10 Tips for Choosing Healthier Proteins
March 1, 2010 – 9:49 pm | One Comment

What I’d like to share is some quick guidelines of how you can choose a little more wisely, if you choose to eat meat, poultry and seafood.

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How Healthy is Your County?
March 10, 2010 – 6:00 am | 3 Comments

How healthy is your county?

There is an important report that came out a few weeks ago that didn’t get as much press as I hoped it would.  County Health Rankings is an annual report, published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a think tank in Washington, DC.

They have a great interactive chart and you can look at every county in the US to see how you rank by state.  I live in one of the healthier states (Massachusetts is 3rd overall) and I live in the 3rd healthiest county in the state so I’m feeling pretty good.  Go ahead and see how you rank … then come back!

The findings are interesting … generally you’re going to be healthier if:

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How to Get an Oscar Body
March 7, 2010 – 11:38 pm | 4 Comments
How to Get an Oscar Body

Every year we watch the Oscars to get an idea of what’s in fashion. We admire the dresses … sometimes we trash them … and then we go back to our humdrum wardrobes. It might actually be easier and definitely cheaper to get an Oscar worthy body than it is to get an Oscar worth frock.

Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Body Makes the News Again
March 6, 2010 – 1:20 pm | No Comment
Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Body Makes the News Again

I feel bad for Jennifer Love Hewitt. She has unwittingly and unfairly become the poster child for body image in Hollywood.

How to be a Fitness Professional
February 24, 2010 – 2:03 am | No Comment
How to be a Fitness Professional

You go the gym, a lot. You look good, you feel good, your friends ask you for fitness advice. You think to yourself, “This would be my dream job, helping people look fabulous and hanging out in a gym all day. Where do I sign up?”

Those Amazing Olympics
February 17, 2010 – 7:10 pm | No Comment
Those Amazing Olympics

when the Olympics come around, I just sit on my couch in awe at what those bodies … all of those bodies can do

Top 10 Food Rules
February 10, 2010 – 4:27 pm | 5 Comments
Top 10 Food Rules

Eat at a table. Our “rush, rush society” has led us to shove food down our throats as an afterthought to our schedules. Eating at a table allows your brain some real down-time and usually results in fewer calories consumed. And, no you can’t bring reading material or check your email!

How to Lose 5 Pounds
January 12, 2010 – 1:53 pm | 9 Comments
How to Lose 5 Pounds

I’ve been emphasizing small goals for New Year’s Resolutions because they’re the easiest to keep. Also a little success gives you a boost as you work towards your final goal. So here’s my plan, what I actually do, to lose five pounds. Depending on how much you have to lose, just take a week off and then repeat.

10 Realistic New Year’s Resolutions
December 29, 2009 – 10:38 pm | 2 Comments
10 Realistic New Year’s Resolutions

Studies show that 5 out of 6 people fail to keep their New Year’s resolutions. For 2010, why not follow some of the ideas below which are geared towards success instead of failure. Why? Because these ideas are easy to keep.

Win a Mini-Cam! MomTV New Year’s Resolution Contest
December 28, 2009 – 11:41 am | No Comment
Win a Mini-Cam! MomTV New Year’s Resolution Contest

My MomTV show (“Lisa Johnson Fit,” Wednesdays at 8:30 pm Eastern) will be giving away a free Vado mini-video camera to the person (any human, not just Moms!) with the best New Year’s resolution.  Just …

5 Steps to a Successful New Year’s Resolution
December 28, 2009 – 10:57 am | 3 Comments
5 Steps to a Successful New Year’s Resolution

I did a little research and found one sobering statistic. A survey done this time last year found that 66% of Americans have made New Year’s Resolutions and 17% actually managed to keep them.

My Christmas Fitness Wish List
December 23, 2009 – 12:51 pm | 2 Comments
My Christmas Fitness Wish List

Every year we purchase gadgets hoping they’ll magically make us thinner. If we buy this pedometer, or those cool sneakers we’ll have solved our problems and be skinny forever. We all know that’s not how it really works, here’s what I’d really like on my Christmas wish list this year …