Most Americans have a few pounds to lose but no one wants to live on carrot sticks and celery. Here are some foods that you might have thought were off limits for those trying to lose weight that can actually help you lose. Quinoa Anytime you choose a whole-grain product over one made from nutrient-stripped white flour, you [...]
“Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.” -Charles Simmons On my website I say, “Society has given us a wealth of knowledge on health, weight & fitness while obscuring the answers we are looking for.” Here is a sample of the misconceptions that make me craziest. Lie # 1 If [...]
A lady I know says you won’t get fat eating chocolate. She has a chocolate store and may have a bias, but I believe there is truth in that statement. I encourage my clients to eat chocolate, even those wanting to lose weight, because I believe it to be an aid in weight loss. Besides [...]
Consider Matilda who has lost weight and now desires to maintain a certain weight. She has determined that she needs x number of calories everyday to do that. That works but as time goes by she notices she is gaining weight so she reduces her calories. Again that works but more time goes by and [...]
When you first start making changes in your diet and drop those unhealthy foods you might be left wondering what to eat instead. I frequently have boot campers or clients ask me what I eat. I usually joke that like a wild animal I live on nuts and berries. I eat a lot of those [...]
I love to wear high heels. Spiky, strappy, sexy 3-4 inchers. My good friend Dr. Randy Lowe, an excellent podiatrist, tells me “just keep wearing them and I will fix your feet later”. I am actually pretty careful about how my shoes fit, how long I wear them and I have a lot of muscle [...]
Eating is the way to lose weight. We are designed to eat! It seems counter intuitive in our dieting society but eating is not what makes people fat and dieting is NOT the way to lose weight. The popularity of diets is a major contributor to the obesity epidemic. With each round of dieting muscle is lost [...]
Unless you have had your head buried in a Big Gulp you probably already know that there are a litany of reasons why soda is bad for you. It’s nothing but sugar water. It’s devoid of any nutritional value. It leads to obesity and diabetes. Here are things you might not know. Drinking non-diet soda [...]
My friend has a glass cookie jar with a loose fitting lid and a few left over sugar cookies. These cookies are 13 years old and look exactly the way they did the day they were bought. Not even mold or insects wants them. If you put a carrot, or egg or chicken breast in [...]
“Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.” – Bruce Barton 1. DO NOT DIET! Finding and maintaining a healthy weight is not about eating less, it’s about eating more—more nutrition-dense food, to crowd out the empty calories and keep you full all [...]
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