Eating Healthily

Eating Healthily How to Eat Healthily ChaptersTips for Eating Healthily and Losing WeightWhat Food Should You Eat to Lose Weight?Are there Effective Diets for Losing Weight?2 Healthy Recipes for Losing WeightWhile you probably want to eat healthily to avoid being overweight, you don’t want to go on diet after diet and watch your weight yoyo.  A balanced diet is the best way to lose weight and keep it off. However, a lot of us fall into the trap of going on diets and most brands are aware of this. That’s why new weight-loss techniques spring up all the time.  However, there are ways to lose weight that aren’t great for your health.So, with that in mind, let’s have a look at how changing the way you eat can help you to shed those pounds and keep them off. RebeccaNutrition Teacher £10/h1st lesson free!Discover all our tutors FernNutrition Teacher £30/h1st lesson free!Discover all our tutors JehanNutrition Teacher £75/h1st lesson free!Discover all our tutors FazNutrition Teacher £40/h1st lesson free!Discover all our tutors AsherNutrition Teacher £10/h1st lesson free!Discover all our tutors DelNutrition Teacher 5.00 (5) £20/h1st lesson free!Discover all our tutors YusefNutrition Teacher £25/h1st lesson free!Discover all our tutors JoanneNutrition Teacher £40/h1st lesson free!Discover all our tutorsTips for Eating Healthily and Losing WeightA balanced diet is all about organisation and planning.Think about why you don’t eat what’s best for you:Short on timeCan’t be bothered to cookLack of good ingredientsLack of imaginationSoon you find yourself buying something ready-made, ordering a takeaway, eating fast food, or microwaving something full of fat. Cooking is sometimes viewed as a waste of time and a source of stress. However, cooking can be easy and you’ll soon find a way to love it. Avoid temptation when visiting the supermarket. (Source: igorovsyannykov)Organisation and planning: This is the best way to cook healthily and lose weight. Here’s some advice to help you get over your fear of cooking:Think about what you’ll eat during the week: this can take ten minutes and will help you avoid buying ready-meals.Don’t go shopping when you’re hungry: this is a quick way to be tempted to buy unhealthy snacks.Limit your consumption of red meat.Opt for oils rather than butter when cooking.Replace sugar with honey, agave syrup, or cinnamon.Don’t buy factory-made snacks and ready-meals.Replace cow’s milk with vegetable milk (oat, almond, hazelnut, soy, etc.).Steam food.Ensure that your cupboards always have brown rice, whole grain pasta, tuna, sweetcorn, beans, lentils, olives, and seasonal vegetable. Prepare your lunch the night before so you don’t go buy something on your break the next day.Try batch cooking. On Saturday or Sunday, cook all your meals for t he next week. This will help you save a lot of time.Preparing healthy meals doesn’t take ages.Discover some great meals for losing weight.What Food Should You Eat to Lose Weight?Forget the idea that there are certain foods for losing weight. A healthy diet includes everything. Certain ways of cooking are good for losing weight. For example, you’ll never lose weight if you fry everything in oil. There are plenty of ingredients that you can eat regularly. (Source: LubosHouska)You should also pay attention to seasoning and how much you put on everything you eat. Don’t fall for diets telling you to eat nothing but proteins or cabbage, for example, as you’ll end up with deficiencies.  Some foods like red meat and processed foods can lead to weight gain.To lose weight, eat a balanced diet of fruits and vegetables. They’re often low-calorie and rich in vitamins and minerals, fibres, and water content.Green vegetables are particularly good when wanting to lose weight: spinach, lettuce, green beans, cabbage, celery, fennel, courgette, etc. In the summer, you can enjoy aubergines, which are great for absorbing fat.In terms of fruit, avoid sugary fruits like dates, cherries, or grapes. Apples are better. Avoid fruit juices and jams which tend to include a lot of sugar and very few vitamins.Don’t take protein out of your diet, either! While red meat can lead to weight gain, itâ €™s not from the proteins but rather the fats. Proteins are essential for building muscle and you can find it in eggs, meats, dairy products, and in soy products if you’re vegetarian or vegan.Pay attention to how much starch you consume, too. They can help you manage your appetite and avoid snacking but don’t exceed around 100g of the stuff and have wholegrain pasta when you can.Learn more about the best ingredients for weight loss.Are there Effective Diets for Losing Weight?Don’t bother with these diets with silly names. The only diets that work are the ones that work in the long-term and lead to a healthy life rather than a temporary weight loss. Generally, if you cook for yourself, it'll be healthier. (Source: Skitterphoto)Avoid losing weight too quickly as the second you finish your diet, you’ll start to see the weight coming back.  