What to Eat After a Workout
Now that you know what to eat before a workout, it’s time to figure out what to eat after a workout. After exercise, your body needs to refuel, repair, generate muscle growth and restore energy. When you’re in the gym lifting weights, you aren’t building muscle, you’re actually breaking it down and creating small tissue tears. It’s what you do afterward… Read More»
What to Eat Before a Workout
Knowing what to eat before a workout may be just as important as your actual workout! It is crucial to provide your body with the proper fuel from the foods you eat in order to help your body prepare before exercise and recover and refuel after exercise. PRE-WORKOUT: If you’ve gone longer than 4 hours without eating, it’s probably not… Read More»
6 Things That Will Change the Way You Think About Food
One night about 2 years ago, my “food is my favorite thing about life” boyfriend called me up and said he wasn’t sure if he wanted to eat meat anymore. Huh what!? Was I hearing this right? Every day we’re bombarded at all angles by cat videos, friend’s engagement photos, political ads or scandals and stupid… Read More»
The Great Halloween Candy Debate
I’m not going to do the typical nutritionist’s Halloween post about “Healthier Alternatives to Halloween Candy” where I tell you to eat apples instead of Snickers bars. Or the post detailing how many calories are in each candy and how many jumping jacks or minutes on the treadmill you need to burn those calories. Boring! I’m also… Read More»
Simple Solutions for the 3:00pm Crash
Oh snack foods… In general, they are complete crap and offer little to nothing in the way of nutrients, just calories and sugar. When most people think of snacks they think of chips, Little Debbie’s, crackers, candy bars or even a Coke or Diet Coke. Or, if you’re trying to eat healthier, there are plenty… Read More»
Favorite Things Thursday: Blogs Edition
This is the first post in my new series I’m calling These are a Few of my Favorite Things. There are a million different topics my clients ask me about, from what grocery stores to shop in to what protein powders I like to what magazines I get my recipes from or what food documentary they… Read More»
Where to “Eat Local” in the Houston Area
So you’re on board with buying local but where can you do that in the Houston area? I’m about to blow your mind with this list! I started searching out places in the area and putting a list together for myself with an emphasis on The Woodlands/Spring/Conroe side of Houston (because that’s where I am!). I… Read More»
What is THAT in my Food? A Guide to Decoding Food Additives
Additives. Dyes. Chemicals. Hormones. If you’re eating anything that comes in a package, you’re consuming them. How many ingredients in the foods you eat on a daily basis can you not even pronounce, let alone know what they are doing to your body? Sixty-five years ago, everyone knew where his or her food came from: the… Read More»
Drinking Caffeine Before a Workout: Is There a Benefit?
Over half of Americans need a little jolt of java or a gulp of red bull to get them going every morning, but have you ever wondered if that caffeine boost helps or hinders your performance in the gym? Does it increase dehydration? How about delaying fatigue? Can you over-caffeinate? Contrary to popular belief, current research suggests… Read More»
The Best Snack Bars 150 Calories or Less
“What are some easy on-the-go snacks that are healthy?” “What are the best snack bars out there?” I hear these questions every week! Many people head to the cereal bar section and pick up the Special K bars, Fiber One, or Chewy Oatmeal bars. The problem with many of these bars is that they are high in… Read More»