Why Most Diets Fail
Want to know 5 reasons most diets fail? Researches showed that regular dieting is a waste of time and energy. According to Dr. Mark Hyman, functional medicine doctor, Director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine and New York Time bestselling author of “Ultrametabolism” and “Ultrawellness” most diets predictably fail because of 5 reasons: 1 – You try to exercise your willpower to control your appetite instead of understanding there is a science behind hunger. 2 – Your focus is too much on counting calories. 3 – Your diet consists of all low-fat foods. 4 – Your weight is actually affected by hidden reasons that require medical attention. 5 – You lack a solid health and weight loss plan to guide on you on your journey. Dr. Hyman also says that when the average dieter loses weight, they lose muscle and fat. But once they regain the weight, they gain back only the fat which will ultimately slow down your metabolism. That’s not what we want! How can I succeed with my health without dieting? CLICK THE LINK 1 – Eat enough whole fresh food to satisfy your appetite. 2 – Eat protein for breakfast to boost your energy for the day. 3 – Eat your last meal three hours before bedtime to give your system time to digest before sleep. 4- Male low-glycemic foods your diet staple such as nuts, seeds, chicken and fish (if you eat it) so your blood sugar stays level. 5 – Eat good […]
Eating Well – A simple guide for beginners
What if I’m here to tell you that you could start eating well without going into crazy diets and severe plans? Sounds good right? If you are following me for a quite sometime you already know I’m not a fan of dieting: why most diets fail. For me simplicity and some discipline in life are vital, and I practice that every day especially when I choose the food I eat. Part of my practice involves the Intuitive and Mindful Eating, but first, you have to learn and understand WHAT TO EAT. What we eat every day has a significant impact on our health and the quality of our life. Eating organic and fresh food can be simple, but we can get confused sometimes by all these dietary plans out there. Understanding the basic principles is crucial. Eating healthy is a matter of habits, and we are creatures of habits, aren’t we? So imagine having this beautiful attitude every day toward eating fresh food. Nowadays so many diseases are linked to a poor diet as cancer, heart diseases, obesity, and type 2 diabetes. Scary to think about it, but not impossible to avoid or reverse these disease with a healthy way of living. Don’t count calories but quality! I don’t get obsessed with counting calories as much as I see people around me. Calories can be important to control when your goal is weight control, but still, if you know how to eat, you can stop being obsessed with calories. If […]
7 Tips For Deep, Blissed-out sleep
Is sleeping a challenging part of your day? It is for sure an essential action to improve if it’s not coming naturally for you. In this article, I want to offer you a sweet pillow and talk about dreamland where we spend around one-third of every day of our lives. But first, why am I even talking about sleep when it’s something our body does naturally? The truth is that sleep is not something that just happens… unless you are a teenager! Even babies need to learn to fall asleep and sleep well. What’s important about getting good sleep? Good sleep is vital for good health. Sleep deprivation can lead to a multitude of health issues: It escalates the hunger hormone called ghrelin, which increases food cravings It escalates the stress hormone called cortisol, which can cause weight gain, diabetes, heart attacks, high blood pressure, depression, osteoporosis, and depressed immunity It causes elevated blood pressure in people with hypertension, which can lead to cardiovascular diseases and stroke Learning how to improve your sleep is not just a luxury – it’s necessary! How do I get better sleep? Follow these 7 tips, and you will feel more rejuvenated and energized than you even knew was possible: 1- Practice regular sleep rhythms by going to bed and waking up around the same time each day. 2- Create a totally quiet and darkness in your bedroom. 3- Avoid caffeine or reduce your intake afternoon as it affects your sleep dramatically. 4- Get regular exposure […]
How Exciting!!! Are You ready to discover the Card message?
Let’s see what the Oracle Card you chose says. When I work with this tool, I tune into the Spiritual moment of it to better absorb all the knowledge and the information I get. So here the messages: CARD 1 – Physical Health: Vitality – Strength – Body Image – Balance Honor the needs of your physical body and learn to love it just as it is. It is the sacred temple of your soul. Amidst the rapid pace, pressures and different responsibilities of modern life, it can be easy to lose touch with the needs of our physical body. While many of our current life circumstances and even some of our spiritual paths call for the denial of the material, this card is calling us to reconnect and honor our physical needs. Our physical body is our temple, our chariot, our sacred vessel in this life. While our mind may be a great architect of visionary possibility, and our heart may have the power to bring great passions to life, our physical body is the medium through which spirit and inspiration is brought into form, and so we must care for it as though it were the most honored guest in our home. This card is an invitation to reconnect with the wisdom of your body. Re-claim a sense of balance between work, rest and play. Integrate your need for quiet time and solitude with activities and social connection. It’s time to balance the scales. Bring your love and […]
Have you heard of Mercury Retrograding?
