Money Monday With HHWN

Enjoying A Healthy Lifestyle with

 Bryant and Anita Hewitt

 

Monday December 3, 2012

Food To Chew On:

Monday – Out of The Comfortable Nest

Deuteronomy 32:11-12 (KJV)

 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:  So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.

 

Thought For The Day:

“What is life for? To teach us to fly, to teach us to exercise our half-fledged wings in short flight that may prepare us for and make possible for us to take longer flights until we are able to graduate to being mature eagles.” – G. Campbell

Happy Money Monday!! If you have any means of income it is a blessing… It could always be worst if it wasn’t for the Grace of God!! As we stay on our regiment of eating healthy and exercising, we will save a boat load of money on food and clothes and of course our health… and who doesn’t need extra money???

12 Surprising Ways to Beat Diabetes

Scale Back on Animal Fat

If you’ve just been diagnosed with diabetes or pre-diabetes, cutting out fat is more important than saying no to sugar, says Barnard. Here’s why: Carbohydrates break down into glucose when they hit the blood stream. Your muscles soak up most of this sugar and use it as fuel. But in order for glucose to get inside muscle cells, it needs insulin to “unlock the door,” Barnard explains. When you have diabetes, those locks get gummed up with tiny fat particles called intramyocellular lipids. Your cells start to resist insulin, and sugar piles up in the blood stream.

To drain the fat out of these cells and repair your body’s ability to process sugar, Barnard suggests temporarily taking meat, fish, dairy, and eggs out of your diet and limiting the amount of vegetable oils you consume (look for foods with no more than 2 to 4 g of fat per serving). Type 2 diabetics who followed a low-fat vegan diet for 22 weeks lowered their A1C—a measure of blood sugar control—and reduced their diabetes medications more than study participants who ate an American Diabetes Association-approved diet, which allows non-fat dairy, lean meats, poultry, and fish, according to research published in Diabetes Care.

Exercising Tips:

Hanging Knee Raises 

 Knees should be lifted as high as you can without swinging; glutes should come forward.  To make it harder straighten your legs.

Reverse Crunch on Incline Board

   Curl your glutes and lower back off the bench, crunching your abs as you bring your knees over your chest.

Day Four (Lower Abs)

Sets X Reps

Hanging Knee Raises

3 X 10-12

Reverse Crunch on Incline Board

3 X 10-12

A Healthy Menu For

Monday

Enjoy a breakfast of 1 whole wheat English muffin with 1 tsp. soft margarine and 1 tsp. no sugar jam, 1 small orange, 1 cup nonfat milk and coffee or tea with a sugar substitute. For lunch, choose ½ cup tuna on whole wheat pita bread, 1 tsp. low fat mayonnaise, ½ cup green beans and ½ cup fresh blueberries. For dinner, have 3 oz. orange roughy, ½ cup roasted new potatoes, 1 small banana and 1 cup nonfat milk.