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Getting Bikini-Season Ready Part 3: Maintenance
In the last part of the three-part series about getting your body bikini-season ready, we'll focus on perhaps the most important and often the most difficult ...
Getting Bikini-Season Ready Part 1: Your Diet
With summer just around the corner, you may be wondering what last-minute steps you can take to get your body bikini-ready. While we want to strive ...
Eating Light at Mexican Restaurants
Mexican food is spicy and flavorful, but it can be a diet downfall if you're not careful about what you order. Follow these tips to avoid ...
Keys to Choosing an Energy Bar
Energy bars have become rather popular. Perfect for stashing in a bag or your car, bars travel well and come in handy for those times when ...
Smart Substitutions: On-the-Go Snacks
Do you have a busy lifestyle that has you dashing here and there with little time for a healthy, leisurely lunch? Whether it's the challenge of ...
Smart Substitutions: 5 'Staples' to Trade Out of Your Pantry
Any stop to the grocery store is made quicker and easier when you just have a few 'staples' to pick up. There are many things we ...
Five Eating Habits You Should Break
Some of your daily habits may be hindering your health or weight loss goals. Little things you do throughout the day can either propel you forward ...
The 411 on Sushi
What exactly is sushi? What about sashimi? Sushi is often touted as being healthy, but not all options at your favorite fish establishment are created equal, ...
Smart Substitutions When Dining Out
Many foods offered at restaurants are not prepared in the same healthful way that you would make them at home. Heavy use of sugar, oil, butter, ...
Five Common Foods That Are Ruining Your Waistline
When I speak to clients, I frequently hear the words: "I thought that was good for you!" There are many foods that seem to be "healthy" ...
Healthy Living 101: Classifying Foods
Foods can be classified by the way they affect the body and/or by their food group. It is important to understand both in order to ...
Proteins, Fats, and Carbs: How to Balance Your Diet
Dieting can be confusing. High-protein diets claim to help you lose weight quickly, but can lead to high cholesterol and increase your risk for heart disease. ...
Healthy Living 101: How to Read a Nutrition Label
Too often, purchasing food can be confusing, especially with all of the persuasive marketing tactics used by food companies. Learning how to read, understand, and compare ...
Calorie Saving Substitutions
If you eat more calories than your body needs, your body will inevitable store them as excess weight. The trick is to reduce your calorie intake ...
Real FitDay Users Share: What Was Your "A-Ha" Moment?
What sparked you to embark on your fitness journey? For many of us, it was one moment or incident - the "a-ha" moment - that got ...
Meal Planning Made Simple
The key to long-term weight management and healthy eating is consuming a balanced diet. Restrictive eating and fad diets may provide temporary weight loss, but they ...
The FitDay Guide to Healthier Holiday Baking
The holiday season always seems to throw us all into a baking frenzy. We whip up dozens of cookies, cupcakes, pies, candies, and other treats that ...
4 Ways to Eat Healthy During the Holiday Season
The holidays are a time for us to gather with family and friends to celebrate. For better or worse, with celebration comes food. If you have ...
Stress Eating: What You Can Do to Keep it at Bay
Stress, boredom, or any array of emotions can lead to cravings for food. If these cravings take control too often, you might find yourself eating large ...
Healthy Holiday Eating: A Comparison of Two Meal Plans
During holiday gatherings, you may be confronted with array of food and drink options that you rarely see during the rest of the year. Though overindulging ...
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Affordable Alternatives to Expensive Supplements
Multi-vitamins, minerals and supplements can be very expensive and recently there is evidence that some supplements do not even contain the ingredients listed! So what can ... Read More »
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How to Know If You're Getting Enough Protein on a Plant-Based Diet
The moment you tell anyone you’re a vegan—or a vegetarian, for that matter—the question arises. Are you getting enough protein?! ... Read More »
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Low vs. High Carbohydrate Diets: Which is Better?
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans describe a healthy diet as one that emphasizes all food groups: fruits, vegetables, protein, whole grains and low-fat milk products. However, ... Read More »
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Practicing a Carb-Free Diet: 5 Healthy Alternatives to Carbohydrates
Since carbohydrates are your body's main source of energy, you should never avoid carbs entirely. However, cutting back on carbs by choosing healthy carb-free foods helps ... Read More »
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What Are Carbohydrates? An Easy To Understand Definition
Your diet is made up of three macronutrients: carbohydrates, protein and fat. Carbohydrates are present in varying amounts in most of the foods you eat including ... Read More »
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Simple vs. Complex Carbohydrates
As a dietitian, I'm often asked to explain the difference between simple and complex carbohydrates. While most people have heard that complex carbohydrates are better for ... Read More »
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Are Carb-Free Diets a Healthy Weight-Loss Option?
Whether or not a carb-free diet is healthy depends on how you define and practice a "carb-free diet." If you eliminated all carbs from your diet, ... Read More »
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The 7 Best Sources of Protein
Most people over the age of 18 need 10 to 35 percent of their daily calories from protein. When you consume protein, your body breaks it down into amino ... Read More »
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Maintaining Blood Sugar: Foods To Quickly Lower Levels
You've probably heard before that it's important to maintain blood sugar levels. But you may not understand why or how.It All Starts With DigestionThe food ... Read More »
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What Are Complex Carbohydrates?
If you've heard that you should be eating complex carbohydrates rather than simple carbs, you may wonder what exactly complex carbohydrates are and what their benefits ... Read More »
