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Eat Smart
A healthy diet is the key to a healthy body. Here are some simple things you can do to improve your diet.

Never skip breakfast. When you eat breakfast, your body feels nourished and satisfied, making you less likely to overeat the rest of the day.

Start your day with a high-protein, low-carbohydrate breakfast. Protein is the nutrient that builds calorie-consuming muscle.

Avoid high-glycemic foods, such as sugar, pasta, white rice, and white flour. The glycemic index rates how quickly certain foods turn into glucose (a form of sugar) in the bloodstream. Choosing foods low on the glycemic index will not only help to control your weight by curbing your appetite, it will also help to control cholesterol, maintain a healthy heart and decrease the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

Eat three balanced meals each day. Avoid snacking and don’t eat after dinner. Eating regularly reassures your body that food is plentiful. This encourages your body to burn calories. If you skip meals, your body thinks you’re in famine and reacts by reducing your metabolism, which makes it difficult to shed weight.

Keep a food log in the Slim Community
Self-monitoring is one of the secrets to fat-loss. By self-monitoring we mean keeping detailed, accurate, daily records of the food you eat

The most important reason to keep a food log is often overlooked. It’s too easy to go through an entire day, mindlessly eating without giving a second thought to what you may be consuming. A food log makes you stop, at least once a day, and pay attention to what you eat. The simple act of paying attention to your eating habits is often all that is needed to initiate change in your own eating habits.

Increase Activity
You don’t need to adopt an aggressive exercise routine; just increase your physical activity throughout your day.  Do what are right for you and your schedule.  The key is to increase physical activity.

Simple activities or changes to routines can make a big difference. Instead of sending a co-worker an email, walk over to their desk next time. When you clean your house try doing it as fast as you can. Take an after-dinner stroll. Use a treadmill while watching television. If you take the bus, get off a stop or two from your destination and walk the rest of the way.  Opportunities to increase your daily activity levels are all around you.

Choose to walk. While there are a number of excellent ways to give your body the exercise it needs, walking is the most natural and normal activity for most people. Walking requires little planning and no equipment. Research has shown that walking (brisk or power walking) can be more beneficial and effective to overall health than extended running workouts.

Everyone can walk, any place, anytime, with no learning curve. Also, walking is safer and there’s less risk of injury for people who are just starting to exercise.