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During the lockdown, many people have to cook more at home. It makes this a great opportunity to start tracking what you eat.
Small steps toward understanding your eating habits can make grocery shopping more manageable and food prep less of a chore.
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Measuring your food can give you an idea of what a serving looks like. Measuring cups are handy, but they're even better when used with the scale. Weighing gives you a better understanding of a serving.
If you don't have a scale or cups, there are some very rough ways to estimate serving size metrics. For instance, your fist is about the same amount of volume as one cup, and the palm of your hand as four ounces of meat.
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An app or a pen and paper can be used to track what you're eating
Ultimately, choosing the right app is a matter of preference.
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Planning your meals in advance can make shopping efficient.
Choose meals that are easy to repeat and ingredients that are used in multiple dishes.
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Getting an infrastructure is relatively simple. It is more challenging to include all foods, snacks, and beverages because people think they don't have to track everything.
Accurate tracking will give you a baseline of what you're eating. The more honest you are, the better the overall plan will be. An achievable goal will incentivize you to keep at it, even when it becomes tedious.
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Mishaps happen. Track your problem and then get back to the regular program. Don't let the guilt from one bad meal derail your entire effort.
Tracking is great for getting a baseline and moving toward a generally more informed way of eating.
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Early retirement is not defined as when you stop working forever, but as having the freedom and flexibility that saving up enough money can give you if you want to leave a job.
...A good early retirement strategy is built on maximizing three aspects: Income, expenses, and savings.
To build your early retirement strategy, you need to determine your retire early or financial independence (FI) number. It is the amount of money you need for work to become optional. Be aware that the number will (and should) change as you change, and your desired lifestyle evolves.
Based on a series of papers known as the Trinity Studies, you need to save 25-30 times your expected annual expenses to have enough money to last you for the rest of your life.
This multiple is based on the percentage of your investment growth that you would be able to withdraw per year. A safe early retirement withdrawal percentage is between 3%-4%.
Drinks such as coffee, sodas, energy drinks, tea, and chocolate, all contain caffeine.
People who have anxiety disorders and panic disorders are generally more sensitive to the effects of ...
The explanation behind the surge of energy you get from drinking coffee is: caffeine blocks the receptors that are meant to be for adenosine.
Adenosine plays a number of bodily functions, but during our bodies' waking hours it builds up in the receptors which causes us to feel sleepy and less alert. So, when we intake caffeinated drinks, the caffeine blocks the receptors that are meant for the adenosine to build up and also could trigger the release of adrenaline.
According to the FDA, 400 milligrams of coffee is deemed to have any harmful effects on healthy adults. However, those who are pregnant and suffer from anxiety and panic disorders should drink no more than 200 milligrams per day.
If you believe that caffeine is worsening your anxiety, keep a diary with you at all times to keep track of your caffeine intake and anxiety symptoms and log them. Check your logs to see if there are any patterns that show up.
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The Paleo Diet is an effort to go back to eating how we’re biologically designed to eat, allowing us to tap into our genetic potential and start living healthier immediately.
When you only eat real food and avoid all unhealthy food, you’re more likely than not going to run a caloric deficit – and thus lose weight.