Tag Archive: Weight Loss

Why You Should Be Eating Your Greens

Tweet “It’s not easy being green.”  -Kermit the Frog I love green vegetables! There is just something so fresh and tasty about those great green foods that grow this time of the year. Oh no! This is the point where I tell you that we should all be eating our fruits and veggies! Believe you…

Diets Don’t Work Long-Term

Tweet I’ve seen it all and done a few of them myself, but the studies are done, the proof is there- diets do not work long term. In the matter of 3 days, I received the same article published by a research lab at UCLA by 3 very different but very respectable medical or health…

Are You a Resolution Kind of Person?

Tweet How many of us, year after year, attempt the same old New Year’s resolutions with the same old results? It doesn’t have to happen that way any more!  We can actually take those resolutions, those “If I could just do it this year” lists and turn them into reality. The problem is that we…

Red & Green Leaf Salad

Tweet Red & Green Leaf Salad Recipe Yields: 4 servings Prep time: 15 minutes Ingredients: For the Salad: 2 cups red leaf lettuce 2 cups green leaf lettuce 1 carrot, shredded 2 Roma tomatoes, sliced 1/2 cup raw mushrooms, sliced For the Dressing: 1 clove finely chopped garlic 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 tablespoons balsamic…

Top 7 Steps To Eating Better, Today!

Tweet I just love to eat! Really, I do. I can’t say for sure when my love affair with food started but I’m sure it had something to do with family gatherings all throughout my childhood and into my adult life. What made it even better though is that I learned how to cook and…

Eat Well To Live Well

Tweet We all know how critical it is for each of us to eat. Why is it, then, that’s it’s so hard to figure out exactly what we should be eating? Why does it need to be so difficult? The most amazing thing about our current society is that we can now get just about…

Water, Water, Everywhere

Tweet We all know how important it is to drink water. But do you REALLY know why we need to be drinking more water than we already are? Some nutritionists insist that 80% of the country is walking around dehydrated.  We drink too much coffee, tea and sodas containing caffeine which prompts the body to…

Are You *Really* What you Eat?

Tweet I don’t remember the first time I heard someone use the phrase “You are what you eat.” It always seemed so cliche to me. It wasn’t until a few years ago that I started really listening and understanding those five words. I started to realize that the impact of what I put into my…

Your No Brainer Guide to Food

Tweet We are so lucky. We are so lucky to be living in a time when food is so readily available. No matter your financial standing, there is food to be had and a wide variety at that. We may not like what is currently available to us, but I’ve complied a list of No-Brainer…

The Secret To Weight Loss

Tweet The secret to weight loss isn’t so secret. I hate to be the one to break it to you. You already know what it is. You don’t think you do, but you really do. What is it? The secret to weight loss has been debated for YEARS. And they keep coming back to the…

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