Weight loss needs to be lasting to be effective. That’s why a diet that promises a flat stomach in two weeks should be avoided.Two things will affect your weight: diet and exercise. If you do both of these, your body will thank you.Here are three “diets” that can help you lose weight:The Mediterranean diet, which is mainly fresh fish, fruits, vegetables, and olive oil.The flexitarian diet, which is based on reducing how much meat you consume with becoming a vegetarian.The low GI diet, which focuses on replacing high-GI foods for low-GI foods.The advantage of these diets is that everyone can do them. Children can safely do them, too. They’re balanced and good for everyone. It’s a good idea to have support from others as it’s not easy to watch people eating chips and doughnuts all th e time!If you would like support in the long-term, you can join groups like Weight Watchers. In addition to eating a balanced diet, you can attend the meetings and support one another.You can also get apps and nutritionists to help you decide the best things to go on your plate.Discover some great ways to lose weight.2 Healthy Recipes for Losing WeightDo you still think that cooking takes too long and you need to be a professional chef to do it?Here are two healthy recipes that’ll change your mind. Healthy food isn't necessarily difficult to make. (Source: Free-Photos)Quick Shrimp TagliatelleIn 15 minutes, you can make this dish for the whole family and it’s less than 400 calories.For 4 people, you’ll need:300g of fresh tagliatelle.2 tablespoons of olive oil.4 garlic cloves.20 peeled shrimp.4 tablespoons of parsley.Lemon juice.1 teaspoon of paprika.Salt and pepper.Preparation:Heat the oil in a pan and brown the shrimp for 5 minutes.During this time, cook the pasta in salted water.Add the salt, pepper, paprika, lemon juice, and parsley to the shrimp.Mix it all in with the strained pasta and serve.Vegetarian Buddha BowlThe advantage of a Buddha Bowl is that you can swap out whatever ingredients you don’t like for something you prefer or what's in season. It’ll take you around half an hour to prepare and it’s around 500 calories.For 4 people, you’ll need:400g of cauliflower.1/2 a squash.200g of chickpeas.1 onion.4 garlic cloves.2 tablespoons of olive oil.1 teaspoon of paprika and 1 teaspoon of cumin.250g of bulgur (you can replace this with brown rice, wheat, quinoa, or semolina).70g of spinach.1 teaspoon of parsley.Sunflower seeds (optional).Preparation:Preheat the oven to 200 ºC. Chop the cauliflower, squash, chickpeas, onion, and garlic and mix them in a salad bowl.Spread the mix onto an oven dish with the olive oil and spices and cook for 20 minutes.Cook the bulgur.Place the bulgur into a bowl and add the roasted vegetables, spinach, parsley, and sunflower seeds and add a lemon juice and olive oil vinaigrette.Now you’ve got no excuse for not eating healthily.Learn more about losing weight healthily.If you'd like to learn more about healthy eating, nutrition, and cooking, consider getting help from one of the many talented and experienced private tutors on Superprof. There are several different types of tutorials available but they all fall into one of three main categories: face-to-face tutorials, online tutorials, and group tutorials.Face- to-face tutorials take place between just the tutor and one student. This means that all the tutor's attention is on you. While this is great for ensuring that you learn quickly, it also comes at a cost. Outside of your tutorials, the tutor will be preparing and planning your lessons and will factor this extra time into their hourly rates. Face-to-face tutorials are usually the most costly type of tutorial but they're also usually the most effective.Online tutorials are similar to face-to-face tutorials as they have the same tutor-student ratio. However, your tutor won't be in the same place as you. Instead, they'll teach you remotely using a computer, webcam, and video conferencing software like Skype. Since the tutor doesn't have to travel to their students and can schedule more tutorials each week, they tend to charge less than their face-to-face counterparts.Finally, group tutorials are between one tutor and several students. With each student paying for the tutor's time, these tend to work out as the cheapest per student per hour. Unfortunately, the tutor won't be able to tailor the tutorials or the course to each student.

