When I decided that I wanted to lose weight, I was unsure where to begin. Are you in the same boat right now? Here are some weight loss tips Spokane to help get you started.

Spokane Weight Loss Tip #1 Drink Water
Stay hydrated, flush toxins and fight bloating with good old fashioned water. There are more benefits to drinking water than I have room to write. How much should you drink? Take your body weight and divide that in two. That is how many ounces you should be drinking every day. Always keep a water bottle with you.

Spokane Weight Loss Tip #2 Sleep
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love this tip. Sleeping is my favorite contribution to my “get healthy” plan. Adequate sleep at night actually keeps you slim. How? While you sleep, your body re-ups its’ supply of serotonin and dopamine. These two feel-good brain chemicals are important to your daily happiness as well as your motivation. Your brain needs them. When you don’t get enough sleep, you don’t get a full supply of these chemicals and you’re grumpy. Instinctively you begin to search for a quick fix. Guess what immediately releases both chemicals in the body? Sugary foods. That’s why when you’re tired you start craving sweets. So sleep, your waist line will help you.

Spokane Weight Loss Tip #3 Stay Busy
Don’t sit at home. This seems silly but if you have time on your hands, you will end up eating that time. Literally. It has been said that people eat for recreation because of emotions and boredom. The quick fix for this is a good hobby. Try swing dancing (my favorite), scrap-booking, join a sports league (I recommend roller derby is you are a female), take the kids to the park or take a job as a production assistant on a movie set (easy …sometimes unpaid job/internship). Stay Busy.

Spokane Weight Loss Tip #4 Simplify Your Eating Plan
Weight loss is a journey, a journey with many temptations and choices. When you have a lot of choices for a meal, it’s a lot easier to slip out of good eating habits and into buffet binges. Help yourself avoid this by eliminating choices at meal times. Give yourself only a couple of options at each meal time. Automate one meal a day, whichever one you have the least time for. Find something healthy; calories already tallied and the portion controlled. Maybe a turkey sandwich on whole wheat bread and have it for lunch every day. Every day. Not three times a week. Everyday. As the weeks pass and you see progress, switch out your lunch time sandwich for a salad. The less you think about food, the easier it is to control your appetite. Decreased choices means decreased temptations.

No amount of weight loss tips will be completely effective without an exercise strategy. The above tips can be combined with group training sessions at Physzique to help get you started towards your success.

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Everyone likes to have a good time, especially on a Friday night after a long, hard week. We all need to find time to relax, and going to a Spokane bar is an easy way to burn off steam, but do you know what those yummy, sweet drinks are doing to your brain, organs, and waist line? Bars in Spokane are helping you get fatter.

The ingredient that gives you that relaxed, uninhibited feeling is ethanol, which comes from fermented grains. From the moment you swallow, it is treated differently than anything else you ingest. It soaks through your stomach lining faster than other foods and drinks, and goes right to your liver. Your liver can only handle so much alcohol, so what is left over makes a bee line right for your brain. How quickly you feel “buzzed” may depend on how much or how little food you have in your stomach as well.

Spokane Bars: How does your body react to alcohol?

Alcohol first affects the brain’s frontal lobes, the reasoning centers, sedating the inhibitory nerves. The more you drink the more of your brain cells you kill. Higher levels of alcohol then affect the centers of speech, vision, motor control and eventually consciousness. But it affects the rest of your body, too. In your stomach, it causes gastritis (inflammation) and can lead to stomach ulcers. Excessive drinking can lead to cirrhosis of the liver (irreversible scarring of the liver).

Depending upon body size, it can take one to two hours to metabolize one drink. A 12-ounce beer; 4 ounces of wine and 1.5 ounces of hard liquor each contain about .5 ounce of alcohol, approximately the amount your body is capable of processing in one hour. More than that, and you move out of the “buzzed” feeling and into “drunk.”

Spokane Bars: Caloric Content.

Alcohol is a highly concentrated source of calories containing 7 calories per gram (compared to 4 cals/g for protein and carbohydrates and 9 cal/g for fat). These calories are utilized by the body mainly for heat production and are not converted to glycogen, the main fuel for muscle activity. And when you add it to sweet, sugary, and creamy drinks, the calorie content shoots through the roof. And in general, most people tend to eat mindlessly while drinking, so you really have no idea how many calories you are consuming.

If you are going to go to bars in Spokane, limit your alcohol intake, and alternate those adult beverages with soft drinks, preferably water to help offset the dehydration that is cause by alcohol. And pay attention to what you eat!