You need to exercise at least 20min per day, pretty much doing anything that will get your heart rate above normal. The premise being, that to lose weight you need to burn more energy than you take in, or at least some of it. No, you cannot lose weight (at least in a healthy way) by simply changing how you eat, or eating less. Believe me. I've tried. Enter Weight Watchers...
I started doing WW with a friend who was looking to lose weight. If I understood correctly (and perhaps I didn't, but I'm pretty sure I did), the idea behind WW is that when you eat within your points (you're assigned points based on your height/weight), you'll lose weight...without exercising...at all! If you should so happen to exercise, you earn activity points. If you eat your daily points (I had 29) + your weekly allowance (49 points) AND you've earned activity points....you can eat those too!!! In other words, you get to eat all the calories you just burned off. Seems to be a slight flaw in the logic. This is not to say that WW doesn't work for people (although I don't think Jennifer Hudson lost all that weight by eating points alone, just saying), but it seems to be a program designed for someone with a very active lifestyle. If that's not you....good luck, and god speed!
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| Glitch and Mo! |
Now, back to your regularly scheduled
programming: the game! I opted to complete my exercise yesterday playing Dance Central 2. Just like Just Dance but only slightly cooler because you don't have to hold things. Moving on, I've been competing against crews to gain cred, and the chance to rep their crew. Long story short I beat/joined? all the crews and got the chance to battle the Glitterati. Beat them too! Suckas! Anyway, at the beginning of one of my battles with Hi-Def, Glitch (he's in the crew) was all in my "face" talking smack (as these characters are programmed to do) and Mo (he's the other guy in the crew) said "whoa whoa, dial it down to threat level chill." By far, the funniest thing I heard all day. And, also the most profound. I know that sounds odd, getting masterful life advice from a dance game but stick with me.
The SO (military speak for significant other) is active duty here in VA and a lot of the civilian counterparts I have encountered are very wound up about one thing or another. As are a lot of people in the world, for one reason or another. More often than not, people get very upset about things and people that they cannot control and in the grand scheme of things, probably don't even matter. My advice to them, dial it down to THREAT LEVEL CHILL. I can guarantee that the people you are getting all bent out of shape over aren't giving you a second thought, so why exert all that energy on them??? Some people have programmed themselves to be haters, and guess what, you're not going to change that (and I'm pretty sure your Facebook friends don't really care anyway, they're just trying to be nice). Just let it go...and chill :-)
Ingredients
-1 red or green bell pepper
-1 palm-size portion of extra-lean turkey or ground beef
-1/4 cup chopped onion
-1 carrot, chopped
-1 clove garlic, chopped
-1 small tomato, chopped
-Salt, pepper, and spices, to taste
-Fist-size portion of brown rice or cooked beans of choice
Preheat the oven to 350F.
Slice the "lid" off the red or green pepper and shake out the seeds.
In a bowl, mix the meat with the chopped onion, carrot, garlic, tomato, salt, pepper, spices. Add a half a fist-size portion of either cooked rice or beans and mix well.
Stuff the mixture into the bell pepper and bale in the oven for 45 minutes with the lid on the pepper. Then remove the lid and bake the pepper for another 15 minutes.
Presto! Lunch :)
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