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Sustainable Weight Loss with Food Remedies

by Olga Afonsky, licensed nutritionist

I'll help you stop the frustrating cycle of losing and gaining weight and start eating for energy, health, and vitality. My weekly emails are full of tips, inspirations, recipes, and the newest research on health and nutrition. Join the community of happy, healthy eaters and get my breakfast recipes!

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Find Your Pace, Pick Your Race: The Key to Sustainable Weight Loss

Issue #109 by Olga Afonsky Welcome to Food Remedies, a weekly newsletter—your gateway to transforming eating habits for a healthier and more vibrant life! Thank you for being here. If you enjoy the newsletter, please forward it to a lucky friend. If this email was forwarded to you, secure your own subscription to a journey toward lasting vitality. Hi Reader! Do you think of weight loss as a diet or intervention you have to suffer through or be done with as soon as possible? Either way, that’s...

about 2 months ago • 1 min read

Issue #101 by Olga Afonsky Welcome to Food Remedies, a weekly newsletter – your gateway to transforming eating habits for a healthier and more vibrant life! Thank you for being here. If you enjoy the newsletter, please forward it to a lucky friend. And if this email was forwarded to you, secure your own subscription to a journey toward lasting vitality. Hi Reader! One of the requests I got from you, my dear readers, is to write about the science of vitamins. (It's not too late to make a...

3 months ago • 2 min read

Issue #93 Eating Smart Newsletter, by Olga Afonsky Welcome to Eating Smart, a weekly newsletter – your gateway to transforming eating habits for a healthier and more vibrant life! Thank you for being here. If you enjoy the newsletter, please forward it to a lucky friend. And if this email was forwarded to you, secure your own subscription to a journey toward lasting vitality. Hi Reader, Are you, like many of my clients, a master dieter? You have successfully lost weight and gained it back...

6 months ago • 2 min read

Issue #89 Eating Smart Newsletter, by Olga Afonsky Welcome to Eating Smart, a weekly newsletter – your gateway to transforming eating habits for a healthier and more vibrant life! Thank you for being here. If you enjoy the newsletter, please forward it to a lucky friend. And if this email was forwarded to you, secure your own subscription to a journey toward lasting vitality. Hi Reader, Do you want to have less fat and more muscle? It makes sense, considering that we associate a slender,...

6 months ago • 2 min read

Issue #84 Eating Smart Newsletter, by Olga Afonsky Welcome to Eating Smart, a weekly newsletter – your gateway to transforming eating habits for a healthier and more vibrant life! Thank you for being here. If you enjoy the newsletter, please forward it to a lucky friend. And if this email was forwarded to you, secure your own subscription to a journey toward lasting vitality. Hi Reader, Blood sugar regulation is vital for anyone, not just people with diabetes or pre-diabetes. In fact, most...

8 months ago • 1 min read

Last fall, I lost about five pounds by discovering something about my eating style and changing it. It was a mental strategy for deciding to eat seconds that I adjusted. It was one of my autopilot strategies, like so many others. As you can imagine, being a nutritionist, I’m a pretty healthy eater to begin with. I also didn’t have a lot of extra weight to lose. But, I thought I would look better without those extra 5-7 pounds I picked up over years and three kids. And I tried different things...

9 months ago • 1 min read

How do you decide which foods are healthy and which ones are not? Your eating philosophy can be very different from mine, and that’s okay. You might think you don’t really have an eating philosophy, at least not a well-formulated one. That’s okay as well. Most people use their intuitive feelings when they make food choices. And that worked for us for generations. We learned from our parents and caregivers which foods are safe and nourishing. Our geographical location, season, culture, and the...

10 months ago • 1 min read

If you have been trying to lose weight for a long time without success, here is what you should consider. Do you know what works for your body? What do you need to change for your body to release weight? If you feel you've tried all kinds of things and nothing works, don’t despair. Let’s chat for 15 minutes and see if I can help. However, if you know what you need to do but can’t make it happen, consider the opportunity cost. The opportunity cost of weight loss is something valuable you have...

11 months ago • 1 min read

As I dive into the research on the aging brain and metabolic health, I'm becoming more and more fascinated with the topic. Last week I briefly described how insulin resistance in the brain and decreased glucose metabolism play a central role in developing Alzheimer's disease (AD). Today, let's discuss nutrition and lifestyle measures to improve our chances of mental acuity in our golden years. To support healthy brain function, we should aim to: Reduce peripheral insulin levels to restore...

about 1 year ago • 1 min read

Eating feels good intrinsically. I mean that pleasure from eating is not something we learn; we are born with it. We all know how newborns scream when they’re hungry and how after eating, they are relaxed and content. However, when people think of treating themselves with food, they don’t usually think: Let me have a bowl of soup or some fish. That’s just food. We strongly associate food treats with sweets, chips, and other guilty pleasures. Despite knowing that those foods are “bad” for us...

about 1 year ago • 1 min read
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