Body Mass Index (BMI), which is a measure of weight proportionate to height, is a standard used around the world to figure out when someone is overweight or obese. BMI is an estimate of body fat and a good gauge of your risk for diseases that are more likely to develop with excessive amounts body fat.
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We’ve all experienced this: your fingers scrape the bottom of the bag of chips/cookies/pick-your-poison and you suddenly realize that you may have reached into the bag for handful-after-handful and yet you haven’t really “registered” or gotten satisfaction from many of the bites. Maybe you’re watching TV, on the computer, driving in the car, or lost in your own thoughts and/or feelings. Maybe what drove you to snack in the first place was not actual physical hunger, but stress, anger or boredom. Unfortunately, when we’re not “mindful” of the bites we are eating, either because we are not paying attention or because we’re eating for “head hunger,” not for a physical need, extra bites become extra calories, become extra pounds.
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Fat free doesn’t mean “calorie free”. In this new video as seen on Sutter Health’s MyLifeStages television, PAMF Registered Dietitian Tracey Slezak offers healthy eating tips and demonstrates how to make better, healthier food choices when you’re trying to lose weight.
Tracy Slezak is a registered dietitian and health educator with PAMF’s Health Management Resources – (HMR) Weight Management program. You can learn more about nutrition on the PAMF website.
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Get me up on my weight management soap box and you’ll hear me forcefully proclaim that successful weight management has very little do with willpower, it’s actually much more about something we call skillpower: having enough strategies, tips and strategic planning to develop new skills to support ongoing lifestyle change.
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