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LIZARD BRAIN

Is Calorie Counting The Best Way to Lose Weight?
Many people try calorie counting,very few people achieve the long-term success they had hoped for.
Most of us live lives filled with family dinners, work lunches and impromptu parties that make it impractical to weigh and measure everything we eat.

Your energy expenditure naturally adapts and changes from day to day. Your metabolism is incredibly complex. The energy you use each day is influenced by many factors, including,
your muscle mass,
exercise,
stress,
activity,
age,
overall health, and
sleep.
Eating is primal and instinctual. Your appetite ensures that you seek out the nutrients you need. When you restrict calories, the part of your brain that governs your survival instincts (i.e., your amygdala, also known as your ‘reptilian’ or ‘lizard’ brain) perceives a starvation threat and responds to this ‘dire emergency’. Your body responds by slowing your metabolism and driving up your hunger to ensure you eat more next time you have access to food.
Despite your best efforts to limit the amount you eat, if you consistently fail to consume the nutrients your body requires, you can expect a hostile takeover by your ‘lizard brain’ as it hijacks your appetite.
If you try to maintain a fixed calorie intake, ignoring your healthy hunger signals on some days and eating more than you need on others, there is a real risk that your natural and healthy appetite signals will become dysregulated.
When you slash your energy intake by simply restricting calories without changing WHAT you eat, your body quickly adapts to ensure your survival and:

your metabolic rate slows,
you produce less heat,
you feel less energetic, and
your involuntary activity grinds to a halt to divert energy to your heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, and other organs essential to your survival.

While energy is always conserved, the factors on both sides of the ‘calories in vs calories out’ equation are incredibly complex and beyond our ability to precisely measure or manipulate, even with the latest smartphone app or activity trackers.
While we would like to believe that our conscious brain is always in control and that we can use our willpower to eat less and move more, most people are unsuccessful at self-imposed starvation over the long term.
Prolonged fasting and very low-calorie diets eventually panic our 'lizard brain' into wresting hunger control from our neocortex, .
rescuing us from what 'Lizzy' perceives as a starvation threat

We all love ice cream don't we.

Something for the sweet tooth 😋

Frozen strawberries, 3 frozen bananas, a splash of milk. Blend and then freeze till solid.

Healthy snacks for healthy living

Ingredients
1 cup zucchini grated and drained well
1 egg
1/3 cup breadcrumbs
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese grated fine
1 clove garlic grated fine
2 tablespoons fresh onions chopped
1 tablespoon fresh parsley chopped
1 teaspoon fresh basil chopped
1 teaspoon fresh oregano chopped
pinch of salt and pepper
tomato sauce for dipping



Instructions
Preheat oven to 400˚F. Lightly coat a baking sheet with olive oil or non-stick spray. Set aside.
Use a box grater to grate the zucchini into a clean towel. Roll up the towel and twist to wring out the moisture. Grate the garlic using the small holes on the box grater.
In a medium bowl, combine all of the ingredients and mix well.
Shape a tablespoon of the mixture into your hands, pat into small balls, and place on the baking sheet.
Bake for 15-18 minutes in the preheated oven until golden. Serve warm with marinara sauce. Recipe makes about 16 bites.

Establish your caloric balance

Let's go bananas over bananas

Raw or cooked,munch on that cabbage head

In order to make it through our hectic life,healthy lifestyles should be made simple with these easy meal planning steps.

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