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How to Get a Handle on the Holiday Food Blitz

Now that Thanksgiving is over,  the holiday season is truly in full swing. Preventing weight gain over the holiday season is challenging when there’s a food blitz everywhere. Here’s a few tips to help you get a handle on the holiday food and prevent weight gain: Use an online tracker or wearable device:  Keep track of food […]

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Keep Your Exercise Plan Going Strong

Whether you need to lose weight or manage a condition such as pre-diabetes, having a solid exercise plan is essential. Getting and staying motivated to exercise is a real challenge many people face. If you have this challenge, there are a few simple things that you can do to keep the momentum going. Think about […]

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Don’t Diet… Get Healthy Step By Step

We go through this every year.  We start off with New Year’s resolutions.  We’re all committed and energized.  We jump in with both feet and try to overhaul our life overnight.  The following week we realize we bit off more than we can chew and we start cutting back on resolutions.  We might go to […]

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Practical Tips For Reducing The Sugar In Your Diet!

Our modern, hectic and stressful lives make it very difficult to eat a balanced diet. You know that too much sugar is not good for you but you don’t know how to banish it from your life.  Sugar is added to just about all processed foods and you rely on them too much to feed […]

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How To Cut Fat In Recipes

Everyone has a few recipes that they love but never make because of the fat content.  You can reduce fat by using less butter or oil than what the recipes calls for.  It is possible to make some common sense reductions or substitutions to salvage your favorite recipes so you can enjoy them without the […]

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Ten Easy Ways To Cut Calories

If you are thinking of cutting back on calories to lose a little weight or to get in fighting shape for your next 5K run then we have some simple tips for you. It doesn’t take much effort to eat healthier if you make some gradual and simple changes like these. Start by using smaller […]

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Hydration is Important Year-Round

The importance of adequate hydration is really emphasized during the summer months because of the noticeable, increased sweating we experience.  But what about the winter months?  It would seem that because we don’t seem to sweat as much in the colder weather, our fluid requirements would be less, right?  Well, it turns out that our […]

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What are the Symptoms of Pre-diabetes?

The short answer is that you may have a some symptoms or absolutely none at all! When I speak with people who have been diagnosed with pre-diabetes they often describe symptoms that are vague and don’t point specifically to anything in particular. So often the person with pre-diabetes goes to their doctor for a routine […]

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Thinking About Another Diet? Think Again

For those of you have made multiple attempts at weight loss, following the latest diet craze is hard to resist .  After all, even though other diets have failed, you may think the latest new diet might finally be “the one that works.” Over the years I have met so people looking for the elusive […]

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Tricks for Dealing with Halloween Treats

Unofficially, I regard Halloween as the start of the holiday eating season.  Many of clients tell me this is when their struggle with holiday food starts, and it remains a struggle right on through the end of the year. If you are the type of person who eats candy because “it’s there”  resist the urge […]

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