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family nutrition
- 10 Fantastic Foods for Kids
- Nutrition Tips
- Top 5 foods
- foods that keep you young
- ways to lower your cholesterol
- Lose Weight and Improve your Mood
- De-Stressing Tips
- Get Your Omega 3's!
- Eat Chocolate!
- The Truth About Diets
- Exercise: It's Child's Play
- Milk Drinking
- Soy Happy
- Gut Instinct
- Back to Basics
- Smile & Say Cheese
- Water Shortage
- Honey Buzz
- Legumes
- Preventing Diabetes
- Hand Washing
As women get older and enter perimenopause and menopause, hormonal and metabolic changes create a more difficult challenge. We tend to get bloated and retain more water, and our waists also start to spread. But we can still look tight and trim. Before a photo shoot or special event, I take the following steps in order to show more muscle and get rid of the bloat:
• Limit all carbohydrates (only for short time--no longer than 2 to 3 days--and I still eat some complex carbs like oatmeal and whole-wheat bread).
• Limit sparkling and carbonated beverages including sparkling water.
• Eat more lean protein.
• Limit spicy foods.
• Limit cruciferous vegetables and other raw vegetables, since the fiber can cause bloating. These include cabbage, broccoli and brussels sprouts.
• Eat smaller meals 3 to 4 times a day.
• Limit salt, which causes water retention.
• Make dinner your smallest meal.
• Drink plenty of water throughout the day.
• Don't forget to hold your stomach in throughout the day and train those muscles constantly. I do ab work twice a day, even if I only have 5 minutes!
