Healthy Recipes for your Summer BBQ
It is finally the time of year to go to a BBQ! Don’t let your diet prevent you from going or having one of your own. You can make a BBQ healthy with options that won’t leave you feeling bad about what you ate the next day. Be creative with your BBQ recipes!
Tips for Getting Your Spring Body Ready
This is the perfect time of year to think about springing forward, and we mean more than just daylight savings time. You can begin to work on jump-starting your body into the spring and summer body you’ve always wanted. Understandably, you might not know where to start, so here are some tips and tricks to get started on that spring body.
THANKSGIVING WITHOUT BREAKING YOUR DIET
Does your diet have you dreading the holidays?
What to Look for When Shopping for Snacks for Weight Loss
Are you trying to find healthy snacks for weight loss? Nutrition labels can seem scary, but if you know what to look for, your snack-hunt time will be cut in half.
Great Snacks for Weight Loss
For many people trying hard to stick to a diet or lifestyle change, one of the hardest parts is eating well when hungry. It’s these moments when we’re hungry, irritated, and vulnerable that most often knock us off our diet. It’s moments like these when we find ourselves craving a snack to hold us over, to get us through the day, to quiet the stomach grumblings. I know the feeling.
Don’t Give Up On that Diet!
We say it all the time – we want to lose weight! We start diets, trying every fad we come across on the internet, willing to try anything. The pounds start to fall off and we feel pretty good and then, boom, a bad weekend happens where we go to a few parties, out to eat with friends, or maybe we just get tired and order a pizza. And then, before you know it, you’re gaining back all the weight you worked so hard to lose. Sticking to your diet can seem nearly impossible at times but you can do it. Here’s a few tips for staying with it to drop those pounds quicker.
Fruits and Veggies: What’s Enough?
Most of us, at some point during school, learned about the food pyramid in a health or science class. We were taught that breads, pasta, and cereal were the base of the pyramid, and should make up around 40% of our diets. The next level of the pyramid was fruits and vegetables at around 35% of our diet, but is this still relevant today? How many fruits and veggies should you really be incorporating into your diet?
Exercise + Diet: You Can't Lose Weight Without Both
You’ve probably heard the saying, “You can’t out-exercise a bad diet,” and that’s certainly true. But, does that mean we can go without exercise entirely when trying to lose body fat? Is it more effective just to focus on consuming fewer calories from food?
Top 5 Lifestyle Changes for Weight Loss + Practical Application Pro Tips
How many fad diets can you name? Almost all of us can name, at least, a handful off the top of our heads--the Atkins Diet, the Ketogenic Diet, Veganism or even Raw Veganism for a start. Every fad diet has its own set of pros and cons, but these often extreme guidelines can be ultimately unsustainable if you don't decide on and implement your own personal strategy toward accomplishing your healthy benchmarks. If you choose to follow a diet plan, you should expect to follow one that will outline exactly what you should and should not eat.
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