Healthy Food Chart

There’s never going to be an easy time of year for dieters, and most of us have a love-hate relationship with popular holidays that are, it seems, an excuse to indulge. With Easter looming and chocolate eggs lining the shelves, dieting temptation seems to lie everywhere. Here’s your guide to surviving Easter without putting on unwanted pounds – but…

** I am going to be shortening the weekend wrap-up for now so that I can free up some more time to do Q&A. I am sorry to do this but I need to make extra time somehow and I have realized that wishing for a 28 hour day is not working out so well. Once class is over and things slow down a little I will try to resume a full weekend wrap up but until then I have to cut it down so that I can finally get to the great questions that are being asked!

As you can see I didn’t get to posting Friday night until now (Sunday night) – we went to a friend’s place and didn’t get home until late then it was go, go, go from Saturday morning on! We had a fun weekend filled with family, friends and some work. We had one really nice day of weather and one not so nice day but it worked out for me because I spent the nice day outside at a birthday party and the rainy day inside doing work. Here are a couple of my favorite meals from the weekend — I didn’t have to bring a cake to this party but quite the opposite, a salad. I made extra for us so we are digging into that to get the veggie intake back up!

Eating over life’s problems is frequently a problem for overweight people. The good news is there are always various solutions. Here is just one way to approach stress. This technique is looking at a specific challenge very logically and asking…

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A recent article in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior reported that children who ate at least 5 or more meals at home had better overall eating habits. The children in the study showed that when they ate well…