Healthy Daily Diet :The best of times and the worst of times

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Healthy diet, nutritional recommendations designed to promote health and help prevent disease.So, I had one fantastic week! Lost five pounds. Then along came Halloween. It was like an avalanche of mini-candy bars buried me. It was bad, very, very bad. I gained those five pounds back. Today, though, I am 100% committed to myself and my weight loss plan because I just found

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Healthy Daily Diet :Good days, bad days and fear

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A FREE guide to diet, nutrition and healthy eating. From calories, protein, carbs and fat to sodium, fiber and cholesterol. Learn how to set up your own healthy diet.You guys. I’m having good days, followed by really bad days. You know Geneen Roth says every diet is followed an a binge . . . inevitably. I don’t want to believe that is true but maybe it is. It explains why a person who has successfully lost weight would gain that weight back. It’s

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Healthy Daily Diet :Why am I so afraid?

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A FREE guide to diet, nutrition and healthy eating. From calories, protein, carbs and fat to sodium, fiber and cholesterol. Learn how to set up your own healthy diet.I’ve realized that I am terrified. What if I choose the wrong diet? What if the diet doesn’t work? What if I stay fat forever? I can’t figure out why I am so afraid. I have done this before. I’ve picked a plan that seemed appropriate for me (a middle-aged woman with insulin-resistance

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Healthy Diet :Step one: Preparation

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Healthy diet, nutritional recommendations designed to promote health and help prevent disease.I focused today on preparation. I went to a good produce store and bought fresh vegetables and fruit. When I got home, I cleaned lettuce, chopped it and added some other vegetables to the salad. Now I am prepared for the week’s lunches. When I have the appropriate foods in the house,

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Healthy Dieting :It’s fun to play at the YMCA

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Learn the basics of a healthy diet,includes tips for developing your own personal healthy eating plan and explains popular guidelines and elements of a balanced diet.We’ve had a membership at the local YMCA for a few months now, but I’ve never worked out there. I’m not exactly a gym person, though I like the idea of strength training using convenient exercise machines. (I’ve worked out at gyms before, so I do know what I’m missing.) This afternoon,

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Healthy Daily Diet :Avoid the scale

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Learn the basics of a healthy diet,includes tips for developing your own personal healthy eating plan and explains popular guidelines and elements of a balanced diet.This first week is so important. If I don’t see results, will I falter? Will I give up? I’m staying off the scale until Monday morning. While I appreciate feedback, if I get on the scale too early to see results, I will feel discouraged. How often do you weigh yourself? I am worried

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Healthy Diet :HALLOWEEN AND OTHER HOLIDAY THOUGHTS

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Healthy diet, nutritional recommendations designed to promote health and help prevent disease.Today is Halloween. I haven’t had any candy for quite a while now, and have really avoided soda pop too. I have one of our chickens in the crockpot with a little smart-balance-butter, garlic, and seasoned salt. Once Hubby gets home from work, he’ll grab some chicken, some baked butternut

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Healthy Diet Food :School Food Nightmare – UPDATE

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Here is your source for healthy diets, fitness and nutrition information. Healthy eating and active living is easy and enjoyable.If we don’t defend the nutritional food standards it is highly likely school food will return to the appalling pre 2005 standards.Considering Mr Gove is such a big fan of history it is ironic that he spectacularly fails to learn from it. In 1980 when Thatcher was busy busy ripping

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Healthy Diet Plan :The fight to keep nutritional standards begins

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Learn the basics of a healthy diet,includes tips for developing your own personal healthy eating plan and explains popular guidelines and elements of a balanced diet.Below is the letter I had published in the Guardian:Click here -( it is second letter down)I’ve had the most fantastic responses from Jamie Oliver’s team, LACA and the Children’s Food Campaign.Whilst the School Food Trust agrees with most of my sentiments they are keen to collect

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Healthy Diet Plan :Gove happy to regulate new academies and free schools

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Healthy diet, nutritional recommendations designed to promote health and help prevent disease.Unbelievable! So Gove is absolutely happy to insist that the new academies and free schools he is hell bent on setting up will be forced to teach about the sanctity of marriage but completely free to serve poor quality food that doesn’t meet minimum nutritional standards. Have a look

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