Foodtrainers’ Blog
Cooking Homework: Orphaned Appliances and Unread Books
Nobody puts Breville in the corner. In October, I introduced the concept of cooking homework. It was a selfishly motivated endeavor to immerse myself in slow cookery but many of you seemed enthusiastic about it. The concept was to give yourself an assignment in the...
Is Your Weight Stuck? It May Be Your Salad.
Salads are the quintessential weight loss food. However, grouping all salads together and assuming they are healthy is like presuming all siblings are alike because they’re in the same family (and that’s complete nonsense). In February’s Allure I was interviewed...
Big Blue not Big You Super Bowl Menu
Game over, just hoping this would deter you There are times we skip on Super Bowl guidance but that will not be happening for Superbowl XLV1 (forty six in case your Roman numerals are failing you). With the Giants playing, many of our clients will be celebrating and...
An Apple A Day May Not Keep Bloat Away
Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages (nope, not talking about the circus) all have unpleasant changes in their bowel movements bloating or gassiness from time to time. For some, these GI symptoms are a daily struggle. I’ve had clients who have dabbled in lactose...
Do you love who you are (in a bathing suit)?
So, if things had gone according to plan, I would be writing this post from the beach in Turks and Caicos where I was supposed to be as of yesterday. We had coverage from Granny and the nanny, a few days off from work and credit from a trip we postponed in July. This...
Time-saving Breakfast: Microwave Egg Poaching and Scrambling
On my most organized days, I blend a smoothie while making the kids breakfast and pour it in a jar to take to work. Though clients complain about a lack of time in the morning, I find the actual scrambling of an egg or tossing veggies in the juicer doesn’t take all...
White Bread in Healthy Clothing
“Tell me about the chicken cutlets” I said as I reviewed a client’s food journal. “Those were healthy I used panko”. Now panko may be delicious, creating a crispy crust on food, but it’s not particularly healthy. Panko originated in Japan and comes from the...
Paula Deen: from Burgers and Butter to Diabetes and Drugs
Did y'all hear? Soon I'll sell the pills with my cookbooks- no need to change a thing. Paula Deen, the queen of fried everything, has diabetes and a lot of people are fired up about it. Janet Helm, on her Nutrition Unplugged site, wrote that the size of Paula's...
Truffle Popcorn, Football and the Ghastly Golden Globes
When we woke up yesterday it was 1 degree out here in Vermont. I did what any reasonable parent would do and sent my kids out to ski anyway. They had lots of layers and hand warmers. As selfish as I am, the guilt got the better of me and after I logged six miles on...
Why does it take a diagnosis to change eating habits?
If you were to come into my office and look at my client’s food journals, whose eating do you think is the healthiest? Weight loss clients? Or maybe triathletes? Prenatal clients would be a good guess too but none of these answers are correct. Hands down my most...
SafSlim May Help Belly Fat, Should You Take It?
' With so many questionable weight loss products and programs, more often than not when asked to investigate the latest system or scam I find a whole lot of exaggeration and risk. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy denouncing dietary disasters. So when clients came...
There's No Such Thing as Weight Maintenance
There’s a big misconception when it comes it weight loss. Actually, there are so many but I’m fixated on one today. Many clients, during their sessions say things like “when I’m on maintenance I’ll eat pizza” or “I’m going to keep exercising until I get to my goal...
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