Calories Rule

Making that New Year's Resolution?  Is loosing weight at the top of your list? 

The good news is that you will have lots of choices for losing that weight.

The bad news is that most of those choices are bogus!
You see each diet book and Internet marketer will have a "magic formula".

Sometimes it will be a "magic" diet composition - low fat diets, low carb diets, high protein diets - or don't eat protein and carbohydrates together.

Despite all of the hype that you will hear, weight loss is solely dependent on the difference between calories in and calories out.

There is no "magic diet formula", no "magic diet composition" and no "magic diet food". Calories rule!

The diet doesn't have to be weird to be successful.  In fact the diet is most likely to succeed if it includes foods that are familiar to you.  However, if you're a "meat and potatoes" person, a vegetarian diet is not likely to be successful for you.  Plus we are all different.  Some of us will lose weight successfully on one diet.  Other people will be more successful on a different diet.   That means the diet that worked so well for your friend may not work at all for you. 

Intrigued?  Find out more next week.

"Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart."
- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Colon Cancer

At my physical, I received from my doctor the paperwork to schedule my first colonoscopy.  I asked my doctor, why is 50 the benchmark for a colonoscopy?  He explained that if there is no colon cancer history in the family, that it is consider middle age and young enough to prevent colon cancer.  If there are polyps, then the surgeon removes the polyps, and reduces the chances of the polyps developing into cancer cells. 

I'm not looking forward to it, but feel positive as I do so many things to prevent colon cancer. 

What are those "things"?

• Eat healthy 80% of the time.  Eating protein, fiber, water (half my weight in ounces)
• Knowing that eating chocolate, white sugar, white flour and alcohol fuels stress
• Exercise
• Use whole food supplements, including a probiotic (which gets the good bacteria into the colon)
• AND a unque immune booster which helps to produce Interferon, naturally

Are you on information overload?  Confused by which products and which diet are right for you?  Want a reliable source who has your best interest in mind? Call me, Mary Beth Potrykus at 810-813-3308 for a free Personal Nutrition Consultation.  We can talk about what is right for you.

Prevention is the cure!