Just 4 Today, I’ll drink my fiber twice (done once), drink 2 liters of water (I’ve drunk about 1/2 liter), walk 5 miles (yesterday 3.05 not bad, considering the snow), NOT eat between meals & NOT take seconds.
Things I’m thinking about…
That study about how sugar is addictive (I think this is the most important health story of the year):
An astonishing 94 percent of rats who were allowed to choose mutually-exclusively between sugar water and cocaine, chose sugar. Even rats who were addicted to cocaine quickly switched their preference to sugar, once it was offered as a choice. The rats were also more willing to work for sugar than for cocaine.
The researchers speculate that the sweet receptors (two protein receptors located on the tongue), which evolved in ancestral times when the diet was very low in sugar, have not adapted to modern times’ high-sugar consumption.
Therefore, the abnormally high stimulation of these receptors by our sugar-rich diets generates excessive reward signals in the brain, which have the potential to override normal self-control mechanisms, and thus lead to addiction.
Additionally, their research found that there’s also a cross-tolerance and a cross-dependence between sugars and addictive drugs. As an example, animals with a long history of sugar consumption actually became tolerant (desensitized) to the analgesic effects of morphine.
Pearl Harbor. Now that we’ve invaded Iraq, The Day of Infamy is even more heartbreaking.
Bombshell’s list: It’s incredible. My only real disagreement is with number 6. And that’s only because I have software that calculates the calories in a serving of ANY recipe. Including casseroles. ALSO, I would add (to #6) that this is an especially important and difficult task when eating at restaurants. In fact, if she sees this, I hope she’ll clarify how she manages to eat out while tracking calories so closely.
Everyone who has deliberately lost weight has a lot of self-control. The problem is that it takes a lot more than that to keep weight off.
What are you going to do today?