Sunday, April 15, 2007

Working on My ABs & Finding New Healthy Foods!

Yes, this is my monthly update for all of my activities associated with the 2007 New Black Cultural Diet Weight Loss Challenge! As you know, this Weight Loss Challenge focuses on four major areas: Body Image, Food Selection, Food Preparation and Exercise/Physical Fitness.

Well, during this past month, I concentrated on two areas in particular --
  • Working on My ABS
  • Finding New Healthy Foods

Now that I have started and continued my Billy Blanks AB workouts, my stomach area REALLY feels and is beginning to look different. My major goal in concentrating in my stomach area is for toning as well as to loose some of those extra inches around my belly. Believe me, this is a very difficult area to loose this inches particularly for guys! Interestingly, for guys, it seems like it is ok to have several extra inches in your stomach area and to actually have a gut!! Well, that's not me and this is an area that I have always wanted to get control of! With the help of the specific workouts, I feel much more CONFIDENT that I can complete this intense training for my ABS but now I FEEL THE TIGHTNESS IN MY BELLY AREA!! THAT MAKES ME FEEL MORE MUSCULAR AND TONED!!

As for finding new healthy foods with regards to food selection, I realize that I have more of an appetite particularly after working out. So therefore, I had to find a healthy "SNACK" in between my major meals of the day. The snack that I have found is called:

  • BRUSCHETTA VEGETABLE CRACKERS

These vegetable crackers are great tasting, all-natural, crunchy snacks. The are all natural made with no genetically engineered ingredients, made with organic wheat flour, no hydrogenated oils and it is LOW FAT!! And most importantly to me at this phase of the Weight Loss Challenge, these crackers taste GOOD!!! Yes, they taste very good and they feel me up between my meals. Now that I have added these crackers to my food selection, I noticed that there are now other companies that are producing more VEGETABLE-BASED CRACKERS!! This is a good thing for all of us, particularly when it's hard to eat healthy in between our healthy meals!!

So hang in there and I am doing the same!! It's not easy because its Spring time and there are so many events and cerermonies to attend and everyone wants to serve food at every event. I am continuing to be very selective in the foods that I eat at these events. I am staying strong and feeling good that I find healthy foods at any social, community, family or cultural event!!

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