Renewing Your Relationship With Food If you have found yourself battling food for most of your life, you are not alone! Our society has been drilling thoughts into our minds that we should eat only “good” foods and banish the “bad” ones. This black-and-white way of thinking actually works against you in the end. When we… Continue reading Renewing Your Relationship With Food
Category: Habits
Are You Really Hungry? Emotional vs Physical Hunger
Differentiating Between Emotional & Physical Hunger Determining the difference between emotional and physical hunger can be tricky. Sometimes these forms of hunger can feel identical, but there are several ways to identify whether the hunger you are feeling is based on emotions or truly physical. Being able to recognize whether your hunger is solely based on… Continue reading Are You Really Hungry? Emotional vs Physical Hunger
Food Journaling For Healthy Eating Habits
Introduction To Food Journaling How can we achieve healthy weight loss if we are unaware of what we are putting into our bodies and how it makes us feel? A great tool for weight loss or weight maintenance is the practice of food journaling with mindful eating. If you log down what you are eating, along… Continue reading Food Journaling For Healthy Eating Habits
Stop Mindless Eating To Lose Weight
What is Mindless Eating? Have you ever been to the movies and ordered a bag of popcorn? You are sitting in the theater, fixated on the screen, and all of a sudden, you feel your fingers at the bottom of the bag. You consumed all of the popcorn and didn’t even get to savor the… Continue reading Stop Mindless Eating To Lose Weight
Use Hunger/Fullness Scale To Prevent Overeating
Use Hunger/Fullness Scale To Prevent Overeating Honoring hunger and fullness is an integral part of maintaining a healthy weight. From a young age, we are taught to “clean our plates!” regardless of how physically full we may have felt. These societal customs have made us tune out our true inner cues, leading to overeating and weight… Continue reading Use Hunger/Fullness Scale To Prevent Overeating
Lose Weight for Good with Mindful Eating!
Lose Weight for Good with Mindful Eating! Have you found yourself yoyo dieting for years? Are you fed up with unrealistic diets? Have you lost weight on a complete deprivation diet, but found yourself gaining all that weight back – but, this time, twice as fast? Well – how does it sound to be able… Continue reading Lose Weight for Good with Mindful Eating!
Are these 10 step tracking mistakes derailing your walking routine?
Don’t let these 10 common step tracking mistakes keep you from getting the most health benefits from your walking routine. Become an advanced walker by not trying to make up for missed steps and 9 other step tracking mistakes that even experienced step trackers can make.
Why step tracking is absolutely critical to maximize benefits of walking
To get the most out of a fitness walking routine, it’s critical that you track your steps and review your progress over time. ou’ll be more motivated to walk, and you’ll be able to break past plateaus by identifying what’s going wrong and how to fix it.
Fitness motivation and how to motivate yourself to walk
Staying motivated to walk every day is the key to getting healthy and losing weight walking. Here are 5 ways to keep motivated to walk, from discovering your “why” for walking to understanding health is more than your step number.
Are you being too focused on your daily step number?
While counting your daily steps is key to staying motivated and active, a narrow focus on your step number can actually sabotage your daily walking routine. Your step number is a means to an end – it helps you quantify the health benefits you’re earning and the calories you’re burning