For the past three weeks, you have been controlling your diet to the letter ... until that Friday night at the restaurant! While you intended to pick a salad, you order THE pizza that was calling you instead. Since you’re already "cheating”, you let yourself be tempted by the dessert menu. You eat it all with a lot of guilt and little pleasure, telling yourself that you will start over tomorrow.
Has a similar situation ever happened to you?
Do you work hard at taking care of yourself? If so, you're not alone.
After all, maintaining a healthy lifestyle is one of the most important factors for increasing life-expectancy. It's also important for reducing major medical issues as you age.
A healthy lifestyle should include regular exercise and a proper diet. But how can you fit alcoholic drinks into your healthy lifestyle?
Eating fruits and vegetables doesn't have to be a difficult task that you feel you need to do in order to be healthier. It should be a simple and tasty experience!
So, to savor the best that Mother Nature has to offer us during the winter, I offer you my top 10 comforting and tasty recipes featuring the fruits and vegetables available in Quebec during winter.
Enjoy!
Did you know that women gain an average of 2-5 pounds during perimenopause and 50% of women report gaining more than 10 pounds?
Of course, everybody is different, so don't be worried if you gain more or less than the average. It's also normal for your weight to fluctuate a little bit, so if your scales keep showing you slightly different numbers don't chuck them out straight away!
Teleconsultation with specialists is more and more widespread nowadays. Consultations with a nutritionist are no exception to this trend. Do you feel reluctant about proceeding this way? Here are some advantages:
The quality of the service remains intact
Just like a face-to-face meeting, the nutritionist offers you personalized and confidential advice while sharing with you the documentation corresponding to your needs, if necessary. Plus, with Team Nutrition, all of our tools are fully computerized, providing high-end online support and using the latest technology.
Have you decided to focus on self-improvement? If so, you're certainly not alone.
After all, more and more people are realizing the importance of focusing on good physical and mental health. When it comes to improving your body, Pilates is the ideal way to develop strong, lean muscles without needing a ton of expensive exercise equipment.
It's the end of a long day, and all you want to do is pull something quick and easy out of the fridge for dinner. And that leftover pizza is looking pretty good right now! The only problem is, quick, easy meals usually aren't the healthiest.
But it's a new year, and you made resolutions that you want to stick to. Why does it have to be so hard?
Do you want to lose weight? Perhaps you have hypertension issues and are looking for some dietary suggestions to help get it under control?
Are you thinking about going on a diet in the future? Well, if you didn't already know, it's essential to be in contact with someone that not only has experience when it comes to dieting but also has the knowledge to educate you on how your diet affects your health.
Did you know that 2 in 5 Canadians want to lose weight?
That's a huge number of the population, and it signals that something has gone very wrong with our eating habits! With fast food easily available and the price of a salad more expensive than a hot dog, it's not too much of a surprise.
Snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, downhill skiing, off-trail skiing, hiking, skating; these are all sport activities that go hand in hand with winter. We can definitely say that our current winter has presented us with a nice range of temperature changes. This sometimes requires that we adjust our clothing accordingly, but what about our sports nutrition?
If cooking is an art, then preserving the foods that will be used to concoct those dishes certainly is too! Who has never found a bunch of wilted parsley or soggy tomatoes in the back of their refrigerator? Does this situation sound familiar to you? If yes, this article is for you; the next few lines will reveal 7 secrets of the art of fresh food preservation.
We can’t avoid it, the current situation definitely perplexes our daily life. That being said, it’s still possible to keep up our balanced diet even if the way of doing so may change a bit. Flexibility and indulgence are two important aspects to keep in mind. There may not be as much of a variety of food offered at the grocery store, and we might need to adjust our recipes accordingly. Also, since our schedule is likely to change and the urge to eat is present more often, we have to be indulgent with ourselves.