NUTRITION TIPS

By: Chat Mills

If you read my last post on ingredients for healthier baking then you know how much I love sweet things! 

​​Like many of you I never had a problem with my weight, my energy, or feeling fit when I was younger. I could eat anything I wanted and I rarely gained weight. I was so naïve to how exercise impacted my body, the kinds of food that fueled my body, and how sugar affected my body.

I was a swimmer and never paid attention to the fact that my 3 hour practices and weight training played a huge role in why I was so fit. Or the fact that my mother cooked pretty healthy and nutritious meals every night. Or that we never ate fast food, had sugary cereals, and rarely did we have dessert. 

By the time I got to college I had a very dysfunctional relationship with sugar where my dinner consisted of an ice cream cone from the soft serve machine and the cafeteria's cake of the day almost daily. Eating chicken fingers at 11pm on Thursday didn't seem like a big deal then and now the thought of that makes my stomach hurt.

Now as an adult on my healthy living journey I've had to reevaluate my relationship with sugar. Not just because I wanted to manage my weight but because I wanted better health overall and for my kids to be able to establish a healthy relationship with sugar now so it doesn't get out of hand later.

Try these three tips as a starting point to having a healthier relationship with sugar. 

NUTRITION TIPS

By: Chat Mills

Without a doubt fall is my favorite time of year. 

​One of our favorite things to do as a family is apple picking. The event is so popular in our family that when Liam coined the day as “Apple Day” all the children followed suit. It’s now a holiday in our family. 
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My sister and I have a follow up day known as “Baking Day.” On this day we make as many baked goods as humanly possible with all the apples picked on Apple Day.

Baking and all things sweet are very popular in my family. There is nothing like making our goodies and enjoying the fruits of our labor, no pun intended. Over the years, as both my sister and I worked on our health habits, we had to come to grips with the fact that while these treats are yummy, there is a toll on our overall health - and waist lines.