Meal Options Ideas for meals are a struggle. For those of you that are on a lunch and dinner plan or dinner only plan here are some ideas that you can prep at home or order from our online store. I know that some of you already go to the store and "choose your own", but I would like to remind you that you can go in and order extra items to make your life even easier. Your calorie count is based on your daily calories. Breakfast Options ½ c low fat cottage cheese/1 c fruit ½ c low fat cottage cheese/1 slice whole grain bread 3 egg whites and 1 whole egg (scrambled, omelette style, boiled, poached) can...
Individuals use Just Right Eating for several different reasons. Not everyone uses it for weight loss, purposes include athletic performance, nutrition and convenience, managing and preventing disease, and other miscellaneous purposes. However, if used for weight loss there is one simple, scientific premise surrounding weight loss – energy balance, or in other words, consumption vs. expenditure. There are a millions of different diets out there, but it all boils down to consumption vs. expenditure and one that you can commit to and value. Here at Just Right a nutritionist has designed a 7 day menu including breakfast, lunch, dinner and a snack. This menu has the proper balance of percentages of complex cho’s, lean proteins, and healthy fats - the...
The “fat-burning zone” was once regaled as the go-to method of exercise. Exercisers would jump on a stair climber and exercise for hours. Nowadays, we demand results in less time whereas research has deemed this actually more beneficial for our goals – short period of time with high intensity intervals. We are burning more calories and creating and opportunity to burn fat long after the workout is over. Resistance training has also been recognized for its fat burning effectiveness, not necessarily a big calorie burn, but indirectly it affects the fat burning effect. To explain, here is a brief explanation of the dynamics of the body’s physiological systems. When we create hypertrophy we are creating lean muscle mass, which, in...
Ladies, ever had a case of the munchies after drinking a cocktail or a glass of wine? This "apéritif effect" is well known, but now science can explain it.A new study measuring the brain's role in mediating caloric intake following alcohol consumption among women has found that alcohol exposure sensitizes the brain's response to food aromas. The research, led by William J. A. Eiler II, PhD, of the Indiana University School of Medicine's departments of medicine and neurology, showed that a higher food intake linked to alcohol does not rely entirely on the oral ingestion of alcohol and its absorption through the gut. The study was published in the July issue of the journal Obesity (2015; 23 [7], 1386-93)."The brain,...
While there’s likely no behavior more important to over-all health than exercise, in the real world exercise doesn’t drive weight loss.Have you ever eaten anything “because you exercised”? An extra portion? A higher-calorie choice? A reward for your hard work? Or have you ever been hungrier because you exercised? And once you start eating in response to your exercise, exercise’s weight benefits quickly disappear. Exercise has a tremendous impact on us psychologically and physiologically, and in regard to weight management, those impacts are both for better and for worse. While exercise may lead us to unknowingly consume more calories as a reward for our exertion than the calories we burned exercising in the first place, there’s no doubt that exercise...
