How's your holiday eating? Are you staying on track and enjoying the occasional splurge or is it more like a free-for-all? While it's true that the holidays are just once a year, they're a big part of the year. Plus it can be harder to lose any weight gained, especially if your exercise decreases because of ...Read More...
Weight gain is a real concern during holidays. I'll let you in on a little secret: eating until you burst on a holiday is not the problem. Eating anything we want every day is. What we tend to do when faced with a string of food-related holidays is let our everyday eating get off-track. We succumb to the ...Read More...
Navigating The Office Temptations If you haven't noticed them already, you will soon. I'm talking about tempting treats brought in by well-meaning coworkers and customers. Maybe it's homemade cookies or bowls of colorfully-wrapped chocolates. Whatever they are, you can be sure they're high in calories and low in nutrition (have you ever noticed that no one ...Read More...
Is your calendar filled with parties this time of year? Mine is, and that can be stressful from an eating point of view. I'm not just concerned about gaining weight, I also don't feel great when I eat cocktail party food several nights in a row. And yet I still want to enjoy myself. Whether ...Read More...
It's almost Thanksgiving - probably the biggest meal of the year. How are you feeling? Excited? Nervous? Hoping that your pants fit the next day? I'll let you in on a little secret: no one day's meals will make or break your weight management efforts. Not even Thanksgiving. Sure, the scale will be up the next ...Read More...
It's mid-November and we're starting the downward slide into holiday eating. This time of year is really like an all-you-can-eat buffet. We kick off with the candy of Halloween, crash into the eating frenzy that is Thanksgiving, run full-tilt through Chanukah and Christmas (Latkes! Seven fishes! Candy canes! Oh my!) Then we cap it off ...Read More...
Parades, fireworks and cook-outs. Must be the 4th of July! It’s the perfect day to get together with friends and family for a cook-out. Cook-outs aren't typically the healthiest meals in the world, but they are fun. Here are some thoughts about how to make your next cook-out a little bit better for you: • Rethink ...Read More...
We still have a few big holidays to go: Hannukah, Christmas and New Year's Eve. How's your holiday eating? Are you staying on track and enjoying the occasional splurge or is it more like a free-for-all? While it's true that the holidays are just once a year, they're a big part of the year. Plus ...Read More...
