Healthy snacks can satisfy you throughout the day, without derailing your weight-loss plan, by staving off hunger and overeating. Planning ahead to have healthy options at your fingertips – so you don’t resort to vending machine junk food – can complement your fitness/diet plan and help you successfully lose weight.
Although you may feel like you’re indulging when you eat between meals, snacks can actually be good for you. Many strict diets allow for snacks to help manage hunger and reduce bingeing. Eating a healthy snack like a piece of fruit with yogurt or some raw veggies with hummus can tame your hunger and power you through a workout, which you’ll need if you’re trying to tone-up, lose weight or get in better shape.
Biggest Loser Challenge Weekly Updates January 5th, 2010
Who says you have to be on TV to take place in The Biggest Loser? Urban Athletics is proud to offer our own local, and much less invasive version of the hit TV show!
Starting the week of January 11th, clients who sign up for our “Elite Performance Package” at any of our locations will be entered into the challenge. We will record your weight at the beginning of the session and again at the end of the session.
Here we are, days after the ball dropping, champagne toasts and midnight kisses. The time of year when millions of people make resolutions as they close one chapter in their lives and toast a new one, hoping 2010 will bring joy, prosperity and…weight loss.
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Ahhhh…fall season, the weather is finally cooling, the leaves are falling – and from Halloween candy to Christmas cookies – the numbers on the scale are climbing. On average, people gain about 1-2 pounds over the holidays. That may seem like less than you’d think, but many studies show these pounds stick around, sometimes all the way through until the following New Year and beyond! Meaning in 5 years you could be 5-10 pounds heavier without even trying.
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Over the past two years we have had the opportunity to help people get into great shape and have a great time doing it. Our biggest reward is watching people make small changes to their lives that lead to big results when it comes to their fitness level and body type. One of our members has a blog that she regularly posts and she has built up quite a following doing it. Most recently she decided to write about her experience in our boot camp.
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Give children the energy they need to make it through the day by packing them a healthy lunch. Studies show that if you provide children with healthy choices to eat at school, they will feel more energized, alert and ready to learn. The following recipes are kid-tested and kid-approved, healthy and easy-to-make.
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Exercising and eating healthfully are critical to maintaining a healthy lifestyle and a svelte physique, however, you should also nurture your emotional wellbeing to stay motivated and have some fun with your new, healthier lifestyle!
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Whether your fitness goal is to lose twenty pounds or gain more overall muscle mass, setting personal goals and working toward them can be very rewarding and doesn’t have to be a painful process!
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Ahhhhhh sugar – the delicious melts-in-your mouth substance that sends your taste buds to Flavor Country and puts you in a euphoric state. Sound more like a drug than a source of nourishment? Well, that’s not too far off when you really look at sugar and its effects on the body.
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