Health Tip – You know you’ll buy them and you know
you’ll eat at least one – so what is the best mini version of our favorite
candy bars with the least amount of calories and the least amount of saturated
fat? Of the three favorites; Milky Way miniatures, 3 musketeers miniatures and
Snickers miniatures, 3 Musketeers is the best, at 24 calories and less than 1
gram of fat as compared to Milky Way at 38 calories and 1.6 grams of fat and
Snickers at 42.5 calories and 2.25 grams of fat. To make things even better,
Three Musketeers makes a dark chocolate mint mini candy bar. Dark chocolate is
full of antioxidants and mint is a stimulant which means it boost metabolism
while suppressing appetite. It’s good for digestion and will make you feel full
and satisfied. Now before you start to cheer and pop open that bag of Three
Musketeers, remember we are choosing the candy that is the least harmful to a
healthy diet. Moderation and healthy choice is the key to balance. Dark chocolate and mint means good health and
weight control. If you are going to indulge make the healthy choice!
Now You Need to Burn Those Calories
What is the
best way to burn off those extra calories? Get up and dance! Aero*boga to
the rescue. Here is the October playlist. Go to ITunes download these songs and
make a playlist. Stretch, move and dance, or put your Aero*boga DVD in and
spend one hour doing yoga/dance with me. You will burn about 380 to 510
calories in a one hour workout. Don’t have the DVD? Order the book Spiritual Fitness and get the DVD for
free!
In Yoga the opposite of contentment is craving
and craving produces greed. It is a disturbed mind that keeps us in the
constant battle with our cravings. The purpose of yoga is to bring peace to the
mind so that we can gather the energies of our conscious and subconscious mind
and balance out our energy. Here is a good example to follow – if after the
Halloween party you vow to stop eating candy bars, but you keep thinking about
all those mini 3 Musketeers left over from Halloween, wouldn’t it be better to
eat just one, happily enjoy it and then spend the rest of the day with a less
scattered mind?
But what if
you work hard to suppress your desire for the candy? With yoga we are not
trying to discipline the conscious mind. Rather we work to discipline the subconscious
mind so that your thoughts come through from the subconscious into the
conscious creating a state of mind that is conducive to contentment, happiness
and peace.
So here is
my Halloween candy yoga suggestion- take out the left over candy and take out
your favorite candy. Sit quietly and take a few deep breathes. Quietly examine the
wrapper, gently unwrap, close your eyes, pop it into your mouth and savor the
texture, the flavor and the smell. When you’re done, open your eyes get up and
throw the left over candy away. You won’t crave it any more. Happy Halloween!
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