Today I want to share with you how to “survive” during these periods of the year. Mercury retrograding is for me a fascinating topic, and when I got to know about it, I wanted to understand it better because I noticed it was affecting me very much. During these days Mercury started to retrograding exactly on March 5th and will stop on March 28th ending the post-shadows on April 16th. If you are energetically very sensible as I am, it can be heavy. Now that I understand it better than before I’m looking into it with a fun eye. What I’m here to share with you is what to do when we experience this phenomenon. It’s time to turn inward. Planets movements and moon phases can affect our behaviors and our routine. You’ll notice communication may be influenced, you may feel more tired than usual, emails can be messy, travel plan can be changed, contracts not be signed, you can misunderstand things while conversating with others, your relationships can be affected as well. Isn’t that interesting? You could also experience this disturbing energy to carry around or encountering more fights with people than usual. Do not fall into the trap. Just start to be aware of this planetarian movement and take a breath because communication works oppositely than we expect. So what to do when Mercury is having fun with us? During these days all we have to do is turn inward and trust our intuition. Go with the flow. […]
GROWING IS PART OF OUR LIFE
September has come with all its freshness and positive energy. After the Summer Time where we may have a chance to stretch a little bit and relax in some occasion, the business year has knocked at our doors. I have decided to pause my blog for a little while since I have collected a lot of impressions and opinions, and I need to put my focus on something else for the moment. In these beautiful months ahead I must take a step back from my writing ritual and focus more on some changes that I need to make in my life. I will work on new programs and courses for my online business. I will practice my Iyengar Yoga Training which by now is an essential component of my life and part of further projects as well, and of course, I will continue my Coaching practice to serve others. I will share everything with you. Promise! I’m working with a team of great Professionals, my Designer who is already doing a fantastic job to rebrand my logo and image, a business coach who will help with the structure and the preparation of the online courses, and of course my Yoga mentors who are always there for me to track my progress. In the meantime, I’ll continue sending out emails with exciting content to keep in touch with you all and give you some wellness and lifestyle tips 😉 I’m thrilled to see what it will be. I have exciting plans and […]
7 tips for drinking more water!
When I talk to people, and they ask me for some tips for a better lifestyle, water is one of the first things I bring out. I will never be tired of advising people about drinking more water. Today I want to chat with you about how much water you need to drink to stay hydrated AND to offer you 7 of my simple how-to tips for drinking more water every day! First, why am I talking about drinking more water anyway? I have been talking about the importance of water before because when I discovered that the average of Americans used to drink water as a second choice, I was shocked. That means that the first beverages they drank were Sodas, Coca Cola, Coffee, Soft Drinks, Pepsi, etc. Thankfully, according to research for the first time in 2016, Americans drank more bottled water than other soft drinks. I was genuinely pleased when I got to know it because that indicated that after all the activity and effort that professional people in the Wellness industry make every day finally we get to see positives results. People begin to understand a way to stay more healthy. Water is the fluid that lubricates our systems and keeps us healthy and vibrant. Think of a riverbed in a drought when it’s all dried up and cracking, where the water is so sparse that there’s no life in it. Now compare your body to that riverbed and imagine what you are doing to it […]
What the word “Diet” makes you think?
When I think about diet plans, suddenly one word comes into my mind: restriction. With that also develops a feeling of frustrations, overwhelming, nervousness, resistance, revolution. Diet makes me think about all those sensations that don’t make me feel relaxed and calm. So many diet plans are out there. For instance, Paleo, Mediterranean, Raw, Dukan, Blood Type, Atkins, Ketogenic, Zone, etc. It can be crazy confusing to chose the best. Let me explain. Would you go on a road trip to an unknown destination without getting to understand what to expect? Without knowing what dresses you have to bring, if it’s hot or freezing, what is going to be the weather, where you can eat or sleep, and not be in starvation for days, or have a map to follow? Maybe you are more adventurous than me, but the point is not knowing what to expect and especially having the doubt of not getting to your goals can result in frustration and sadness. What I have seen happening a lot is when people get into the path of dieting, they may start getting some results and stick with that plan for a little period. Next, it will be inevitable the “fall off of the track.” For example, if the goal you got in mind was to losing weight, you will end up gaining even more weight than before including a sense of failure. There is a little secret I want to share with you. Not an adequate diet is out […]
Fresh Air and Sunshine is food! The power behind the underrated but potent vitamins!
We all must have wondered once in life what can be useful and healthy behind the food we eat every day. Wellness and health are more than just eating well. We always have to consider the whole cycle, and some of the essential things we can take for our wellbeing are available to us every day. We can find these valuable “supplements” all around. They don’t cost a dime and especially are accessible anytime. I’m talking about Nature, Fresh Air, and Sunshine. I called them supplements because, in reality, they are vital vitamins for our system. We are so conditioned to think that vitamins are something manufactured and labeled in a lab to find on the shelves and purchase them. We forget to open our eyes to look and understand what’s available around us. We can discover vitamins simple in Nature, in our food as in our environment. Three essential Vitamins you can find around: 1. Vitamin N = Nature 2. Vitamin FA = Fresh Air 3. Vitamin S = Sunshine Did you know that instead of exploring the great outdoors an average of people spends most of their time stuck in offices and dark living rooms? Even kids today spend 7 hours more on academics and 2 hours on sports and outdoor activities per week than they did 20 years ago. Well, unfortunately, all of this indoor living is devastating to our health. For instance, nowadays a lot of kids develop ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) which is a medical condition […]
LISTEN TO YOUR BODY – The Hunger Game: want to learn to play?
Have you ever consider the difference between emotional hunger and physical hunger? If you think about it, these two contrasting sensations affect you in many ways. Emotional hunger means you turn to food either to avoid uncomfortable emotions or to heighten pleasurable ones. It says you eat based on how you feel instead of what your body needs. Examples: – Eating for comfort out of loneliness or sadness – Eating from boredom – Consuming to try to soothe anxious or depressed feelings – Eating to fill an aching heart Physical hunger means you eat when your body signals to you that you are in fact hungry. That also means that you stop eating when you are satisfied and before you are uncomfortably full. Examples: – Stomach growls and gets that hallow hungry sensation – Body feels weak, and energy goes down – Blood sugar gets low, and you feel shaky – You feel lightheaded or faint So what will learn to listen to my body do for me? It will free you from being a slave to food. You get to feel more in control of your eating and less dependent on food to “help” your moods and emotions. By listening to your physical hunger signals, you can determine how hungry or full you really are. With practice, you’ll be able to pinpoint where your body is at any given moment. By doing so, you will train yourself to stop eating BEFORE you are too full and to not turn […]
