It’s the eternal question of motherhood and weight loss. Weight loss is a full-time pursuit. Motherhood takes up more time than you have. Not to mention the stress, joy, and pain of it all. So how do busy moms lose weight? 5 Ways that Busy Moms Can Lose Weight Of course, your children come first before all else. But that doesn’t mean you need to accept that ‘baby weight’ and not do anything about it. In fact, by trying some read more…
Sure, you’d love to eat healthy meals. But eating healthily seems to be more expensive, right? Wrong. In fact, if you want to spend the least possible amount at the grocery store, you should buy only simple, healthy foods, like fruits and vegetables, and make your own meals. And you can create a healthy grocery list for weight loss that comes in at under $50.00 . Before You Make Your Grocery Shopping List If you’re not sure about what to include on on a healthy read more…
Even for those of us who want to eat a balanced diet, how to do so can be a challenge. Yes, you know that maybe you should eat more vegetables and less salty or sugary snacks. But just how should individuals plan their diet for healthy eating? What are Food Pyramids? In 1942, Canada introduced its first food pyramid in response to wartime food rationing. The overall goal was to improve the health of Canadians by outlining the right foods, read more…
We hesitate to put the words “easy” and “home workout routine” in the same sentence. So before we go any further, if you expect to reach your fitness goals and body weight targets without getting off the couch, then this post might not be for you. If, instead, you want to get more activity in your day, without buying a bunch of equipment or a gym membership, then read on. Why You Don’t Need Equipment to Workout Of course, exercise read more…
How’s it going between you and broccoli? Sometimes described as looking like a little tree, many people feel broccoli tastes like a tree too. If you’re in the ‘tastes terrible’ camp about broccoli, a healthy cream of broccoli high-protein soup may be the answer. Make Healthy Eating Delicious One reason why changing to a diet of healthier, more nutritious foods is that many people don’t like the taste of it. It’s why your parents had to threaten no desserts or TV when read more…
As the 2019 Holiday Season approaches, it’s not the hap-hap-happiest time of year for everyone. If weight management is a challenge for you, the holiday season can seem like sheer torture. Temptations are everywhere, including office parties, family gatherings and hanging with your friends. Get Strategic About Avoiding Holiday Weight Gain this Season First, nothing will make it easy to get through the holidays with your weight loss program intact. But by being more deliberate in your approach to holiday read more…
The old saying, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” has been around on one form or another since the mid-1800’s. That means apple’s were well known to be particularly healthy over 150 years ago. And we are still discovering new health benefits of apple’s today. So “an apple a day…” is not just good advice, it keeps getting better all the time. 7 Ways Apples Help Your Health and Weight Loss Here are just a few reasons, new read more…
The words ‘training’ and ‘weight loss’ in the same sentence makes a lot of us roll our eyes. Yes, the combination of a healthy, balanced diet and more physical activity is a good way to manage your weight. You can see this for yourself if you count how many times you’ve tried to permanently lose weight on a fad diet and failed. More and more people understand that crash dieting doesn’t work, and real, sustained weight loss comes from more read more…
There’s a reason that scientists look for signs of water on other planets to decide if life might exist there. Without water, life, at least as we know it, can’t happen. That makes water sort of important. But water doesn’t just keep us alive, it makes our lives so much better in many ways. None of this is news to our customers. We’ve told you about some of the benefits of water in previous blog posts. And drinking eight glasses of water a read more…
For anyone who really wants to learn about healthily losing weight, it can be a frustrating search. The first frustration is the sheer amount of information out there. The second is the fact that much of the advice is, at best, misguided. At worst, it could be bad for your health and actually lead to weight gain, not loss. That means your search is more about separating weight-loss myths from reality, versus simply finding solutions that work for you. How read more…
You’re great at losing weight. You’ve done it lots of times. Except, if you’re like most people, you’ve put the weight back on, and maybe more. In a way, losing weight isn’t the real problem. Keeping it off and maintaining your lower weight is the real gauge of weight loss success. From thinking it’s as simple as cutting calories, to mindless, emotional eating , we’ve told you about many of the reasons why you might not have been able to stay at read more…
After you read the title of this post you might wonder what we’re going on about. What does anyone think happens after you lose 50 pounds ?! You look great, feel great, shout ‘in your face!’ to the haters (if only in your dreams!) and generally feel better about yourself than you can ever remember feeling. So how’s that motivation working for you so far? All that ‘look fabulous, feel great’ weight loss motivation hasn’t done its job if you’re reading this post. But what read more…