New! Create Meals, Take Photos and Share It All on MyFitnessPal

We all have foods — and meals — that we eat regularly. Maybe you start every morning with an egg sandwich, coffee and a banana. Or you cook spaghetti and meatballs with garlic bread on Thursday nights. Or your favorite afternoon snack is a peanut butter and pickle sandwich with a glass of milk. (Hey, we’re not judging.) Most of us are creatures of habit, and some foods are just better together. That’s...

How MyFitnessPal Empowered Me to Beat My Eating Disorder

If you’re one of the millions of people worldwide who use MyFitnessPal, you already know it’s a great tool to help you lose weight, eat right, track your diet, exercise and, overall, lead a healthy lifestyle. It did all these things for me. But it also helped me do something far more profound: It empowered me to defeat my eating disorder. My story isn’t rare: An estimated 30 million Americans battle...

Recipe: Baked Parsnip Fries with Curry-Lime Yogurt Dip

Parsnips are carrots’ forgotten beige cousins. These sweet, starchy root veggies are full of fiber, potassium and vitamin C.  Our garlic parsnip fries are topped with Parmesan and a spicy curry lime yogurt dip that will make you forget about fast food.     Print     Baked Garlic Parmesan Parsnip Fries with Spicy Yogurt Dip Ingredients 1 tablespoon...

How to Establish a Healthy Evening Routine

We’ve all been there: After a long day at the office, you pick up takeout on the way home, zone out in front of the TV and fall asleep scrolling through your social media feed. It can happen to the best of us, but the lack of a healthy evening routine can be a serious saboteur when it comes to accomplishing your overall wellness goals. However, getting into a solid groove while juggling work obligations,...

Monday Mindfulness: Is the Way You Listen Affecting Your Calm? [Infographic]

For this week’s Monday Mindfulness, we’re going to focus on sound. This mini practice will take you out of your head when you have a lot on your mind or feel overwhelmed, and it’s a great way to build in time for practice throughout your day. Just like the breath, focusing on what you hear is simple to do and immediately accessible. Different sounds are always there — in the distance, close to us...

Ingredient of the Week: 10 Nutritious and Delicious Broccoli Recipes

Kale has been the “it” vegetable for years, stealing the thunder from its other cruciferous cousins. But let’s not forget one of original superfoods — broccoli. Both the stalks and florets are edible and nutritious. These treelike veggies are a good source of vitamins C and K, dietary fiber and potassium. Broccoli is versatile and can be eaten raw or roasted, in soups, salads or stir-fries. Make...

9 Heart-Healthy Foods to Add to Your Grocery List

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, heart disease is the Number 1 cause of death for American adults — accounting for one in every four deaths. With February being National Heart Month, now is the perfect time to focus on beating that statistic. Though genetics can play a role, your diet, blood pressure, LDL (“bad”) cholesterol levels, smoking habits, physical activity and...

Health Benefits of Avocado

Food trends are constantly changing, but thanks to the health benefits of avocado, the fruit has been in the spotlight for quite some time now. Its fame is partially due to its deliciously creamy, nutty taste—and, of course, how photogenic it is when spread atop toast. But we also need to give credit where credit is due: There are tons of nutrients packed into each and every avocado. Avocados are...

12 Healthy Foods That Fill You Up Best

We all know the feeling of eating too much food, of being not just full but stuffed, and yet not feeling satisfied. When we eat, sensors in our mouth, stomach and intestines assess the volume and chemical composition of what we’ve taken in, says Stephan J. Guyenet, PhD, author of “The Hungry Brain; Outsmarting the Instincts that Make Us Overeat.” Those sensors send that information to our brain...

This Intense 25-Minute Workout is About to Get Harder

The creator of the Lagree Fitness Method and the Megaformer machines, Sebastien Lagree, does not want you to work out all the time. He recalls training as a bodybuilder for as many as 40 hours a week in his youth. “I hurt myself doing that,” he says. “I think in your 20s — and it was back in the ’90s — you thought, ‘well, if I train a little bit, I have a lot of results; if I train more, I’ll get...

Recipe: Mashed Avocado Egg Salad

24 Carrot Life’s simple mashed avocado egg salad makes an excellent sandwich for two on those days when you’ve got too many plans to really cook. The marriage of creamy avocado and mashed eggs is spiced up with zesty lemon and dijon mustard so chances are you won’t miss the mayonnaise!     Print     Mashed Avocado Egg Salad Ingredients 4 large hard...

12 Ways to Turn a Rotisserie Chicken Into a Week’s Worth of Meals

The next time you go grocery shopping, pick up a rotisserie chicken. In addition to being a Costco cult favorite, these flavorful, fragrant birds are huge boons for meal prep. Since they’re already cooked and whatnot, you can start incorporating them into your recipes right away. Shred up that meat and throw it into chili, or dice it into cubes and add it to a quesadilla. Heck, even eat it straight...

Museums, Churches, Bars and 5 More Offbeat Workout Spaces

No matter how much you love your local gym, sometimes a change of scenery is both nice and motivating. You may even feel inspired to exercise for longer and harder in a new setting, especially if it has a cool backstory, like these eight out-of-the-box, very non-traditional places to break a sweat across the U.S. 1. A MORNING AT THE MUSEUM Where: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York...

Recipe: Blueberry Cheesecake Oatmeal

Dessert for breakfast? Yes, please! This baked oatmeal from Kim’s Cravings is creamy, hearty, dotted with blueberries and will keep you full until lunch. It stores well in the fridge for a few days, so you can have breakfast ready for the whole week.     Print     Blueberry Cheesecake Baked Oatmeal Ingredients 3 cups old-fashioned rolled oats (certified...