5 Healthy Snacks to Eat on the Way Home from the Grocery Store

So, you're really not supposed to go to the grocery store while you're hungry; studies have shown that shoppers end up buying more high-calorie foods when their bellies are rumbling. (Anecdotal evidence from—well, me—is that my "must buy a big bag of chips and jar of queso" reflex goes up substantially when I haven't eaten recently.)

But when your fridge is close to bare, we've all found ourselves grocery shopping on an empty stomach...which can quickly translate into must-eat-food-now-itis after checking out. Here are some good ideas for portable snacks you can eat on the way home from the store.

Roasted seaweed: This is my favorite, right now—it's crunchy and flavorful enough to feel like you're eating ships. Plus, it's filled with vitamins A, B-6, and C, and fiber.

Dried Fruit: It's easy to eat, right? But it's also good for you (if you pick the right kind): a study in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition found that the antioxidants in dried grapes (a.k.a., raisins), grapes, and plums are twice as potent as those found in their fresh-fruit counterparts. Just make sure your dried-fruit package contains no sweeteners; in the ingredient list, only the fruit should be listed.

Jerky: Natural, lightly-flavored, and low-sodium beef or turkey jerky are your best bets—they contain about 9 g of filling protein.

Low-fat chocolate milk: Grab a carton that's low in sugar, and you've got a sippable snack that's filled with protein and calcium (and is also thought to be especially good post-workout).

Olives: Lots of grocery stores have olive bars that have loads of fresh olives, fresh mozzarella, roasted garlic, and more. Grab a container and toss in some olives in it—they're rich in vitamin E, fiber, iron, and copper—and they're super-easy to eat on the go.

What's your favorite going-home-from-the-grocery-store snack?

These 4 Spring Jackets Will Change the Way You Dress This Season

The most important purchase you can make this season is a spring jacket. Spring is a season of such variable weather: We all need to be able to transition from the windy remnants of winter, to the heat of the rediscovered sun, back into the breeze as the clouds return.

I feel your pain—it's too warm for my favorite anorak but not quite hot enough to go without an outer layer. Working on the print magazine, we are currently fully immersed in fall trends, but I tend to revisit the fresh spring shows for dressing inspiration as the temperature slowly climbs. Check out the four looks below for four totally different ways to stay warm in the spring breeze.

Blazers are my personal favorite. You can go for a cropped shape to wear at the office, or layer a longer tuxedo blazer over a mini for a night out. Take day-to-night inspiration from this look from No. 21. For a more casual styling tip, layer your blazer over a hoodie to add a little more dimension to your look!

The motorcycle jacket is really just an edgier blazer. Throw it on when you want to kick your look up a notch, but like a blazer, pair it with everything from jeans to a cocktail dress. A classic black leather jacket goes with everything, but don't be afraid to fall in love with a moto jacket in a cool fabric or color, like this one from Rag & Bone.

If you want something a little more casual than a blazer, but don't feel that a moto jacket fits your personal style, go for an army jacket, like this one from Bottega Veneta. Army-inspired jackets are all over the market, from the most structured and detailed to the most distressed and casual. Find the one that fits your personal style best.

Nothing is more classic than a trench. And no one does a trench better than Burberry. With a longer and more streamlined silhouette than the three jackets above, a great trench coat is always office-appropriate (but looks great with jeans and a T-shirt as well).

Want to try a new spring coat trend, or shop for one you already know you love? See some of our favorites below.

How do you dress for spring? Let us know your go-to coat style for the changing season.

Wow, what this woman to do in the gym

When I first saw the headline for this story, I thought: "Maybe they was wearing super-revealing clothing?" But...nope.
Tiffany Austin says that they was told by a gym staff member about 15 minutes in to her workout that they needed to cover upa??because the gym had "some complaints [she] was intimidating people with toned body."

Austin says he was wearing workout pants as well as a tank top that exposed a quantity of her stomach, but that he didn't feel it was revealing (here's the outfit in query). Still, he was apparently told that the tank top violated the gym's dress code owner. He told the staff member that he would be happy to put a gym-provided shirt over the tank top, but decided to hightail it out of the facility after another staff member told her he needed to cover up as he was waiting to put it on.
Austin had joined the gym, and this marked her first workout there. After the event, they decided to ask for her membership money back.

