Should you avoid grains for weight loss?

Grains are a hot topic right now... books like "Grain Brain" and "Wheat Belly" are advocating no grains and gluten-free options are available in most restaurants now.

So should you avoid grains to help you lose weight and live a longer, healthier life?

There's 2 major things for you to consider before answering that question.

Watch today's Take Control Tuesday episode and find out if eating grains is helpful or harmful for your goals.

Take Control Now Question

What confusion do you have about grains? What's the greatest insight you gained from this video?

Comment below.

The easiest way to know if you're working-out hard enough to benefit from it

In today's episode I share the easiest and most cost-effective way to know if you're working out hard enough to benefit from your exercise.

But first, remember that if you have 70+ pounds to lose, exercise is NOT the most effective and important tool in your tool box to start losing 1-3 pounds a week. Exercise is more important to improve your mood, energy, sleeping better and the list of exercise benefits goes on.

It's a lot easier to start exercising and hard enough, once you're already feeling better from eating optimally and having lost some weight.  Once you're there or are ready to work on exercise, keep this easy, fun and evidence-based (1) tool in your pocket to ensure you're maximizing your workouts...

Once you've watched, answer today's Take Control Now question....

"What exercise will you do this week to use the talk test?"

Tell me in the comments so I can hold you accountable 😉

Love and Leafy Greens,

Trish

P.S. Here's today's reference 1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25010379

How Giving Yourself Credit Can Help You Lose Weight and Maintain It

I'm share a simple exercise you can do everyday to help you implement giving yourself credit so you can relieve yourself of self-hate talk (which is needed because you don't deserve to do that to yourself!) and more.

Once you've watched today's episode answer today's Take Control Now Question...

Take Control Now Question

"What's one thing you deserve to give yourself credit for today?

Comment below so we can all congratulate you because YOU DESERVE IT.