Simplifying Diet and Exercise for Weight Loss

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Diet and exercise do not need to be complicated in order to lose weight. Many people who are attempting to shed extra pounds often start off on the wrong foot by over complicating the process. While becoming motivated by changing up your diet and starting an exercise plan is all well and good, you may find yourself giving up before you even begin to notice any real progress. This is often due to viewing a healthy diet and exercise routine as a temporary fix rather than approaching them as lifestyle changes.

Simplifying Diet and Exercise for Weight Loss

How to Simplify Your Diet

All weight loss begins with the food you choose to eat. Rather than viewing a healthy diet as everything you no longer get to eat, change your mindset to eating food that will fuel your body. Whole, natural food is what our bodies need to be healthy and function at its best. These foods consist of lean meat, seafood, fruit, vegetables, nuts, and seeds. Processed food is what often causes health issues such as obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and heart disease. Processed food contain a bunch of ingredients that are hard to pronounce as well as being high in sugar and salt.

Rather than cutting out your favorite junk food, start making healthy substitutions. There are substitutes for almost every junk food you can imagine. You can research various recipe substitutes online. Some are even much easier to make and provide many more vitamins, minerals, as well as being lower in calories. Two good diets to consider include the paleo diet or the clean eating diet.

How to Simplify Your Exercise Routines

If you were to ask most people what exercise to perform to lose weight, many would respond with "do a lot of cardio" or "start running." While both are great ways to get the body moving, performing either for long periods of time do not lead to the results you want. Our bodies become accustomed to the same exercise routines. We need to change up what we do in order to keep our bodies from adapting to one form of exercise. When the body is no longer challenged, you lack results.

This is why the popular exercise program P90X has gained such recognition. The program is created in such a way to keep the body from reaching a plateau. You can do the same by performing circuit routines using nothing more than your own body weight. Body weight exercises have become quite popular for people who are short on time, space, and gym equipment. The key is performing the exercises back-to-back in a circuit. This form of exercise is also referred to as interval training. You can burn more calories in less time. When done properly, you can exercise just three times a week. It keeps you from becoming bored because there are tons of exercises that can be done and mixed up to create new routines.

Keeping your diet and exercise simple can lead to positive results. You may find yourself sticking to your routines for the long-term.

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The Caveman Diet: How to Get Started

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There is evidence of human beings as they appear today for the last 200 thousand years. In fact very little has changed about us genetically in this time. These prehistoric men and women lived on a diet which was much different to the diet we currently exist on today. With civilization has come the development of farming, refining and preservation of foods. In particular, in the last century the degree to which most food is refined and processed has increased to a dangerous level. Many consider that this dramatic change in diet over such a short period of time (in terms of evolution) is a major factor in the development of many disease states. The caveman diet (better known as the paleo diet or paleolithic diet) has helped many people to experience remarkable recovery from chronic illnesses, as well as helping them to lose weight, increase body tone and benefit from greatly increased energy levels.

The Caveman Diet: How to Get Started

The caveman diet is fundamentally based on eating those foods which you could reasonably expect to hunt and gather from the surrounding countryside. These foods fundamentally include lean meats, fish, fruit and vegetables. However, this list does seem to be too restrictive to live on within today's lifestyle. Luckily there are many more options for foods and recipes that fit with the nutritional mantra of the caveman diet. Yes, you will need to give up on a number of foods that people currently enjoy today. For the most part this will include processed and junk foods though there are other problem foods that you will need to forego. However, the benefits to your energy levels, body image and health status will be well worth the sacrifice.

So how should you get started? It's certainly easy enough to find a website listing the foods that you can and can't eat, but most people will quickly fall away unless they have some proper direction and advice. Remember that you will be trying to change bad habits built up over a lifetime. There are lots of inspirational books, ebooks and even personal coaches that are available to help you to get started. In addition to this you'll need recipe books, shopping plans, meal planners and lots of day to day support to give the paleo diet its best shot and really reap the benefits. Before you choose your own paleo plan make sure its backed up by lots of consumer reviews and is realistic to follow. Looking at forums and customer testimonials is an excellent way to know if you're following a good plan.

Once you're established on the caveman diet, it will begin to become routine and you will even be able to enjoy the odd lapse whilst still enjoying its many benefits. Its getting started that's always the hard part, so make sure you get all the advice and support that you can.

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My Best Paleo Caveman Collard Greens Recipe

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What's a collard green? Most likely the green part of a collard? What's a collard? The part that's not green?

My Best Paleo Caveman Collard Greens Recipe

Being Paleo, I don't eat dairy products. Being a human being, I know that I need calcium to keep my bones looking like bones. Collard greens are a good source of calcium. It turns out that they allegedly also have anti-viral, anti-bacterial and anti-cancer properties. In addition to this they are a good source of vitamin K, vitamin C and a bunch of other useful nutrients.

So, what are collard greens? They are a member of the cabbage family. Basically they are like a cabbage without a head. (The word "collard" means "headless cabbage" in some language. I suppose that makes sense. If a collar is something you wear around your neck, then it's not a big leap to assume that collared becomes headless.)

Now that we know how good they are for you, and sort of what they are, how do you cook them? It takes about an hour and, when done right, they are very tasty.

Here is what you need:

• About 2 pounds of collard greens
• 6 slices of bacon (fried until crispy, also save the bacon grease)
• 1 medium yellow onion (sliced or chopped)
• 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper
• About a quart of water (enough to cover the greens by about 2 or 3 inches)
• 2 teaspoons Kosher salt
• A large pot with a lid

Here is what you do:

First, wash each leaf on both sides to remove any residual sand or grit. Remove the stems and the ribs in each leaf. Some people soak the greens in a little salted water for an hour before cooking. (I've tried it both ways and can't tell the difference.)

Put the greens, cooked bacon and the bacon grease, chopped onion, crushed red pepper and salt in a large covered pot. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for about an hour. If the greens don't seem tender cook a little longer. If you look at the old collard green recipes it just says to cook them for "a very long time". Mine seem to turn out pretty good after about an hour to an hour and a half.

This dish is traditionally served with cornbread and they dip the bread in the left over juice or "liquor". Because this is a Paleo recipe, I'm not going to suggest that. However, the juice is really good and is also nutrient dense. If you can find something to soak it up with you will enjoy it.

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