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Resolutions And Goals: Perfection Just Might Be The Enemy Of Good

By on January 7, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Manage Your Weight

It’s a week into the New Year.  Your pants are uncomfortably tight and the number on the scale is in the wrong zip code. Trying to right the ship did you resolve – swear — to never again eat another chocolate chip cookie?  Or maybe you’ve taken an oath to lay off potato chips forever [...]

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Can You Deal With One Fantastic Holiday Treat A Day?

By on December 17, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating on the Job, Eating with Family and Friends, Holidays, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

Peppermint candy and holiday chocolates at the receptionist’s desk.  Candy canes at the dry cleaners.  A rotating selection of Christmas cookies on just about everyone’s desk.  Happy holiday food gifts from grateful clients. Your neighbor’s specialty pie. And that doesn’t include the fantastic spreads at holiday parties and family events! It’s All So Tempting It‘s incredibly [...]

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Do You Eat Something You Don’t Want Just To Be Polite?

By on November 15, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating with Family and Friends, Food for Fun and Thought, Manage Your Weight

Do you think you need to eat to be polite – even if you don’t want the food or you’re totally stuffed – because you don’t want to be rude or hurt someone’s feelings? You really don’t have to feel obliged to eat out of courtesy – especially if you don’t want the food or [...]

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Take A Cue From Athletes: Rehearse Your Party Eating Behavior

By on September 19, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating with Family and Friends, Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Manage Your Weight, Restaurants, Diners, Fast Food, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

What happens when you’re invited to a “command performance”  party or event with a long cocktail hour followed by a fancy multi-course sit down meal?  Or maybe you’re going to a gourmet holiday lunch at a friend’s house where there will be lots of hot mulled wine, her special entree, and fantastic cookies accompanying mousse [...]

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Nine Food Tips For Excellent Holiday Eating Without The Pudge

By on December 13, 2011 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating with Family and Friends, Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Travel, On Vacation, In the Car

What’s your plan? That sounds clinical — but it doesn’t have to be. It could be your saving grace.  Think about how you want to handle yourself in the face of food, family, eggnog, and pecan pie.  Nothing is engraved in stone but if you have an idea about what you want to do and [...]

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Free Food Is Hard To Resist (And A Caloric Nightmare)

By on November 10, 2011 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating on the Job, Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Food for Fun and Thought, Manage Your Weight, Restaurants, Diners, Fast Food, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food, Travel, On Vacation, In the Car

Morning meeting.  Right in front of you: platter loaded with bagels, danish, and doughnuts parked next to giant coffee urns.  A freebie breakfast and the beginning of a blood sugar roller coaster ride. No worries if you miss the morning carb fest – if all the platters aren’t picked clean the remnants will surely end [...]

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Do Restaurant Meals Sabotage Your Diet?

By on September 22, 2011 in Eating on the Job, Eating with Family and Friends, Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Manage Your Weight, Restaurants, Diners, Fast Food

Are you afraid to eat out for fear of “blowing your diet” or because you think there aren’t good choices to be had? Are you tired of hearing that you shouldn’t go to restaurants if you want to control what you eat? Choices You can choose to eat out and eat well. You are responsible [...]

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Food As Love, Joy, And Energy

By on June 16, 2011 in Food for Fun and Thought

The other night I went to a talk and book signing by Lisa Oz (married to Dr. Oz), for her new book, US:  Transforming Ourselves and the Relationships That Matter Most.  During the course of the evening there was a lot of discussion about the healing power of energy. As a nurse I began to [...]

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Prep For Your Big Event And Snag An A . . .

By on May 12, 2011 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Manage Your Weight, Restaurants, Diners, Fast Food

A  for Awesome, because that’s how you’ll feel. Don’t you hate it: you’ve been so much attention to what you eat and your healthy eating habits are really getting grooved.  You’re starting to feel and look great, but, oh boy, you have to go to something big.  It could be a wedding, a dinner party, [...]

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Can You Train And Tame Your Hunger?

By on May 3, 2011 in Eating on the Job, Eating with Family and Friends, Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Food for Fun and Thought, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

Physical – or real – hunger, the kind you feel when your stomach is growling, you’re irritable as all get-out, you’ve got zilch energy, and probably a throbbing headache, means you body needs food for fuel. Info You Can Use About Hunger Hunger is somewhat unpredictable.  Your actual hunger levels are not the same every [...]

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