Running is the best exercise for the brain. Want to be smarter, fitter & happier… start running. There is a lot of confusion about what type of fitness is the best use of your energy, from intervals to high intensity but research is now showing endurance running is the way to go. As I think back on my fitness and health journey, one of the most important things I did was to take up running. Now when I say running, I mean a run/walk that is somewhere in between that can work for … [Read more...]
Breaking the sugar habit
Breaking the sugar habit has everything to do with getting in touch with your feelings. I can’t emphasize enough how many people tell me that their real problem with food is about feelings and using food to fill a need it cannot fill. A big one is comfort. The usual food of choice for this need is sugar and starchy food which is also of course highly addictive. The two things go together. That is why the real goal is to learn how to unblock your feelings, identity your needs and find a way to … [Read more...]
Changes in dietary guidelines
Changes in dietary guidelines and the recommendations proposed are confusing, but here's some advice as to what you should eat. It’s also time to wake up and start taking charge of what you put in your body and what we are doing to the environment. What foods should you eat? Dietary Guidelines Dietary guidelines are updated every five years since 1980 by the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) put together jointly by Dept. of Health and Agriculture. Here are the basic … [Read more...]
The psychology of weight loss
There is a psychology to weight loss, eating and food. It's called your weight/health story. If you have an emotional relationship with food and eating you need to change your story. Take the Emotional Eating Assessment to find out more. Research shows the first step you need to successfully change, lose weight AND keep it off, is to identify and change your (weight) story. Stories are how patterns and behaviors are wired into the brain. We all know how to lose weight, go on a diet… … [Read more...]
Best food to eat for weight loss
The best food to eat for weight loss is really simple... just eat real food Why eating real food is so important: The goal is to eat food as close to its most natural state as possible. Food that is processed including fast or packaged food has conditioned our taste buds and brain to seek overly salty sweet foods that result in having more food thoughts and more hunger. Eating real food is naturally appetite suppressing. The downside to eating real food is that it … [Read more...]