I don't have support at home or online. I keep motivated and enthused by reading magazines which emphasize healthy living and healthy eating. It keeps me thinking forward in quiet me time.
Please note these are member-submitted secrets and are not reviewed by SparkPeople's health experts for accuracy. If you feel a secret is inappropriate, please click Report Inappropriate Secret and our staff will review it.
SparkPeople advertisers help keep the site free! Learn more
I truly enjoy reading a few magazines and I save a lot of money by subscribing to them rather than buying at the store each month. What I have realized, is that by signing up to their e-zines online, I get a significant amount of content without buying the paper magazine. This saves even more!
MORE INFORMATION:
I know that many people use the library to read magazines so they don't ever buy them. I like however taking the magazines with me for relaxing reading and I do tear out and save the articles that I want to keep. I also use the coupons. I then pass on the magazines to family or to the hospital.
Although the amount varies, generally a healthy individual gets around 70g of Protein daily, but we 'tend to eat the majority of it at dinner, and our body can use only 15g to 30g at a time to build and repair tissue' (Roberta Anding).The rest is burned for energy, or too often, stored as fat.
It's suggested that you should aim for about 20g at meals and 6g to 12g in two snacks,
MORE INFORMATION:
Read this in the "Self" magazine.