8 Energy Boosters To Jump-Start Your Engine and To Lose Weight
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Transition these eight energizers into your life every day and experience the ultimate super-high on every level:
1. Fill-up on lots of whole, unrefined fruits and vegetables.
Regardless of the hype and confusion, unrefined carbohydrates (no, not protein or fat) found in whole fruits and vegetables are our most efficient sources of energy. Raw fruits and vegetables are even better.
Today’s energy comes from whole plant foods that you ate yesterday.
2. Drink homemade fruit and vegetable juices.
The best nutrition comes from the juice in fruits and vegetables, not the fiber. Yes, we need fiber and get it from all our other whole fruits and vegetables. However, juice separated from the pulp, is a quick shot of energy that fuels into your system within fifteen minutes. Normally, it takes 24 hours for fruits and vegetables to process into usable energy.
3. Exercise aerobically (pumping the heart and lungs) a minimum of 60 minutes a day. Exercise forces oxygen, a primary source of energy, into all the cells. Moderate walking is an excellent, easy energizer.
4. Sleep from 7 to 8.5 hours a night.
The importance of sleep cannot be overstated. Uninterrupted sleep is necessary for the body to heal, restore, and re-energize.
5. Avoid or, even better, eliminate processed and refined foods.
White sugar and white flour products are some of the foods that deplete energy. They are commonly found in 99% of all breads, bagels, baked goodies, pastries, desserts, candy, condiments, snack foods, and packaged and even canned foods (read labels).
6. Avoid foods laden with added oils, fat, and cholesterol.
Dietary fat and cholesterol from animal products and processed oils (yes, even olive oil) clog blood vessels, making the heart beat harder, zapping energy. Blood flow gets sluggish immediately after eating a meal loaded with fat and cholesterol.
You can tell that on yourself. How do you feel after you’ve eaten a big meal centered on meat and/or dairy products? In a word, tired.
7. Eliminate artificial depressants and stimulants.
Alcohol, whether one glass of wine or several cocktails, is a well-known depressant. Depressants do just that—depress energy.
Coffee is a drug-like stimulant. It offers a quick pick-me-up, but is followed by the inevitable “drop-me-down.” With regular use, coffee exhausts the adrenal glands, which are critical for sustained energy. Coffee also makes the bladder, kidneys, liver and other organs work harder, draining energy.
8. Breathe fresh air.
Don’t smoke. It goes without saying: smoking robs your body of oxygen. Less oxygen equals less energy. No energy equals no life.
Do you have to incorporate all eight energy boosters into your life? Of course not. You don’t “have to” do anything. You “get to” make your own choices, and you “get to” experience the consequences of those choices.
Remember, energy can be compared to the gas in a car. Gas makes a car run efficiently. Energy makes you run efficiently. If a car runs out of gas, it stops running. If you run out of energy, you stop running.
So the question remains: how much is your life worth and what are you willing to do to rev-up your engine and keep it purring for a long time?
It’s your body, your energy, and your choice.
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Our body is not satisfied. We are subconsciously driven to eat more in a futile attempt to obtain the nutrients our body requires for optimum.
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