health tips &healthy weight loss franziska | 27 Jan 2011
I have blogged before about the importance of sleep (post about a sleep lecture I went to awhile ago). Most of us do not get enough sleep and underestimate its importance. Sleep is when our body recovers, builds, grows and rejuvenates. If you are trying to lose weight or increase your fitness then sleep is [...]
eating more vegetables&fruit &healthy recipes franziska | 26 Jan 2011
One of my favorite vegetables is Swiss Chard. The green leafy veggie provides your body with fiber, vitamins A, C, E, K and calcium. Plus, I find Swiss Chard so pretty! My quick go-to, make dinner in a hurry Swiss Chard recipe is to saute it with a bit of olive oil, garlic, and onion. I [...]
expectations &healthy eating franziska | 25 Jan 2011
Living a healthy lifestyle is a hour to hour commitment along with everything else you are juggling in your life. I had planned on cooking and baking Sunday afternoon so I would have fun stuff to blog about this week but after a snow shoe, laundry, and figuring out what I wanted to make the [...]
eating more vegetables&fruit &healthy recipes franziska | 21 Jan 2011
As you know, I love green leafy vegetables from their powerful antioxidants to their iron and I am always trying to find new ways to eat these nutritional powerhouses. I had read about other food bloggers making baked kale chips and it sounded so easy; I had to give them a try. I found a recipe [...]
favorite food items &healthy recipes franziska | 19 Jan 2011
My title just reminded me of Friends episode (love Friends – even the opening music makes me happy ) where Joey is filming a Campbell’s soup commercial and he is supposed to say “MMM . . . soup” and he keeps messing up and saying, “MMM . . . noodle soup.” Anyway, for you non-Friends [...]
health tips franziska | 18 Jan 2011
Hope everyone had a great long weekend! And happy belated Martin Luther King Jr. day! I feel most inspired to blog when I experience certain challenges or find solutions to my daily quest to eat and live healthier. Many of the things I try are very simple that you may are already doing or maybe reading will give [...]
health tips &healthy weight loss &managing portions franziska | 11 Jan 2011
Keeping a food journal can be a valuable tool to helping you meet your nutrition goals. We often eat bites here and there without remembering. Writing everything we eat and drink makes us more accountable and makes us think more about our nutrition choices. We also get a better idea of portion sizes and how [...]
health tips &healthy weight loss franziska | 10 Jan 2011
It can be difficult to decipher if a diet is healthful or just a ploy for profit. We hold knowledge about health and our bodies that we are not aware of or simply do not listen to. We all have intuition about our health and what healthy food choices are for us. This intuition often gets [...]
cooking &health tips franziska | 06 Jan 2011
If you are on your way home and are already starving you may be more likely to not go home and cook but rather get drive through or take out. 1), Most of us need a snack after lunch so be prepared to be hungry between 3-5 pm and have a healthy snack! 2), Quick [...]
health tips franziska | 05 Jan 2011
Even with the best intentions and planning you still can miss the workout you planned – or sometimes you simply can not drag yourself out of bed for your planned am workout . Getting enough exercise is hard – another thing to add to our often times impossible to do list . You have to prioritize [...]
