Girly Fitness

“To Eat or Not To Eat?” That’s the question I hear all the time about whether or not to eat before a workout, and bananas are a common before-workout snack.  The real question should be, do you perform better after eating a snack prior to exercising?  Low-calorie snacks prior to workouts are not a bad thing, [...]

I often find myself far from home and hitting up the fast food drive-thru.  I know that it is not optimal, but there are actually some fast foods that you can eat that will at least allow you maintain a healthy weight.   There are plenty of bad things typical to fast food:  high fat, simple carbohydrates, [...]

Quite honestly, there is something extremely comforting about a steaming bowl of oatmeal.   I used to think that gloppidy-goop was pretty disgusting.   Hadn’t had it since I was a little girl.  On one of my extreme health-kicks a couple years ago, I read that oatmeal was one of the healthiest foods to eat.   In fact, every [...]