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Surprise! Why You Actually Eat MORE In January

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The stuffing, gingerbread cookies and peppermint bark are gone, but new research shows you're probably putting away even more calories than you were over the holidays. (Umm, WHAT?!) Here's why, plus how to rehab your shopping list for a healthier post-holiday season. source Think you ate like crazy during the holidays? You might be consuming more calories  now  than you were when you were loading up on sugar cookies and eggnog. That's the word from a new study published in  PLOS One . For the study, researchers from the Cornell Food and Brand Lab tracked the supermarket spending habits of 207 households and found that, while shoppers filled their carts with more calories during the holiday season than they did throughout the summer and early fall, they bought even more after the New Year than during the holidays. From January to March, they purchased 890 more calories per weekly serving (the total number of calories purchased for each person in the household to eat per we...

Top Tips to Beat the Binge this Easter

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With Easter around the corner, many people trying to keep their weight in check will be starting to panic, and it's little wonder. source Australians scoff around 110,000 tonnes of chocolate each year - translating to a whopping 5.8 kilograms per person[1] per year, along with 42 kilograms of sugar - a staggering 27 teaspoons per person per day[2]. For many people, avoiding the sweet stuff is a daily struggle, at Easter time - with Easter eggs, bilbies and bunnies tempting us at every turn - it might seem near impossible. This, says Accredited Practising Dietitian Duncan Hunter, is where most people slip up. "With temptation all around it's all too easy to opt to ignore your healthy eating plan over the Easter break, thinking you'll get back on track the following week. And while it's not realistic to completely ignore the Easter tradition - and the chocolates that go along with it - there are a few savvy strategies you can employ to make sure you treat yourself (a...

How To Recover From Vacation Weight Gain

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How can you recover from vacation weight gain? If you have gone on vacation lately, you may realize that it isn’t necessarily hard to eat clean.  The again, you’re on vacation, so that means your diet and fitness are on vacation also!  It becomes very easy to indulge in a “vacation binge fest” where you eat and drink everything that looks appealing. What isn’t  AS  easy is recovering from that vacation binge and losing the extra vacation weight gain baggage! Throughout this post I will tell you about my experience during my last vacation binge and what I am doing to get back on track. Vacation Fitness? Thoughts that go through your head early in your vacation: I’m on vacation, I need to let myself relax…  Even with my diet. Damn that Key Lime Pie sure looks good! French fries?  YES!  Double! Beer, margarita, rum punch?  YES!  Line them up! Thoughts that go through your head towards the end of your vacation: Holy crap, why did I eat all of t...

The Time You're Most Likely to Binge

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When you're probably jonesing for junk food —and how to curb the urge When you're tempted to dive face-first into a bag of chips could be tied to your body’s circadian rhythm:  Cravings for sweet, salty, and starchy foods peak in the evening, when hunger levels are also at their highest, according to a new study in the journal  Obesity . Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston kept 12 healthy people in a controlled lab environment to track how circadian rhythms impact food behaviors. What they found? Regardless of what time the subjects woke up or when they’d had their last meal , their desire for sweet, salty, and starchy foods peaked around 8 p.m., as did their feelings of hunger . The takeaway? Our body’s internal clock has a pre-scheduled effect on our appetite, and it wants us to eat more in the evening. While it’s not clear why this happens, the researchers have a theory. “From an evolutionary perspective, it sort of makes sense,” says senior study aut...