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Month: March 2018

Study: Why Diets Don’t Work | How to Lose Weight

March 31, 2018July 12, 2019 Miche

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Springtime means it’s the beginning of smoothie bowl season! 🌸 (aka the ability to have smoothie bowls without being frozen & full of regret afterwards 🥶) One of the many things I love about them is they use all frozen or shelf stable ingredients: just blend frozen banana halves, frozen berries, & nondairy milk (I use shelf stable soy) and top with granola, coconut flakes, hemp seed, and/or cacao nibs! For this one I added an extra treat that’s also shelf stable—pitaya powder, for that fun pink color & extra antioxidants 💗 . @nutritionrestore just launched this pitaya powder on Amazon (the link is in their bio if you’re interested)! And they gave me a discount code so you guys can get 25% off til 4/05 (VEGANMICHE25) 🤗 #collab

What are you happy about in your life right now? 🤔 I know this situation sucks for everyone overall (for varying reasons), but hopefully there’s a silver lining out there for you ☁️✨ I for one am loving: - Working from home guilt-free (I’ve always worked from home whenever possible) - Playing world of Warcraft again for the first time in 9 years 😂 - Wearing fleece lined leggings and sweatshirts most days 😁 - Going for longer walks with Maia 🐶 - Spending less money on food - Doing more gardening & yard work 🌱 And most of all that my loved ones are safe and healthy 🙏🏻

Anyone else eating a ton of beans right now? 😬🙋🏼‍♀️ luckily I already liked eating beans most days anyway, but I do like to add some variety to my chilis and whatnot... so cue cornbread muffins! 🌽 @goode_foods sent me some cans of their corn so I made my favorite whole-kernel style of cornbread with them 🥰 this recipe is oil & fat-free, and all of the ingredients are shelf stable! It also doubles as a great treat—I love having them with a bit of miyokos butter and maple syrup 😍🍁 Link in bio 👆🏻 #collab

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀: I thought I’d put on my psych PhD hat 🎩 to bring you some ideas on how to stay calm in this chaos (swipe for infographic version)! 🧘🏼‍♀️ These have been helpful for keeping me sane despite sheltering at home for the last 2 weeks (only gone out twice for essentials 🙃), and having to cancel my bachelorette trip, wedding, & honeymoon 🤦🏼‍♀️ . Swipe for the infographic—the long version is below ↡ 1️⃣ Make gratitude lists, or meditate on things you’re grateful for. It can be as simple as having a roof over your head, people to video chat with, or maybe you just started a great book. Gratitude lists alone honestly can take me from freaking out to happy—I do it every day! ✔️ . 2️⃣ If you like to read the news & keep up on coronavirus, try limiting it to 1 or 2 sessions a day. Thinking & talking about it all day long can really take a toll. I’ve found that having one 30min period per day where I check fb, read articles, & really engage with answering emails/texts about all the bad news is SO MUCH BETTER than the all-day exposure to it 🦠 . 3️⃣ Exercise! You may be cooped up, but there are SO MANY great at-home workout ideas out there. I’ve been doing a simple one where I do squats, shoulder press, clams, planks, and triceps dips and it’s left me more sore than my pre-coronavirus barbell workouts 😂 also, YOGA! 🧘🏼‍♀️ . 4️⃣ Try teas and supplements. There are tons of science-supported ones out there—I actually did a bunch of research on studies and put them in a blog post & video (linked in bio). I’m drinking tulsi tea & taking L theanine these days 🍵 . 5️⃣ Get outside. Vitamin D is so important for a healthy brain! Walking my dog and working in my yard has been incredibly therapeutic ☀️ . 6️⃣ Do that thing you’ve been wanting to do but haven’t had time for, or pick up a new hobby! Try reading, gardening, video games, writing, or anything that can allow you to get in flow or have a creative outlet 🎨 . 7️⃣ Take a bath, snuggle with your pets, or trade shoulder massages with your SO—comfort for your body translates to comfort for your mind 🧠 . What are your favorite ways to destress? ✨

I realized I’ve just been posting my #wfpb meals lately! but times like these call for comfort food... plus balance is always a good idea 🍔🥗 what kinds of foods have you been eating while stuck at home? 🏡 . Bae made his amazing seitan (baetan?) the other day so we added it to my usual mac n cheese recipe and it was sooo good 😍 I just make the cheese sauce from my calzone recipe (link in bio), add a bit more water to thin it out, and add it to macaroni! 🧀 the cheese is based on potatoes, carrots & cashews so it’s a great way to sneak some extra nutrients into a comfort food package 🥕😁

New video: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘀 🍽 Anyone else ever notice your diets don’t do much in the end because of all the extra eating between them? 🙈 In this video I quickly go over a study that looked at the types of habits that lead to overeating between diets, then share 4 tips on how to stop the binging/overeating! ↡ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘆 👇🏻 There are two types of eating habits that get studied a lot in the dieting literature: restrained eating and unrestrained eating. In this study, they looked at how planning to diet 𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒘 influences eating 𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚 in these two types of eaters 🍪 And they found that in restrained eaters, just THINKING about going on a diet made them eat over 3x more than if they didn’t think about dieting 😱 ↡ So, to help stop that from happening, I have advice on how to change the habits and thought processes that lead to this binging, AND how to lose weight more effectively. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t involve dieting 😏 ↡ Check out the video for examples of restrained eating habits, and the lowdown on the tips—link in bio! 👆🏻 (Cheesin’ in this photo because the weather was so nice for soo long ☀️😁)

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