How to Tune a Ukulele A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners

How to Tune a Ukulele A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners Sign up successful If youre looking for something specific, you can jump around throughout the guide here: Ukulele Standard Tuning How to Tune a Ukulele With a Piano How to Tune a Ukulele With a Chromatic Tuner How to Tune a Ukulele by Ear How to Tune Different Types of Ukuleles Alternate Tunings Ukulele Tuning Apps How to Tune a Ukulele If you know nothing about tuning a stringed instrument, check out this video on how to tune a guitar from world famous guitarist and songwriter James Taylor. This video covers a lot of details about tuning in general, and you can apply the same principles to tuning a ukulele. Standard Ukulele Tuning The ukulele is typically tuned to the notes G, C, E, and A. This has been the standard since the advent of the internet. Before the internet, you could find people who tune their ukulele to A, D, F#, B or even fiddle tunings like A, D, A, D or G, C, D, G. How to Tune a Ukulele With a Piano Today, most of the books and videos you will find use G4, C4, E4, A4 as the standard ukulele tuning. The fours behind the letters represent the octave that you will find on the piano. So if you happen to have a keyboard or a piano, C4 is known as middle C. If you tune your ukulele to match middle C, then the E above middle C, and the A above middle C, and then tune the first string to the G above middle C, you will be in what is known as standard ukulele tuning. Heres a good illustration of how to tune a ukulele with a piano from The Uke website. Image courtesy The Uke How to Tune a Ukulele With a Tuner So what do you do if you dont have a piano? Well, you will need to get yourself a chromatic tuner. I use a Korg chromatic tuner, and I love it! I have tried a lot of other tuners, but the Korg is my favorite. Korg CA-40 Electronic Chromatic Tuner  Image Courtesy Musicians Friend You can purchase several brands of tuners for a reasonable price at places like Musicians Friend and Sweetwater. You will find that there are different types of tuners, and not all tuners are chromatic.  Which leads us to our next topic, what exactly does chromatic mean? If a tuner is chromatic, it enables you to tune to all of the notes. Guitar tuners are not chromatic. Theyre calibrated to only pick up the notes that are used on the guitar in standard tuning. Which means they can tune E, A, D, G, B and E, but its hard to tune to C or F# or Bb, or any of the remaining notes that arent covered by a regular guitar tuner. For this reason, I advise all of my students to buy chromatic tuners instead of standard guitar tuners. How to Tune a Ukulele  by Ear If you get a used or vintage ukulele, you probably wont have a tuner. Instead you might get some really old books or brochures and something called a pitch pipe. A pitch pipe is a neat mini harmonica that plays one note at a time when you blow into it. In some cases, you may have a pitch pipe that wasnt designed for your instrument, so you have to know how to tune one string to the pitch pipe, and the other strings to the first string. This can be a bit of a challenge, but I’m going to walk you through it. First, you need a reference note. Typically your reference note is middle C. When you blow on the pitch pipe, or play the note on the piano, you hear middle C. Then, you must twist the tuner on your ukulele until it matches. If you twist counter clockwise on the first two strings, you will tighten the string, and make it go up in pitch. So if you start on B, and twist counter-clockwise, you will be somewhere between B and C. If you keep twisting, you will finally get to C. But don’t twist too far, or you will overshoot C and end up on C# or somewhere between C and C#. Likewise, if you twist clockwise, you will go down in pitch. So if you are on B again, and you twist clockwise, you will end up on Bb, or somewhere between B and Bb. So when you match middle C on your pitch pipe to middle C on your ukulele, youre ready to start tuning your ukulele to the notes on the fretboard on the C string. Now think about it for a minute: You have your ukulele tuned to middle C, and now you need to get an E sound, so you can try to tune the next string to that E. If you count up from C, you will eventually get to E. The first fret is C#, the second fret up from there is D. Then the third fret is D#, and then finally the fourth fret is the E youre looking for. If you hold down the fourth fret, you will hear an E that you can tune the next string to. Now remember, when you get to tuning that E string, youre on the opposite side of the neck, so twist in the opposite direction than you did before. Twisting clockwise will tighten the string and make it go up in pitch. Twisting counter-clockwise makes the string loosen or go down in pitch. Now that you have your E, count up until you find the G (which is before the A string) and tune it. The first fret on the E string will be F, the second fret F#, and the third will be the G. Once you get the G string tuned (which seems like you’re going forward and backward on the ukulele, but that’s OK), count up to the A note. The first fret is G# and the second fret is A. Now you can tune to that pitch, and you’ll be all in tune. A final note on tuning: Once you think you get your instrument in tune, your strings will probably have stretched a bit. Sometimes, depending on your strings, the humidity, the types of tuners