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How Can I Eat Healthier on a Budget?
Healthy Eating Can be Done on a Shoestring Budget! Healthy eating doesn't have to be expensive. In fact, if you prepare most of your healthy meals at home, it's a lot cheaper to eat this way than to eat out at a fast food restaurant a few times a week. Most McDonald's...
How Can I Make Quick, Healthy Meals?
Strategies to Cut Meal Making Time in Half! Despite the longer hours of daylight we get, we're all busier in the summer. We want to be outside enjoying the sun, versus being inside, either cooking over a hot stove or shopping in a grocery store. Here are my favourite...
Why is it Important to Eat Fiber?
Why Eat Fiber, and What is it Exactly? Fiber is found in the cell walls of plants; it provides structure and functions like a skeleton for the plant. It’s not digestible by us humans, so it doesn’t provide us with nutrients or calories. It is however, critical to our...
Is Breakfast Really the Most Important Meal of the Day?
What's the Big Deal About Skipping Breakfast? Studies show that if you skip this first meal of the day, you are more likely to choose high-calorie foods later for lunch and dinner. You'll often consume more in the mid and late day because you feel hungrier when...
Can Salads Be Making You Fatter?
It is Shocking How Many Calories Some Salads Contain! Certain salads are not healthier options on a menu. I know of a Cobb salad at an unnamed restaurant that contains a whopping 1200 calories and 90 grams of fat!!! This is more fat than what's found in the...
Cheat Meals Can Help you Lose Weight!
Indulging Leads to Greater Healthy Eating Success!! People often give up when they're on a diet, because they feel like they are missing out on life. Let's face it, meeting friends at a pub and ordering a water and a veggie salad with the dressing on the side, doesn't...
My 6 Favourite Foods-Meals and Why
Foods and Meals that Help me Eat Healthier I of all people, know that it takes work, planning and preparation to eat clean. My general goal when it comes to food is to try eating as many nutrient rich, healthy foods, while limiting processed items. I think about food...
How to Eat Before and After a Workout
What are Pre and Post Exercise Meals? Many of my clients ask me what they should be eating before and after a workout. The first thing I tell beginners with regards to exercise nutrition is "eat something!". There have been times a new client shows up to a fitness...
3 Quick & Healthy Snacks for People Always on the Go!
Healthy Snacking Ideas We have all felt it - the 'stomach growling, headache looming, body exhausted' feeling - it's the dreaded 3pm hump! Right around this time of day, many of us go out in search of a snack that will help carry us through the day. Sadly, this is...
We all Scream for Ice Cream!
Enjoy these delicious and healthier ice creams! Nothing tastes better on a hot summer day than ice cream - mmm-mmm! Unfortunately, many commercial ice cream products we buy, contain a whopping 23 spoonfuls of sugar in a bowl (that's more than double the sugar we...