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It’s almost June! If you feel like you are not ready for bikini season, then join us on our Squat Challenge. Beginning on June 1st, you will have a set number of squats you must do. The number of squats increases as the month progresses.

For many individuals on a mission to lose weight, hunger pangs can quickly get in the way of shedding those unwanted pounds. As you cut back on calories, your body starts trying out for food. This can wreak havoc on any weight loss plan. Hunger is a big part of why we eat. In early times, hunger was an important survival method. In today’s world, hunger can easily mean forgetting about one’s goals to eat healthily and succumbing to the fast food and junk food industry that is all around us. While it may not always be possible to control the unhealthy foods that surround you, you can work on appetite-control strategies to help you lose weight.

Today is the 9th annual National Walking Day. For the past 9 years, the American Heart Association has claimed the first Wednesday in April as National Walking Day. National Walking Day was created by the American Heart Association’s “My Heart, My Life” initiative to push Americans to adopt a healthier lifestyle.

This is the 3rd month of Nashua Nutrition’s 6-month plan. For this month’s challenge, we ask you to cut down the soda and sugary juices. Drinks that contain added sugar and added flavors have a high-calorie count. Think about the fact that a can of soda (12 fl.oz) can have about 140 calories and 39 grams of sugar. That’s about 8 teaspoons of sugar! If you swap a few of your high calorie, high sugar drinks for low a or no-calorie drink you will save a few hundred calories a day.

We all know by now that calories are essential to weight loss, right? If you’re still not acquainted, a quick primer: Energy balance determines how much you weigh. If you consume more calories than you need, you’ll gain weight. If you create a caloric deficit (by eating less than you need) you’ll lose weight.

Food prepping is a great way to eat well and save money. However, if you’d rather spend three hours of your time doing something more exciting, you can try our “no-cook food prep” idea.  This is a great way to prep food that is an easy, healthy, go-to options sitting in the fridge, but you don’t spend hours cooking these meals.

Although weight loss benefits many areas of our lives, it can take a toll on our skin. When we’re gaining weight, it stretches slowly, over a period of weeks and months and years, to accommodate our growing girth.

Sugar found itself trending in 2014, but the trend status wasn’t a particularly positive one. Instead, it could be considered more of a “negative trend”- sugar was talked about, certainly, but the commentary was not at all flattering.

Especially among medical professionals, the discussion regarding the appropriateness of bariatric procedures is a heated one. With strong proponents on either side of the argument, who’s right? Is bariatric surgery a healthy, valid way to lose weight, or a dangerous tool that fails to promote healthy behavioral change

If it feels like your resolution is the same every single New Year’s, take notice of the following tips. All of them will help you put your best foot forward, even if the last time you stepped in a gym was this time last year. Let’s make 2015 the year it finally sticks for you.

The new year is just around the corner. With a new year, we tend to have new beginnings and new resolutions. This year, Nashua Nutrition wants to help you with your health resolution. If you want to be healthier this year we have a six-month plan to help you reach your goals and be a healthier and happier you. The hardest thing is sticking to your resolutions, but with this plan, you do not have to sacrifice everything at once. Take a look at the month-by-month plan.

Ladies and gentleman, we have a new challenge for you! Remember the June Slim-Down Challenge? This is similar but is a bit shorter and easier to follow. We are doing a 2-week Planksgiving Challenge! As a countdown to Thanksgiving, we have a plank challenge that will engage your abs and help keep your core tight. How does it work? Every day you have to do a plank for that days suggested a time.

Food can be a medicine or it can be an ailment. Inflammation is one example of this. Inflammation is necessary when it comes to healing wounds or protecting the body. The problem is when the foods you eat are causing constant low-grade inflammation. When your body has to deal with this type of inflammation every day for a number of years, your defenses weaken. You may notice achy joints and muscles but eventually, something much worse could come about. Chronic inflammation in the body may play a direct role in a number of serious diseases and illnesses such as strokes, heart attacks, clogged arteries, and memory loss.

Got the munchies but want to avoid weight gain? Read up on our top 10 healthy high-protein portable snacks.

Here are some of our favorite pre - and post - workout snacks. Snacking before and after a workout is a great way to boost your routine. Eating a snack an hour before working out may give you a boost in energy that will help you workout harder. Eating a high-carb snack prior to your workout is one of our favorite ways to give us an extra energy boost. Consuming a protein snack after a workout can help aid fat burn and weight loss. A high protein post workout snack will also aid in replenishing your muscles. Don’t forget to drink water!

Whether your goals are to lose weight or to maintain your current figure, adopting some healthy habits can help you succeed. Here are a few suggestions to help prevent weight gain.

Eating out can be convenient, but it can also thwart your diet attempts.  Read the following tips to help you filter restaurant menus and stick to your health goals.