What’s the secret to staying slim? There isn’t one – there are 150 inside Patricia Bannan’s brand new book Eat Right When Time Is Tight: 150 Slim-Down Strategies and No-Cook Food Fixes. Just to whet our soon-to-be controlled appetites, she’s sharing Master Strategy 8 to help you stabilize and energize your days by eating…wait for it…MORE OFTEN! Sounds like a secret we can sink our teeth into!

Oh, Patricia! We’re feeling slimmer already!

Master Strategy 8: Energize in 3-5

by Patricia Bannan, MS, RD

This strategy is not only about what you eat but when you eat. The typical busy person eats little throughout the day and then overeats in the evening, but starving all day and binging at night is not only hard on your psyche, it’s the most inefficient way to provide your body with the energy you need. Yet many of us follow this pattern of skimping throughout the day, only to overeat at night.

For optimal energy levels, you want to stay in “energy balance”—or close to it—throughout the day. That means providing your body with the amount of fuel it needs at regular intervals so you’re neither overeating nor under-eating. Understanding how your body’s blood sugar levels rise and fall explains why this is critical, whether you want to lose weight or simply have more energy and feel better throughout the day. Read the rest of this entry »

Patricia Bannan is back with another strategy to help you eat right when time is tight.  Make sure to check out her new book Eat Right When Time Is Tight: 150 Slim-Down Strategies and No-Cook Food Fixes.

Master Strategy 6: AppeSize your meals

by Patricia Banna

Think of a typical day: You’re on the go from the moment you get up. You grabbed lunch on the run, but you can’t even remember what you ate. Was it a veggie sandwich? A sub? A burger? Nothing? Finally, you sit down to eat dinner and before you know it, you’ve stuffed yourself. In less than ten minutes you inhale more calories than you’ve eaten all day.

That’s where what I call an “AppeSizer” comes in. An AppeSizer is an appetite speed bump. And just as a cement speed bump slows your car, an edible speed bump slows your eating. An AppeSizer is something that’s low in calories and takes time to eat. A bowl of broth-based soup, an apple, a handful of sliced veggies and spicy salsa—all make excellent AppeSizers. Read the rest of this entry »

Just in time for the busy travel season we’ve rolled out our SqueezeItIn.com Travel Exercises to help you squeeze in fitness wherever you are – even at 30,000 feet!

Whether you’re traveling by plane, train, or automobile, for business or for pleasure, we’ve got the moves to keep exercise on your itinerary.

Here’s wishing you safe – and fit – travels! Bon voyage!

Click on the exercises below to watch a video of each new travel move.

Who is this gorgeous woman holding that delicious apple, you ask?  Is it Eve herself? No, but what she has to offer is equally as tempting: her new book Eat Right When Time Is Tight: 150 Slim-Down Strategies and No-Cook Food Fixes made our mouths water! And lucky for us, and for you, author and nutrition expert Patricia Bannan will be sharing a few of her ten master strategies to help people eat right when time is tight – right here on SqueezeItIn.com!  Take it away, Patricia…

Master Strategy 3: Munch Every Morn

by Patricia Bannan, MS, RD

If you’re counting every calorie, you may think going without breakfast will help you lose weight and slim down. In fact, the opposite is true. Eating a healthy breakfast every morning will make you more likely to shed pounds and keep them off. Statistics from the National Weight Control Registry, which tracks the habits of people who lost more than 30 pounds and kept the weight off, reveal that 78 percent of successful “losers” eat breakfast every morning. A mere four percent never eat breakfast. Read the rest of this entry »