I was at a Halloween party this past weekend and got to talking with a woman who was doing the P90X diet. As much as I’ve been searching online for information about the diet specifics of the program, I can’t find them. What she told me, though, is that the program has her consuming about [...]
The authors of Intuitive Eating suggest ten principles. When I loan my clients a copy of this book, I tell them to take what resonates with them and leave the rest. You may practice many of these core principles already while others may be novel and new. So, take what you want and leave the [...]
I love the book Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole, MS, RD and Elyse Resch, MS, RD, FADA. It’s a book that seems to resonate with so many people. In this series of posts I will discuss some of the main points of the book, but encourage you to purchase your own copy if you see [...]
1. Don’t drink your calories. Fruit juice, sweetened coffee drinks (think caramel macchiato), sports drinks and alcohol all have lots of calories that don’t really satisfy us. Instead of fruit juice, opt for a piece of fruit. Use a sugar free sweetener (or sugar free flavored syrup) in your coffee. Skip the sports drinks all [...]
In all sorts of areas, the term “Best Practices” is used to describe what things have been shown to work best in any given situation. There are best practices for teaching, for health care, for food service, for businesses. These are basically ways of doing things that have consistently shown success. So what are the [...]
I think at this point we’ve pretty clearly established that weight loss and weight gain is a simple equation of calories in, calories out, right? Now it’s time to try to start figuring out WHY we as individuals tend to overeat or “undermove” and come up with some strategies that work with our individual personalities/issues/problems. [...]
We’ve all got to start somewhere, and I thought it would be appropriate if my first post were about motivation. I’ve been thinking about what to write about, thinking I don’t really have time right now and that unless it’s a literary masterpiece it’s not worth doing. Basically I’ve fallen into all of the no-motivation [...]