Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. By Mike
Aha! You thought we weren’t actually doing the 100 Push-up Challenge, didn’t you? In fact, we just started week 3 last night. And boy was it hard!
As a review, the hundred push-up challenge is a 6-week-long training program that will get you to the point of [...]
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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 3 Update
July 15th, 2008 — , Endurance Training, News, Weight Management from Mike @ Building Nutrition
The 100 Pushup Challenge
June 26th, 2008 — , Health & Fitness, Weight Management from Mike @ Building Nutrition
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By Mike
How many push-ups can you do? Well, right now I can’t do 100, but I plan on trying! And I’ll keep you abreast of my progress through that nifty bar graph on the sidebar.
At HundredPushUps.com, you’ll find an initial test and a 6-week training program that [...]
Playing the “Pick a Floor” Game
June 17th, 2008 — , Health & Fitness, Miscellaneous, Weight Management from Mike @ Building Nutrition
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I decided to play a new fitness game today. I happen to work on the 8th floor of a 12-story building. I get on the elevator in the basement (no “up” stair access on that level) every morning, then sit at my desk for the next [...]
Reworking Your Lunch Hour
June 3rd, 2008 — , Health & Fitness, Self-Support, Weight Management from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Many of us have the privilege of a daily lunch “hour” to eat, run errands, check email, etc. If you are in an environment in which your lunch break is truly your own, how do you spend it?
If you do not do so already, have you [...]
Get Fit with Wii Fit!
May 21st, 2008 — , Health & Fitness, Miscellaneous, Weight Management from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. This week, all across America, Nintendo Wii is launching the Wii Fit, a video game that is geared to help you do just that–get fit! The game comes with a Balance Board, which is used for all exercises. You can do Yoga, aerobic exercises, balance exercises, [...]
Are You At Risk For Osteoporosis?
May 2nd, 2008 — , Health & Fitness, Weight Management from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Osteoporosis, or a disease in which your bones become more porous and therefore break more easily, will affect 1 of 3 women and 1 of 5 men over the age of 50 years. Are you at risk, and what can you do to lessen your risk [...]
Coping with Fast Food
April 24th, 2008 — , Foods, Health & Fitness, Weight Management from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
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Are you plagued by the Fast Food Devil? Do you feel like you can’t get enough of Fast Food? What DO you do?
My husband loves fast food–KFC, Taco Bell, Arby’s, and Wendy’s are a few of his favorite places. Before we had our “no [...]
Quick and Easy Meals for Diabetics
April 14th, 2008 — , Cooking, Foods, Health & Fitness, Weight Management from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. How many of us want to eat healthy food but don’t have the time or the ability to cook “good” meals? Well, I stumbled upon a cookbook recently that gives a lot of “down-to-earth” recipes but that are healthy and tasty at the same time. [...]
Is Snacking Good for You?
March 22nd, 2008 — , Food, Foods, Forever Diet, Meals, Sleep, Stress Management, Weight Management, breakfast, eating, energy, mypyramid, nutrient, nutrients, nutrition, snack, snacking from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. A friend of yours may tell you that you shouldn’t snack between meals; someone else may tell you that you should. Who’s right?
Do you know the difference between snacking and having a snack? In my definition:
Snacking is continuously eating or picking at food throughout the [...]
Dietary Fats–Sorting Through the Types
March 19th, 2008 — , Cooking, Foods, Health & Fitness, Weight Management, calories, fat, heart disease, saturated fat, trans fat, unsaturated fat from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. As we continue along through National Nutrition Month®, our final key message is: Find the healthy fats when making food choices. By choosing polyunsaturated or monounsaturated fats, you can keep your saturated fats, trans fat, and cholesterol low.
Not all fats are created equal. Some fats can help [...]
How to Read Food Nutrition Labels
March 19th, 2008 — , ADA, Foods, Health & Fitness, Weight Management, calories, carbs, diet, dietitian, fat, fiber, food label, healthy, mypyramid, national nutrition month, nutrients, nutrition, nutrition label, protein, registered dietitian, salt, saturated fat, sodium, trans fat, vitamin from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. The next to last key message being promoted for National Nutrition Month® 2008 is:
Read food labels to get nutrition facts that help you make smart food choices quickly and easily.
It is important to know how to read a food label in order to know [...]
Take the Stairs!
