How to Lose 10 Pounds in a Week – 8 Proven Tips That Helped Me to Lose 10 Pounds in One Week

I desperately needed to lose weight for my wedding. I have lost 13 pounds on the first week, and 10 pounds on the second. This is quite a short time for losing weight, and not very healthy, I know. However, this quick weight loss success was a kick-start for my weight loss journey, and it motivated me to keep losing weight, following natural and healthy methods later. I am going to share every single step I followed on the second week, that helped me to lose 10 pounds in 7 days.

Please keep in mind that extremely fast weight loss is never healthy.

Here are the steps I followed after the first 7 days, to lose 10 pounds in a week:

1) First, I had a day of detox – to cleanse my body and lose weight even faster. I prepared a drink of lemon juice, ginger and honey mixed with water, and drank this detox drink during the day. Whenever hungry, I just drank it. I felt good, as I normally do, no cramps, no lack of energy, nothing. This was not hard at all, and I am sure it boosted my weight loss results. I know some people do the whole week of detox, but this is not for me. Continue reading “How to Lose 10 Pounds in a Week – 8 Proven Tips That Helped Me to Lose 10 Pounds in One Week”

Healthy Cookware 101: Do We Know Everything About Cookware? Think Again

What might we not know about cookware, right? They’re pots and pans we use every day… That’s where we go wrong. Sometimes the most important things are right in front of us and we still choose to ignore their effect on our lives — cookware is one of those things. In order to cook healthy food, choosing the right cookware is as important as choosing the right ingredients. The current scenario in the market makes it difficult to make the right choice as the manufacturers are more profit-centric than ever and they sell whatever can earn them maximum profit.

You may be choosing the right ingredients that are full of nutrients and are healthy, but by choosing the wrong cookware, you are not only depleting those nutrients but are also making your food toxic. Research shows that all metals are reactive (this is their innate property) and food contains nutrients that are in the form of oxygen, hydrogen halogens, acids, and bases. They are reactive to metal ions that conventional metal/ceramic cookware leach while cooking. Don’t believe me, do a simple alkaline baking soda test at home, this is an eye-opener:

Alkaline Baking Soda Test for Checking Toxicity of Cookware Continue reading “Healthy Cookware 101: Do We Know Everything About Cookware? Think Again”

Healthy Diet Amidst COVID 19

Maintaining a healthy diet remains an important part of boosting your immunity. While there are no specific foods that can help protect you from the pandemic COVID 19, a nutritious diet can boost your immune system and combat the symptoms.

Let me remind you that a healthy diet is not about strict restrictions from food, staying unrealistically thin, or depriving yourself of the foods you love. It’s not about leaving you starving; rather, it’s about feeling great, having more energy, improving your health, and boosting your immune system.

Healthy eating is very simple. Though easier said than done; what’s important is your overall dietary pattern. In fact, a healthy diet is replacing processed food with real food whenever possible. Continue reading “Healthy Diet Amidst COVID 19”

How to Stay Healthy Longer

I am promoting healthy living by encouraging everyone to get up close and personal with the food that you eat, have fun getting physical and socialize. Healthy living consist of the steps and strategies one puts in place to achieve optimum health. My steps include; maintaining a spiritual relationship, eating to live and not living to eat, staying physical by gardening, swimming and walking, stimulating my brain by reading and teaching and socializing with neighbors, church members, clubs memberships, cultivating healthy relationships and enjoying life.

Eat food that is grown organically, it is better for your overall health to grow your own food and eat fresh. However, whether you grow it, purchase it from an Eco Farmer or organic store; at a minimum, once per day, eat a fruit, vegetable or herb that was grown free of chemicals.

Grow a garden, whether it is one vegetable, fruit or herb, in a container on your window, on your balcony, on the porch, or in your pristine city backyard. It is not easy in the city to grow a garden, but it is possible. It requires at least 1 hr per day to take care of a small garden that produces food for a family of four (4). I have learned, from experience, some basic steps to grow a successful backyard garden, in the city. Continue reading “How to Stay Healthy Longer”

Noticing and Acknowledging Your Emotions Empowers Change

After eating naturally for 20 years I now know that I used to use food to control my emotions. I was completely unable to cope with a lot of things that had happened in my life. So instead of acknowledging them and allowing myself to feel loss, sadness, and grief I ate instead.

This meant I didn’t have to feel because that was too hard and completely overwhelming. I was able to control my feelings by using food. To be honest I probably lived for 20 years of my life in a fog, doing what I needed to get through the day, but not actually living or feeling.

When I was diagnosed with depression and bulimia in 1996 I was completely blown away. I’d more or less worked out that I was suffering from depression as most days I didn’t want to get out of bed. But the fact that I had Bulimia was a real eye opener. That’s because I never made myself sick, what I did was exercise excessively instead. Eventually I learnt that this was simply another form of purging. It was also another form of control. I would eat very little and only “healthy” food, exercise at least once if not twice every day and then binge in the evenings. It was a very negative cycle of dieting, exercising and bingeing. Continue reading “Noticing and Acknowledging Your Emotions Empowers Change”

Easy to Prepare Deliciously Healthy Snacks for Children!

