Assessing your health and lifestyle...

First of all i would like to say sorry for my absense in posting, i have ill recently but am now making a recovery :)

So back on topic....

If you are new to the whole 'lose some weight' or 'keep healthy' process then you need to assess yourself. There are lots of elements that come into this for instance, the nutrition and energy balance, snaking, and the optinum number of meals a day are just some of what comes into this.

So this nutrition-energy balance, what is it all about? 'you are what you eat' is a great phrase that people use but perhaps don't realise how important this phrase is. Everything you eat affects your body's performance and your bodily functions. Ofcourse you nutritional needs vary, but this only affects how you live your life. You need to know your body's needs, this may seem obvious but is oh so important...the connection between diet and health is to grow properly and function normally you need a complete range of nutrients. Including carbohydrates, proteins, fats, fibre, and water, as well as a variety of vitamins and minerals. All of these are not only essential but can improve your state of health!

Ok so you now know all this stuff about nutrients and balancing nutrition and energy. Now is your diet healthy? You have to be honest and sometimes harsh with yourself here. Well if you are....you must assess whether or not you consume enough nutrients. Or even if you consume too much of one nutrient. If so then your body is not functioning at an optimum level!

The food-energy balance is like the nutrition-energy balance, well this is more a sub-category of it but to maintain a healthy weight you must eat well but at the same time you must be using the energy your diet gives you. Let me explain how this works, energy comes from fat, now our body burns fat to give us energy and to make our body burn fat off we exercise. If we don't exercise then that fat that should be burned off is still in our body and will take physical action e.g. bigger belly, tiring easily, breathlessness, high blood pressure. I take it you don't want this or you may even have this now...so what will it be vibrant good health or all of the above?

So we once again come back to exercise, this is one of my favourite topics (health and lifestyle) because it gives you a real inside look into whether or not your healthy, yes i speak alot about exercise :) but i'm giving you the reasons why you need it, exercise and food are strongly linked and it basically works like this....the more food you eat-the more exercise you do!

Keep fit everyone!