you have, and the type of wood your ukulele is made of, your ukulele will not be in tune immediately after you tune it. So you have to go back through the whole process two or three times to fine tune your ukulele. Once youve done this, you’re ready to play! How to Tune Different Types of Ukuleles Now you might have one of several types of ukuleles. Theyre not all the same. Here is a chart that covers the various types of ukuleles and the notes of their standard tuning. Alternate Tunings You can create a few fun alternate tunings by tuning each string up or down two steps. I find that if you try tuning more than two steps, you will break strings. So if standard tuning is G, C, E, A, then try tuning the G to a G# or an A, and make chords out of the open tuning. What goes with G#? The E chord would work. So you could tune your C down to a B, leave the E alone, and keep the A or tune it to a G# as well. You could try Open C tuning and tune your top A down to a G. Or try C7 tuning, and tune the A to a Bb. There are so many different types of tunings that you can try. If you find an alternate tuning you like, let us know in the comments section below! Heres a refresher on basic ukulele chords. Ukulele Tuning Apps There are a lot of good ukulele tuning apps out there. Here are a few I recommend checking out: iPhone Free Chromatic Tuner This free app works for both standard tuning and alternate tuning. You can download Free Chromatic Tuner from the iTunes app store. Tuner Lite Tuner lite turns your smartphone into a chromatic tuner and pitch pipe. Android Fine Chromatic Tuner Fine Chromatic Tuner uses the built-in mic on your phone to help you get your uke in tune. Chord! You can download Chord! for both iPhone and Android.  Theres a free and paid version, and the app allows you to find multiple tunings for lots of different stringed instruments, as well as chords, scales, and other useful information. Now you know several ways to get your uke in tune. Ukulele tuning may seem difficult at first, but find the method that works best for you and keep practicing! Try practicing with these 10 easy ukulele songs. Have you learned any cool tricks that help you tune your ukulele? Share them with us in the comments below!   Post Author:  Willy M. Willy M. teaches guitar, ukulele, and mandolin lessons in Winston Salem, NC. Hes the author of the Dead Mans Tuning series of mandolin songbooks, and is a former member of the American Federation of Musicians. Willy has been teaching for 20 years, and his students have ranged in age from young children to folks in their 80s.  Learn more about Willy here! Interested in Private Lessons? Search thousands of teachers for local and live, online lessons. Sign up for convenient, affordable private lessons today! Search for Your Teacher How to Tune a Ukulele A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners Sign up successful If youre looking for something specific, you can jump around throughout the guide here: Ukulele Standard Tuning How to Tune a Ukulele With a Piano How to Tune a Ukulele With a Chromatic Tuner How to Tune a Ukulele by Ear How to Tune Different Types of Ukuleles Alternate Tunings Ukulele Tuning Apps How to Tune a Ukulele If you know nothing about tuning a stringed instrument, check out this video on how to tune a guitar from world famous guitarist and songwriter James Taylor. This video covers a lot of details about tuning in general, and you can apply the same principles to tuning a ukulele. Standard Ukulele Tuning The ukulele is typically tuned to the notes G, C, E, and A. This has been the standard since the advent of the internet. Before the internet, you could find people who tune their ukulele to A, D, F#, B or even fiddle tunings like A, D, A, D or G, C, D, G. How to Tune a Ukulele With a Piano Today, most of the books and videos you will find use G4, C4, E4, A4 as the standard ukulele tuning. The fours behind the letters represent the octave that you will find on the piano. So if you happen to have a keyboard or a piano, C4 is known as middle C. If you tune your ukulele to match middle C, then the E above middle C, and the A above middle C, and then tune the first string to the G above middle C, you will be in what is known as standard ukulele tuning. Heres a good illustration of how to tune a ukulele with a piano from The Uke website. Image courtesy The Uke How to Tune a Ukulele With a Tuner So what do you do if you dont have a piano? Well, you will need to get yourself a chromatic tuner. I use a Korg chromatic tuner, and I love it! I have tried a lot of other tuners, but the Korg is my favorite. Korg CA-40 Electronic Chromatic Tuner  Image Courtesy Musicians Friend You can purchase several brands of tuners for a reasonable price at places like Musicians Friend and Sweetwater. You will find that there are different types of tuners, and not all tuners are chromatic.  