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What Makes People Successful in Managing their Weight: Tools for Helping Keep it Off

By Kathy Jordan, MS, RD, LDN, CPT

• The # 1 key is making permanent changes¹- Realize that losing weight and keeping it off is a lifelong commitment and is very challenging. It requires the...

Muscle Your Way to Weight Loss

By Kathy Jordan, MS, RD, LDN, CPT

For years we have been told to diet and do aerobic exercise to lose weight. Current research, however, finds that this formula may help you lose some weight, but not the right kind....

Myth - You Need to Cut Carbs to Lose Weight

By: Kathy Jordan, MS, RD, LDN, CPT

Fact: The verdict is still out on this one. There are about 3,500 calories in a pound of body weight. Technically, it would take a calorie deficit of 500 calories per day to lose one...

By: Kathy Jordan, MS, RD, LDN, CPT

Fact: Carbs have gotten a bad rap over the past few years but the reality is without carbohydrates, your body will have to burn protein for energy - a very inefficient way to stay...

Why People Overeat

By Kathy Jordan, MS, RD, LDN, CPT

Remember Thanksgivings as a child when you ate so much your tummy hurt and the rest of the afternoon was spent laying on the couch? You can probably recall a number of other occasions...

By Kathy Jordan, MS, RD, LDN, CPT

I am not a big fan of diets with lists of forbidden foods. They usually instill a lot of guilt and don’t work in the long run. Instead, I promote adopting a healthy...

Fit after Fifty

By Kathy Jordan, MS, RD, LDN, CPT

Life is a precious gift and most of us want to live each day to the fullest. Unfortunately, as we get older, suboptimal health and fitness can affect our quality of life by limiting our ability to do our favorite activities. Many of...