Easy Baked Pear Chips

Fill your kitchen with warm and comforting aromas from The Healthy Maven‘s delicious spiced pear chips. Low in calories, high in fiber and great for on-the-go: what’s not to love about these crunchy delights? It’s also a great alternative to the typical sugar-laden candies your kiddos might be into.     Print     Easy Baked Pear Chips Ingredients 2...

7 Tricks for a Healthier Halloween

Trick-or-treating is a lucrative business, at least if you’re in the business of collecting calories. Based on the nutrition labels on popular candies, it’s been estimated that the average child accumulates 3,500 to 7,000 calories worth of treats on Halloween night, according to Donna Arnett, Ph.D., of  the University of Alabama-Birmingham’s School of Public Health. Want to know what the scariest...

8 Fitness Halloween Horror Stories

Just in time for Halloween, we asked MyFitnessPal users and our Under Armour teammates for stories about those awkward, painful or downright horrifying moments that can happen while working out. We were mortified for you guys! “In college, I took what I thought would be a nice, relaxing yoga class. For whatever reason, the first class was an extremely hot yoga session. Behind me, a man twice my...

White Bean Turkey Chili

Crowd-pleasing white bean chili from Cooking Light calls for canned beans and chicken broth, making prep convenient. Pureeing the bean mixture makes the soup thicker giving it more body. Cannelini beans will work in a pinch if you cannot find Great Northern beans. This recipe is part of our 30 Healthy Log It Now Recipes e-cookbook! Download your free copy here.     Print     White...

5 Healthy, Kid-Approved Halloween Snacks—No Tricks, Just Treats!

Remember what Halloween used to be like? Plastic, jack-o-lantern buckets filled with candy, candy, and still more candy! Boy, have things changed. Today, experts warn against too much added sugar, and all those individually wrapped goodies and unhealthy treats are suddenly frowned upon. What are kids to do? Bring back the fun—and still keep things healthy—with these homemade Halloween snack ideas! 1....

How to Get Back on Track After Eating That Calorie Bomb

It’s late. You’ve just had a hell of a day juggling your job, kids, expectations and never really being able to step away from your inbox because you have a smartphone. You finally make it home after a 90-minute commute that’s really only 25 minutes without traffic, open your fridge to a plethora of healthy green food choices and think: “Screw it.” Then you order a pizza. This scenario, or one like...

Tired of the Same Ab Workout? Try These 5 Moves With a Buddy

Change is in the air, my friends. The days are getting shorter. The air is getting crisper. The trees are exploding with vibrant colors. Ahhhhhh Autumn. It’s my favorite season of all. But as soon as it arrives, it’s gone again—replaced by the slow, steady march toward Winter. Any day now, we’ll be nestled away in our houses for the long cold months … but not today. There’s still time to squeeze...

5 Quick Bodyweight Butt Exercises

Train like a trainer with this butt workout that Katrina and Karena from Tone It Up love. The quick 20-rep sequence riffs on the simple bridge exercise. I tried it at last weekend’s Tone It Up retreat in Newport Beach, California. The verdict: Total burner—and it only takes a few minutes to complete. To start, come in to bridge position with your back on your mat and feet hip-width apart, heels...

One-Bowl Banana Nut Muffins

Need a healthy, delicious on-the-go breakfast item or just a healthy snack to curb your hunger before dinner? Try Healthy Nibbles & Bits‘s one-bowl banana nut muffins! They’re filled with crunchy oven-baked walnuts and and delicious-smelling spices that are sure to be a crowd-pleaser for your family.     Print     One-Bowl Banana Nut Muffins Ingredients 3/4...

10 Best Yoga Poses for Beginners to Increase Mobility

Yoga has been known to help increase mobility, flexibility, circulation, brain function and memory even after your final savasana—the meditative relaxation pose at the end of a practice. Start each day with this quick flow below to get your blood running, focus your mind, release tension, and set the mood for your entire day. Take these poses in order and hold for at least 5–10 breaths. During each...

18 Hacks for Eating Well on a Budget

When it comes to cutting calories or saving cash, we know tight budgets can be a challenge. When you’re trying to do both, well, that’s even trickier. To help you eat well and stick to your food budget, we recently polled our community and collected some helpful tips and suggestions. I hope these 18 hacks from fellow MyFitnessPal users make eating well while pinching pennies a little bit easier...

