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Me/laptop and bulletin board (why crop)   Thank goodness there’s a shift away from tiresome calorie counting. If you counted the calories in your breakfast, step away from My Fitness Pal. it’s not a real pal. Instead, think about the quality of your food. What your food to do for you (as always it’s all about you). Do you need more energy? Maybe some “GI” assistance, I discussed a reliable remedy for that in Tuesday. Or are you hungry all the time? Do you you overeat? Often want something more after a meal?  I hear you. Last week, I sat down with CBS at the beautiful, new Madison Square location for Dig Inn. The topic? Foods that cut your cravings, at Foodtrainers we dubbed these foods Full Foods . Here are five foods to keep you satisfied longer: Yogurt - yogurt is a fermented or probiotic food. Greek yogurt or Siggi’s Skyr is also higher in protein. Fermented foods improve appetite signals to the brain (shortens that lag between eating and realizing you ate) and protein at...

Life is not meant to be easy-peasy and all wrapped in a pretty bow all the time.  The truth about life is that it can suck and be filled with very difficult emotional and even physical hardships.  I want to target the emotional junk in this blog that can weigh down our brains and bodies and cause us to retreat into a shell of self defeat.  When life hands us hard in the form of emotional upset stemming from relationship issues, problems with co-workers, or mistreatment from friends and even family just to name a few, it is important to not give up on you. Even the day-to-day emotional junk can feel overwhelming, and sometimes we can be our own worst enemy of creating needless emotional upset over something that was simply miscommunication. Emotional upset can hit us in the face every day and we can choose to handle it in a healthy or unhealthy way. What it comes down to is that we are responsible for our own mental health and happiness. It seems the emotional crap that hu...