You see so lots of different kinds of workout apparel at the gyma??I mean, I have seen everything from little leotards to full-on baggy sweatsuits. and not violating a facility's dress code is definitely thing...but asking someone to wear more clothes because he was "too toned" is definitely not something I have ever heard before.

Have you? What do you think?

Do not get angry to eat mutton with bean curd

Lamb of warm, eat easy to get angry. Chinese pay attention to "heat is cold" dietotherapy method. Therefore, when eating hotpot with cool and gamping vegetables, can play a cool, Quhuo, detoxification role. Cool vegetables are generally white gourd, sponge gourd, rape, spinach, cabbage, mushroom Mushroom, mushroom, lotus root, water bamboo, bamboo shoots, flowering Chinese cabbage, sweet potato, potatoes, mushrooms; and so is gamping vegetables. Best to eat meat with tofu, it not only can complement a variety of trace elements, which gypsum can play to Qingre Xiehuo, Chufan, thirst quencher role. While the lamb and rose Bu made a dish, you can give full play to the radish and cool, eliminating stasis, phlegm heat effect.

When the lamb, seasoning mix effect can not be ignored. Put the best point of not peeled ginger, ginger Pyysing due to cool, there are scattered fire heat removal, pain relieving rheumatism role, and also remove the smell of mutton with food. Cooking lamb should be less with pepper, pepper, ginger, cloves,Fennel Vexin dry spices; can put bit of lotus seed heart, it has the effect of clearing heart fire.

Many people doesn't like the smell of mutton smell of mutton. In fact, this is a kind of contain volatile fatty sheep tail fat, subcutaneous fat, skin secretion of sebaceous glands and muscle clearance fatty acids. To cover up the smell, might as well put cumin. It is also called the "cumin", originating in the The rest of China, which is now in Iran area. It smells fragrant and thick, suitable for lamb cooked, can play the role of regulating qi appetizers, Qufeng pain.

A week weight reducing diet, make you slim down quickly

Caring tips: Chinese wolfberry is very nutritious ingredients, can nourish yin, eye protection, make weight loss recipes have very strong Detox Slimming effect. Today is like to share a week weight loss recipes...
Lycium barbarum rapid weight-loss diet.
Monday, medlar eliminate edema diet
●Breakfast: barley porridge bowl 1, cucumber 1, 30 grams medlar soaked in water to drink.
●Lunch: Lily 1 disc, Steamed Rice 1/2 bowl.
●Dinner: vegetable soup 1, Steamed Rice 1 small bowl, medlar 30 grams soaked in water to drink.
This cookbook mainly use the medlar eliminate edema, more suitable for Monday to eat. Because the weekend is eating, or out partying, stay up late, easily lead to accumulation of excess water in the body, causing swelling problem. This recipe can solve the edema problems, make losing weight can be carried out smoothly.
In addition, Chinese wolfberry can also play the role of nourishing kidney yin deficiency of Qi and blood, very suitable for women to eat, not only lose weight significantly, but also can play the role of beauty.
Tips: the contents of Lycium barbarum in vitamins are water-soluble, heat is easy to be destroyed, so water is not easy to use hot water.

Tuesday, rhubarb Xiaoshi appetizer
●Breakfast: 5 slices before big porn, preserved egg lean meat gruel 1 bowl.
●Lunch: cucumber slices stir fried meat 1, Steamed Rice 1 bowls, medlar 30 grams soaked in water to drink.
●Dinner: fungus scrambled egg 1, Steamed Rice half bowl, fresh Fresh Carrot Juice 1 cup.
This cookbook is stomach and promoting digestion, because rhubarb is promoting gastrointestinal peristalsis function, so in the stomach at the same time, can eliminate excess body fat, fat burning.
Tip: with cucumber, fungus and other food reducing weight, double thin body effect, can make you lose weight in the imperceptibly, but will never be hungry, also won't like eat medicine reducing weight that impact on health.

