20s Living

Eat some Fruit

Fruit contains a large number of naturally occurring vitamins, minerals and plant phytochemicals that benefit your health. Instead of starving yourself in between meals make a basic fruit bowl. Fruit provides energy for exercising, reduces the risk of cardiovascular diseases and developing cancers. It has lowers your blood pressure and cholesterol levels, and on top of that it keeps you young. What does the doctor say? “One apple per day, keep the doctor away.”

Have Red Wine with dinner.
Red Wine contains vital antioxidants and resveratrol, both of which help repair our damaged cells. Drinking one glass a day for women and up to two glasses a day for men may improve heart health and circulation, while decreasing the risk of heart disease, cancer and stroke.

No Fast food!

I know you’ve heard this over and over again, but steer clear of fast food restaurants. If you don’t believe me visit FatColories.com, which has a comprehensive list of fast food nutrional facts. Also, it you think the popular Subway is a healthy alternative, think twice! I researched Subway’s sandwiches and the have a large selection of sandwiches that are over 500 calories. Don’t get me wrong, they do have healthy sandwiches but from what I’ve seen people tend to go for flavor! Below is a screen shot of my favorite foot-long subway sandwich, the Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki Sandwich which has a whopping 740 calories.

Soup or Salad for Starters

Eating a soup or Salad as an appetizer can be help encourage weigh loss. You can curb your hunger so you avoid over-eating, and keep your meals within they recommended serving size. For maximum results use low calorie salad dressing, and eat healthy vegetable or minestrone soups.

Drink H20, avoid Coca Cola.

Doctors recommend you drink 8 glasses of water per day. Since our bodies are virtually made of water, it has extreme health benefits. Drinking water can improve your energy levels, increase your mental and physical performance, remove toxins and wastes, keep your skin looking healthy, and encourage weigh loss!

Resources
http://www.betterwayhealth.com/drinking-water.asp
http://www.healthcastle.com/redwine-heart.shtml

Vegas Trip 2008, we stayed at the Flamingo Hotel in Vegas and for the 4 nights that we were in Sin City. During the day Saturday we went to the pool at the Flamingo, engaged in some beer drinking and were ready to go by 5pm. The best addition to the non stop partying was the legendary Beer Bong. A friend of mine made it while in college, and decided to pack it in his suit case. The Beer Bong made the trip even better than it was, getting everyone involved, and buzzed before we went out to the nightclubs.

After all the guys were ready, we began drinking while waiting for the ladies to get ready. Everybody knows that is takes women so`much longer to get ready when going out. They need the right outfit, hair style, shoes, make-up, accessories, and who knows what else? We finally made it out the door at about 9pm and headed to the Palms Casino. We had some friends staying there so did some more pre-partying in their hotel room. We didn’t have the beer bong, but we did have a couple bottles of Grey Goose, and some Red Bull chasers. We ended up doing some vodka shots, and I decided to just drink Grey Goose on the rocks.

After about an hour of pre-partying we finally made it out to the Moon Nightclub, which is inside the Palms Casino. This place was packed to the brim leaving no space for dancing or socializing. When the ceiling opened it was a spectacular view, but it wasn’t a comfortable atmosphere for a group of 20 plus. We decided to leave the Moon Nightclub fairly quickly, and headed downstairs to the Playboy Club. The Playboy Club was not a club at all, but more of a lounge and gambling destination. The view from the Playboy Club was amazing but I am a huge club rat so we decided to leave after we enjoyed the view for about 15 minutes. There was only 2 elevators to exit the Playboy so it took us about 30 minutes just to leave the place.

We finally made it out of the Playboy Club, and immediately went to Rain. Rain is amazing nightclub with fabulous DJs, a great crowd, and fire coming from the ceiling that lights up the whole venue. I took the picture to the left with my iPhone! Surprisingly, the quality of the picture is very good. The drinks were a little expensive, $8 dollars for a Corona, and $12 dollars minimum for a mixed drink, but this is Vegas right? Overall, I had a wonderful night and enjoyed my vacation.