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What Do Eating And Crossing The Street And Have in Common?

By on May 22, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating with Family and Friends, Manage Your Weight

Do You Look Both Ways? Didn’t your parents teach you to look both ways before you cross the street?  The very act of looking and analyzing the situation before you step off the curb means that you are being mindful of your surroundings and aware of potential problems – like a car or bike speeding [...]

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Are You Really Hungry Or Is It All In Your Head?

By on May 15, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Manage Your Weight

Argument.  Stress. Overwhelm. Fatigue. Cookies in the shopping cart.  Candy bar from the gas station.  Chips from the vending machine.  Raiding the refrigerator for leftovers followed by ice cream. Sound familiar? You could be stuffed to the gills but all you can think about is getting that cookie, candy bar, chips, or leftovers and chowing [...]

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Are You Using The Holidays As An Excuse To (Over)Eat?

By on November 15, 2011 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating on the Job, Eating with Family and Friends, Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Holidays, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Travel, On Vacation, In the Car

Gotta have the Christmas cookies, the candied yams, the stuffing with pecans, both pumpkin and pecan pies, the peanut brittle, eggnog, and whatever else your particular holiday, culture, and family traditions dictate. Really??? Ask yourself why.  Are your groaning table and edible holiday delights really because of tradition – or, in part, an excuse to [...]

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Does Impulsive Mean Overweight And Neurotic Mean Yo-Yo?

By on August 4, 2011 in Food for Fun and Thought, Manage Your Weight

Are You Impulsive — Or Neurotic? If you’re impulsive it seems that you are more likely to be overweight. If you’re highly neurotic and less conscientious, it’s more likely that you’ll see your weight go up and down. At least that’s what was found in a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social [...]

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A Dozen Reasons We Eat When We’re Not Hungry

By on July 7, 2011 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Manage Your Weight, Shopping, Cooking, Baking, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

Eating when you’re not hungry, or when you’re bored, angry, tired, procrastinating, or celebrating can push your calorie intake way up.  The biggest problem is that we often don’t realize that we’re shoving food into our mouths – either because we’re distracted, we don’t want to know, or we just plain old don’t care. Here [...]

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A Beautiful Stressbuster

By on May 6, 2011 in Food for Fun and Thought

Stress is a trigger for emotional eating for many people.  Why not hang around with some gorgeous trees showing off their springtime splendor like these in Riverside Park in New York City. A perfect antidote to those extra trips to the fridge. Send to Kindle

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Head Hunger

By on April 26, 2011 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating on the Job, Eating with Family and Friends, Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Holidays, Manage Your Weight, Restaurants, Diners, Fast Food, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

Have you ever followed an argument with a friend – or maybe with your Mom – with a trip to the bakery or the closest candy store? You could already be stuffed to the gills. But, all you can think about is getting that cookie, or candy bar, or bag of pretzels and chowing down [...]

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Stick With It

By on February 4, 2011 in Eating with Family and Friends, Manage Your Weight

Are you always looking for the next best thing – the next miracle cure for sugar or caffeine addiction, the best way to motivate yourself to exercise, or the best way to lose the most weight in the shortest period of time? You try, try, and try again. You step on the scale. “That can’t [...]

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What Do Crossing The Street And Eating Have in Common?

By on October 5, 2010 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

Look Both Ways Don’t you look both ways before you cross the street — or shouldn’t you?  That’s called being mindful of your surroundings and potential problems – like a car or bike speeding toward you. Check In With Yourself The same thing is true with eating:  check in with yourself and ask if you’re [...]

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Do You Eat Because You Are Hungry?

By on August 13, 2010 in Eating on the Job, Eating with Family and Friends, Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

Are You Really Hungry? It’s summertime and the living is easy.  Picnics, barbecues, a sandwich at the beach are often the order of the day. And what about the ice cream cone, the beer with the burger, the peach pie, and the toasted almond from the Good Humor truck?  Vacation often means sun, sand, and [...]

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