Childhood overweight and obesity

The treatment of childhood obesity is not easy, either for medical or family or children. The older the child, more difficult to perform these changes, but not impossible. We must be firm once it has decided not to put a child diet, if not teach him to eat well and have good habits.

The fundamentals of treatment are a combination of a limited (lower numbers) diet, increased physical activity, nutrition education and behavior change.

It is important to know the habits and behavior of the child and family. Knowing what you eat, the ranges of one food to another, the exercise they perform, as well as their leisure habits.

When the child is under 5 years are the parents who must lead the treatment, ie answer for the child all that interested in therapy.

From 5 to 9 years, children have more autonomy in treatment, but the responsibility and supervision is the parents. Only after 10 years is the child who will have more responsibility.

In important that at the same time as making physical activity a child's life, reduce the time the child devotes to television or other sedentary activities.

It has been shown that the use of drugs in the treatment of overweight and obese children is not fully effective.

Make food an enjoyable event should avoid eating in front of the TV, you must create the habit of sharing food, board and company.

Obese and nonobese parents are always an example for the children, parents, children who eat too much is almost certain to acquire the habit.

Cereals, potatoes and vegetables should form the basis of food, so that carbohydrates account for 50-60% of the calories in the diet.

Fats is recommended not exceed 30% of the daily intake should be reduced consumption of saturated fats and fatty acids.

Protein should provide between 10 and 15% of total calories, should combine animal protein and vegetable.

It would need to increase intake of fruit and vegetables, is trying to eat at least 5 servings a day of these foods.

Moderate consumption of simple sugars, like candy, sweets and soft drinks.

Reduce salt intake.

Drink one to one and a half liters of water. Very important to drink sgus.

Never ignore a healthy breakfast consisting of bread, biscuits, cereals, milk ... and spend between 15 and 20 minutes. Thus, it prevents or reduces the need to eat less nutritious mid-morning and improving physical and intellectual performance at school.

The food is not a reward, not punishment, nor should be a relief, food has its place, its time and its control. The major responsible for overweight children are the parents, whether for errors, obsessions, or ignorance, and ignorance of parents, children consume more food than they need, we use a lot of convenience foods, sweets and pastries.

Children should lead a healthy, balanced diet, fresh but not large quantities ie without filling the plate and avoiding repeating a good healthy diet without too many calories

It is very important to exercise daily, which is also very easy to practice for children. You must first make a good warm running about 5-10 minutes.

The perfect combination to counter childhood overweight is: Eat Healthy + Exercise .

What not to do is:

- Forcing the child to eat more than they can.
- Reward your child with candy and other calorie foods.
- Punishing a child without food if you have any unfavorable behavior.
- Celebrate any occasion with junk food.
- Allow the daily consumption of junk food, pastries, soft drinks, ...
- Providing prepared meals.
- Move large amounts of food.

Weight loss pills obsession

If you long to change their old habits into new habits do not think that is impossible, but it will have to give up all their old habits. For some of us it is difficult to change, however, if you take steps to learn ways to change will find reflections of overcoming.

Many people are fooling themselves when they lie and say they are good but ultimately the problems are depressed or filled with stress. This happens because they are plagued by a world full of opinions, philosophy, theories, suspicions, conjectures and conclusions. You must learn to find the truth that can really improve your life.

What are some things you can do to change their bad habits of good manners?

This will be entirely your responsibility. We can only offer tips, short reflections of life that lead you to try new tactics to help you grow. Nobody can change you, but yourself. You can learn to build the inner gifts that are within you. The qualities that have include self-esteem, confidence, self-awareness, self-motivated and well sucesivamente.Hay more qualities that are sure to be discovered but ReflexionesCortas.Net you can find advice and insight necessary life to continue to grow sentimental and emotionally.

On the one hand, you have to decide what you do and find a way to make things right. Sometimes friendships are bad company and perhaps the people of a support group or your church group can help you find ways to change their habits. The first thing you have to do though, stop lying to yourself about what you've ever been right and speak for himself. You must learn to make good decisions by evaluating the consequences.

It's easier than you think. For example, you allow a drunk person drive you home? If you then made a bad decision that could cost you your life, or has thrown in jail. If you are sober, why not drive drunk in the place?

short reflections include family and friends. If members of your family dragged down, or your friends are holding you, you have to take a final decision. The choice may include the removal of these people in your life but what we prefer is to bring in a good way with other people and maybe the people who need the change in his inner life be yourself and not others.

To develop new skills that will guide you to eliminate bad habits, try using your conscious mind. To observe, listen pay attention to things around, you learn more than reading a book. Observation is the key to achieving this. Observation, includes self-awareness. A step back and take a look at you. Do not chase or self-juezgarse, instead look for ways to make your life better.

Happy Saturday!

Silly title to this post. Happy + Saturday goes without saying!

It's a gorgeous day here in the Pacific Northwest. The sun is shining and not a cloud in the sky. It's been raining nonstop for what feels like weeks, wet, cold and gray. I'm thrilled to see the sun and the deep blue of the sky. It makes me smile.

