Skinny-Teatox

As you embark on your new year’s goal to be healthier, lose weight and clean up your diet, you probably already know that you should eliminate the pop, chips and cookies from your pantry.

But what you may not know is that there is excess sugar, salt and just unfriendly ingredients lurking in other products that you may have otherwise thought were okay. This stuff causes bloating, weight gain, and all sorts of negative health benefits! 

Do yourself a favour and give your pantry a deeper look, starting with purging these ten items:

I get it... when you’re sitting lounging on the couch with your family, the smell of turkey and Christmas cookies wafting through the house and a bottle of wine nearby, the last thing that may be on your mind is how you should do a workout. It's hard to stay fit during the holidays!

As we head into 2016, many people will place losing weight at the top of their list for New Year’s resolutions and goals.

In fact, many people will place that at the top of their list again this year, having set that resolution in 2015, 2014, and maybe even for several years earlier.

The same goal popping up constantly (obviously) shows you have yet to achieve it, and the issue isn’t that you can’t, it’s that you haven’t properly identified what is holding you back. This year, before you make the same resolution again, take some time to look at what the reason may be for why you didn’t reach success last year, and what steps you can take to make sure that doesn’t happen again.

By: Laura Peill – (Check out her blog Chronicles of Passion & Facebook)   

As much as we try to stay away from too many sugary foods and lay up on Grandma’s cookies over the holidays, sometimes the thing that ends up putting us over the edge is improper portion sizes. With so much food to choose from and the classic saying that it comes once a year and we deserve a treat (while true), it can all add up to us having a little bit too much on our plate. Help prevent that this year and keep your weight goals in check by following these 5 tips: 

From Facebook to Buzzfeed to a tweet that popped up on your feed, there’s constantly health foods being thrown around in the media which are touted as the latest and greatest and offering excellent benefits to your body.