What is Reverse Dieting and Are There Any Benefits To It?
Reverse dieting is an eating plan, largely made popular by professional bodybuilders and competitive athletes. The principle of reverse dieting is to gradually, while closely tracking your macros, increase your caloric intake over a period of several weeks to even a couple months to boost your metabolism while still maintaining body composition. What does this mean? It means seeing how many calories, again while tracking macros,...
Superfoods to Fight Inflammation & Heal Your Body
Do you suffer from chronic joint pain? Have you ever been told or heard that chronic inflammation can wreak havoc on your body and cause pain that you do NOT need to suffer with?I’m sure many of you reading this have heard even a little bit about inflammation just how much destruction it can cause. And while many of us are aware of the inflammation that occurs as a result of injury from physical activity or accidents that cause harm...
Love Fish . . . Not So Fond Of Mercury
If you love your fish but are starting to wonder just how healthy it is with all the reports of mercury content in some seafoods, don’t despair. While fish is one of the healthiest sources of lean protein there is growing concern that mercury levels in some seafoods is having a devastating impact on the health of many. What is a person to do? Avoid fish altogether? Well, le’ts not get too extreme, and while I would say that...
Holiday Detox Latte
Green Tea will help you lose weight! Red Tea will boost your immune system! Herbal Tea will facilitate a detox! What if you could have ALL 3 in one delicious drink . . . while still enjoying holiday moments and not feeling DEPRIVED!I strongly believe that it is much more prudent to make realistic modifications than to look at everything as a “go cold turkey” decision. Holidays are a part of life and if every time an...
The Curse of Isle 7
Unfortunately, years ago some misleading information was made quite popular. We were influenced to believe that FAT was the ultimate enemy in our diets, which paved the way for the sugar industry to get rich. REALLY rich! And of course, the diet and weight loss industry got rich too . . . but that is another conversation for another time! Ultimately what happened is that highly processed, low-calorie and nutritionally void sugary...
Anti-Stress Green Soup
Fight stress with food? Why not . . . especially when it’s a comforting, soothing bowl of homemade should that is loaded with solid nutrition to feed your soul!Anti-Stress Green Soup1 container low sodium chicken broth2 onions, diced1 cabbage, shredded2 leeks, chopped1 cauliflower, chopped2 handfuls spinach, chopped1 large head of broccoli, choppedsalt & pepper to tasteHeat chicken broth in a large pot. Throw all your veggies...
