Tesh Tuesday- Break those Bad Eating Habits!

Break Your Bad Eating Habits

Want to get in shape for summer? Then start breaking your bad eating habits now! Here’s a list of the most common bad eating habits, with tips to help you break them, courtesy of Rodale publishing:

• Bad eating habit #1: You skip meals. Nutrition experts say your brain runs on glucose, which is a simple sugar produced by the breakdown of food. So when you skip meals, you basically deprive your brain of the glucose it needs to make simple decisions – like saying “no” to unhealthy snacks. That’s why people who eat throughout the day generally eat less overall. It’s because their brain gets a steady supply of healthy glucose. So, you should aim for three meals at 400 calories a piece, plus two snacks under 200 calories.

• The next bad eating habit: Pigging out on the weekends. A recent study found that fatty foods contain an acid which blocks the body’s ability to regulate hunger for up to three days! So, gorging on chicken wings Friday through Sunday will prime your brain to keep overeating well into Wednesday! In other words: Limit yourself to only ONE diet-cheating meal during the weekend - not three full days of them.

• Another bad eating habit: Munching too many salty snacks. As we’ve talked about before, sodium dehydrates the body in a way that causes us to crave more snacks. A Boston University study found that what most people really crave in snack foods is the crunching sound – not the sugar or salt. So, consider replacing a bag of potato chips with a bag of celery sticks, or baby carrots. You may find that as you eat fewer salty snacks, you’ll crave fewer snacks overall.

• Bad eating habit #4: You eat in front of the TV. Researchers at the University of Chicago call this “a double whammy” to your diet, because you’re ingesting calories while burning none. If your TV time cuts into your sleep time, studies have shown you’ll eat up to 200 more calories the next day!

• Here’s one more bad habit: Drinking alcohol. One beer a night can add more than a thousand calories to your diet in a week! So, before you try breaking any of your bad food habits, try skipping the booze first.

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Texas Two Step

Well we had a fantastic time in the Lone Star State!

Check out our adventures in San Antonio

And we're off....

Hello Texas

We met Josh Kelley

(Katherine Heigl's Husband/Charles Kelly of Lady Antebellum's Brother)

Awesome artist!

We also saw our sweet KY friend Laura Bell Bundy.

And Randy Montana

We spent a lot of time on the Riverwalk

Found the Alamo

(close up of the architecture)

We lunched at Casa Rio

Got to see REBA in concert and then

met GEORGE STRAIT

(put a George concert on your bucket list)

Momma

Thank you Mom for all you do!

May God bless me with your good genes.

Happy Early Mother's Day!

Can't wait to see you!

Call it Love

So last night during Glee I fell in love...

(No not with Fin)

with Emma Pillsbury's telephone brooch.

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I immediately made Michael Google "rotary telephone brooch" and 30 seconds later I was staring at the most amazing blog I have ever stumbled across.

(2 amazing moments within 1 minute is dangerous)

What Would Emma Pillsbury Wear? is by far the cutest (most ingenious) blog ever. Not only was I looking at THE Telephone Brooch but pages and pages of "Where to find what Emma was wearing". It was like having a personal shopper at the click of my mouse.

Thankfully others had also adored Emma's brooch and Danielle was kind enough to find some wonderful options on Etsy and yours truly took full advantage. I cannot wait for it to get here!

Thanks Danielle and please go check out

What Would Emma Pillsbury Wear?

Tesh Tuesday

I really love John Tesh(not necessarily his music) but his "intelligence for your life"is really helpful. I thought I would pass along some John Tesh wisdom every Tuesday to all my readers.

Today's topic is ... The Secrets of Happy Couples.

Happy couples know to maximize the positive – even if it means a little teasing every now and then. Want to be one of those couples? Here’s how, courtesy of Psychology Today magazine.

• Poke fun at each other. Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He says that playfulness is one of the first casualties of a busy life. When your days consist of nothing but working, paying bills, cleaning and sleeping, play can disappear from your relationship. You have to keep it alive, by joking around and even using silly nicknames. You may think a serious talk is the best way to handle a serious situation, but Keltner says that couples whotease each other in the heat of a conflict actually feel more connected when things are resolved.

• Notice what’s new about your partner. Ellen Langer is a psychologist at Harvard University. She says that most of us get so familiar with our partners that we stop noticing them. Just because you’ve stopped looking doesn’t mean they’ve stopped changing. So, make it a point to detect differences, and each time you do this, look for three things about your partner that have changed since the last time you looked. Langer calls this “mindful awareness.” She points to one study which found that when non-football fans watched a game while writing down things they noticed about the players and the stadium, they became more enthusiastic about the sport.

• Put it in writing. A study from the University of Texas found that when couples wrote about their relationship for 20 minutes a day, three days a week, they were more likely to be going strong three years later. They also sent more positive instant messages. So, the next time you think fondly about your partner, write it down. Even better - share what you wrote with them.
  

Gettin' Down and Derby

It's Derby week here in the bluegrass! If you aren't from Kentucky I would highly recommend putting The Kentucky Derby on your bucket list.

Publish Post

Britt at the Derby circa 2007

This year I am putting my money on Dean's Kitten.

Keeneland, 2009

And don't forget to get a Mint Julep while you're here!

I'm ready for my close up....

We have such vain animals.