Which leads us to our next topic, what exactly does chromatic mean? If a tuner is chromatic, it enables you to tune to all of the notes. Guitar tuners are not chromatic. Theyre calibrated to only pick up the notes that are used on the guitar in standard tuning. Which means they can tune E, A, D, G, B and E, but its hard to tune to C or F# or Bb, or any of the remaining notes that arent covered by a regular guitar tuner. For this reason, I advise all of my students to buy chromatic tuners instead of standard guitar tuners. How to Tune a Ukulele  by Ear If you get a used or vintage ukulele, you probably wont have a tuner. Instead you might get some really old books or brochures and something called a pitch pipe. A pitch pipe is a neat mini harmonica that plays one note at a time when you blow into it. In some cases, you may have a pitch pipe that wasnt designed for your instrument, so you have to know how to tune one string to the pitch pipe, and the other strings to the first string. This can be a bit of a challenge, but I’m going to walk you through it. First, you need a reference note. Typically your reference note is middle C. When you blow on the pitch pipe, or play the note on the piano, you hear middle C. Then, you must twist the tuner on your ukulele until it matches. If you twist counter clockwise on the first two strings, you will tighten the string, and make it go up in pitch. So if you start on B, and twist counter-clockwise, you will be somewhere between B and C. If you keep twisting, you will finally get to C. But don’t twist too far, or you will overshoot C and end up on C# or somewhere between C and C#. Likewise, if you twist clockwise, you will go down in pitch. So if you are on B again, and you twist clockwise, you will end up on Bb, or somewhere between B and Bb. So when you match middle C on your pitch pipe to middle C on your ukulele, youre ready to start tuning your ukulele to the notes on the fretboard on the C string. Now think about it for a minute: You have your ukulele tuned to middle C, and now you need to get an E sound, so you can try to tune the next string to that E. If you count up from C, you will eventually get to E. The first fret is C#, the second fret up from there is D. Then the third fret is D#, and then finally the fourth fret is the E youre looking for. If you hold down the fourth fret, you will hear an E that you can tune the next string to. Now remember, when you get to tuning that E string, youre on the opposite side of the neck, so twist in the opposite direction than you did before. Twisting clockwise will tighten the string and make it go up in pitch. Twisting counter-clockwise makes the string loosen or go down in pitch. Now that you have your E, count up until you find the G (which is before the A string) and tune it. The first fret on the E string will be F, the second fret F#, and the third will be the G. Once you get the G string tuned (which seems like you’re going forward and backward on the ukulele, but that’s OK), count up to the A note. The first fret is G# and the second fret is A. Now you can tune to that pitch, and you’ll be all in tune. A final note on tuning: Once you think you get your instrument in tune, your strings will probably have stretched a bit. Sometimes, depending on your strings, the humidity, the types of tuners you have, and the type of wood your ukulele is made of, your ukulele will not be in tune immediately after you tune it. So you have to go back through the whole process two or three times to fine tune your ukulele. Once youve done this, you’re ready to play! How to Tune Different Types of Ukuleles Now you might have one of several types of ukuleles. Theyre not all the same. Here is a chart that covers the various types of ukuleles and the notes of their standard tuning. Alternate Tunings You can create a few fun alternate tunings by tuning each string up or down two steps. I find that if you try tuning more than two steps, you will break strings. So if standard tuning is G, C, E, A, then try tuning the G to a G# or an A, and make chords out of the open tuning. What goes with G#? The E chord would work. So you could tune your C down to a B, leave the E alone, and keep the A or tune it to a G# as well. You could try Open C tuning and tune your top A down to a G. Or try C7 tuning, and tune the A to a Bb. There are so many different types of tunings that you can try. If you find an alternate tuning you like, let us know in the comments section below! Heres a refresher on basic ukulele chords. Ukulele Tuning Apps There are a lot of good ukulele tuning apps out there. Here are a few I recommend checking out: iPhone Free Chromatic Tuner This free app works for both standard tuning and alternate tuning. You can download Free Chromatic Tuner from the iTunes app store. Tuner Lite Tuner lite turns your smartphone into a chromatic tuner and pitch pipe. Android Fine Chromatic Tuner Fine Chromatic Tuner uses the built-in mic on your phone to help you get your uke in tune. Chord! You can download Chord! for both iPhone and Android.  Theres a free and paid version, and the app allows you to find multiple tunings for lots of different stringed instruments, as well as chords, scales, and other useful information. Now you know several ways to get your uke in tune. Ukulele tuning may seem difficult at first, but find the method that works best for you and keep practicing! Try practicing with these 10 easy ukulele songs. Have you learned any cool tricks that help you tune your ukulele? Share them with us in the comments below!   Post Author:  Willy M. Willy M. teaches guitar, ukulele, and mandolin lessons in Winston Salem, NC. Hes the author of the Dead Mans Tuning series of mandolin songbooks, and is a former member of the American Federation of Musicians. Willy has been teaching for 20 years, and his students have ranged in age from young children to folks in their 80s.  Learn more about Willy here! Interested in Private Lessons? Search thousands of teachers for local and live, online lessons. Sign up for convenient, affordable private lessons today! Search for Your Teacher