by krausy on Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:34 pm
A diet club is a perfect idea----keeps everyone motivated and informed for sure!!!!
I'm with Gods----at my high school we had no soda machines, snack machines, etc (that was for the teachers and the machines were in their lounge anyway). We had what was on the line for that day and that was it, unless you brought it from home. I remember they offered salads everyday, but they also had pizza everyday, and cheeseburgers, and some people ate that EVERYDAY, which is crazy. I guess we were very lucky that we had some authorities in our cafeteria program that saw the importance in offering fresh salads, fruit and low fat milk as well as the "junk".
Yeah, I can't believe that what they serve kids nowadays---that is an absolute sin!!!!!
Kera, the weight lifting is excellent---it is a balance activity to your walking, and once you develop muscle it burns ALOT of fat!!!!!!!! I have also heard lately that if one is going to eat sugar, that the best time to do that is right after a workout---I guess the logic in this is that your metabolism is at it's highest level right after exercise, so if you eat something "bad", it will not get stored. I don't know---kinda sounds like BS to me, as far as the eating sugar, that is.
Borderline diabetes is not fun, but at least it is a viable excuse that you can use to "psych" out yourself to cut down or out the sugar, etc. That is what I do with my borderline high blood pressure---if I don't stay lean and sensible about my food and exercise and stress, then I die---simple as that!!!!