MACRO-FRIENDLY PASTA!
Ugh. Now that we’ve turned the clocks back, it will be dark by 4:30pm. I don’t know about you, but long hours of darkness and cold make me want to eat lots of piping-hot comfort food. Pasta is definitely in my top 5 comfort foods, but it’s really difficult to work in when cutting weight […]
LOW-CARB, SUGAR-FREE PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES
I love peanut butter, both creamy and chunky (what a monster!!). I also love carbs, but eating all the carbs I want isn’t exactly helpful when trying to cut body fat. In my never-ending and totally unrealistic quest to eat everything without any consequences, I stumbled upon this awesome low-carb, sugar-free peanut butter cookie recipe. It’s […]
WE ALL SCREAM FOR LOW FAT, LOW CARB, HIGH PROTEIN ICE CREAM!
So it’s summer… okay, it’s sort of summer, and that means it’s time for ice cream. I LOVE ice cream and froyo, but it can be hard to work into your diet sometimes. I refuse to be that person obsessively walking back and forth to the scale at the froyo place measuring every little thing […]
WHY YOU’RE WRONG ABOUT FLEXIBLE DIETING
Flexible dieting, or If It Fits Your Macros (IIFYM), is the ‘dieting’ concept that, as long as you are hitting your calorie/protein/fat/carbohydrate numbers, working in a handful of chips or a couple Thin Mints isn’t going to affect your success… in fact, it will help you be more successful. A lot of people have a […]
HOW TO EAT TO GAIN MUSCLE
This isn’t rocket science guys. It’s all about eating the right amounts of the right macronutrients (protein, carb, fat and fiber). If you are not balancing your numbers, you are not doing it right and you really have no idea what you are putting in your body. The number one thing that needs to happen, […]
SWEETLY SUGAR FREE
Artificial sweeteners are routinely demonized for being made in a lab. Oooo, scary! As hard as it is to shake one’s personal bias and perhaps even admit we might be wrong, the fact is that artificial sweeteners are not bad for you and can be a helpful tool when making a lifestyle change. When I […]
LOW FAT MEATLOAF
Meatloaf. For me, a comfort food that stirs up memories of childhood. Up until last month, I hadn’t had meatloaf in well over a decade. Being comprised of ground beef and / or pork, it’s not typically something one considers to be very diet friendly. Well, I’ve got a recipe for you! I have adapted […]
3 FAST, MACRO-FRIENDLY MEALS
One of the biggest factors in long-term diet success and meeting your macros is cooking your own food. Most of us are too busy between work and family to spend a lot of time cooking and it’s so easy to just grab some take-out. Don’t fall into that trap! You can make macro-friendly meals without […]
FOOD OPTIONS FOR SURVIVING THE HOLIDAYS
Sticking to your diet during the holidays is hard. We all want to celebrate with loved ones and it may be the only chance you get all year to have some of Aunt Rickie’s famous Holiday Mashed Potatoes. And sometimes it’s hard to say ‘just no’ when everyone around you is shoveling food in like […]
THE 3 NUTRITION STRATEGIES FOR SURVIVING THE HOLIDAYS
When you are looking at holiday eating, two big things go through your mind; you want to enjoy your time with family and friends eating what you want, but you also do not want to gain those unwanted holiday pounds. It seems impossible to do both, but I have some strategies that will allow you […]
