As most of us have discovered, mistakes can be valuable if we learn from them. Here are a few mistakes a recent client made that may help you. Getting Back On Track vs. Cutting Calories What do you do after a ‘lapse’ in eating one day (or night)? The best thing is to go right back to your healthful eating program — but that’s not always what happens. Recently, I
Can’t Stick With Your Food Plan? Is This Why?
This brief post offers one possible reason you may have difficulty sticking with your food plan. Let’s start here: Do you have food cravings? And are the cravings specifically for sugary foods and other junk? Next: Do you give in to the cravings by eating some of the foods you crave, especially sugar? If the answer is yes, it’s possible that your way of handling the cravings is actually creating
Food: Do You Play the Blame Game?
Does your eating ever go off-track? Do you sometimes eat more than you “should” or foods that you “shouldn’t”? This post poses 3 questions on eating behaviors. Who (Whom!) Do You Blame When Your Eating Goes Off the Mark? I always blamed my mother. She pushed food on me relentlessly, whether I wanted it or not. When I didn’t want it, she told everyone I was a picky eater. But
ICI Podcast 369 – The Haywire Heart – How Too Much Exercise Can Kill You…
Can too much exercise be bad for you? Could the hours spend conditioning as an endurance athlete actually be damaging your heart? Sounds counter intuitive… until you read this new book from author Chris, Managing Editor of VeloNews – The Haywire Heart – How Too Much Exercise Can Kill You and what you can do to protect your heart. Beyond listening to our discussion below, you can get a
Why Is Weight Loss Never “One Thing”?
People often tell me stories about how they lost weight. The stories begin with, “All I did was…” and end with something like: become vegetarian (or vegan); eliminate gluten; “go raw”; or cut out sugar. A couple of these make sense, but others don’t. Let’s look at each one. Becoming Vegetarian or Vegan The two are different, but I’ll cover them together because my observations are the same in both
Are 3 Food Myths Keeping You Stuck?
Many myths about food and nutrition exist, but the 3 below keep coming up among prospective clients over and over. Let’s take a look. 1. Nutrition is only important for weight loss. Yes, weight loss is the main reason people modify their nutrition. And yes, tons of weight-loss information is available online – and much of it contradicts other info you’ll find. But good nutrition can help with many issues.
Your Health & Your Food: Are You Teachable?
Do you have a persistent health issue that hasn’t responded to your nutrition efforts? More and more people are using nutrition and fitness to help them overcome problems that used to send them to doctors and pharmacies. If you’ve been working on the problem for a while – weight loss, high glucose, headaches – you probably have tried many strategies. But others may exist. Don’t assume you’ve tried everything. Here
How Coffee Can Help You Control Pain
Obviously, it’s not necessary to know how caffeine works to be able to use it. It can be helpful in boosting pain relief from other pain-relievers or by itself. It’s especially good for muscle pain relief – great news if you work out hard. Scientists speculate that caffeine’s pain-relieving power comes from 3 mechanisms: • It blocks release of adenosine. Adenosine is a brain chemical that carries pain signals to
Top 3 Reasons Protein Is NOT Overrated
On a few separate occasions, I’ve heard people from various health occupations declare that protein is “overrated.” It seemed to me those folks were thinking of “body” protein – for muscle building and the like – rather than brain protein. This brief post covers the top 3 reasons to take a different view of protein. 1. Protein provides amino acids. Amino acids are the precursors of several key brain chemicals
New help for runners/cyclists with plantar fasciitis
I’ve got a hunch that you know someone (friend or class participant) who suffer from plantar fasciitis. This new, noninvasive procedure sounds promising. HAMDEN >> Alex Horjatschun was in excruciating pain from tendinitis, caused by a bone spur on his heel. On a scale of 1 to 10, it was a definite 10. “I would get up off the couch and I would be limping,” he said, and it was
What Sugar and Driving Have In Common
Nutrition coaching can be a gratifying business when clients get results. But it can be rather frustrating when clients fail to follow instructions – particularly for reasons that seem illogical, arbitrary, or even a little self-destructive. Looking at weight-loss timing, for example. Much damage can occur from the time we first go off-course with our eating to the day we decide – somewhat arbitrarily – it’s the “right” day to
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