Lifestyle:
This means healthy living without smoking, excessive alcohol, or other unhealthy substances. The "L" in lifestyle could also stand for "love" and "laughter." If there are not enough of these two "L's" in your job, relationships, habits, or activities, some changes are needed. For some people, change is difficult, since the body and the mind often resist change, but remind yourself we're talking about change for the better, not for the worse.
Exercise:
One of the healthiest ways to stay lean is to exercise. The more muscle you have, the more fat calories you can burn. If you wanna lose it, you gotta move it. The key to getting and staying lean is to set your fatpoint to fat-burn rather than fat-store. How? By eating right and exercising more. Also, Regular, moderate exercise increases the white cell count, improving the body's ability to fight off infection. Lastly, exercise is not only good for the body; it's great for the brain. The brain is an oxygen hog, which is why it takes 25 percent of the blood that the heart pumps (more in children). Exercise delivers more oxygen to the brain and helps all tissue, especially brain tissue, use oxygen more efficiently, which translates into better thinking.
Attitude:
Trim the fat in your feelings by keeping your mind off counterproductive stuff. The attitude part of the LEAN program is about using your mind to help you get a lean body. You can't just think fat away, but there are fascinating ways your mind can affect your body - for better or for worse. Stress gets in the way of good health. Your body can't reap all the benefits of nutrition and exercise if it's overstressed. And stress can get in the way of eating right and getting enough exercise.
Nutrition:
Emphasize a low-fat diet. Instead of a diet, let's call it a change in eating style, meaning that you are focusing more on eating well rather than on eating less. To stay lean you have to do one of two things: eat more and burn more fat or eat less and exercise less. You can't have it both ways. You are likely to feel more full after eating a fiber-filled plant food than after a meal featuring meat. Fiber gives you a feeling of fullness sooner for fewer calories, a good nutritional strategy for staying lean. So, if you are trying to lose weight or lower the amount of fat in your diet, first fill up on high-fiber, low-fat salad-bar fixings. You'll eat less of the main course and dessert.
This means healthy living without smoking, excessive alcohol, or other unhealthy substances. The "L" in lifestyle could also stand for "love" and "laughter." If there are not enough of these two "L's" in your job, relationships, habits, or activities, some changes are needed. For some people, change is difficult, since the body and the mind often resist change, but remind yourself we're talking about change for the better, not for the worse.
Exercise:
One of the healthiest ways to stay lean is to exercise. The more muscle you have, the more fat calories you can burn. If you wanna lose it, you gotta move it. The key to getting and staying lean is to set your fatpoint to fat-burn rather than fat-store. How? By eating right and exercising more. Also, Regular, moderate exercise increases the white cell count, improving the body's ability to fight off infection. Lastly, exercise is not only good for the body; it's great for the brain. The brain is an oxygen hog, which is why it takes 25 percent of the blood that the heart pumps (more in children). Exercise delivers more oxygen to the brain and helps all tissue, especially brain tissue, use oxygen more efficiently, which translates into better thinking.
Attitude:
Trim the fat in your feelings by keeping your mind off counterproductive stuff. The attitude part of the LEAN program is about using your mind to help you get a lean body. You can't just think fat away, but there are fascinating ways your mind can affect your body - for better or for worse. Stress gets in the way of good health. Your body can't reap all the benefits of nutrition and exercise if it's overstressed. And stress can get in the way of eating right and getting enough exercise.
Nutrition:
Emphasize a low-fat diet. Instead of a diet, let's call it a change in eating style, meaning that you are focusing more on eating well rather than on eating less. To stay lean you have to do one of two things: eat more and burn more fat or eat less and exercise less. You can't have it both ways. You are likely to feel more full after eating a fiber-filled plant food than after a meal featuring meat. Fiber gives you a feeling of fullness sooner for fewer calories, a good nutritional strategy for staying lean. So, if you are trying to lose weight or lower the amount of fat in your diet, first fill up on high-fiber, low-fat salad-bar fixings. You'll eat less of the main course and dessert.
Lifestyle: How You Live
• Be wise:
“Make healthy choices.”
• Be smart:
“Learn what keeps you healthy.”
• Be responsible:
“Take responsibility for your health.”
• Be wise:
“Make healthy choices.”
• Be smart:
“Learn what keeps you healthy.”
• Be responsible:
“Take responsibility for your health.”
Exercise: How You Move
• Make fitness fun!
• Enhance pleasure and enjoyment of movement
• Exercise Improves:
- Motor skill development
- Balance & Coordination
- Cardiovascular fitness
- Muscular strength and endurance
• Make fitness fun!
• Enhance pleasure and enjoyment of movement
• Exercise Improves:
- Motor skill development
- Balance & Coordination
- Cardiovascular fitness
- Muscular strength and endurance
Attitude: How You Think
• SET GOALS!
• Stop negative thinking.
• Enhance self-confidence
• Improve problem solving
• SET GOALS!
• Stop negative thinking.
• Enhance self-confidence
• Improve problem solving
Nutrition: How You Eat
• Learn how to identify food cravings.
• Discover how to best fuel your body!
• How to lose body fat the LEAN way!
• Make wise food choices!
• Healthfully eat when on the run!
• Learn how to identify food cravings.
• Discover how to best fuel your body!
• How to lose body fat the LEAN way!
• Make wise food choices!
• Healthfully eat when on the run!
L.E.A.N. BASICS
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HOW LEAN PROGRAMS WORK
The LEAN Programs work through synergy. If you put a group of nutrients together in a well-balanced meal, and the body absorbs the nutrients better than it would if the same vitamins and minerals were isolated in a vitamin pill. Think-tanks put a group of people together in a room, each one with a different field of expertise, and they feed off one another, developing ideas together that none of them could have thought of alone. This is why the LEAN program works. When you put all the four components together, each individual one works better.
A POSITIVE PROGRAM
There are more “shoulds” than “should nots” in the L.E.A.N. program, and the results last, unlike other diet and fitness programs that promise quick results but don't deliver in the long run. Children and families will feel fit; a three-letter word that economically describes what healthy living is all about. Individuals not only fit better into their clothing, but also with their family, school or job. Get on the LEAN program before you get sick; and use this rejuvenating program to not only prevent illness, but to simply feel great!
The LEAN Programs work through synergy. If you put a group of nutrients together in a well-balanced meal, and the body absorbs the nutrients better than it would if the same vitamins and minerals were isolated in a vitamin pill. Think-tanks put a group of people together in a room, each one with a different field of expertise, and they feed off one another, developing ideas together that none of them could have thought of alone. This is why the LEAN program works. When you put all the four components together, each individual one works better.
A POSITIVE PROGRAM
There are more “shoulds” than “should nots” in the L.E.A.N. program, and the results last, unlike other diet and fitness programs that promise quick results but don't deliver in the long run. Children and families will feel fit; a three-letter word that economically describes what healthy living is all about. Individuals not only fit better into their clothing, but also with their family, school or job. Get on the LEAN program before you get sick; and use this rejuvenating program to not only prevent illness, but to simply feel great!