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Ten Little Steps To Use To Improve Your Wellbeing
Many people make fitness-related goals, such as to lose weight, to stop smoking or sign up for the neighborhood health club. While it is ordinary to set extraordinary goals, experts say that making lesser resolutions may perhaps do more for our wellbeing.
Here are 10 Steps to try:
1. Stop gaining weight. Even if you add only a pound or two every year, the additional weight adds up rapidly.
2. Take more small steps. Use a pedometer to add up your daily steps; afterward add 2,000 extra steps into your day, the same as one additional mile. Keep adding steps, 1,000 to 2,000 each month or so, until you reach 10,000 steps on most days.
3. Eat breakfast. Breakfast eaters usually have healthier diets and weigh less too. If you want a healthy breakfast option, top Whole Grain Total with fresh fruit slices and low-fat or fat-free milk.
4. Replace three grain servings each day to whole grain. If you are anything like the ordinary American, you eat even less than one whole grain serving per day.
5. Have a minimum of one green salad every day. Eating a salad (choose low-fat or fat-free dressing) is filling and may well help you eat a smaller amount through the meal. It also counts toward your five daily cups of fruits and vegetables.
6. Trim the fat. Fat is saturated with calories, and calories make a difference. Buy lean meats, eat chicken without the skin, switch to low-fat cheeses, invest in a nonstick pan with just a bit of oil or butter.
7. Consider calcium by including two or three daily servings of low-fat or fat-free milk or yogurt. Dairy calcium is great for bones and can also help you lose weight.
8. Cut back. The smaller the bag, bottle or bowl, the less you will eat.
9. Lose just 5 to 10 percent of your current weight. The benefits to losing weight are great-lower blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol and triglycerides.
10. Record everything you eat. Jot down what you eat and drink over the next couple of days and look for problem areas. Often, just recording what you eat in a notebook is able to help you consume even less, which will help you lose fat.
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