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Ingredients for Life #56: David Ingalls, CEO of Zing Bars

April 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

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This week, Dave Ingalls, CEO of Zing Bars joins Romy and Michael to talk about the importance of maintaining safe, healthy blood sugar levels.

David and Romy talk about the importance breakfast plays in setting your blood sugar standard for the day, and how to avoid that “roller coaster” spikes and lows of your blood sugar during the day.

Eating enough fiber and protein every day can help your body safely burn off that extra glucose from carbs.

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Ingredients for Life #53: Romy’s Top Ten Excuses

April 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment

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This week, Romy and Michael discuss Romy’s “Top Ten” excuses she’s heard as to why people don’t eat healthier or exercise more!

Romy and Lorrie also chat about using bee pollen to help alleviate symptoms of spring allergy season, and the best time to start using to mitigate the severity of stuffiness and sneezing.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 [...]

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Ingredients for Life #43: Tracking Your Progress

January 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment

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Lorrie joins Mike and Romy to give an update on her weight loss progress, and she admits to slacking in her food logging, so Romy gives some tips on how to get back into the habit of good, accurate food logging.

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Ingredients for Life #42: The Importance of Attitude

January 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment

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Romy and Michael talk about the important roles happiness and attitude play when you’re embarking on a new weight loss or fitness journey. The psychological impacts of your personal comfort foods, dealing with life events without leaning on those comfort foods to cope, and viewing weight loss as a task instead of a lifestyle path, all of those can be affected by your attitude.

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Ingredients for Life #39: Holiday Indulgences

December 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment

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In this episode, Romy and Mike discuss weight gain during the winter and holiday season, primarily because of an increase in events, family gatherings and celebrations, and possibly because of the temperature change.

Why do people find it so easy to fall out of their eating and exercise patterns during the holiday season, and so hard to get back into the habit afterwards?

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