March 16th, 2008 — , Exercise, Health & Fitness, Weight Management, calories, physical activity, walk from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. How many times are you at work, standing in line for the elevator? How often do you take the elevator or escalator at the mall or at the workplace instead of taking the stairs? For those of us who are able to take the stairs, why don’t [...]
Weight Loss Expectations
March 13th, 2008 — , Exercise, Health & Fitness, Sleep, Stress Management, Weight Management, calories, diet, eating, energy, fat, goals, hydration, nutrient, nutrients, training, weight loss from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Watching The Biggest Loser each week, I notice that contestants lose between 0-15 pounds a week (and even these numbers vary). For the average person trying to lose weight, are these numbers realistic? And, do you, the viewer of The Biggest Loser, get discouraged when [...]
Cheap Weight ManagementNutrition Myths
March 11th, 2008 — , ADA, Food, Health & Fitness, Weight Management, calories, carbohydrate, diet, eating, fiber, healthy, national nutrition month, nutrient, nutrients, nutrition, protein, vegetables, weight gain from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Welcome back to yet another day of National Nutrition Month®! To keep with the theme of “Nutrition: It’s a Matter of Fact”, I would like to discuss another key message (this is key 8 of 10, so we’re almost done!):
Don’t fall prey to food myths and [...]
Happy Registered Dietitian Day! And 10 Reasons to See an RD
March 9th, 2008 — , Forever Diet, Health & Fitness, Weight Management, children from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. That’s right! Today is the first annual Registered Dietitian Day, so if you see your friendly dietitian today, wish him or her a happy day! And no, I didn’t make this day up.
On this day, think of taking care of your nutritional health and schedule an appointment [...]
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Your Diet: Looking at the Big Picture
March 8th, 2008 — , Food, Forever Diet, Health & Fitness, Weight Management, breakfast, diet, eating, healthy, heart, mypyramid, national nutrition month, nutrition, unhealthy from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. The theme of National Nutrition Month® is “Nutrition: It’s a Matter of Fact”. The past few days, we have been discussing the key messages to this month’s theme. Another key message is:
Look at the big picture: No single food or meal makes or breaks a healthful [...]
Good and Bad Foods - Not What You Think
March 7th, 2008 — , Food, Foods, Health & Fitness, Weight Management, american dietetic association, calories, chocolate, diet, eating, fiber, healthy, healthy eating, ice cream, mypyramid, national nutrition month, nutrient, nutrients, nutrition, vitamin from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. I hope that you’re enjoying National Nutrition Month® as much as I am! As you may remember, the theme for this month is “Nutrition: It’s a Matter of Fact“. On that note, one of the key messages from the American Dietetic Association is:
“Think nutrient-rich rather than [...]
Balance is Key to Weight Management
March 6th, 2008 — , Exercise, Forever Diet, Health & Fitness, Weight Management, calories, diet, disease, eat healthy, energy, fitness, heart, marathon, mypyramid, national nutrition month, nutrition, physical, physical activity, walk from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. March is National Nutrition Month® and Building Nutrition will be posting daily on various nutrition topics. Be sure to subscribe to our RSS Feed or our email newsletters to stay up-to-date.
As you may remember, the nutrition theme for this month is “Nutrition: It’s a Matter of Fact“. [...]
The (Nutrition) Facts of the Matter
March 5th, 2008 — , Foods, Health & Fitness, Research, Weight Management, calcium, children, diet, dietitian, mypyramid, national nutrition month, nutrients, nutrition, registered dietitian, supplement, vitamin from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. The theme of National Nutrition Month® is “Nutrition: It’s a Matter of Fact”. As I mentioned previously, one of the key messages is:
The best nutrition advice is based on science. Before adopting any changes to your diet, be sure the information is based in scientific [...]
MyPyramid Meal Plan
March 2nd, 2008 — , Food, Foods, Forever Diet, Health & Fitness, Motivation, News, Weight Management, eating, healthy, mypyramid, national nutrition month, nutrition, physical, physical activity from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Welcome to another happy day of National Nutrition Month®! As you may remember, the theme for this month is “Nutrition: It’s a Matter of Fact“. One key point to the month is that you should follow sound advice and science when eating healthy. A great place [...]
Facts not Fads
March 1st, 2008 — , ADA, Health & Fitness, News, Weight Management, american dietetic association, building nutrition, calories, diet, dietitian, eating right, fitness, food safety, healthy, nutrient, nutrients, physical activity, registered dietitian, supplement, vitamin from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. March is National Nutrition Month® and Building Nutrition will be posting daily on various nutrition topics. Be sure to subscribe to our RSS Feed or our email newsletters to stay up-to-date
So often, we turn to the latest “quick fix” to lose weight or get healthier. How many [...]
