Our Get Ready for the Gown section will help you get in shape and healthy for your wedding day and beyond. Our fitness and nutrition experts will provide you with a plan to get you gown ready!
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Consult with your physician before starting any new meal plan or making a change in your diet.
Meal Planning Maven Linda Shapiro gives you direction for getting healthy and ready for your gown.
Cleaning Up Your Food Act-Yet Again?
Finally, warmer weather is coming! Many of you have endured a long cold winter and are probably more than ready to peel off some of those layers! For those that have made yet another list of New Year’s resolutions, how many have you kept? If one of those resolutions was to make a commitment to clean up your food act, how are you doing? Did you start out like gangbusters, only to fall prey to too many doughnuts at the office for breakfast, too many trips through the fast food lane for lunch and one too many happy hours after work with your friends? And how many of you are still looking in the mirror with despair wondering if you’ll ever lose that tummy before your next bridal gown fitting?
To be honest, Meal Planning Maven’s spin on New Year’s diet resolutions is this:
Don’t make them, cuz’ ten to one you’ll break them!
Let MPM share a little of her wisdom here… It’s what you do most days of the year that matters most. So instead of declaring on every January 1st an all-out war against going out to lunch, never having a bite of birthday cake with your office mates or swearing off margaritas for the rest of your life, why not take MPM’s more practical lifestyle approach? Ya gotta admit, it’s a lot more fun!
MPM could talk all day about the subject of food deprivation and how it can trip up even the most well-intended dieter. But for the minute, let’s tackle the lunch temptations at the office dilemma. The key to not giving into too many calorie and fat- laden lunch invitations, is to promise yourself to bring a fun, yet healthy lunch to work more days of the week than not. This means you will pinky swear you will not bring the typical boring foods (like a cheese stick and one of those empty calorie but oh
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- so- easy to grab and pack 100 calorie snacks- c’mmon, you know you do it!) that will cause you to ditch your lunch and gorge on that popular Chinese buffet that is around the corner from your office.
It’s all about making choices…
If you eat smart lunches most days, then when you are invited to celebrate your co-worker’s birthday with a pizza, you can choose to indulge without guilt. Why? Because you made the choice for the rest of the week to either bring a healthy lunch from home or eat out intelligently by ordering something like a salad with grilled chicken or shrimp. Of course, you may just decide to forgo the birthday pizza and order a salad instead… afterall, it’s having a good time with friends that counts, not the food!
What? You’re telling MPM you are too tired from working all week while at the same time planning a wedding to spend a few minutes planning healthy lunches to take to work? Well, you literally have no excuses now, because MPM is sharing with you some of her fave pack ‘n go lunches. Even if you are a minimalist when it comes to your brown bag lunches, MPM guarantees you’ll find a bunch in this collection that works. All you have to do is pick a few, do a little food shopping and then wave bye-bye to boring office lunches! (And don’t forget the ice pack if you don’t have a fridge at work.)
With Meal Planning Maven’s minimal prep- lunches on the run, healthy fast food takes on a whole new meaning. If you make an effort to adopt some of these simple suggestions, you will look forward to your next bridal gown fitting. You will also be very proud of yourself for learning to incorporate these helpful tools into your and your fiancé’s lives as you begin your marriage together. Maintaining a healthy eating lifestyle takes
April/May 2011
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