Stay on Track With Your Fitness and Nutrition Goals During the Holidays
Cookies. Pie. Ham. Eggnog. Champagne. The bottle of spiced rum that Uncle Jerry unearthed from the deepest recesses of his liquor cabinet. Christmastime is a ceaseless onslaught of earthly delights that no one possesses the fortitude to resist entirely. In other words, we eat and drink a lot of treats around the holidays. This is less than ideal because treats do unwanted things to our...
What Is Skinny Fat?
Small crowd. Open Secret. Pretty ugly. These are all examples of an oxymoron: a figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear together. Did you know the word “oxymoron” is, itself, an oxymoron? It’s a combination of the two Greek words for sharp and dull! One oxymoron that’s gained a lot of traction these days is “skinny fat.” It describes a body that...
Eating With Purpose
How to Eat to live and Not Live to Eat Why do you eat? You might think the answer is simple: because you are hungry. But approaching so foundational an aspect of your overall health deserves a little more contemplation than that. In truth you might eat for any number of reasons. Perhaps you are stressed out after a hard day at work and seek solace in an entire sleeve of cookies. (We have all...
The Pros & Cons of Intermittent Fasting
There are as many diets which dictate which foods you’re allowed to eat as there are stars in the sky. (Okay, technically there aren’t one billion trillion diets, but you catch our drift.) But intermittent fasting (IF) is different. Instead of which foods you eat, it is more concerned with when you eat them. In a sense IF is less a diet than it is a pattern of eating. The concept...