Any Limitations With The Medifast Diet Plan?
A common worry that many people have when entering any new diet is what kind of limitations does it have. Well, lets get the basics out of the way first. With the medifast diet plan, you are going to be eating six meals a day. Basically, it’s 5 meals that Medifast has already prepared for you, and one meal which they call (lean and green) which you make yourself.
The purpose of this is to get your metabolism up and running before you go to sleep. As far as when you eat these meals, that is strictly up to you. I’d recommend that you space them out, but not too much so. The last thing you want is to be eating a meal at 10pm at night before you are ready to go to bed. That could affect your sleep. You are going to have to work out the logistics for yourself.
It really comes down to what kind of schedule that you have. You would know your schedule a lot better than I would. Personally, I like to have all my meals out of the way before 7 pm. This way I know I’ll be really well digested prior to going to sleep. You have to remember that these are small meals, so it’s not like you have to be terribly hungry in order to eat any of them. Read the rest of this entry »
10 Tips to Stay Mentally Healthy
Posted by admin in Healthy Tips on November 28, 2011
If it’s not broke don’t fix it…right? No! One of the best methods of mental health recovery is to maintain an environment prone to mental health and mental illness recovery. Staying mentally healthy is a way of life, not something you do when things start to go wrong. Keep reading for your top 10 tips to staying mentally healthy! Remember sometimes, the best treatment is prevention.
For access to some great cutting-edge research aside from the tips below, check out the Mental Health Center of Denver’s Research and Evaluation Team’s publications.
1) Stay Physically Active: the human mind developed in an environment requiring one travels the equivalent of 12 miles per day for sheer survival (and no that doesn’t mean jumping in the car and flooring it!). Recent research has proven that increased physical activity can actually create new brain cells (once thought of as a static number), this explains why nearly every mental healthcare consumer at facilities such as MHCD are strongly encouraged to begin an exercise regiment immediately. Read the rest of this entry »