This article, found on CNN.com, doesn't need much of an introduction. These are five smart, healthy, and easy tips, which really have "no gimmicks" and are right in line with what I try to teach my clients. On the list:  

Try New Foods

Cook Dinner More Often

Eat More Whole Grains

Eat Breakfast Every Day

Snack More Healthfully

For the How's and Why's, check out the full article below:

Link to Eat Smart: Five important goals to improve your diet - CNN.com

To a healthy, happy, and humorous life, LIVE...

Stacey White

aka Coach

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Link to 212 The Extra Degree Movie

This is a short movie clip for anyone looking for motivation, inspiration, or that extra edge. You might wanna go out and run a marathon after watching it. Hope you enjoy! 

Stacey White

aka Coach

 "If the choice is between living for today and planning for tomorrow, I choose YES!"

Link to Line between overeating and binge disorder is a thin one - CNN.com  

This is a fascinating article on binge eating, and I would encourage you to read it, as well as take the Overeaters Anonymous test that can help identify whether or not you are a binge eater (and where you can go for assistance). So much of this article rang true for me from back in the days when I used to diet--I would eat "perfectly" when I was with others, or even on my own, most of the time. But then, I would make up for it by inhaling any and every "bad" thing I ate when on my diet. I felt as if I couldn't trust myself. The next day, I would start my "diet" all over again, even more restrictive this time, and punish myself by overexercising to rid myself of all of the extra calories. It is a cycle, it is draining, and it consumes our lives. Just because we are not starving ourselves all the time or purging does not make it any less of an eating disorder. I'll be happy to hear your thoughts.

Stacey White

aka Coach

Exercising your Bottom Line

Better bottom line (click to read full article)

Programs that create healthier employees can mean big reductions in health insurance costs

Dallas Business Journal - January 12, 2007

by Lisa Tanner

Staff Writer

When I read this article, it gave me that "this is what I have been saying all along" type of feelings. Many people see the work that I do with health and wellness, and the work that I do with organizations, to be completely separate things. In fact, they are one in the same, working together as a continuum rather than a polarity. The "bottom line" is that employees are people first. People experience hight levels of stress, lack of motivation, low self-esteem and lack of confidence, the list goes on and on. And these people bring these issues to the workplace....still don't see the connection? Employers that are on the cutting edge are beginning to see the connection, providing employees with access to health coaches, smoking cessation programs, benefits that include gym memberships, nutritional counseling, etc.  Happy, healthy people means happy, healthy empoyees. And that is the bottom line!

There is no magic pill....when are you guys going to believe me? Anyhow, if you insist on relying on external tools to help you in the battle of the bulge, here is a credible article that I found on CNN.com that might help you make a more informed decision about which "diet pill ingredients" to choose (good news for all of you Seattle-lites: coffee made the list!), and which to steer clear of.

My 2 cents penny: stick to good old fashioned eating healthy most of the time (5-6 small meals throughout the day in the most natural state possible) and working out (try to break a sweat at least 3 times a week). Also, never underestimate the power of living a stress free life and sleep. That's been my magic pill!

Stacey White

aka Coach

Link to Get the diet scoop: 6 promising supplements, 6 to avoid - CNN.com