It’s important that children feel empowered in this healthy eating journey, rather than limited.
No matter your fitness goals – whether it’s to lose weight, maintain weight, put purer foods in your body, or keep up with exercise routines – we could all use a little help and a little encouragement.
Some hotels include a continental breakfast that’s basically just sugary pastries, yogurt, and granola bars or you can pay a little extra to access the omelet bar, bacon, and more substantial treats. Shell out the extra bucks for it. That protein from the omelet bar will keep you from buying unhealthy snacks two hours later.
Agua fresca is the new hot drink of the summer. Well, literally cold but figuratively hot. It’s low in sugar while remaining wonderfully tasty and refreshing. Try spinach and pineapple agua fresca for something pretty and tropical.
I just talk more about my food choices. Even if I’m talking to myself, out loud, I’m putting healthy eating thoughts out into the atmosphere. They’re seeping into his subconscious. If I make popcorn I say out loud, “I should put cayenne pepper on instead of butter. Fewer calories.”
Actually, here’s a harsh reality: your weight to height ratio affects your health insurance premium. Yup. That’s a hard pill to swallow. Better swallow a salad instead.
Sometimes, at particularly heavy restaurants like barbecue joints, they just order sides. A side of baked beans, collard greens, and cornbread—for example—can be a whole meal in itself.
No matter where you’re from, what your religion is or what sort of culture you grew up in, you’ve probably always experienced eating as a social activity. At work, everyone gets their lunch break around the same time, encouraging communal eating in the break room. Major holidays revolve around meals, with an entire phone tree […]
If you are someone who has struggled your entire life with poor digestion symptoms, ranging from gas, constipation, and diarrhea to nausea that leaves you without an appetite and severe bloat, then you’d be doing yourself a disservice by not researching the low FODMAP diet. FODMAP is an acronym that stands for several compounds found […]
Food journals aren’t just for people who are required by their doctors to lose weight.
If you want to emotionally eat, be sure you’re eating the right emotions!
You know that extreme diets and workout plans never pan out, but the habits of the naturally thin seem to.