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Stop the Excuses: Eat Breakfast
Tweet Share on Facebook August 2, 2012 CommentPicture this: You get up in the morning and need to drive your car to work. But your gas tank is empty, so unfortunately you can't. Now picture yourself getting up and skipping breakfast. How far to you think you will get in your day? I love this analogy because obviously you can't run a car on empty, but most people don't understand that it's the same for our bodies.
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Brown Bag: Sneak Peek at a Dietitian's Lunch
Tweet Share on Facebook August 2, 2012 CommentPacking a healthy lunch each day can be time-consuming and well, a drag. Between balancing work, having a social life, and spending time with family, I understand how, even with the best of intentions, eating healthfully can be put on the back burner. As a dietitian, people are always asking me what I eat in general—and specifically, for lunch. In this column, you'll get a peek at what myself and members of my nutrition practice, Nutritious Life, are brown-bagging. Here, you'll learn the foods we like to pack up and perhaps pick up some healthful tips.
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Thinner on Monday: Keep Off Weekend Weight
Tweet Share on Facebook August 1, 2012 CommentYou're only human if, halfway through a workweek, you've already begun a countdown to the weekend. What's not to love? There's extra time to spend with the kids, dining out with friends, and sleeping in. But if you're not careful with your choices, the weekend can really wreak havoc on a waistline. Between Friday happy hours and Sunday brunches, the weekend is jam-packed with opportunities to eat tempting food. Some people use it as the perfect excuse to let their diet slip away. You've worked hard all week to keep your weight in check. From Friday night to Monday morning, keep these 10 tips in mind so you don't end up with more weight than when you started!
1. Don't be a weekend warrior. Putting pressure on yourself to lose weight while trying to enjoy your downtime can potentially stress you out and lead to emotional eating. Take a more realistic approach, and aim to maintain your weight instead of losing it. If you wake up on Monday at the same weight you were when you left the office on Friday, consider yourself a success!
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With Gadgets Like These, Who Needs Muscles?
Tweet Share on Facebook August 1, 2012 CommentThe time-honored expression for weighing and measuring ourselves against the superficial indications of status among our neighbors and peers is "keeping up with the Joneses." In its most literal sense, the reference means gauging our own worth by comparing what we have to what our neighbors have.
This was always misguided and problematic. Intrinsically, the comparison is based on what is most obvious—things—and so is willfully materialistic. It is about what we see and think we know about our neighbors, rather than what is really going on.
