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12 Tips for Kicking the Refined Sugar Habit

Posted: 01/30/2013

We continue to hear how bad sugar is for us, but how do we avoid it? Here are some ways to help you eliminate refined sugar from your diet.

Splurging on Thanksgiving... YES PLEASE!

Posted: 11/20/2012

Nobody gains weight from just that one Thanksgiving Day meal. We gain weight from the “holiday mentality” that continues on from Thanksgiving to New Years Day. Yet, the busiest and most stressful time of year is precisely when we must be most vigilant about putting the brakes on our calorie intake and finding the time to fit in lots of calorie-burning, stress-releasing...

Nutrition & Exercise Science: Popular Diets

Posted: 05/24/2012

Nutrition & Exercise Science: Popular DietsWith so much conflicting advice on nutrition, it’s often hard for consumers to decide what is good advice and what is nonsense. In a review paper titled Popular Diets: A Scientific Review (2001), Marjorie Freedman and colleagues did a great job reviewing the research on popular diets. Here are some excerpts: “Excess...

Go Wild for Salmon!

Posted: 01/26/2012

Everywhere you turn—magazines, websites, news shows—there are lists of “12 superfoods”, or “eat these 5 foods every day to lose weight”.  While we here at Fitness Together - Gunbarrel do not always support the latest fads or diet crazes, some of these lists do include some great foods.  One such food that appears on many of these...

Black Eyed Peas - A Southern Tradition for Prosperity

Posted: 12/30/2011

Happy New Year!If you are planning to celebrate the New Year in the Southeast, it is most likely that you will be offered black-eyed peas in some form, either just after midnight or on New Year's Day. From grand gala gourmet dinners to small casual gatherings with friends and family, these flavorful legumes are traditionally, according to Southern folklore, the first food...

How to Handle Thanksgiving

Posted: 11/16/2011

During Thanksgiving, it's easy to go overboard with the calories and consumption. Temptations of gooey pecan pie and dense sweet potatoes topped with crackly marshmallows make it seem impossible to be disciplined.But eating healthfully on Thanksgiving doesn't mean you have to forgo all your favorite foods, said Jennifer K. Nelson, a registered dietitian and director of...

Hidden Calories!

Posted: 11/03/2011

I know that losing weight and feeling better about our bodies is always a constant thought.  I have heard over the past few years numerous issues about not losing weight fast enough or not fitting into your clothes.  Getting on the work-out wagon is only half of the battle when it comes to complete fitness.  Nutrition is just as important.  I know most...

Sweet! I Love potatoes!

Posted: 08/03/2011

I think back to Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners at my grandmother's house at times to decided what I'd like to fix for dinner) I do choose healthier ingredients though- really make the recipe my own). One of the things I come back to quite often is sweet potato casserole, though as a healthier alternative, I just bake them and add a little cinnamon. Great, huh?Well, Leigh...

Go Nuts!

Posted: 08/02/2011

Today has been one of those days where I HAVE to have something chocolatey! I know just about every one of us has these days, especially women; so what is a healthy choice? Well, you see, I absolutely, positively, CANNOT buy a box of chocolate-oatmeal cookies or a dark chocolate bar. Why? you ask. I will sit there and eat the whole box/ bar, and I did not start eating healthy...

Zucchini: Beat the Heat!

Posted: 06/27/2011