little relaxation?

Here is the following report from Health that wine may do all of the following:

1. Feed your head
Wine could preserve your memory. When researchers gave memory quizzes to women in their 70s, those who drank one drink or more every day scored much better than those who drank less or not at all. Wine helps prevent clots and reduce blood vessel inflammation, both of which have been linked to cognitive decline and heart disease, explains Tedd Goldfinger, DO, of the University of Arizona School of Medicine. Alcohol also seems to raise HDL, the so-called good cholesterol, which helps unclog your arteries.

2. Keep the scale in your corner
Studies find that people who drink wine daily have lower body mass than those who indulge occasionally; moderate wine drinkers have narrower waists and less abdominal fat than people who drink liquor. Alcohol may encourage your body to burn extra calories for as long as 90 minutes after you down a glass. Beer seems to have a similar effect.

3. Boost your body’s defenses
In one British study, those who drank roughly a glass of wine a day reduced by 11% their risk of infection by Helicobacter pylori bacteria, a major cause of gastritis, ulcers, and stomach cancers. As little as half a glass may also guard against food poisoning caused by germs like salmonella when people are exposed to contaminated food, according to a Spanish study.

4. Guard against ovarian woes
When Australian researchers recently compared women with ovarian cancer to cancer-free women, they found that roughly one glass of wine a day seemed to reduce the risk of the disease by as much as 50 percent. Earlier research at the University of Hawaii produced similar findings. Experts suspect this may be due to antioxidants or phytoestrogens, which have high anticancer properties and are prevalent in wine. And in a recent University of Michigan study, a red wine compound helped kill ovarian cancer cells in a test tube.

5. Build better bones
On average, women who drink moderately seem to have higher bone mass than abstainers. Alcohol appears to boost estrogen levels; the hormone seems to slow the body’s destruction of old bone more than it slows the production of new bone.

6. Prevent blood-sugar trouble
Premenopausal women who drink one or two glasses of wine a day are 40 percent less likely than women who don’t drink to develop type 2 diabetes, according to a 10-year study by Harvard Medical School. While the reasons aren’t clear, wine seems to reduce insulin resistance in diabetic patients.

So, brilliantly decide to have a glass of wine each day. Which somehow turned into two glasses, then a bottle, then two bottles…

Worst Supermarket Foods

Do you put everything unknowingly on your shopping cart until you’re satisfied and tempted to fill another one? Before you fill both, Men's Health editor-in-chief and author have just released a new supermarket survival guide – Eat This Not That, which could one day help stop your craving of unhealthy foods.

According to the author, the 20 worst supermarket foods include:

•    Worst Crunchy Snack: Gardetto's Special Request Roasted Garlic Rye Chips
•    Worst Cookie: Pillsbury Big Deluxe Classics White Chunk Macadamia Nut
•    Worst Yogurt: Stonyfield Farm Whole Milk Chocolate Underground
•    Worst Candy: Twix
•    Worst Condiment: Eggo Original Syrup
•    Worst Ice Cream: Haagen-Dazs Chocolate Peanut Butter
•    Worst Drink: AriZona Kiwi Strawberry
•    Worst "Healthy" Pantry Item: Pop-Tarts Whole Grain Brown Sugar Cinnamon
•    Worst Frozen "Healthy" Entree: Healthy Choice Complete Selections Sweet & Sour Chicken
•    Worst Cereal: Quaker 100% Natural Granola, Oats, Honey & Raisins
•    Worst Packaged Pasta: Pasta Roni Fettuccine Alfredo
•    Worst Baked Good: Otis Spunkmeyer Banana Nut Muffins
•    Wort Frozen Treat: Toll House Ice Cream Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwich
•    Worst Individual Snack: Hostess Chocolate Pudding Pie
•    Worst Packaged Lunch: Oscar Mayer Maxed Out Turkey & Cheddar Cracker Combo Lunchables
•    Worst Stir-Fry: Bertolli Grilled Chicken Alfredo & Fettuccine Complete Skillet Meal for Two
•    Worst Frozen Breakfast: Jimmy Dean Pancake and Sausage Links Breakfast Bowls
•    Worst Frozen Pizza: DiGiorno for One Garlic Bread Crust Supreme Pizza
•    Worst Frozen Entree: Hungry-Man Classic Fried Chicken
•    Worst Packaged Food in America: Marie Callender's Creamy Parmesan Chicken Pot Pie

If you have any alternative health list about supermarket guide, do comment and will add more above. Thanks!

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