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A Free Online Food Diary and More – great for keeping your New Year resolutions

December 18th, 2007 by admin

Usually when you want to join an online fitness/diet website, they always cost money…except one that I found fairly recently, and it’s really good. www.fitday.com has many features that include a food diary that breaks down your nutritional input, fitness activity, an online journal, a goal page, and a weight page.

The activity page tells you not only how many calories you’ve burned with the normal activities associated with fitness, but it takes into account the calories you’ve burned doing housework, gardening, cooking, sexual activity, etc. There are various graphs which show, for example, how many calories you’ve eaten against how many you’ve burnt.

The nutritional breakdown highlighted how my diet is lacking in adequate vitamins and minerals, and how much fat and calories certain foods carry, such as mayonnaise – which I love! As a consequence I’ve reviewed my diet and I’m now eating more fruit and veg.

There are many many online diet websites, but this one is the best one I’ve come across with the added bonus of it not costing a penny.

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Winning the Migraine Battle

December 8th, 2007 by admin

Since the birth of my oldest child, I have been plagued with migraines – and that’s been over 12 years. I’ve been on a variety of medications, and they’ve helped to varying degrees – but I’ve never been totally free of them and sometimes they’ve impinged on my quality of life. I have tried to get control of them, i.e. keep a food diary to see if there were any triggers. Cheese, red wine and chocolate are known triggers for migraines, but for me I could eat cheese and chocolate ’til it came out of my ears and it didn’t seem to make any difference. However wine was a trigger, but as I wasn’t a big wine drinker it wasn’t a hardship to omit wine. There were other factors that caused my migraine such as stress and lack of sleep, and therefore I presumed dietary triggers were not related too me…that was until the other week.

The other week I had bran flakes for breakfast, fresh bread sandwiches for lunch, sometimes pasta for supper nearly every day, and I had a migraine nearly every day. It was a passing comment that a friend made about migraines often being food related, that made me reflect on my dietary intake. I realised I had eaten a lot of wheat during the pass week. I had never heard of migraines being related to wheat, so I looked it up on the net, and came across several articles, including Avoiding Migraines With Wheat-Free Diet. So I thought I would give it try.

I’ve been on a wheat-free diet for the past 2 ½ weeks and I’ve only had one migraine – and for me that is really good. I had a slight mourning period about omitting wheat from my diet ( I love fresh bread) but at the end of day it’s my choice – eat wheat and have migraines, or omit wheat and have significantly fewer migraines – it’s a no brainer!

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