Wellness, a Lifestyle Choice.

Can wellness be as simple as a lifestyle change?

Wellness is defined as – “The quality or state of being healthy in body and mind, especially as the result of deliberate effort.” This means it’s more about feeling well for yourself. Your wellness can include weight loss if you want too lose weight.

There is no simple way to undo multiple years of misuse of our bodies.  Diets have a 3% success rate! Only 3% success because the dieters only changed their food intake and did not adopt a lifestyle change! Failure to adopt a lifestyle change results in returning to your old habits and foods.

Wellness is earned by limiting your food intake to quality foods meeting the daily required nutritional intake mixed with a proper measure of exercise.  Outdoor exercise includes mental exercises of the senses. Before embarking on an wellness adventure consult with your doctor as to medical conditions that need be considered. Secondly make a daily list of all your food intake for a period of 14 to 30 days. Identify the junk food and replace it with fresh fruit and raw vegetables.  You have just started your wellness trip. Thirdly, reduce your food intake by filling your plate as usual and putting 10% back. Increase this by 10% every two weeks.  20 % for the 2nd month. Continue to fill your plate  and put back 10%.  Continue reducing your caloric intake till you meet daily recommended requirements. If you make too large of a reduction in food intake all at once your body will respond to what it believes is starvation and changes the way it uses your food intake and instead of loosing weight you will gain weight.

It took you years to get out of shape. it will take years to accomplish significant weight reduction in a way that it stays off!

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The 20% weight loss plan.

When my husband did his lifestyle change at 70 years old he lost 30 kg in 2 years. He went from 200 kg down to 170 kg and now 3 years later he is still 170 kg. He now enjoys the occasional less than healthy food treat.  7 years ago we walked with wheeled chair walker. now he walks daily in the park with weights on his arms and legs.

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 Chef LeeZ  days:  “Start your day with this healthy smoothy 

Carrot – 3 slices, peas in pod (3) broccoli (2 springs), cauliflower (2 springs), celery (1 stem), half a tomato, cucumber (3 ring slices), romaine lettuce (2 large leaves), dino kale (3 medium leaves), 1/2 inch ring of pineapple, bananas  (1-2 small), watercress red and green (50-100 gms) and use filtered water (6-8 oz.). Makes 18 oz.

OR you can mix up the ingredients as in our Green Power Smoothie video.

Supplements like vitamins are helpful while you adjust your diet. There is a myriad of choices for vitamins and supplements your choice should be quality over price. Quality meaning there are independent tests to verify the viability rate. What is viability, you ask? An example of  Viabile  can be demonstrated by making bread dough. To make the flour, water and salt dough rise you add yeast. Imagine you have 2 packages of yeast and you make two separate dough piles. Each with yeast from a different yeast package.  One rises and the other does not rise. The one that rises had viable yeast while the one that did not rise received nonviable (dead) yeast. If you choose price over quality you may be purchasing supplements that are nonviable.

Most supplements require a cold press system to collect them as using heat to extract the essence will usually render them nonviable.

Exercise both mental and physical exercise is a necessary part of wellness

Exercise is a necessary part of wellness. Exercise keeps all things from your head to your toes working! Exercise can be walking, running, jogging, Thai Chi class, aqua aerobics, bicycling, or swimming, in a gym or any physical activities like gardening or any combination of them as all that burn calories.  Remember, outdoor exercise automatically includes more brain stimulus than indoor exercising. Thai Chi provides movement to all parts of the body and a centering of your inner power (chi) plus the added bonus of self defense moves.

Outdoor activity provides many types of sensory input that gyms can not do. Like flowering trees and shrubs and plants and animals.

Wellness – Exercise – In  A Park. https://youtube.com/shorts/Y1ZZZOuLFnE?feature=share

You can start your lifestyle change right now today

You can start your lifestyle change right now today with a simple change in your toothpaste. This toothpaste is loaded with good natural ingredients to promote a healthy mouth environment.  My husband says since changing to Glister Toothpaste he has not had a mouth ulcer (cancer sore) and his gingivitis is gone.

Are you ready for your wellness?

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