Tag Archives | mindful eating

Do You Make 2, 20, Or 200 Food Decisions Every Day?

By on April 4, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Manage Your Weight

How many times a day do you think about food?  How many times a day do you make a food choice? How do your environment and surroundings influence those decisions? People grossly underestimate how many daily food related decisions they make – not by a little but by an average of more than 221 decisions. [...]

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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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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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Thinking About Chowing Down At A Barbecue This Weekend?

By on May 24, 2012 in Eating with Family and Friends, Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Manage Your Weight

Memorial Day Weekend – the “unofficial” start of summer weekends. Hometown parades with floats and kids in baseball uniforms.  Veterans handing out flags.  The lazy, hazy days of summer with lots of soda and popcorn and beer.  Also lots of barbecue and desserts – and lots of seemingly never ending caloric temptation — and bathing [...]

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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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No, I Don’t Want A Piece Of Pie

By on January 10, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating on the Job, Eating with Family and Friends, Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Manage Your Weight, Travel, On Vacation, In the Car

Have you ever said, “No, I don’t care for any” to seconds or “No, thank you” to dessert – but your host or dinner companion just won’t give up? “You’ve gotta try it, it’s great, “ or “Oh, come on, just a little taste,” or “Have just a little more.” It goes on and on [...]

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How Many Calories Are In A “Mindless Bite”?

By on January 3, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating on the Job, Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Food for Fun and Thought, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

Are your pants feeling a bit tight and you can’t figure out why? It’s those mindless bites that will get you.  Each one of those “shove it in your mouth without thinking about it” bites is worth about 25 calories.  Do the math.  If you have four mindless bites a day above and beyond your [...]

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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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9 Easy Ways To Eat Less

By on November 17, 2011 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating on the Job, Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Travel, On Vacation, In the Car

As the holiday season goes into full swing, here’s some helpful tips: Fill your plate once, whether it’s from a buffet or just from the stove top.  That’s it.  No seconds – and double-decking isn’t such a great idea, either. Use the smallest plates, bowls, and glasses you can to help you feel full even [...]

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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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