You can listen to this article. Use the player below, download the MP3, or use iTunes. Nutrition. It can be confusing. It can be tremendously frustrating. If you’re currently caught in the wake of a diet-gone-wrong or you struggle to adhere to nutrition guidelines, try this simple exercise. For the next seven days, write down everything you eat and drink. And by …
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How to Get Rid of Diet and Exercise Baggage
You can listen to this article. Use the player below, download the MP3, or use iTunes. To progress from using exercise as punishment for overindulging or skipping workouts, to it being a form of self-care and empowerment. The transition from diet hopping, fearing entire food groups, or simply feeling overwhelmed by nutrition, to no longer feeling guilty for eating any food, not spending …
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You are Not the Problem
Use the player below to listen to this article, download the MP3, or use iTunes. “What is wrong with me?” Have you ever had that thought? Perhaps it was after you tried a new diet, and it came crashing to an unsuccessful end? Maybe the workout method your friend swore by didn’t produce the same stellar results for you. Similar experiences are had by many, and often they draw the …
Food and Fitness No Longer Dominate My Life
You can listen to this article. Use the player below, download the MP3, or use iTunes. I enjoy looking through years of workout logs to see the progress I’ve made, the personal records I set, the grueling sets of high-rep squats and deadlifts I’ve endured. Performance improvement is a critical component of any strength training program if you want to reap results from your efforts. But …
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How to Not Feel Guilty for Eating Your Favorite Foods
You can listen to this article: use the player below, download the MP3 or listen on iTunes. It’s pretty screwed up that feeling guilty after eating any food is even an optional response. Yet so many of us do it. The countless health and fitness sources creating information that feeds this terrible habit certainly don’t help. There’s the good/bad dichotomy used to label foods (e.g.: calling …
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Everything You Eat Doesn’t Need a Healthy Makeover
Would you rather listen to this article? Use the player below, download it, or use iTunes. We get it. Cauliflower is a versatile vegetable. It can replicate and replace everything from mashed potatoes and rice to pizza crust and chicken wings and, apparently, even steak. Let’s have a round of applause for this multipurpose cruciferous marvel that is single-handedly revolutionizing the culinary …
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24 Tips to Uncomplicate How You Eat and Work Out
Would you rather listen to the article? Use the player below, download it, or use iTunes. Anyone who has tried to improve their eating and workout habits knows what it feels like to become overwhelmed by the abundance of information, all the possible workout and diet options, and all the conflicting information. Sometimes food and fitness can feel annoyingly complicated. To uncomplicate …
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Stop Telling Women to Earn Their Food
Would you rather listen to this article? Use the player below, download it, or use iTunes. ‘Tis the season for holiday cheer, all things pumpkin-spice, and perhaps a few too many spiked egg-nogs. Something else is supplied in abundance this time of year too: Guilt. Shame. Punishment. All for, get this, eating food. Scroll through social media and alongside tempting holiday recipes are …