This may occur as a result of the foods you eat, salt intake, fluids you drink, and even hormonal changes. So….don’t be married to your scale.
Many of my clients ask me, “How much should I weigh myself?” We all know how our mind can take over with worry and sometimes overdo it with weighing in.
“Today, I focus on the good things that are unfolding in my life.”
– Katrina Love Senn
Excessive sugar consumption is a key factor in promoting overweight and obesity, tooth decay and diabetes (2). There is increasing concern that intake of free sugars – particularly in the form of sugar-sweetened beverages – increases overall energy intake and may reduce the intake of foods containing more nutritionally adequate calories, leading to an unhealthy diet, weight gain and increased risk of noncommunicable diseases. Another concern is the association between intake of free sugars and tooth decay. Dental diseases are the most prevalent noncommunicable diseases globally and, although great improvements in prevention and treatment of dental diseases have occurred in the past decades, problems still persist, causing pain, anxiety, functional limitation, including poor school attendance and performance in children, and social impediment through tooth loss
Don’t let past failures get you down. The truth is that you are capable of amazing things when you put your mind to it. Believe that you will lose the weight and have the POWER to make any other positive change in your life.
“People who exercise as little as 15 minutes a day have a 14% lower mortality risk than people who don’t exercise at all.” Moral of the story? With the evidence of physical activity benefits on your health, something is better than nothing!
Ideally, we should drink half of our body weight in ounces a day.
“Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.”
– Albert Szent-Györgyi (discovered Vitamin C)
How much water should you drink a day? You probably know that it’s important to drink plenty of fluids when the temperatures soar outside. But staying hydrated is a daily necessity, no matter what the thermometer says. Unfortunately, many of us aren’t getting enough to drink, especially older adults. Older people don’t sense thirst as much as they did when they were younger. And that could be a problem if they’re on a medication that may cause fluid loss, such as a diuretic.
