by Amber O'Neal | Jun 13, 2006 | Atlanta dietitian, Atlanta personal training, Atlanta prenatal workouts, Atlanta yoga, diet, healthy lifestyle
AppetizerSkip lunch LESS often. It’s rare that I actually skip a meal b/c I tend to get cranky and restless after about 4-5 hours without food, but when there is a meal to be skipped, it’s usually lunch. This is a bad idea. Lunch is the mid-day meal that re-energizes...
by Amber O'Neal | Jun 12, 2006 | Atlanta dietitian, Atlanta personal training, Atlanta prenatal workouts, Atlanta yoga, fitness, healthy lifestyle, Nutrition, nutritionist, weightloss, wellness
Appetizer Be MORE disciplined about writing down what you eat. Keeping a food diary can help you develop a more realistic view of how much (or how little) you are eating. It will also allow you to identify triggers that typically cause overeating (i.e. Late-afternoon...
by Amber O'Neal | Jun 11, 2006 | diet, diets, healthy lifestyle, wellness
Appetizer Develop a MORE positive body image. Living a healthy lifestyle, is not only about what you do but also about what you think. Body image is:(1) How you perceive your physical appearance(2) How you feel about your appearance(3) How you feel about your body(4)...
by Amber O'Neal | Jun 10, 2006 | fitness, healthy lifestyle, working out
AppetizerGuess LESS. Huh? What I mean is don’t rely on guessing when it comes to figuring out how hard you should be pushing yourself during a workout. If you’re serious about getting the body that you want, you need facts & figures – not hunches & hopes. The...
by Amber O'Neal | Jun 9, 2006 | eating out, empty calories, fast food, food, healthy lifestyle, hidden calories, weight loss, weightloss, wellness
AppetizerEat at McDonald’s® MORE often. Considering that Super Size Me is one of my favorite movies (a documentary of how a steady diet of McDonald’s food completely destroyed a man’s health), I never thought I would say that, but there’s a first time for everything....
by Amber O'Neal | Jun 8, 2006 | fitness, healthy lifestyle, weight loss, weightloss, wellness, work out, working out
Appetizer Spend LESS time looking for a “good” parking space. In the amount of time you spend driving up and down the aisles in the parking lot at work, in front of Target, or at the mall, you could have just parked and walked up to the front door. By parking in the...
by Amber O'Neal | Jun 8, 2006 | diet, fitness, healthy lifestyle, weight loss, weightloss, wellness
Appetizer (More or Less Philosophy Tip of the Day) Eat MORE Yogurt. Yep, that’s right. I’m actually telling you to eat more of something because yogurt has been proven to actually help you lose weight. Studies show that women who added yogurt to their...