Health & Wellness Tips For Weight Maintenance

Are you eating healthy but overeating? Or are you simply believing that you need to cut your portions down per meal?

One rule of thumb that I follow is to not eat until I’m full!

One way I can help myself accomplish this is to eat slower than I’m accustomed to. Our brain takes…

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As this day dawned upon me, I couldn’t help but remind myself of how just being outside when the weather is nice and warm and how any activity we do will burn calories at a higher rate.

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I just wanted to quickly blog about how I was able to switch to drinking skim milk, from drinking regular and low-fat milk most of my life.

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Drinks such as soda/pop and fruit juices (orange juice, apple juice, etc.) and other beverages are considered ‘empty calories’….calories that you can do without, and have little to no nutritional advantages. These drinks are loaded with sugars which directly add up the calories and carbs(carbohydrates) over time.

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I’ve discovered how valuable weight training has been for me in my continued journey of losing weight, and especially with keeping the pounds off in the long haul.  What weight training has done for me is to allow me to continue with my calorie counting and not having to be so stringent with my diet.  [...]

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Below, is a list of random and commonplace things you can do to increase your chances of burning more calories than you’re taking in(intake), without starving yourself…AND, without exercising or giving much effort.

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Okay people, take the title of this journal entry figuratively!  A wok isn’t going to serve as your fitness coach, persuading you to put down that cheeseburger and head to the gym.  For the record, if you’re gonna have a cheeseburger, make it yourself; buy the highest (lowest fat content) ground beef (ground turkey, preferred) [...]

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Contrary to popular belief, I’m an advocate of weighing yourself as much as ya want, within reason of course. It’s important, however, to know when and when not to weigh yourself. The best time is when you wait up before you put…..

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