12 Healthy Tips for Surviving the 12 Days of Christmas

Here it comes — that stretch of holiday festivities that bring endless opportunities to overindulge. While it ’tis the season to be jolly, everywhere you turn you come face-to-face with all those tempting holiday foods. Are you worried that the constant exposure to goodies will start to weigh on your willpower like so many choruses of “The 12 Days of Christmas?”

LifestyleLisa LewtanDecember 12, 2017healthy holidays, Christmas, Holidays, eating healthy, eat mindfully, mindfulnessComment

A New Way of Making New Year's Resolutions

Are you sick of making New Years Resolutions that only REMOVE things from your diet or life in general?

This year, give yourself a break and put a positive spin on those resolutions. Rather than removing things from your life, try ADDING in more lusciousness and the things that will really nourish your body and soul. You might actually stick with them!

LifestyleLisa LewtanJanuary 1, 2016resolution, new friends, flavorful food, tranquility, mindfulnessComment

12 Tips for Surviving the 12 Days of Christmas Without Adding Extra Pounds

Here it comes — that stretch of holiday festivities that bring endless opportunities to overindulge. While it ’tis the season to be jolly, everywhere you turn you come face-to-face with all those tempting holiday foods. Are you worried that the constant exposure to goodies will start to weigh on your willpower like so many choruses of “The 12 Days of Christmas?”

Healthy foodLisa LewtanDecember 16, 2015Holidays, healthy snacks, healthy holidays, stress eating, mindfulness, eat mindfullyComment

Is Your Holiday Overeating Linked to Nostalgia?

The holidays bring with them an abundance of festivities centered around eating and drinking. And, not to play Scrooge, but much of our favorite holiday fare sits atop the list of those opiate-like "trigger foods." These foods fall in the "naughty" category because they set off chemicals in the brain that make us want to gorge ourselves -- like sugar, alcohol, cheese and refined carbohydrates (think breads and cookies). They trigger an eat-fest in your brain that can pack on unwanted pounds.

Healthy foodLisa LewtanDecember 11, 2015healthy holidays, nostalgia, Holidays, healthy snacks, mindfulness, eat mindfully, drink waterComment

Is Spirituality The New Spanx?

Growing up, I always thought spirituality was something found in an Indian ashram or in a new age crystal shop.

As a Jewish girl from Long Island, spirituality was simply not in my day- to-day vocabulary. I went to Hebrew school and to temple for holidays, but I counted the minutes until I could escape.

Religion, to me, was all about things you couldn’t do or shouldn’t eat. It didn’t bother me that I wasn’t a spiritual person. Truthfully, it wasn’t something that I had ever even thought much about.

LifestyleLisa LewtanDecember 1, 2015spirituality, eat mindfully, mindfulness, meditationComment

Silencing My Inner Extrovert

We live in an age of distraction and focusing our attention is harder than ever. Not a day goes by when we are not told how important it is to really listen to others but we are seldom reminded how important it is to listen to ourselves as well.