Diets

Pre and post workout nutrition is so confusing. A simple google search yields over 30 million results. You don’t have time to read all this and figure it all out, so I did it for you. For this article, I interviewed Neda K, an elite trainer with Equinox for 10 years, for a guide to pre and post-workout nutrition. I have also based it on my own experience and research, because it seems that every expert has a different answer. Let’s get to the bottom of this together. Pre-workout nutrition Why eat before a workout?  Fasted working out, especially cardio, may…

…into your diet. In my PFFCW formula, the second F is for fat. And I resisted it for years. Now that the stigma has been shattered, I realize that fat is essential to feeling good on the inside and out. Let’s find out why.

You may have noticed in my meal plan for last week I had a lot of fruit on the menu for breakfast. Well the reason why is that I decided to try the “food combining diet.” In this post I will cover what that is and what my experience was. In my post overviewing different diets, ,I didn’t cover every diet under the sun. There is always something new to discover, and I did that just last week when I ran into the “food combining” diet. I tried it for a week, and I am writing about what happened.

Earlier we explored what kinds of foods you can eat a lot of without gaining weight. Now let’s turn to the stuff that makes the food GOOD – the condiments. Sauces, dressings, and syrups can make or break a meal. Especially if the food you are eating is low on fat, oil, or sugar, something extra to enhance the flavor will help you derive better satisfaction and get less hungry later.

First, let me qualify that the purpose of this post is NOT to rain on your parade and tell you that any of these foods are off limits. As you can see from my 80/20 post, I am all for balance and enjoying favorite foods in small doses.  The purpose of this post is to expose foods that masquerade as healthy “80” foods, leading us to believe that we are making healthy diet choices when we are really eating the equivalent of liquid candy. Under the false belief that these foods are harmless health foods, we are more likely to…

We are getting warmer weather, and you know what that means – BIG SALADS! We can’t talk about salads without talking about salad dressing. If you want a healthy salad that achieves your goal of keeping your meal low-cal, you have to make modifications to what you find in the grocery store aisle. Otherwise, your dressing may be be more calories than the salad. If you are like me, you don’t want just a measly drizzle – that’s not the point of dressing! Dressing shoudl bathe the chopped veggies and greens in a yummy, zingy, salty and sometimes sweet goodness….