As mothers, you are always struggling to give healthy food to your child, who is lured by all the junk food advertised on the TV, or in the form of pamphlets. The ultimate challenge is marrying the health and taste together to give a union that spells a win-win situation for both moms and kids.

Did I touch a raw nerve there?

I guess I did!

But worry not moms, as I have some good news for you!

Did that get your attention? Yes, well, then read on!

Moms all over the world face one dilemma – what to feed their growing child? And every day in the kitchen becomes a battle for her where she has to bring both taste and nutrition together in one dish. Continue reading “Easy to Prepare Deliciously Healthy Snacks for Children!”

If Broccoli Is So Good for Me, Why Does It Make Me Sick After Weight Loss Surgery?

People in pursuit of healthy weight management know to stick close to the veggie tray at parties and buffets. After all, vegetables are good healthy food full of beneficial vitamins, nutrients and fiber. But some vegetables, particularly cruciferous vegetables like the ubiquitous broccoli and cauliflower, can cause severe gastric upset when eaten raw by patients of gastric weight loss surgery. In fact, there are many examples of weight loss surgery patients who have experienced gastric distress so severe after eating raw broccoli or cauliflower that a trip to the emergency room was needed.

The reason weight loss surgery patients of all procedures (gastric bypass, gastric sleeve, adjustable gastric banding or lap-band) are prone to discomfort after eating raw cruciferous vegetables is a matter of balance. The vegetables are rich in enzymes which are believed to aid digestion. However, due to the shortened gastric tract and loss of stomach acid the vegetables cannot be fully digested in their short trip through the intestinal tract. The problem is compounded by the presence of cellulose, the dietary fiber in the vegetables that requires intestinal bacteria to process. Even without gastric weight loss surgery many humans lack enough intestinal bacteria to break down the cellulose enough to avoid symptoms of gas, bloating, and cramping. Continue reading “If Broccoli Is So Good for Me, Why Does It Make Me Sick After Weight Loss Surgery?”

There Is No Such Thing As A Healthy Snack

“According to data from the Continuing Surveys of Food Intake by Individuals, conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 90% of Americans’ increased calorie consumption since 1977 has come from increased between-meal eating. Calories consumed at meals have stayed about the same.” – Reinhard Engels

If you were to look for one single factor that has lead to the explosion of fatness around the world, you may have to look no further than the statistic from above. According to this source, 90% of increased calorie consumption over the past 30 years (around the same time span of the dramatic increase in obesity) has come from increased between-meal eating. In other words, the single most significant behavior that seems to have caused the fatness is, snacking.

Snacking is a very new phenomenon and boy is it making people fat. People often say that the cause of obesity is an over-abundance of food, or an over abundance of sugar in those foods. But generations before us had the same or very similar conditions – and they didn’t get fat. The big difference between the generations however, is snacking. Continue reading “There Is No Such Thing As A Healthy Snack”

3 Healthiest Foods for a Long Life, Strong Heart and Healthy Joints

In the quest for greater health and the prevention of disease, people are looking more and more to the quality of the foods they eat. Fast food, fried food, sweets, and foods made with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are being replaced by healthier options. Research studies are showing that food is more than mere nutrition to fill the stomach – it can ward off specific illnesses and lengthen one’s life.

The first of the three healthiest foods is almonds. A recent study published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition has found that eating 1.5 ounces of lightly salted, dry-roasted almonds each day (about 35 almonds) reduces overall hunger, does not affect body weight, and helps people to meet their ideal daily intake of Vitamin E.

Another study that was published on consuming nuts appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine. It showed that people who eat nuts live longer than those who don’t. The study included 76,464 women and 42,498 men and found that the more times per week nuts were eaten, the greater the reduction in risk of death. Those who ate more nuts had 29% less deaths from heart disease. Continue reading “3 Healthiest Foods for a Long Life, Strong Heart and Healthy Joints”

How Goals Nurture and Balance Our Energy

I was recently asked why I found having goals so important. My response was, “working towards a goal helps me monitor my self care”.

Caring for oneself should be easy, innate and a priority when we are pursuing an ambition. However, this isn’t always the case. We can find ourselves burned out or exhausted in various ways not always recognizing how it happened.

To live in congruence with our own life force energy it’s important we see the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual capacities as actual sources of energy that we apply to achieving our life goals. We can then begin to see ways we can nurture and care for our energy and recognize when we cause exhaustion. Finding balance is much easier when we understand our own energy and begin monitoring where and how we use it.

I have broken down the capacities of energy and provided an example of how each capacity is used to implement self care when working towards a goal. I have chosen to use a goal in sport and my personal experience as an athlete. Continue reading “How Goals Nurture and Balance Our Energy”