The benefits of meditation range from reducing anxiety to giving your immune system a boost, but sometimes finding time to sit still for 20 minutes seems impossible. Fortunately, if you’re on the go, you can still reap the benefits of quieting your mind. One way to do this is to incorporate meditation into your daily […]
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Meet Your Secret Weapon for Weight Loss: The Lunchbox


Lunch is often an afterthought. Most of our mornings are far too hectic with snooze buttons, workouts, showers and last-minute scrambles to get ourselves, our kids, our pets and our partners fed, dressed and out the door. (Wow, even reading that sentence is exhausting.) We often spend seconds thinking about breakfast, much less lunch. But […]
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, […]
Can You Lose Weight by Using Probiotics?


Probiotics seemed to be everywhere in 2016, increasing in popularity to a point where even Google named them as one of the hottest food trends of the year by search volume. We’ve covered the health benefits here before as well: everything from questioning whether they’re for you to identifying the best sources — even in […]
Debunking the Myth of Fasted Cardio


When vying for weight loss, a lot of people approach their goals with a calories in, calories out mindset. Burn more calories than you eat each day, and you’ll lose weight. Burn those calories from pure, unadulterated fat, and some say that you’re golden. That’s what makes the promise of fasted cardio so attractive. On […]