No More Rabbit Food
Weight Loss Tips For People Who Love Food
October 3,
2008
Issue 14
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A Note from
Liz: New food in the shops!
Feature
Article: The 39
Steps
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A Note From Liz
Hello Tracey
So now we are past the Equinox and it’s definitely autumn. Oddly,
we’ve had some warm days recently but the early mornings are getting
chilly.
Once the clocks go back I’ll be wanting to hibernate until April.
In the meantime, this time of year gives us new foods in the shops with local apples, hazelnuts and all the winter vegetables starting to appear.
We celebrated a late wedding anniversary with a bottle of Chateau Margaux (1982), which is perhaps one of the most splendid examples of autumn bounty. At the other end of the extravagance scale we’ve had hedgerow blackberries.
Nature has so much to offer this time of year, so go hunter-gathering for your autumn harvest.
Liz
Feature Article
The 39 Steps
When I was younger I read The Thirty-Nine Steps but much preferred the movie version. Calamity follows adventure and a sequence of unlikely escapes maintains the tension, along with the mystery of the 39 steps. It’s a good introduction to Hitchcock’s suspense-building technique.
Being handcuffed to a villain would be inconvenient but the heroine must have used up a few extra calories trying to keep up with her companion. With all the helter-skelter action in the movie it would be like being attached to a hyperactive toddler all day, rushing everywhere and never resting.
But the most obvious call to exercise in this movie is in the title - 39 steps. That’s three flights of stairs.
Imagine if before every meal and every coffee break you walk up three flights of stairs. That would nudge your calorie intake up a bit and keep you active. A flight of stairs is around thirteen steps, so go up and down stairs three times. If you live in a block with several floors available to you, walk up three flights and then come back down. Go at a speed appropriate for your fitness level, but whatever speed you use, walking uphill will exercise the larger muscles in your body.
Try that today and every day. It’s an easy way to increase your activity level, build up those fat-burning muscles and enables you to feel more energised in the middle of a busy day!
So get moving – you have nothing to lose but the weight!
Liz
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About Liz
I have
been looking after people’s health for over fifteen
years.
With a background in biochemistry I was initially interested in how
to boost metabolism to promote weight loss and how to feel satisfied after
eating – what the nutritionists call “satiety”. All of these things
are important for weight loss but for many people the biggest change comes
about when they conquer their emotional eating.
I know this because as a child I was stocky, and then became chubby,
then fat! I hated exercise and loved food. And my love of food went way
beyond physical hunger.
I still love food, but now I know how to enjoy and how
to set limits around it – all without feeing deprived.
With a training in coaching and NLP as well as my knowledge of
biochemistry and nutrition, I am ideally placed to solve your problems
with emotional eating.
Liz’s credentials…
- Degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge (that’s where I get my biochemistry knowledge).
- Degree in Nutritional Therapy (that’s where the nutrition knowledge comes from).
- Module leader in Masters Level Module Tackling Obesity at the Centre for Nutrition Education & Lifestyle Management. On this module I lecture on the biochemistry of eating and starvation, satiety mechanisms, stress and obesity and emotional eating.
- Fifteen years experience as a herbalist and health coach.
- Practitioner level qualification in NLP, Coaching and Stress Management.
And, most importantly, a love of food and a passion for health,
wellness and vitality!
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Take a look at the work of the Circle of Women – Reach and Teach Across Borders. A group of Harvard undergraduates have got together to raise funds for a girls’ school in Afghanistan.
When so many of us have benefited from education it’s difficult to comprehend how limiting women’s lives can be without it.
The school list is already oversubscribed and it’s not even built yet, so they need your help! Take a look at their website. And give generously.
The information in this newsletter is not intended to replace
medical advice. If you feel you need to lose weight and you have any
medical problems please consult your doctor before starting a
diet.
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Weight Loss Success Tips
Camelot? Spamalot?
Did your granny always tell you to chew your food 100 times? And have you wondered how that is possible?
Many modern foods just aren’t that chewable, their consistency is too soft. Not only do food manufacturers think we can’t chop food up and cook it, they also think we can’t eat it.
But we are not actually designed to eat mushy food. Our ancestors ate food with a lot more fibre in it. They also probably consumed a lot more grit and dirt than the modern eater. This texture-rich diet caused a lot of wear and tear on the teeth, so that individual teeth were able to move forward in the jaw to accommodate the wisdom teeth.
In the modern jaw the teeth can’t shuffle up because they don’t get worn as much, so wisdom teeth often come in below the existing molars - many adults nowadays have had their wisdom teeth removed because of this.
Without wishing to live like a caveman, we can make our diet more natural and chewable. Eat fresh fruits and vegetables and have some raw veg in your diet every day. Eat meat that looks like meat and isn’t ground or minced. It has to be chewed! And eat a fibre-rich diet with nuts and seeds.
All of this stuff takes some effort; you have to chew this food. But not just a mechanical 100 chomps-per-mouthful chew. With each item of food, look at it, savour the aroma and flavour and chew thoughtfully. Not necessarily a hundred times (I’ve tried it, it’s way too long) but enough to get all the flavour out of that mouthful. And then check your hunger level. Then have some more if you need to.
This technique of looking, tasting and chewing, then checking you hunger level will help you enjoy your food and eat less of it!
So Camelot? Spamalot? No, Chewalot.
Foodie
Fact
Autumn
Foods
In the season of mists and
mellow fruitfulness I always think of eating pumpkins and squash. They
come in such interesting shapes and I like architectural food (look at the
inside of a kiwi fruit or a fresh fig and you’ll see what I mean – nature
seems to have put all that structural effort in for our
enjoyment).
But the inside of a pumpkin, poorly cooked, can taste like loft insulation. So what to do with the fluff from the inside of a pumpkin?
Try Fusilli with Pumpkin and Herb Ricotta or Pumpkin & Coconut Curry or Salad of Feta, Toasted Pumpkin Seeds & Crushed Raspberries
All these recipes are available on the Waitrose website
You can also download a recipe-generating screensaver from them!
But the inside of a pumpkin, poorly cooked, can taste like loft insulation. So what to do with the fluff from the inside of a pumpkin?
Try Fusilli with Pumpkin and Herb Ricotta or Pumpkin & Coconut Curry or Salad of Feta, Toasted Pumpkin Seeds & Crushed Raspberries
All these recipes are available on the Waitrose website
You can also download a recipe-generating screensaver from them!
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