Tuesday, July 28, 2009

7 Fitness Tips from CnnHealth

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/28/healthmag.one.week.slimmer/index.html

Interesting quotes:

Studies show that recording meals may help you lose up to 5 percent of your weight, says Robert A. Carels, Ph.D., an associate professor in the psychology department at Bowling Green State University.

Documenting meals with this blog should help, then.

...and...

"Yogic breathing offsets this. When you're relaxed, you don't have as much hunger pain," says Ralph LaForge, an exercise physiologist in the endocrine department of the Duke University Medical Center. "People make better food choices when they're relaxed."

I want to work meditation or meditative breathing techniques into my transformation, but I am still on the fence about how to do that. I do try to occasionally focus on breathing very deeply and slowly occasionally, especially when driving.

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