Walk to a Healthier You!

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.

Shutdown, Slim Down: Weight, Sleep and Stress

Answer this question: when was the last time you got a good night’s sleep? Not sure? Would you be surprised to know that many Americans exist in a state of chronic sleep deprivation?

National Nutrition Month: Plan to Better Health

Let’s be honest, shall we? We all know we could eat better if we had the time and the motivation. But time is lacking, and it’s hard to get motivated when you’ve made big changes before and experienced less than stellar results. If you’re tired of the vicious yo-yo cycle, you need something more realistic: small, attainable goals that build on each other to produce big results.

Avoid Drinking Your Calories: Drink Swaps

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.

Easy Way To Cut Calories

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.

No Cook Meal Prep Ideas

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.

How To Tighten Skin After Weight Loss

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.

Sugary Sweet and Sinful to Eat

Weighing Your Options: Is Weight Loss Surgery a Good Option?

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

Success from the Start: The Right Way to Get in Shape

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.