Healthy Weight Loss

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by alexri

Glee Gum is a really good natural brand that does not have aspartame or any of the nasty other artificial chemicals. They even sell a home kit for making you own gum. Spry gum is also another good brand.

I avoid any of the major national brands because of the chemicals, dyes and artificial ingredients they put in the gum.

Where can you get this?

[alexri]

Originally Posted by girl_dee

Where can you get this?

You can get Glee Gum or Spry Gum online, at Whole Foods, or at local indi or health markets.

[PaPa]

I wanted to share with y'all the paper they gave me at the High Risk Obesity Clinic about plate and portion control. I have this posted to my fridge. It is what I referred to when I said I knew what Mopsie was talking about. It helped me to be able to visualize servings and how I should be eating.

I also switched to luncheon plates quite awhile back. My main thing is portion control and this guide definitely helps.

http://www.webmd.com/diet/printable/...rol-size-guide

[Kelt]

I was doing some reading and thought I would share a small snippet. I haven't seen this mentioned in here before.

Compensatory mechanisms

The human body is very “smart” and has a strong innate drive to keep us alive and to maintain the status quo. When we cut calories without exercising, our metabolism decreases, and proteins like leptin set off the drive to eat more.

Likewise, when we exercise at the same time as we cut calories, the metabolic efficiency of exercise often increases so that we burn fewer calories for the same amount of exercise.

Meanwhile, we also want to eat more – and, without even meaning to, we may reduce our non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT).

For example, maybe after a long, tough workout you decide to go through the drive-thru instead of cooking. Even if you choose healthy food, it doesn’t take much energy to get it. Meanwhile, if you’re a 150 pound male, you could have burned roughly 136 calories by cooking for one hour (2). That may not sound like a lot, but if in addition to going to the drive-thru, you also let the kids walk the dog and the dishwasher wash the dishes, and then you drive to the corner for your mail instead of walking, the calorie-burn edge of your workout is completely lost.

As this example demonstrates, it’s tough to capture everything that goes into our energy balance equation and this presents a puzzle for researchers trying to understand the relationship between exercise and weight loss.

I have caught myself doing this more than I care to admit and it can really effect results. It's very easy to say to myself "I killed it on the beach today, this other stuff can wait" and easy as that, lose some of my results.

Just a thought.

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by girl_dee

Where can you get this?

Originally Posted by nanners

Dee!

Here is a link to read about it and but it:

http://www.gleegum.com/sugar-free-gl...FYhAMgodGCcAVA

Also, you can buy it at Amazon.com

Love ya my friend!

Originally Posted by alexri

You can get Glee Gum or Spry Gum online, at Whole Foods, or at local indi or health markets.

We have some of the Glee Gum here, so we could send it to you to try out. Just let us know where.

I will warn you though....you get 3-4 really good chews before the flavor starts to dissipate. If you're the type to need that flavor as long as possible, you might not love this. If you just need something to keep your mouth busy, this would work.

[Miss Scarlett]

[girl_dee]

So 7 is my cut off time. ( thank you Syr )

Hope this helps me break my bad habit..

i have been known to eat middle of the night and wake up to find empty wrappers or half a sammich ...

Crazy stuff !

[vixenagogo]

Originally Posted by Gemme

We have some of the Glee Gum here, so we could send it to you to try out. Just let us know where.

I will warn you though....you get 3-4 really good chews before the flavor starts to dissipate. If you're the type to need that flavor as long as possible, you might not love this. If you just need something to keep your mouth busy, this would work.

DaddyClyde and I have sampled/ordered glee, pür and spry. we are partial to the spry. it seems to hold its flavor the longest. we just order it from amazon.