Here Are 7 Strategies To Help You Eat Healthy While Others Don’t Your family has asked you to go out to a restaurant for dinner. Your first thoughts are, “Oh no! I can’t go out to eat! There are so many temptations, and I just don’t think I can stick to the diet I just… [Read More]
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Lose Weight Eating The Wrong Foods
Have you heard of Mark Haub? He was a professor at Kansas State University. Back in 2010, he wanted to prove that you can lose weight eating the wrong foods, as long as your calories-in are lower than your calories-out. Every 3 hours, he ate Twinkies, Oreo cookies, and Doritos – and in 10 weeks,… [Read More]
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Best Way to Meal Prep
The best way to meal prep is to bulk cook a.k.a. Power Cooking! If you make your food in advance so it’s easy to grab and go. Planning is key to meal prep! Power Cooking is simply making a bunch of meals in one shot. Don’t get nervous! I want this to be simple for you…. [Read More]
Can You Eat After 6PM And Still Lose Weight?
Can you eat after 6PM and still lose weight? So this is another fitness myth that drives me crazy! It doesn’t matter what time you eat as long as you eat less calories than you’re burning. If you overeat you will gain scale weight… bottom line. I have eaten many times right before I’ve gone… [Read More]
What To Do With Leftover Halloween Candy
You have just finished trick or treating with the kids… or maybe you are like my house and have a bowl of candy but get no trick or treaters…Don’t worry I am not offended with the absence of costumed kids. We live in the country and most people go “into town” where there are sidewalks… [Read More]
Beware of the Creepers!
Beware of the Creepers…. No not the Halloween spooks! The food creepers! Have you ever noticed you’ll be very focused and on course with your fitness goals…seeing progress and then it starts….. “Well, I’ll just add a teaspoon of sugar to my coffee”…..”what’s an extra slice of cheese”….”Hmmm a few cookies won’t hurt”….extra foods start… [Read More]
How Can You Prevent Overeating at a Restaurant?
How Can You Prevent Overeating at a Restaurant? These are just a few of the tips that I use and I also pass along to my clients to prevent overeating at restaurants. Tip # 1 to Prevent Overeating at a Restaurant: Order what you want. Did you think a personal trainer would say that to… [Read More]
Do Cheat Days Work??
Do Cheat Days Work? What constitutes as a cheat day? Depending on who you ask, you may get different answers. Version #1 Cheat Day A cheat day is where you are eating until you feel like you’re going to vomit or like you’re eating on Thanksgiving Day. Stuffing yourself so much that you physically… [Read More]