How To Look Beyond The Scale

Have a love-hate relationship with the scale? You’re not alone – most dieters do! Some days you hop on the scale and find you’ve dropped a few pounds. Those days, the scale’s your best friend. Other days, you look down and find the needle hasn’t budged at all. Or worse, that you’ve gained a pound! Those…

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9 Add-Ins for Super Smoothies

As delicious and good-for-you as smoothies can be, it’s possible to make them even better with some interesting add-ins that intensify flavor and boost nutrition. Customize smoothies to suit your needs by mixing one or more of the following surprisingly nutritious ingredients with your favorite drink for meals and snacks. Greek yogurt: With double the…

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You’re Blending Wrong: How to Make a Smoothie

Anyone can throw a random assortment of foods into a blender. But if you want your smoothie both tasty and nutritious, follow these tips from celebrity smoothie-makers Harley Pasternak and Candice Kumai. Sure, we all know how to make a smoothie: Fire up the blender and add some kitchen favorites, right? Wrong. In fact, lack of strategy…

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6 ways to upgrade your sleep

Dieting and exercising, but not seeing the needle move on the scale? You may need more sleep. Not getting enough sleep messes with your hormones big time – which can sabotage weight loss. Here’s what I mean… Lack of sleep spikes your hunger hormone ghrelin and causes leptin, the hormone that makes you feel full, to drop….

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