5 Ways to Burn More Calories During Your Strength Session

Since the days of Jane Fonda workout videos, aerobic exercise has been crowned as king when it comes to weight loss. Running, biking, swimming and aerobics have all been widely cited as the best ways to burn calories. Recent research, however, offers credence to another method: resistance training. In fact, a new study out of Arizona State University suggests that resistance exercise (aka strength...

10 Tasty Butternut Squash Recipes

Whether you toss it in a salad or blend it up for soup, butternut squash is a tasty (and seasonal!) way to get your daily dose of fiber, vitamin A, potassium and beta-carotene, a powerful cancer-fighting antioxidant.  Need an idea for how to enjoy squash? Try one of these healthy recipes to squash your craving without sabotaging your diet. 1. Roasted Butternut Squash and Lemony Lentil Salad | Clean...

How to Find an Accountabilibuddy

Every day, when I check Facebook, there’s an ad on the side of the screen promising, “one crazy trick” to six-pack abs, packing on muscle, or dropping fat, and that “I won’t believe it!” You might see these ads, too, and hopefully you’re are just as skeptical I am. But I started thinking about it and there is a crazy trick to reaching any and every health and fitness goal. It’s simple. It’s easy....

The Truth About Juice Cleanses

Detox. Shed weight. Purify your body. These are some of the marketing claims designed to make you feel you’ll be light and ethereal after a juice cleanse. Short of shedding those pounds, undergoing a prolonged “cleanse” in which you down glass after glass of juice and eat no solid food is not a solid foundation to a healthy diet. Extracting truth from juice cleanse claims Juice cleansing diets have...

Beer-Braised Ribs & Cauliflower Mash

Fall-off-the-bone tender short ribs require low heat and long cooking time, just perfect for slow cookers. Serve ribs au jus over cauliflower “mashed potatoes.” These ribs are cooked in a beer-infused liquid, but you can substitute the beer with 11/2 cups low-sodium beef broth, if desired. Remember to trim off excess fat, searing all sides and skimming the top after cooking to keep this dish light.     Print     Beer-Braised...

How Far $10 Goes for Snack Food

We know you’re a savvy shopper and we fully support that! You don’t need to break the bank to eat healthy. Stretch your hard-earned money by making many quick, portable snacks at home instead of grabbing them on the go. Don’t believe us? Check out how far $10 can go if you plan out your snacks in advance. from Hello Healthy http://ift.tt/1XtrZEX via...

The 1 Song to Laugh Off Your Sugary Cravings

That dreaded moment when you breeze past a plate of cookies, but realize you’re so close to hitting your calorie cap for the day … drat! Whether you decide to eat your cookie now or enjoy it later, check out this oh-so-hilarious song by our friend, the Cookie Monster. Why? Because this adorable blue fiend struggles with emotional eating, too, and his awesome anthem for emotional eaters...

6 Things Everyone Should Know About Breast Cancer

We hear so much about breast cancer (especially this time of the year) that it’s easy to think we’re on top of it. But science is changing all the time, which means our knowledge of this disease—what causes it, how to prevent it, how to treat it—is constantly evolving. Here’s what you need to know now: 1. Kale is great, but it’s still not enough. A study published in June in the American Journal...

Simple Skirt Steak Stir-Fry

Enjoy budget-friendly, lean skirt steak with Food Fanatic‘s stir-fry. Prepare the steak by cutting against the grain (think: meat fibers); this will help the steak be more tender when you cook it. This quick stir-fry features sizzling steak cooked alongside sweet peppers and aromatic garlic.     Print     Simple Skirt Steak Stir-Fry Ingredients 1...

The Tiny Tweak That Makes Fitness Fun, Effective, and Easy to Stick With Forever

“I practice yoga.” As a personal trainer, I hear people express (or accept) this popular concept without a second thought. But if you said “I practice working out,” people would be very confused. There is something about yoga that allows us to approach it as a lifelong practice; we somehow know we can continue to improve ourselves through yoga forever, without reaching an end or conclusion. I think...