I'm off to Weight Watchers for my 11:15 a.m. meeting. I don't think I lost anything. In fact, I may have gained. I ate an entire bag of frosted animal crackers a few nights ago. I'm not sure what came over me. I was in the store, saw them on the shelf and bought them. It wasn't planned, it just happened. Over 2,000 calories in the bag. I kicked my own butt the next morning when I woke up and remembered what I had done. I don't know why I did it when I know I have the Big Climb in only two weeks. It made me angry with myself, but time to move forward. That stuff happens, I just have to keep going.

Plans for today are not very exciting, Weight Watchers, gym, grocery shopping, house cleaning. In that order. Already started on laundry. Fun times weekend chores. My husband is working on taxes so he's not the most fun guy to be around today. At least it's not pouring down raining so running errands will be slightly more enjoyable. I won't have to worry about a monsoon hitting me running from car to store and store to car.

Hank update
Here's the latest on Hank. I'm so relieved he's safe and in a good foster home. I talked with Jessica several times every day last week about Hank. I was the point person in my neighborhood since he was always spotted a few blocks from my house. One time he was seen two houses down from me. Anyway, Jessica loves this dog to pieces, and she persevered until he was found. Great ending to the story!

Post on Saving Great Animals Facebook page:
We have Hank out of the hospital now. Here he is with our wonderful volunteer Jessica St Germain. Hank is now recouping in a loving foster home who has lots of experience working with dogs in emotional need. We will begin to look at who is the best fit for Hank for his forever home! THANK YOU to everyone who helped save him!

Asparagus and Leek Soup

(makes 6 servings)

Ingredients:

• Non-fat cooking spray
  
  


• 1½ pounds fresh asparagus, trimmed and cut into 1” pieces
  
  


• ½ cup onion, chopped
  
  


• 1 cup white part of leeks, washed and chopped
  
  


• ½ cup celery, chopped
  
  


• 1 small potato, peeled and cubed
  
  


• 3½ cups low-sodium chicken broth
  
  


• ½ cup non-fat sour cream
  
  


• Salt and pepper to taste
  
  

Preparation:

• Spray a large-size skillet with non-fat cooking spray and heat over medium heat. Add asparagus, onions, leeks, celery and potato, then cover and cook until vegetables are softened (about 20 minutes), stirring occasionally.
  
  


• Add vegetables in a blender and puree until very smooth.
  
  


• In a large-size saucepan, bring chicken broth to a boil then reduce heat to a simmer. Add vegetable mixture and stir well. Stir in non-fat sour cream and mix until well incorporated.
  
  


• Add salt and pepper to taste (optional)
  
  

Make 6 Servings:

Weight loss recipes Amount Per Serving(1/6 of recipe (341 g)): 105 Calories, 7 g Protein, 17 g carbohydrates, 4 g Dietary Fiber, 1 g fat, 0 g saturated fat, 2 mg cholesterol, 73 mg sodium

FOOD PORN BLOG

OMG after reading that Tina's husband was supplying her with food porn on his blog I went on a quest for more. Like her, I truly believe looking at it in all its glory can be just as good as the real thing and I found a cracker and this is it over at foodiewife-kitchen.blogspot.com click the link to view in technicolour!

FOOD PORN HEAVEN

Wow she is AWESOME and I am totally 'getting off' on her cooking. It is out of this world and some of her recipes that she creates are to die for. I will of course never be able to indulge in (for instance) lemon smashed potatoes - potatoes boiled in milk and then mashed with it and some lemon zest and served with green beans and lemon infused fish fillets. Wow, unreal stuff but truly gorgeous.

Indulge at your own risk!

Little deal

As opposed to a big deal!

The scales gave in an moved to 117.3kgs this morning. YAY. That means in just over a month I have done half a kilogram. So, like I said, little deal.

The gym was tough today for some reason. I found myself willing the time to go and I was really achy. I guess some days are just harder than others. Who knows.

Did my training for my new 'secret' job yesterday. I cant say what it is outright, because I can't draw attention to the fact that I am doing it and having it tied in with personal details and coming up on a google search, but it happens every 10 years, involves lots of questions... if you get my drift.

That was pretty cool. I am looking forward to it a lot actually.

Anyway, that's me checking in for now. Still alive, still not thin ;-)

Adios!

Garam Masala (Indian spice blend)

(makes ¼ cup)

Ingredients:

• 2 tsp black peppercorns
  
  


• 1 tbsp cumin seeds
  
  


• 1 tbsp coriander seeds
  
  


• 12 cardamom pods
  
  


• 8 whole cloves
  
  


• 1 (2”) cinnamon stick, broken up
  
  


• ½ tsp ground nutmeg
  
  

Preparation:

• Place black peppercorns, cumin, coriander, cardamom, cloves and cinnamon in a skillet over medium-high heat.
  
  


• Cook until spices start to smoke and become aromatic. Constantly shake skillet for 5 minutes then stir in nutmeg.
  
  


• Remove from heat and let cool completely.
  
  


• Place toasted spices in a spice or cleaned out coffee grinder and grind until finely ground.
  
  


• Store in an airtight container.
  
  


• Tip: Use as a spice rub over your favorite meats like chicken, pork, beef or seafood.
  
  

Make 12 Servings:

Weight Loss Recipes Amount Per Serving(1 teaspoon (2 g)): 6 Calories, 0 g Protein, 1 g carbohydrates, 0 g Dietary Fiber, 0 g fat, 0 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 2 mg sodium