As a participant of Better For BlogHer I got to have a lunch with the Healthy Choice people while at was at BlogHer10. We got to see the new frozen entrees that are coming out (they look simply fresh!), meet the other blogger participants and we had a session with the Diet Diva, Tara Gidus, for a nutrition consult.
Wow. This short consult was eye opener for me. As I have mentioned before, I am a nurse. I even got an A in my one nutrition class. I have heard it all really. I just had not heard it the way the Diet Diva put it. She really made it clear to me what was happening with my body and why I was gaining so much weight.
She told me that I was on a Sumo Wrestler diet. ATTENTION was paid after she used the words! In a nut shell Sumo wrestlers do not eat breakfast. Eating like this causes the body to bulk up, hold onto the fat. I believed her when she told me this, but I looked it up myself anyway.
As the stress in my life has taken over I have found myself not eating breakfast. The most important meal of the day and I normally just have a cup of chai. I have to stop this. I mean there are no sumo wrestlers around here to start a club or even a tournament. I cannot make a decent living as a wrestler and it just is not healthy. So I will take the advice that I was given. I will eat breakfast every day. I have eaten breakfast everyday since we talked and I continue to eat my Healthy Choice meals for lunch as well. (Have you tried the Lemon Fish? Wow!)
Another piece of advice that I am trying to put into the works. Eat enough to have the nourishment I need, yet stay a little hungry. That is when your body lets go of the stored fats.
So to review:
Eat breakfast
Eat regularly
Stay a little hungry.
Watch Sumo wrestlers, do not try to be one.
Check out more of the Diet Diva and check out Healthy Choice and get a coupon so you can try the Whiskey Chicken.. my favorite by far!
(Disclaimer: Healthy Choice has compensated me for my time and provided me with coupons so I can try their products.)
Photo Credit: Eckhard Pecher via Wikipedia