Give yourself a hug!
February 25th, 2008 — , Health & Fitness, Motivation, Self-Support, Stress Management, Weight Management, bodies, fat, love, respect, self-image from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. And while you’re at it, say something nice to yourself!!!
Living and working in a high-paced area, I notice that a lot of what we say is negative. We are quick to judge others and even quicker to judge ourselves. How often have we looked in the mirror [...]
Safeway’s “Eating Rightâ€: Are You Really Eating Right?
February 19th, 2008 — , Foods, Health & Fitness, Weight Management, calories, carbohydrate, diet, eating, eating right, frozen, healthy, low sodium, nutrient, nutrition, protein, safeway, turkey from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. I recently tried Safeway’s line of frozen entrees, specifically “Eating Right Baked Turkey“, and I must say that I was disappointed in the quality and the nutritional profile. I had been a big fan of many Lean Cuisine and Healthy Choice entrees, so I thought that Safeway’s [...]
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10 Tips for A Successful New Year’s Resolution
December 29th, 2007 — Health & Fitness, Motivation, Self-Support, Weight Management, family, goals, motivation, new years, pace, resolution, rest, smoking, strength training, walk from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
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Many of us are going to embark on 2008 by setting some sort of a New Year’s resolution, even if we tell ourselves we won’t. But many of us (myself included) have set those NY resolutions in the past and by the end of January have [...]
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Nutrition Questions for Your Child’s Doctor
November 19th, 2007 — Exercise, Food, Foods, Health & Fitness, Weight Management, appetite, calories, diet, disease, eating, fat, nutrition, pediatric, pediatrician, registered dietitian, weight gain, weight loss from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. As the temperature drops, the number of kids getting sick usually increases. This might mean taking your kids to the doctor’s office. While you are there, whether it be for a check-up, routine physical, or for a sick visit, you should make sure to talk to [...]
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18 Ways to Eat Healthy During the Holidays
November 12th, 2007 — Cooking, Food, Foods, Health & Fitness, Weight Management, buffet, dessert, diet, family, fat, fatty, fiber, food safety, healthy eating, holiday eating, nutrition, snack, turkey, walk from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Are you one of the many Americans who gains weight between Thanksgiving and Christmas? How can we indulge on our favorite foods without gaining weight? (and needing to buy bigger clothes after the season ends)
The Thanksgiving season is a wonderful time to enjoy our families, our friends, [...]
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Eating Healty to Avoid the “Conference Butt”
October 15th, 2007 — Food, Health & Fitness, Weight Management, breakfast, calories, conference, dessert, diet, eating, meeting, rest, soda, treat, walk from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. So, I was at another conference this week, and I was excited to see that we were provided breakfast and lunch for free, along with an afternoon snack. The conference was in one big room, and since we were in a hotel near an airport, the area [...]
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“Get up off your couch and walk!”
September 12th, 2007 — Exercise, Fat March, Health & Fitness, Motivation, Sleep, Stress, Stress Management, Weight Management, aerobic, appetite, endurance, fat, joints, marathon, motivation, rest, strength training, track, walk, walking, weight loss from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. That’s what Loralee from the “Fat March” said to motivate the rest of us.
“It’s about how much you eat.”
“You can do anything you set your mind to”
“believe in yourself”
There’s no magic to it. These participants went from not even being able to walk 1 mile to walking [...]
You can’t target fatty areas
August 21st, 2007 — Abs, Exercise, Weight Management, burn calories, calories, elliptical trainer, fat, fatty, marathon, muscle, stationary bike, strength training, tone, treadmill, walk, weight training, workout from Mike @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Ever since I was about 5 years old, I’ve been obese. It wasn’t until I left college that I really got things under control. I’m still a chunky dude, but my proportions have changed from all fat to half fat. Last year, I even ran a marathon [...]
Marathons and Weight
July 5th, 2007 — Endurance Training, Food, Health & Fitness, Weight Management, building nutrition, calories, carbs, eating, energy, fat, marathon, physical activity, protein, running, training, weight loss from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Mike, aka CleverDude, published a post the other day about how money and marathons are related. With his permission, I will post part of his advice, as I think it pertains to building nutrition and increasing physical activity in general.
“While training last year, I knew [...]