Best of the Food Web: Green Grapes Blog
Welcome to a new section of the Sargent Choice Blog! Every Wednesday this semester we will be posting about a new blog or cooking website that we love! The internet is filled with food websites, and our goal is to arm you with the “Best of the Food Web”!
Eat.Live.Love.Thrive is written by Corinne Dobbas, MS, RD who specializes in weight loss, behavior change, disordered eating, preventative nutrition, heart disease, family wellness, and sports nutrition in Northern California.
Corinne arms you with plenty of tips to “healthify” your meals-happily! With an upbeat attitude, tricks you can easily incorporate into you life, and delicious recipes, her blog is always a great read. Plus she has a great food philosophy, as you can see from this excerpt from the blog:
- Treat food and you right and food will do you well: Food is not your enemy! It is your fuel to live to the fullest. You just need to recognize that you deserve to treat yourself the best. And choosing more of the right fuel is a step in that direction. In choosing healthy options—think foods in their real, whole, unadulterated form—and you will become healthier. And please be sure to eat and COOK healthy foods that you like! If you don’t, you just won’t keep it up. My advice—buy a good healthy cookbook and start having some fun in the kitchen! After all, it’s about a LIFESTYLE, not the four letter word— “diet.”
- The 90:10 rule: Shoot for 90% of daily eats to be healthifying and allow 10% for a treat of choice. I’m not a fan of deprivation … it can lead to bad outcomes.
- Focus on health NOT weight: Simply put, there are other health goals beyond lowering the number on the scale. For example, lifting weights, so you can help prevent osteoporosis or eating less processed food, allowing you to reap the benefits of more essential nutrients. These goals can help you get healthier, no matter what. And just may get you to that lean, green, mean, disease-fighting machine state!
- Get moving: There’s no other way to get around this one! Exercise combined with good nutrition is powerful. It’ll keep your bod in top-notch shape! Find an activity you like and get on it!
- Treat yourself well: Don’t forget you need “me time” too. So make it happen. Sometimes this requires you to say, “NO.” Or, to be a little selfish and that’s okay. Don’t treat others better than yourself—you’ll get worn out.
- Relax like a pro: We all need to feel refreshed. This most often comes from good sleep and the ability to destress. Aim to get in seven hours a night. To destress, take a moment to figure out what it is exactly that’s stressing you out. Once you know what it is, devise a plan that you know will help you destress, and do it!
- Smile and laugh: Surround yourself with those who make you happy, strive to do what you love, and take joy in the little things in life. It’ll make you happier and in turn, I think, healthier.
You won’t find any fad diets, bogus “fat-burning” pills, and processed, non-food like subtances on Eat.Live.Love.Thrive. Check it out for great tips from a registered dietitian, delicious recipes and fresh talk about health!
What is one way you will “healthify” you life this week?
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