If you’re participating in The Passover Challenge, the most important two tips I can give you are: 1. Be Prepared 2. Stay Full How do you do this ? Snack! Prepare yourself snacks for the day and carry them with you wherever you go. Keep snacks in your car, keep snacks in your purse! If [...]

The Passover Challenge begins next week and I’m on a mission to help you get ready for it. Last week I posted ideas for a healthy breakfast while you’re on The Passover Challenge. Today I wanted to go over some great lunch ideas. Once again, feel free to add to the list. Every idea helps! [...]

14 days and counting until The Passover Challenge begins. Over 20 people have signed and there is still time if you want to join in on the fun! Here is the scoop: For eight days (April 8 -15) we are going to eliminate any and all bread and processed products from our diet (including kosher for [...]

Passover is quickly approaching ! Whether you celebrate this holiday or not, you can still participate in The Passover Challenge. For those of you who don’t know, for a period of eight days, people who celebrate Passover can not eat anything that has been leavened. The long and short: Way back in the day, Jews fled Egypt and didn’t [...]

The idea of having a specific day to celebrate love is kinda nice. The fact that chocolate covered cherries have taken over is a bit infuriating! Why is it that every holiday we celebrate is centered around food!? And on a day that we’re supposed to feel loved, we over indulge on chocolate and wake up feeling awful! [...]

I know I’ve posted about how to drink and eat in moderation, what appetizers to avoid and tricks for staying away from food you don’t really want. Having said all this- over the next day I want you to keep all those tips and tricks tucked away in your baby toe. This way they are [...]

I have to admit, nibbling on appetizers is one of my favorite ways to eat. It’s also one of the easiest ways to find yourself off track. Especially because there are so many different options! Many people offer this advice: Eat before you go! This way you won’t be ravenous when you get there and your less likely to eat everything [...]

Alcohol is pretty much a glass of empty calories. The extra calories you consume (but don’t need) have no where to go! Your body does not excrete them in some fancy way, it keeps them! Holds onto them “in case of emergency!” Here’s the scoop: what your body doesn’t need, it stores and eventually turns it [...]

Although this scenario plays out any time of the year, it seems to happen almost every day during the winter holidays. You get to the office and ‘Joe’ or ‘Susie’ has brought in a dozen donuts, a box of brownies or a plate of desserts from the party that no one finished. What to do? I’m sure [...]

This is not to discourage you, this is honest, realistic advice. If you’re planning on starting to change the way you eat (for the better) this month, might I suggest you wait. Now, I am by no means saying you should throw in the towel over the next month, don’t get me wrong. What I [...]