I would like to share my morning routine and Dr. Greger's Daily Dozen. Specifically exercise. Dr. Greger recommends 90 minutes of exercise per day.
Why exercise?
For many, many years I thought that it was how you lost weight! Come to find out, weight loss is from the food you eat mostly, not your work outs. I spent many years killing myself in my work outs, not losing weight but gaining weight and wrecking my adrenals doing it.
Now I exercise to prevent high blood pressure, halt cognitive decline, improve my memory, improve my mood, improve my quality of sleep, boost my immune system and decrease the likely hood I will get breast cancer. (NutritionFacts.org)
Also, to add to all those benefits, since I want to live to be a healthy 102, I need to maintain as much muscle mass as possible. After age 25 your muscle mass start dropping and your risk of death over the age of 80 is huge.
My goal is to build and keep as much muscle as possible, so that is why I lift weights. I started using The Transform App about a year ago. I love this app, it is simple to use and has lots of choices on types of workouts you can do. I have done both the gym option and the at home option. I am currently doing the at home option and have actually seen better results than the gym option.
I called the blog a "Morning Routine', so I better get to it!
Wake: 4:30 am
Start: Coffee maker
Drink: 24 oz of water and take thyroid medication.
Listen: Devotional, Bible Reading & Mediation (I do all this while waiting on the coffee and during my workout)
Work out: Transform App
Stretch: Fitness Blender (5 minutes)
Walk: Goal is 30 minutes
Get ready for work, the normal stuff, including packing all my food for the day.
I eat my breakfast around 8:30 am. I am not intermittent fasting, I just don't get around to eating until then. I am hungry for sure. Dr. Greger does recommend time restricted eating, but his is at night not in the morning. The Daily Dozen app recommends your stop eating at 7:00 pm.
My breakfast pretty much every day is:
8 oz of cold water with 2 tsp of apple cider vinegar
Pre-load of an apple
I have no idea how many calories or what the MACROS on this breakfast are, and for once I don't care! I am ten pounds from my goal weight and don't count any of these things!
Do I count anything? YES, this is what I count.
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