Wellness Nutrition Concepts Radio

Achieving your weight loss goals will not only require a change in your diet, increased physical activity, but also a change in the behaviors and beliefs that may have blocked you from reaching your goals in the past. Your mindset and motivation are just as important as food and exercise in achieving your weight loss goals.What are the first thoughts and feelings that come to your mind when you think of yourself going on a diet or going to the gym? The first thing you need to do is throw out your old dieting mentality and think of your journey as a lifestyle change. Do not think of it as something that starts and then stops. That type of thinking does not serve you. Let's look at some ways your mindset can sabotage your weight loss efforts. Tune in 4/29 at noon ET to findout.

Eating more fruits and vegetables is the foundation stone of any healthy diet, with the national dietary guidelines recommending adults making half their plate fruits and vegetables.Juices can be a convenient and tasty way to get some of the health benefits of these foods – but how do they compare nutritionally? Tune in 4/22 at noon ET to find out.

Once you choose to go vegan and lose weight, you are making an overall lifestylechange. This means that you will need to learn how to make the vegan lifestyle work for you. It isn't that hard to do, but there are a few helpful tips to know, especially when incorporating a vegan lifestyle to facilitate weight loss. Tune in 4/15 at noon ET to find out more.

Some spices and herbs do more than just add flavor to your food; they also provide various health benefits — not that we needed more reasons to sprinkle cinnamon on our butternut squash or add roasted garlic to, well, anything. These eight spices and herbs have been linked with everything from reducing nausea to helping prevent cardiovascular diseases and cancers. Tune in 4/8 at noon ET to find out

Right now, in your home, you have a powerful belly-shrinking tool you’re not taking advantage of. No, it’s not that Ab Roller you ordered off of late-night TV and promptly banished to the attic. It’s your kitchen: Set up and stocked the right way, it can make all the difference in whether you pile on midsection fat—or keep it off. With a quick cabinet reorg, simple food swaps, and even a workout move to do during boiling-water downtime, you can transform a fat-belly kitchen into a flat-belly one. Tune in 3/11 at noon ET to find out how.

A lot of celebrities these days chalk up their slim physiques to their vegan diets. Is veganism a valuable tool for weight loss? The fact of the matter is, a vegan diet isn't virtuous in and of itself, you can be a vegan who eats bread and sugar all day. Just because a cookie is vegan does not mean it is low in sugar and calories. Let's take a look at the facts. Tune in 2/25 at noon ET to find out.

It is generally recommended to combine a diet with exercise in order to maximize any weight loss results. It makes sense as exercise helps in burning extra calories, increase metabolism, get you fit and toned and also return a number of health benefits. Can’t go wrong with such a combination, right? Well, I am sure that there are a few people who would disagree with this. They follow this combination but they are not really getting anywhere. If you fall in that category of exercising and not losing any weight, tune in 2/18 at noon ET to see what are some of the most common mistakes or what you could do better.

Many people have found success eliminating carbs to lose weight, but ditching bread, pasta and cooked whole grains means missing out on valuable vitamins and minerals. Not only that, but since a person can't and shouldn't sustain a carb-free diet forever, you'll most likely gain the weight back once you reintroduce these forbidden foods. While skipping out on white flour is a good idea, here are a few reasons to go ahead and enjoy complex carbs like brown rice, whole wheat bread. Tune in 2/11 at noon ET to find out.

There are a lot of tips floating around out there about the best way to lose weight, so if you are following the wrong advice to a T, then the pounds may pile on instead of melting off. Time to seperate fact from fiction so you can start seeing actual results. Tune in 1/28 at noon ET to find out what diet myths are causing your weight gain.

Weight loss is a three part process. Exercising and cutting calories are vital but your mental outlook can mean the difference between success and failure. Tune in on 1/21 at noon ET for my tips to Think Yourself Slim. Attitude means the difference between diet success and failure.