Healthy 716- Connecting the 716 to Healthier Living

  I’ve got a quick one for you today that might just change how you look at certain foods! Especially your craving-trigger foods. Which, if you’re like a lot of people, you try your best to avoid thinking about at all! (Read: Do You Crave This At Night for more information on food cravings at night) Have you ever had someone tell you NOT to think about something? Like, right now: Don’t think about cute, cuddly kittens. Chances are, you pictured a kitten, right? (you’re welcome) The same thing can happen when you suddenly banish foods from your diet because they are “bad.” Research shows trying to suppress thoughts about certain foods can actually intensify your cravings! One technique that researchers recommend instead is to focus on the EFFECTS of eating those foods. For example, how do they make you feel AFTER you eat them? Do they give you a headache or stomachache? How is your mood afterward? And your energy level? AND … if you’re a nighttime snacker, what will eating those f...

You’ve heard that managing your weight is all about the lifestyle, and not the quick fix, so today I’d like to give you 7 habits that fit people have. These following seven habits are held by successfully fit people…wonder if you could apply a few to your own life. (Watch: Are You Living The Lean Body Lifestyle HERE ) 1. Approach Each Day with Perspective Fail to meet your fitness goals today? Move on. Tomorrow is another day to make smarter decisions. When you wake up, rededicate yourself to your fitness goals without beating yourself about whatever mistakes you made in the past. After all, you can’t change what you did yesterday. All you can control is right now. So get to it!   2. Know Your Body When you finish a workout, you should feel good. If you don’t, then something needs to change. Either your diet or routine is throwing you off. Fit people know how everything they do affects their body and they take steps to avoid those things that make them not feel and perform their b...

  We’ve all been there … You have a cruddy night of sleep and the whole next day, you want to eat ALL the food. And for some reason, you never actually feel full or satisfied. Did you know that not getting enough sleep is one of the top reasons you could be having cravings? I’m going to break it down for you … because knowledge is power! And then I’m going to give you a clear strategy for dealing with it. Depending on what study you look at, between 1/3 and 1/2 of adults don’t get enough sleep. This matters because your sleep affects two hormones that play a big role in your appetite AND metabolism. First, there’s leptin. It tells your body when you’re full, and it also tells your body when to create energy (i.e., burn calories) to fuel your activities. BUT … when you don’t get enough sleep, your body doesn’t have enough of it. This makes your brain think you don’t have enough energy … which leads to a signal to eat … PLUS another signal to store the calories you eat as backup for ...

This month we’re taking a deep dive into CRAVINGS and there’s a definite time of day they seem to strike the most … At night! In my latest ebook, Crush Your Cravings, I talk about a lot of physical, emotional, and lifestyle causes of cravings. ( access it HERE ) There are some actual biological causes of cravings – and that includes at nighttime! They can happen even if you’re doing everything “right.” By that I mean, you’re not skipping meals, you eat a balanced diet with plenty of fiber and protein, you fuel your workouts, you’re sleeping well, you drink enough water during the day, and you’re not stressed. That’s because your body’s internal clock is wired to make you feel hungry at night. This might have been for survival reasons for our ancestors, but it’s definitely not something we need now! That internal hunger “alarm clock” can make it too easy to pick up a nighttime snacking habit. And that’s especially true if you’re coming off a period of time where maybe you’ve been a ...