Green tea: 1-2 bags after it seeps to coolnest is diluted to a liter with ice water. I really like it as an iced tea. I like it with echinacea as a hot tea. But you have to like tea. But loads better than soda pop for you.
But nothing will help us lose weight more than the "I have to quit eating the cookies" diet and just keep moving. I do a little kitchen dance in the 30 seconds I wait for the microwave. I hustle up the stairs and focus on using my gluts to do so.
Walk every chance you get - I mean park way out there in the parking lot. I carry my packages instead of using the cart most of the time. I also bring canvas bags that can handle the load.
I did hear of a technique where you push your loaded grovery cart around the store a couple of extra times. But I fear the wrath of the real shoppers I might get the way of. Remember cans and laundry detergent make great weights.
Pilates takes some flexibility. So always stretch yourself and consider that a gift to your health. Try a yoga class - simliar ideas there. But any class will give you more ideas. I am learning new ways to use the ball and equipment that I had never seen. And at $20 a month for my comm rec classes -- that's a bargain! And I am happy to let the intructor count for me. I just concentrate on the stretch or the motion.
Hey these are nice!
http://www.ncpad.org/exercise/fact_s...8§ion=1671
Now I see why my ball is to big for me. However, another excerise is to roll your kids back and forth on the ball and use them as weights for you. They think you are just playing with them.
I used to do that (in wamrer weather) at the swing set pushing them. I used one arm and then the other. Good pushing exercise. I also do simple step excersises on the side on the playground.
I will try to glue the holes with waterbed glue. I wonder what the cat thought when he heard the little hissssss..........
