Okay boys and girls, how’s your healthy new year coming along!?! Have you added or increased your exercise routine? Are you putting healthy, chemical free foods in your body? I hope so! If you, like me, need something quick and convenient to grab on the go but are tired of paying for ‘bars’ that are loaded with sugar– If you are looking for something healthy, … Continue reading RECIPE: Super Power Bars
Add movement to your day. Stand up sit down, stand up sit down. Repeat. (10 to 20 times) Who cares if your co-workers or classmates think you’ve gone batty! Take a lap around your office, pretend you are on your way to an important meeting. Do bicep curls with your water bottle. Do calf pumps or leg lifts at your desk. Dance with your children … Continue reading RULE: Add Movement to Your Day
I get it. It’s hard to eat right when you travel. But is it? Or do we simply succumb to convenience and temptation, buying something in a rush at the airport or ordering 3 courses because “work is paying for it”. Sure, eating out healthfully, whether for business or pleasure, can be tricky. But if you PLAN AHEAD, you don’t have to pork out when … Continue reading RULE: 5 Ways toTravel Smart
I want to keep you guys fit while on the go! All that sitting (on planes, buses, cars and while dining) makes us pretty weak and floppy! So below are some simple exercises to keep your core strong and your balance good! You can do most of these on the plane, in the boarding area, on a train, bus, or car, at your desk! or … Continue reading RECIPE: 7 Easy Exercises for Travel
It blew my mind in medical school when I learned that drugs could be delivered through the skin and vaccines delivered through a nasal spray. So cool that you could absorb things through the mucous membranes (as they’re called), breath and skin. Until I realized that the same is true for pollutants. The black exhaust billowing out of the dump truck in front of you also … Continue reading RANT: 5 Living Clean Tips
Don’t buy it and you wont eat it. Ok there are some corollaries to this, which seems to happen to me frequently. We’re at a gathering and the stars have aligned, and I am shockingly not putting a smackdown on the hors d’oeuvre table, but a friend or cousin whisks by, forcing a cracker loaded with a hot, drippy mess on it. Though I’m not hungry, it … Continue reading RULE: Don’t Buy it and You Won’t Eat It
If a friendly neighbor drops off a pound cake, and you don’t want the extra pounds its sure to give, and you can’t refuse it or toss it. Freeze it. If you make cookies and don’t want to eat all 22 of them in one sitting (it can be done). Freeze ’em. You don’t want the fresh whole grain bread you bought (instead of the processed junk … Continue reading RULE: Freeze Everything
EXCUSES MY HARSH RESPONSE “I don’t like vegetables” “I don’t like wearing a seat belt, but I hear it’s good for me” “my knees hurt when I run” “the heavier you are the more they’ll … Continue reading RULE: Stop Making Excuses
Do something active everyday. Our bodies were intended to move. We sit in cars or on trains on the way to and from work; we sit at desks for 8-9 hours a day, come home to sit at a dinner table and then on to the couch for a solid 1-2 hours of TV. No wonder if we make it to 90, we appear crouched; … Continue reading RULE: Move Every Day
SWEET TREATS A few of my girlfriends love candy. Not chocolate, but candy. I never understood this. One friend, coincidently a Dentist, especially loves the sugary, teeth-decaying type; like Swedish fish or gummy-anything. Not me. Give me chocolate and peanut butter over a gum drop any day of the week. Raspberry sorbet could never battle chocolate-chip cookie dough ice cream with Butterfinger topping. Adorable dentist friend and … Continue reading RANT: Sugar is Crack
Food is good. And it is everywhere. And Its ALWAYS someone’s birthday at work. I habitually walk by the ‘break room’ and cast a reflexive glance as I pass, to see what offering there in lies. And most days of the week, there are homemade cookies, synthetic neon-iced cakes, chips, cheese dips, donuts by the dozen–often brought in by the cheerful 94 pound co-worker, who “just can’t seem to gain weight” because “it … Continue reading RANT: Food Is EVERYWHERE
This is a list provided by my foodie, naturally talented in the kitchen, chef extraodinaire cousin, Megan: Always keep go-to meal staples on hand. 1.Frozen chicken: buy on sale, in bulk, from your local farm and freeze in the individual sizes you need for quick thaw and prep (ie enough for 1 serving, that would be me; enough for 2, for a family of 4 … Continue reading RULE: Keep Healthy Foods in Stock (part 1)
Are we taught from an early age not to waste food? My husband was told clean his plate as a child because of the “starving Armenians”. My mother actually used to tell us: “It’s just as wasted if you don’t want it”. Isn’t it? But I do want it. Don’t I? I remember when my fantabulous step-mother came aboard, the dinner menu changed, and for the … Continue reading RANT: Happy Plates
Breakfast sometimes gets lost between remembering to take your pill, spilling coffee on your shirt and rushing off to work. But you should EAT BREAKFAST. Preferably within 30 minutes of waking, to boost metabolism. It’s important to get protein and a fruit and/or vegetable down the food tube too! Some of these breakfast suggestions are lightening fast, all are less than 5 min. So make … Continue reading RECIPE: Easy Quick Healthy Protein Packed Breakfasts
Dr. Maddy Day 