Celebrating Your Uniqueness Doesn’t End With Food

Have you ever stood in the grocery store at a complete loss on where to go? If you swing by the veggies and fresh fruit section, you know you’re on the right track. Until…OMG, organic or homegrown? The meat department isn’t any better! Fish? Yeah, but which one has the most antioxidants? The most protein? [...]

Ignorance Is Bliss: The Flipside of Eating Well

When you know better, you do better. That’s what Oprah says anyways. So you’d assume that after finding the alkaline diet, eliminating dairy, gluten and sugar from my diet, and witnessing the benefits first hand, I’d never look back to the foods that left me feeling less than wonderful. You’d assume wrong. I had researched the [...]

How Many Restrictions Is Too Many?

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I’m dealing with TMJ, which means that everything I eat is either in liquid form or soft enough that it doesn’t require proper chewing. Needless to say, this puts quite the cramp in my eating style. On top of that, as you know, I’m a pescatarian (meaning [...]

Liquid Diet, Take Two

It’s back to smoothies and soups for me. My TMJ has flared up again in a big way, and so, for the past few days, I’ve been on a liquid diet. Again. I’m hopeful that this flare won’t last as long as the last one. After all, I’m doing the liquid diet thing solely to [...]

Is Everything in Moderation Setting You Up for Failure?

If you’ve read more than one post on this here site, you’ve probably come across the phrase “everything in moderation.” We use it all the time—and live that philosophy—because we believe that there are no foods that should be completely off limits. I think I’ve used this analogy before, but it’s like when a server [...]

Natural Disaster Diet Disaster

Hi, my name is Erin, and I’m a Sandy survivor. I kid, but Superstorm Sandy was no joke. I wrote about it over on Mamas yesterday and today, sharing my Sandy experience and lessons learned. Another lesson I learned? It’s hard to eat healthy during natural disasters. Whereas usually I eat healthy sandwiches and big [...]

How Nutritionist Joy Bauer Eats

You guys know how I hit up Atlantic City with the family so I could attend a few events at the Sweat AC fitness festival recently, right? Well, in addition to working out with Jillian Michaels and her kicking my rear and, well, entire body, I also had the opportunity to attend roundtable interviews with some of the big names [...]

There’s a Pumpkin Spice Latte-Flavored Monkey on My Back

When I find something I like, I want it all the time. Tell me that it’s only available for a limited time? You can pretty much double that desire. Which might explain why I’m struggling with PSLA, also known as Pumpkin Spice Latte Addiction. Here in Florida, the weather is juuuust beginning to cool down [...]

5 Things Kristen Has Learned Living a Healthy Lifestyle

As part of our second-annual Back to Basics Week, each FBG is sharing five things living a healthy lifestyle has taught her. Read on for our serious—and fun—life lessons! I’ve been active my entire life, but I’ve gone through varying periods of exercising almost daily and eating really, really well (like, soooo much steamed broccoli), [...]

Tri Training and Intuitive Eating: I’m FAILING

I’m back on an official training program for some upcoming races (a 10k in October and an Olympic tri in November, and probably some sprint triathlons and 5Ks in between), and I’ve been going hard. There have been a lot of two-a-days (which, by the way, is so much easier when you get up early [...]

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