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I am sure you have heard it before but eating the majority of your meals at home will help your diet, weight-loss or maintenance goals and your overall health. Even “healthy” restaurant meals typically contain more fat, sodium, sugar, and calories than meals you make at home. Restaurants use more oil in pans, have richer [...]

  We all now that the flu and cold season is here so here are some tips to stay healthy and treat a cold if you do have one so you can get back to your daily routine and work out schedule!  The main actions to take: Stay hydrated!!! Drink lots of fluids, water, juice [...]

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Quick Breakfasts Great for energy, weight loss, and performance and can be made less than 10 minutes! You have heard it before, breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I will say it again! Breakfast starts our metabolism for the day and properly fueling your body from the start will set you [...]

Serving Sizes . . . You are told to eat at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day but what is a serving?  I will provide some guidelines for this. The USDA 2005 Dietary Guidelines (updated every 5 years) are now focused on cups of fruits and vegetables per day which I think [...]

I always view Sunday as a recharge day. I try to take time on Sundays to get ready for the upcoming week; go to the grocery store; get outside to connect with nature; spend time with family and friends. This of course does not always happen but you can do little things to help recharge [...]

We all need to remember to be present and connect with our action. The action can be as simple as focusing and listening during a conversation, or the flow in our yoga class or our last meal. When we really focus on our action in the present moment then that action will be create more [...]

Let’s get Fit for Fall!!!! I am offering nutrition counseling at Qi spin-yoga and athletic club in Denver, CO.  Qi staff have put together a great program beginning now that gets people motivated to stay healthy and in shape over the holidays. The Fall Fit Challenge is a friendly competition to get people motivated by [...]

It was just brought to my attention that comments are not being allowed on the website. The comments were working a couple days ago so I am not sure what is going on. I will figure it out soon and apologize about the mix up. I very much value comments so please hold on and I [...]

I am writing this blog a bit late as I just got home and am tired and hungry. Sound familiar? Now what to eat – you don’t want to go the store, you definitely do not want to grab something quick (hard to get healthy stuff on the go) but what do you have at [...]