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Brunch: Is It Lunch Or Breakfast – And Do you End Up Eating Both?

By on May 19, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating with Family and Friends, Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Lose 5 Pounds in 5 Weeks, Manage Your Weight, Restaurants, Diners, Fast Food

Do you have trouble keeping the calories in check at a brunch or a buffet? It’s pretty darn hard with all of that tempting food staring you in the face. It’s even harder when there’s both tempting food and you’re with lots of friends having a good time — a classic recipe for mindless (over)eating. [...]

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Is It Your Head Or Your Stomach That’s Saying “Feed Me”?

By on April 9, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Manage Your Weight

“I’ve got to have a donut—the kind with chocolate icing and sprinkles.”  “I really, really want some crispy, salty French fries and a strawberry shake.”  But, are you really hungry or is it your head that’s yapping at you? Your head can be very proficient at ringing the mindless eating bell. It’s often the culprit [...]

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Do Football And Food Have Equal Footing On Super Bowl Sunday?

By on January 28, 2013 in Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays

Did you know that the first Super Bowl was in January 1967?  Although not an official holiday, Super Bowl Sunday certainly has assumed the trappings of one — both in the US and in many expat communities.  The Super Bowl broadcast is the most watched annual television program in the US and Super Bowl Sunday [...]

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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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Why Your Mindless Bites Are Making Your Jeans Tighter

By on September 28, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, 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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These Calories Still Count

By on September 14, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

It’s way too easy to forget those little clumps of calories that “jump” into your mouth and ultimately register on the scale. These Calories Still Count . . . the candy bar you bought at the gas station and ate in the car the 3 tootsie rolls you snagged from the receptionist’s desk the couple [...]

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A Lot Of People At The Dinner Table: You Might Eat 96% More

By on June 5, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating with Family and Friends, Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Holidays, Manage Your Weight, Restaurants, Diners, Fast Food

Planning on eating with seven friends? You might eat 96% more! No joke. We tend to eat more and for a longer period of time when we’re with other people compared to when we eat alone. Why?  Perhaps it’s because we mindlessly nibble while someone else talks. Or maybe it stems from the good manners learned [...]

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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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Multi-tasking = Distraction = Mindless Eating

By on February 16, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating on the Job, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Travel, On Vacation, In the Car

Do You Work Or Watch TV While You’re Eating? Where do you have your breakfast?  In the car or train while you’re going to work?  Maybe while you’re walking down the street juggling that plastic topped paper cup of coffee, a muffin, your books and papers, your open jacket flapping in the breeze. Where do [...]

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Superbowl: Eating Or Watching Or Both?

By on February 2, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

Seriously.  Hand to mouth munching on chips, dips, and wings.  A swig or two or three.  A cookie here and there.  And then there’s the “real food” at halftime – or maybe there was pizza first followed by a selection of subs. By the end of the game do you have a clue about how [...]

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