Healthy eating on a budget is possible and tasty, regardless of whether the economy is up or down. Myth: It’s expensive to eat well. Fact: Not if you buy smart.   Consider these tips to help you eat well while on a budget. You may find managing your grocery bill actually helps improve your eating habits. Planning ahead to eat well helps […] read more »

Aim to maintain. Don’t get sidetracked by weight worries in the face of holiday traditions. (Indeed, we don’t encourage a focus on weight any time!) Maintain your healthy habits and revel in the pleasures of the season. Eat what you want. Only by giving yourself permission to eat whatever you want, can you decide what you really want. Keep walking. Enough said. Take […] read more »

Am I Really Hungry? Understanding Your Relationship to Food through a Silent Meal

 Mindfulness exercises are woven into many of our programs at Green Mountain at Fox Run. As it relates to food and eating, mindfulness invites us to bring ourselves more fully to the table. The practice of mindful eating can be profoundly enlightening and healing. We can learn […] read more »

The Mediterranean Diet – Healthy Fats for Weight Loss Olive oil, olive oil everywhere, and more than a drop to drink…well, not drink, but certainly enjoy as part of the wonderfully healthy dishes we delighted in on our recent cooking tour of Italy. A few weeks ago, Green Mountain sponsored its first “Food Lover’s Adventure in Mindful, Exquisite Eating” in the beautiful […] read more »

Pump Up the Pleasure for Healthy Eating Gourmets know you don’t need to eat a lot of good-tasting food to be satisfied. In fact, it’s the pleasure in the first bites that gratifies most; subsequent bites serve more to fill us up. Eating more just because of the flavor is sort of like a dog chasing its tail; you’ll never […] read more »

Facts regarding the low-carbohydrate rage, based on two recent consumer studies. 44% of American adults say they are trying to limit carbohydrates, but only about 4% say they are on a low-carbohydrate diet. Of those 4% on a low-carbohydrate diet, only 1/4 of them actually significantly cut their carbohydrates. What does this tell us? On the one hand, it’s more […] read more »

Most of us have likely at one time or another resolved to eat better – to cut out all the foods we think we ‘shouldn’t’ be eating. We believe by sheer willpower alone we can ‘eat right’ to lose weight, improve our health and feel better. But after a few days of this resolve (if we can last that long), […] read more »

Sandra K. remembers her mother constantly worrying about her weight, forbidding foods like ice cream in the house, and telling Sandra to watch what she ate, too, to “keep from getting fat.” Today Sandra struggles not to recreate that scenario with her daughter, knowing that the attitudes and behaviors Sandra learned as a child have exacerbated, if not caused, her […] read more »

Each January, people in the U.S. and increasingly other countries resolve to lose weight, making weight loss the #1 New Year’s resolution.And as magazine articles, diet books sales and enrollment in weight loss diet programs attest to, weight loss diets remain the #1 way people try to achieve their goals. Why is it that weight loss diets persist, even though […] read more »

The Green Mountain approach to healthy eating is simple. At most meals, especially lunches and dinners, include foods from three different categories - Grains/Starchy Vegetables, Protein Foods, and Fruits &/or Vegetables. Forget about counting calories or fat grams, or weighing or measuring food. This can get in the way of listening to internal cues that tell us how much we need. […] read more »