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Factor 10 Health Tips Carbohydrates?
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I have had some conversations recently with people about their eating habits and questions about the difference between protein and carbohydrates. You may recall from one of my previous blogs that we said our stomachs go looking for proteins, carbohydrates and fats (apart from other micro nutrients) to power us through the day.
You can basically say, as a VERY ROUGH rule of thumb, that everything that isn't a fat or protein is a carbohydrate.
People generally know that bread, rice and pasta are carbohydrates, but did you know that fruits and vegetables are also carbohydrates?
To put it in a nutshell, carbohydrates are our "premium fuel". Even though protein is a fuel, carbs are the fuel our body needs for energy. Fat is stored in our body as a back up energy source, but it is the carbs we need on a day to day basis.
There are many types of carbohydrates, simple and complex, refined and natural, fibrous and and starchy and high GI and low GI carbs.
The first thing to be able to identify is the difference between simple and complex carbohydrates.
The simple ones include Fructose (fruit sugar), Sucrose (table sugar), and Lactose (dairy sugar). Eating too many simple carbohydrates causes too many blood sugar highs and lows, which is not good. We want to stabilize our blood sugar levels where possible. The natural simple carbohydrates, for example fruit and dairy products, are healthier than the processed ones like table sugar.
The complex carbohydrates are the starchy and fibrous carbohydrates. Starchy carbohydrates are found in potatoes, cereals, grains, bread, pasta, rice, oats, wheat and beans.
Fibrous carbohydrates include the green vegetables and they are a great source of carbs. They don't contain many calories and this is very important for fat loss because they make it easier to stay full without maxing out on calories. They also help to stabilize blood sugar levels.
Starchy Carbohydrates - Potatoes, Beans, Oatmeal, Brown Rice, Whole grain bread, Whole grain cereal, Whole grain pasta, Other whole grains
Fibrous carbohydrates (vegetables) - Broccoli, Lettuce, Cauliflower, Zucchini, Tomatoes, Asparagus, Green beans, Squash, Cucumber, Spinach.
Hope this helps you on your way to better understanding of the food you eat as it will help you make the best choices for your body.
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Factor10 Thinking Skills What Will It Take?
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Have you ever noticed that some people seem to wake up one day and approach life with a different sense of vigor? With a different purpose? A changed attitude? A new approach to their fitness?
I'm not talking here about "New Years Resolutions". I'm talking about a person who has really changed their approach or attitude to something and it is usually because something significant has happened in their life.
We all know that "New Years Resolutions" come and go and that it is not uncommon for people to keep making the same resolutions year after year - to get fit, or to lose some weight, or to be a better partner ... (BTW have you acted on your New Years resolution one month down the track - it's February now!)
I'm talking about when something changes in your life, maybe the loss of a loved one, something that has a deep heartfelt meaning that causes you to really sit back and look at yourself, to give yourself a stiff uppercut and change what you are doing. The motivation is something that really cuts at your centre, it's from the heart, and can cause you to have a total attitudinal shift.
We call this a "Paradigm" shift. When a paradigm shift occurs we make long lasting changes - they are not short lived - because they are based on something that has caused us to completely change the way we view things. This is totally different to the New Years resolution.
A great example of this is a story a friend of my once told me. She was an alcoholic and attended Alcoholic Anonymous meetings regularly. I was asking her how people know if they are an alcoholic. My friend said that she was at a meeting once and a gentleman attended for his first night and shared with the group that he came home from work one evening and kissed his daughter good night. He had been to the hotel and had some drinks and his young daughter said to him "Daddy, you stink!" This was enough to make him think long and hard about his drinking habits. He possibly thought that he did not want his daughter's only real lasting memory of him to be that her dad was as a man who stunk!
Who knows what else went on in his mind, and it probably doesn't matter, but this event in his life was enough for him to realise that he couldn't go without drinking alcohol and brought him to the realisation that he was, under his own life experience definition, an alcoholic. Clearly this man had a paradigm shift. The framework through which he viewed his life changed from that day forward, and clearly his lifestyle changed in many ways.
So what life events have you had that have caused you to have a paradigm shift. Are you going to wait until an event comes along to help you to have a paradigm shift to change things in your life that you know, deep in your heart, need changing.
Will an overweight mum or dad wait until they have a heart attack before accepting what their partner and family has been saying for a long time - to lose weight and start exercising. Or maybe "it won't happen to me!".
Possibly this E-News is the event that you need to get you to make the paradigm shift and make long lasting changes to your lifestyle where this is needed. Follow your heart! |
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Website News Member Login
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For security reasons the Member Login on the Factor10 website has been changed:
User Name: member
Password: mem202
The Member Access area of the website has many useful things for members - Term Planners that show our program day by day, Curriculum / Syllabus requirements for each belt level, and our Behaviour Management and Compettion Policies.
The Login is on the left hand side of the Home page.
Click here to go to the website
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Calendar Feb - Mar 2010
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February
6 Staff Development 3.00-5.00pm
20 Black Belt Seminar 12.30 - 2.30pm
March
6 Staff Development 3.00-5.00pm
7 Club Social Day Wet n Wild
27 Yellow Jacket Tournament Club Comp 1.00-6.00pm
Click here to go to the Academy Calendar on the website. |
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