Posts in Mindful Eating
BREAK ON THROUGH

It is inevitable. Your magic number might be 15 or 20 or 37. Others reach 42 or even 55 before it happens. Then, despite the fact you can rattle off eight different ways to cook chicken breasts and you feel naked without your heart rate monitor, you can’t lose another pound. Desperate to carve off the next 10 pounds, you eat less or you throw your hands up and eat more while cursing your mom’s genetics and your thighs. What can you do to break on through your weight loss wall?

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CAN THE SODA

Sometimes one simple change in your diet can be the difference between reaching your goals for a healthy life and frustration. No matter how hard you work out, if you eat and drink sugar-laden and high-fat foods, you will be fatter than you want to be. Using a simple, calories in versus calories out equation, you must burn more calories than you ingest in order to lose weight. However, while eating healthier food is probably high on your priority list, what about what you drink? In particular, are you aware of the effect of soda on your health?

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BE HONEST

You’ve worked out hard this week. Two boot camps - including one in which you think you saw God - and three cardio sessions on your own have left you feeling proud of yourself. When Saturday comes you decide to celebrate because you deserve it after working out so hard all week…by Monday morning, your face is puffy and you are dreading your workout because, be honest, you ate too much.

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