Are you looking for strategies to survive this holiday season in a healthy way without gaining weight? Rachel Berman, RD, CSR, CD/N, the Director of Nutrition for CalorieCount.com, has identified some of the unhealthiest holiday foods and has prepared the following list of suggestions for healthy and delicious swaps for holiday beverages, appetizers, desserts, side [...]
Posted on November 23, 2011 in Christmas,Dieting and Weight Loss Tips,Thanksgiving and tagged as healthy snacking, party food
Part of the reason I gained instead of lost or maintained my weight last year was due in part to my heavy travel schedule. (The other was probably due to my food sensitivities and not exercising enough.) Well, this year already looks like it’s going to be just as busy. This week I’m in Los [...]
Posted on January 17, 2011 in Dieting and Weight Loss Tips,Travel
Today’s guest post is from Daniel Depp, the author of The 30 Day Diet system: a personalized online weight loss program designed to help you lose weight in 30 days or less, change your habits and keep the weight off permanently. He’s a former professional athlete and the successful author of numerous weight loss articles, [...]
Posted on December 24, 2010 in Dieting and Weight Loss Tips,Featured and tagged as guest posts
I came across some wonderful weight loss and dieting tips from Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D., author of Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals. Since it’s a challenging time of year to keep to your usual routines of eating healthfully and exercising, Heidi’s tips will get you into the right mindset for sticking to your weight [...]
Posted on December 20, 2010 in Dieting and Weight Loss Tips,Health
There’s nothing more challenging for someone trying to eat healthy and lose weight than holiday cookie exchanges. If it’s too hard to avoid cookies this time of year, plan your indulgence! Decide how many cookies you’re going to allow yourself to eat. Maybe you have them on the day you use up all your extra [...]
Posted on December 10, 2010 in Baking,Dieting and Weight Loss Tips,Recipes,Weight Watchers and tagged as healthy recipes, healthy snacking
If you’re interested in learning how high ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) value foods like cherries can help keep your heart healthy, go to the Cherry Marketing Institute’s website at 1 p.m. EST, Wednesday, February 17th, for a live heart-healthy cooking class by Keri Glassman, MS, RD, CDN, dietitian and author of the book, The [...]
Posted on February 15, 2010 in Books,Contests and Giveaways,Dieting and Weight Loss Tips
I’ve enjoyed dipping into The Eat-Clean Diet Recharged: Lasting Fat Loss That's Better than Ever over the past couple of weeks. Tosca’s philosophy is that we need to eat the way nature intended – lean protein, complex carbs, and healthy fats – no processed foods and lots of water. She believes that when you Eat [...]
Posted on February 5, 2010 in Books,Cookbooks,Dieting and Weight Loss Tips
Now that we have smart phones at our disposal, there’s not excuse that you left your calorie counter or Weight Watchers POINTS booklet at home. With these mobile apps for iPhones and Blackberries, you now have the tools to eat healthier when you’re away from home, stay on your diet plan, and even exercise. Healthy [...]
Posted on January 27, 2010 in Dieting and Weight Loss Tips,Products and Equipment
As part of my Mayo Clinic Diet book and journal giveaway, I’m offering another excerpt from the book on learning how to identify potential roadblocks and develop strategies to help you with your weight-loss program. The giveaway ends TONIGHT! Go here to enter. Behavior obstacle – I’m a late-night snacker. Avoid eating late at night [...]
Posted on January 25, 2010 in Books,Contests and Giveaways,Dieting and Weight Loss Tips and tagged as Mayo Clinic
As part of my Mayo Clinic Diet book and journal giveaway, I’m offering another excerpt from the book: Learning to identify potential roadblocks and confront personal temptations is an important part of being successful in losing weight. If you find a strategy that helps you, include it with your weight-loss program. Behaviors obstacle – I [...]
Posted on January 21, 2010 in Books,Contests and Giveaways,Dieting and Weight Loss Tips and tagged as Mayo Clinic
The Mayo Clinic Diet: Eat Well, Enjoy Life, Lose Weight by the weight-loss experts at the Mayo Clinic and Donald Hensrud, M.D., M.P.H. is a no nonsense approach to healthy eating and weight loss. It’s the only diet developed at the Mayo Clinic and uses a common sense approach to losing weight and keeping it [...]
Posted on January 18, 2010 in Books,Contests and Giveaways,Dieting and Weight Loss Tips and tagged as Mayo Clinic
One of my readers, sent in a question I thought I’d share with you. Maggie T. is a 33-year-old nursing student with a 14-year-old who is very active in sports, a six-year-old who goes with the flow, and a husband with Type I Diabetes who works up to 65 hours some weeks. She’s entering her [...]
Posted on January 11, 2010 in Dieting and Weight Loss Tips
Last year I wrote two posts on keeping yourself gaining weight on Halloween: 5 Things Dieters Can Do with Halloween Candy (Beside Eating It) and 5 ways to trick, treat and have a healthy Halloween. As a mom, I don’t mind giving the kids a little candy as a treat, but want to keep them [...]
Posted on October 22, 2009 in Dieting and Weight Loss Tips,Health and tagged as healthy snacking
I cleaned out my cupboards this weekend as part of my Pantry Makeover Challenge.* As I was sorting through the food and deciding what I’d keep, donate to the food bank, or throw out, I started reading labels. I was shocked at some of the stuff I bought just a few months ago. The graham [...]
Posted on September 14, 2009 in Contests and Giveaways,Dieting and Weight Loss Tips
