Archive for March, 2010

Check out this great resource if you or someone you know is diabetic!

To enhance the face-to-face diabetes education provided to people with diabetes and to allow patients to learn at their own pace, the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension has produced “Focus on Diabetes”, a set of web based education modules targeted toward people affect by diabetes.

…read more on On-line Diabetes Information

Here are some great tips to save calories, money, and time! The first, very obvious thing to do is eat at home, rather than eat out, but there are even more ways to save even if you are currently doing this. Tackling the grocery store can be a challenge, but if you follow this advice, you will be on your way to a smaller waist and more room in your pockets from all the money you are saving!

…read more on Eating on a Budget

Here it is, the final week of the exercise challenge! Congratulations for making it this far, keep up the good work this week! Starting tomorrow, Monday, March 22nd, post all of your exercise for this week. Here is a recap of week 3 as of now, I will update it once everyone has posted today’s workout. I also posted the summary for week 2 under the “Week 2 Exercise Blog”.

NEW weight loss support groups starting this week on Monday evenings and Saturday mornings. Email kathy@rbitzer.com or call our office for details!

I happened upon these bagel thins the other day while gazing at all the bread in the grocery store. There are different flavors, but everything bagels are always my favorite. The clerk at the store and I agreed, what a great idea! The very top and the very bottom are my favorite parts of the bagel, so why not cut out the middleman and the calories? Toasted, spread with hummus along with a slice of tomato, sprouts and lettuce was what I fixed for lunch. Yum! Smoked salmon is going to be my next decadent treat. They are made by Thomas and I found them near the English muffins.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.  I used to have this drawing hanging on the wall of my office, it has since aged quite a bit, but the drawing sticks in my mind and I hope it sticks in your mind also.  This was drawn by one of my clients when she was a young teenager struggling with anorexia nervosa.

If you know of someone struggling with an eating disorder, please encourage them to make an appointment with a Registered Dietitian who specializes in the treatment of eating disorders.  Rebecca, Shelley and Bobbi have all had advanced training in coaching clients with eating disorders, work closely with psychotherapists, and we all feel passionate about helping our clients recover from all kinds of eating disorders.

If you are unsure if you have an eating disorder, visit this website to find out more information http://www.something-fishy.org/.  We will be adding a page to our website on eating disorders soon.

I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the first ever Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA) conference held in Baltimore this month.  This event was exciting for the eating disorder community considering that Binge Eating Disorder (BED) accounts for the greatest number of people with an eating disorder and yet it is often undiagnosed and under treated.

Many of the speakers at this year’s conference were in recovery themselves from BED, therefore bringing much personal passion and energy with them.  As a professional who treats eating disorders of all kinds, it was great to see attention brought specifically to BED, and be able to take home new tools and treatment options for these clients.

I want to share some of the main concepts I took away from the conference because I think it can help most of us both in our professional and personal lives: …read more on Binge Eating Disorder often undiagnosed and untreated

When I was growing up one of our family traditions was to have a fancier dinner on Sundays than the other nights of the week. I carried on this tradition as we raised our family. Cooking a roast of some sort or a turkey or ham seemed festive and provided leftovers for another meal or sandwiches.
We no longer enjoy that heavier food and I prefer now to only cook that way on holidays and maybe not even then! I began to define Sunday night dinner in a new way. Yes, I wanted it to be more special, I wanted to punctuate the week, light the candles and linger over a delightful meal. I did not want to spend lots of my Sunday cooking, have lost interest in leftovers and did not want to begin a new week feeling weighed down.
The festive feeling I am looking for comes from a pretty table, ingredients for the dinner that are a little more unusual and a bit more of a treat for us, and having everyone at the table relaxed because no one was overextended preparing the meal!
A recent Sunday night dinner was Chilean Sea Bass, oven roasted sweet and white baking potatoes and a combination of steamed baby bok choy and broccolette.
In thirty minutes, a memorable meal. …read more on Reinventing Sunday night dinner

Hi Everyone,

I am so glad that so many people have been participating in our first exercise competition.   Great job with week 1 and 2!

I enjoy reading your comments and seeing you all inspire each other.  I am working on staying “unplugged” from the computer on Sundays, but I know that Kait who tallies up the exercise totals is on vacation so she will tally them up when she returns.

Keep on logging your exercise either daily or weekly or whenever you have a chance.  Remember our bodies are meant to move (not sit in front of TV screens or  computer screens for extended periods of time), so get up and move!  Signing off now so I can get up and move, enjoy the last few hours of the weekend.

Week 3 starts tomorrow, it is not too late to participate so tell your friends!