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Clean Eating: Pause Before Eating That Cookie!

It’s yours truly, Wendy Battles, the Clean Eating Coach, coming to you with one of my favorite tips to support weight loss and clean eating: hit the pause button before you indulge in your favorite treat. I know you know what I mean…you’re hankering for something sweet or full of fat even though you know it’s read more

Filed under: Overindulging, Smoothies, Weight loss, clean eating | 3 Comments

Clean Eating: Small & Steady Steps Support Healthy Weight Loss

It’s Wendy Battles here, The Clean Eating Coach, with some post-holiday inspiration to support healthy weight loss. With the new year upon us, and many of us wishing we hadn’t indulged so much during the holidays, the good news is that it doesn’t have to be so hard to get on track.  If you didn’t eat so read more

Filed under: General, Goal setting, Healthy Meals, Weight loss, Whole Grains, clean eating | No Comments

Clean Eating and Weight Loss Go Hand in Hand

I’ve always been of the mind that when we practice a clean eating lifestyle focused on fresh, local food and we give up our addiction to processed foods full of fat, salt and sugar, weight loss becomes exponentially easier. I’m not suggesting that simply eating more clean foods alone will make you lose weight in an read more

Filed under: Healthy Meals, Meal Planning, Weight loss, clean eating | 7 Comments

Clean Eating: Black Bean and Brown Rice Salad

In yesterday’s post I was extolling the virtues of practicing clean eating as a means to lose weight, increase our energy and have overall improved health.  Reducing our dependence on processed foods full of sugar, salt and preservatives, goes along way to preventing chronic diseases that can hobble us as we get older.  And as we read more

Filed under: Healthy Meals, Prevention, Quinoa, Weight loss, clean eating | 1 Comment

Clean Eating: 5 Reasons to Clean Up Your Diet…Like Weight Loss!

I think clean eating is the way to go if you’re serious about losing weight and keeping it off. This isn’t rocket science and the “less is more” theory applies here — less food of a higher quality. What do I mean by clean eating? It’s a way to approach and embrace food as a lifestyle read more

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Exercise: Back on Track At Last

There’s nothing worse than going so far astray of your exercise routine that it’s hard to get back on. But that’s exactly what happened to me this spring.  A series of circumstances conspired against me — an injured knee, getting the shingles and my gym closing — and put me in a workout tailspin as read more

Filed under: Exercise, General, Motivation, Weight loss, weight gain | 1 Comment

Traveling: Healthy Snacks Keep the Weight Off

Even though I’m not exactly an angel when it comes to eating when I’m on vacation (I mean honestly, who really is?), there’s still a part of me that maintains some semblance of healthy eating so all is not lost when I get back home. And that’s exactly how things unfolded this week when we were read more

Filed under: Exercise, Fruit, Healthy lifestyle, Snacking, Weight loss, weight gain | 4 Comments

MomActive: Who Says Weight Loss Has To Be So Hard?

Given that so many of my clients are trying to lose weight in addition to eating more healthfully, I’m always inspired when I hear stories about women that kick some weight loss butt! That’s what I love about my friend Leah Segedie who has lost over 100 pounds the slow and healthy way, not the I’m-on-the-latest-fad-diet read more

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