Tag: weight loss
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Weight Loss Tip: Recognize-Feel-Resist
Weight Loss Tip: Recognize-Feel-Resist Many times, we eat out of boredom, frustration, self-pity, irritation, or stress. Eating can feel like a temporary escape from these things. It may take your mind off of whatever you are feeling at the moment. We think that the food will mask the emotion we are feeling. Our brains tell…
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4 Powerful and Simple Weight Loss Steps
4 Powerful and Simple Weight Loss Steps Diets and meal plans take the thinking out of the game. You blindly follow a way of eating and rely on the diet to provide you with the exact nutrition plan for your complex body. When you rely on something external for success, like a diet or meal…
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Fiber — Your Secret Weapon
We’ve all seen Jamie Lee Curtis’s Activia commercials promoting how fiber will keep you “regular.” But fiber has more benefits than that! Fiber is a type of carbohydrate but is unique in its composition because our bodies cannot digest it. This means that it moves through our body without being broken down into sugar the…
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One Simple Food Tip For The Holidays
With Thanksgiving last week and Christmas in under a month a lot of us are thinking about how to maintain our healthy habits while enjoying all of our favorite holiday foods. I want to share one simple tip with you that will help you minimize holiday weight gain. Do you love the holiday season? Spending…
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Food is not the enemy…
It is easy to look at food as the enemy when you are trying to lose weight. All of the choices regarding your diet and nutrition can be overwhelming. Counting calories and depriving yourself of certain treats can feel defeating. But what if you realized that there is an entirely different way of looking at…
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Eating Less and Working Out More
Eating less and working out more is not the answer to sustained weight loss. It is true that you need to create a calorie deficit to lose weight. It is also true that eating less and exercising more are two ways to create that calorie deficit. But trying to do both simultaneously is REALLY hard…
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Hidden Weight Gain — The Danger of Liquid Sugars
Hidden weight gain is a major danger of liquid sugars – or sugar found in drinks and beverages. Sugar is already highly palatable and easy to overconsume. But when it’s in a liquid form, it’s extremely easy to mindlessly sip through your beverage without realizing what you are doing. When added to drinks such as…
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Why We Suck At Counting Calories
You know it’s true, we suck at counting calories. And we are told over and over again that in order to lose weight, we need to expend MORE energy than we take in. i.e. Calories In, Calories Out. Which means we need to consume less calories than we expend. And in order to know if…
