Tips to stay active during the holiday season

The holidays can be full of joy and happiness but can also be full of stress and chaos. We get to spend time with loved ones doing fun things, but it can also be accompanied by busy schedules and delicious calorie dense foods. Couple that with cold weather, it can make physical activity hard to achieve and unfavorably alter our body composition.

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Emotional eating, overeating, binge eating – is there a difference?

What is emotional eating? It can be positive (eating to celebrate an engagement, cake to celebrate a birthday) or negative (eating for relief, distraction, numbness), and is most often referred to in a negative way. People tend to reach for foods that are nutrient poor (not containing a lot of nutrients) leading to food guilt…

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Atomic Habits – successful behavior change

Atomic Habits by James Clear, goes into vivid detail about why it’s so hard to change our behaviors. The author discusses what we can do to change our bad habits into good ones for long-term behavior change. It’s important for us to take accountability for our actions, and when we are unhappy with ourselves, we must be the ones to change those actions.

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Harvesting and enjoying your garden tomatoes

What is a summer garden without tomatoes? We plant a garden every year, and each year we change it up a little. But one vegetable remains a constant – the tomato. We always have two varieties growing – a cherry or grape tomato and a Roma or beefsteak tomato. Having a summer garden is a great family project from planting, watering, feeding the plants to harvesting the fruit and vegetables. Even coming up with recipes for the bountiful harvest can be fun.

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