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In this recent Arizona Midday segment, Romy talks about the importance of protein in your diet, for overall health as well as for healthy weight loss.
Ingredients For Life #51: Dr Joan Mathews Larson
March 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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This week’s special guest is author and founder of the Health Recovery Center Dr Joan Mathews Larson. She has pioneered successful treatment for alcohol addiction by combining nutrition with biochemical treatments as a way of treating deficiencies in the brain that are the likely underlying causes of addiction.
Ingredients For Life #50: Benefits of Exercise
March 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Exercise helps not only with physical fitness, but also mental acuity and emotional balance, so some level of exercise every day not only improves your metabolism and eating habits, but also your overall wellbeing.
If you can do 30 minutes of moderate cardio first thing in the morning before eating breakfast, you can increase your body’s fat-burning efficiency — but you must eat immediately after exercising to avoid kicking into a false starvation mode.
Ingredients For Life #49: Food and Family
March 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Romy and Michael talk about how ultimately, you can really only prepare food and eat for yourself, and it’s okay if the entire family eats differently from each other. Everyone doesn’t eat the exact same foods when eating out at a restaurant, so expecting everyone to eat all same at home is counterintuitive.
Ingredients for Life Video #3: Guilt-Free Snacking
March 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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This is a recent Arizona Midday segment features Romy talking about healthier ways to snack, and improve your weight loss progress at the same time.
Ingredients For Life #48: Weightloss Journey: Ashley’s Story
February 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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This week, Romy and Michael talk with Ashley Olm, a former intern of Romy’s who is currently studying to be a doctor of physical therapy, about her weghtloss journey and the changes she’s made in her eating habits.
Ashley talks about her time working with Romy 2 years ago, and how that got her to change how she looked at her relationship with food and the changes she’s made to adjust to eating after her participation in competetive sports was over.
Ingredients for Life #47: Diets: What Works, What Doesn’t
February 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Romy and Michael discuss the popular diet plans, what about them draws people in, and especially what works and what doesn’t.
The main thing they all have in common is that they adhere to starvation style techniques to help people achieve fast results, but aren’t sustainable over the long term.
They also talk about some of the best tactics for sustained, healthy weight loss.
Ingredients for Life #46: Rebuilding After Weightloss
February 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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First, Romy and Michael chat about lifestyle changes, keeping and sustaining them, especially when you’re out and about; and also about rebuilding muscle and strength after losing the fat. Next, Romy reads an email from Nick about the tips he’s been able to successfully apply to his life and lifestyle. He’s lost 80lbs by using [...]
Ingredients for Life #45: Weightloss Journey: Kim’s Story
February 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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This week, Kim Graham, one of Romy’s corporate wellness clients, shares the story of her weightloss journey.
Kim talks about the health issues that the weight gain had caused her, and the benefits of the learning about nutrition, fitness and wellness — from eliminating the number of medications she needed to take, a new awareness of her emotional eating, and a better connection with her family in addition to the weight loss.
Ingredients for Life #44: Snacking Habits and Talking Probiotics
January 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Picking up from a previous conversation, Romy, Michael and Lorrie talk about eating habits that people can fall into — eating to alleviate boredom or for entertainment, emotional eating, mindless or distracted eating, and other related types of habitual eating patterns that fall outside of the typical hunger or nutritional needs.
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