The other day I was at the grocery store; I saw a quite thin girl intensely reading a nutrition label on the back of a product. She held it close to her face, scoured the label up and down, made a “yikes” face, and put it back on the shelf. What was she reading? ItContinue reading “Is Your Healthy Diet Obsession Really Hurting You?”
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5 Wrongly Categorized Foods and How to Swap Them
“This is my lunch, isn’t it healthy?”, she says as she sips her coffee drink and chews a plastic looking nutrition bar at 2 in the afternoon. After a few seconds of grinding the high fiber and sugar alcohol bar through her teeth, she mutters out, “I’m just really working hard to lose thisContinue reading “5 Wrongly Categorized Foods and How to Swap Them”
Dinner Tonight? Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That!
“I do great with breakfast and lunch, but dinner’s are tough, especially when all this kids are home.” Heard it a million times… Admit it, you have said this and thought this before. This is such a common theme in my consults and just talking with clients in general. Dinners can be daunting. You haveContinue reading “Dinner Tonight? Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That!”
All Cholesterol is Not Created Equal: A Review (Summary) of Egg Consumption and Heart Health
This is something I have been waiting for for a long time. A review article, published by The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, looking at egg consumption and finally getting with the times on egg/cholesterol/heart disease research. Without further adieu, here are some of the main points, as highlighted by yours truly: All Cholesterol IsContinue reading “All Cholesterol is Not Created Equal: A Review (Summary) of Egg Consumption and Heart Health”
So You Want to Pretend You’re Irish on March 17th…
So it’s been a while since I have blogged, but I’m back in action. Todays post will serve you better next week, when you are sitting down to indulge in your St. Patty’s day feast. What is in this delightful, drunken, holiday meal you may ask? On a day where everyone claims to have some sortContinue reading “So You Want to Pretend You’re Irish on March 17th…”
Eat Your Veggies…Finally!
Eat more vegetables. It can be heard everywhere, and by every expert that has ever written in the pages of fitness and health magazines, spoken on different day time talk shows, and even spoke to you at your local exercise and health establishment. Sure, it sounds like it is a good idea andContinue reading “Eat Your Veggies…Finally!”
#1 Motivational Strategy
Flashback to Jan 1st… The following is my number one tip on staying motivated. It’s not some shock therapy, or deprivation punishment. It’s not a 12 step process to becoming a better person. It is however, the most motivational “person” you will ever meet. More motivational than me, Jillian Michaels, Trainer Bob, that other guy onContinue reading “#1 Motivational Strategy”
Take 15 in 15
Hopefully everyone is feeling great, revitalized, not hung over, and ready to kick off a healthy new year!…or not… As many of you may know, I am all about encouraging others to live happy, healthy, complete lives full-time, not part-time. I am also a huge fan of keeping things simple and not overwhelming others withContinue reading “Take 15 in 15”
Mike Uncensored: Don’t Get Healthy – LIVE Healthy
“I’m going to lose 30 pounds in a year” “I’m going to do this new boot camp for 3 months” “I’m signing up for this 10k and training for it” These are all great goals. They involve a specific target, training, and a time frame. However, they also leave one element out, or rather, includeContinue reading “Mike Uncensored: Don’t Get Healthy – LIVE Healthy”
Winter can be downright depressing!
Winter can be long in Wisconsin, depressingly long. Some of us embrace the cold more than others, but one aspect you cannot deny is that the long, bitterly cold, dark, winters, can get downright depressing. This condition is known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). SAD comes when we set the clocks back, the sunContinue reading “Winter can be downright depressing!”