Wednesday, Poria, gastrointestinal conditioning
●Breakfast: 1 cup honey water, sweet potato cake 2, boiled spinach 1.
●Lunch: Poria tofu 1, whole wheat Steamed buns 1.
●Dinner: konjac 1, boiled noodles 1 small bowl, Apple Juice 1 cup.
This recipe is mainly by high fiber low calorie food to help promote intestinal peristalsis sufficiently, excess oil adsorption of gut, clear Supian toxins. And through the tuckahoe spleen and stomach function, for the body conditioning, from the body of toxins and waste, promote blood circulation, stimulate the The new supersedes the old., make the effect reducing weight is double the skin whitening.
Tip: red with blood stasis dysmenorrhea, relieving pain, can promote blood circulation. Among them, the safflower yellow pigment can increase coronary blood flow and myocardial nutritional blood flow, and has certain detoxification Xiaozhi effect, very suitable for women to take, to health care, detox.

Thursday: Safflower detoxification Xiaozhi weight loss recipes
●Breakfast: Green Tea powder with a little honey water to drink, Pumpkin Congee 1 bowl.
●Lunch: Safflower egg noodles 1 copies, 1 copies of tomato juice.
●Dinner: Candied rose tea 1 cups, Steamed Rice half a bowl of rice, Apple Juice 1 cup.
Note: This recipe on detoxification, bowel, and promote weight loss by promoting blood circulation characteristics of safflower. If your waist and abdominal fat more recipes, today must be strictly carried out, found Xiao Duzi flat for many a day you will, adhere to a few weeks after the absolute return you flat belly.

Friday: Codonopsis Nuanwei fitness, weight loss at the same time, health
Codonopsis can Buzhong, Qi, Sheng jin. The weakness of the spleen and stomach, two blood loss, body tired weakness, has the very good curative effect food less, thirst, diarrhea, and other symptoms of prolapse of the anus. Very suitable for a variety of long-term weight loss leads to symptoms of sub-health.
●Breakfast: 30 grams medlar soaked in water to drink, black walnut porridge bowl 1, 1 celery Lily salad.
●Lunch: kelp 1 copies, Steamed Rice half a bowl of rice, 1 cups of tea plants.
●Dinner: chicken soup dangshen Lycium barbarum 1 copies, 1 cups of tea plants.
Tip: this diet conditioning stomach health, after several days of Qingchang detoxification, stomach needs nourishment, Codonopsis pilosula have Buzhong effect, to restore the color, health care has obvious effect. But with the herbal tea can play the effect of losing weight, to keep my weight down.

The weekend: Hawthorn solution greasy fat, eliminate fat
Hawthorn contains a variety of vitamins, hawthorn acid, tartaric acid, citric acid, malic acid, also contain flavonoids, lactones, carbohydrate, protein, fat and calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals, contains the lipase can promote fat class food digestion. To promote the secretion and increase the gastric enzyme and function of gastric juice. Traditional Chinese medicine thinks, hawthorn has Xiaoji stagnation, blood stasis, convergence antidiarrheal effect.
●Breakfast: mung bean porridge wolfberry 1 bowls, 1 cups of tea hawthorn.
●Lunch: 1 carp tofu soup bowl, garlic broccoli 1.
●Dinner: Steamed Rice half bowl, mix kelp silk cabbage 1, 1 cups of tea hawthorn.
This recipe is mainly solution greasy fat. For the office over the weekend could go out for dinner, eat too much greasy food, cause gastrointestinal discomfort and fat accumulation. With appetizers Xiaoshi hawthorn, can help break down food, containing hawthorn acid and various organic acids, can enhance gastrointestinal proteolytic enzyme activity, it can also help the meat digestion.
Read this article you have what to say, or what do you suggest?

Cucumber with peanut easily cause diarrhea

Cucumber with peanuts to eat easily cause diarrhea, it is understood, cucumber with peanuts to eat easily cause diarrhea is true? The following for you detailed introduction.
With cucumber, peanuts, easy to cause diarrhea: cucumber cut Ding, and boiled peanuts mixed with the tune, as a tasty dish, often active in many family table, drinking too many men like me a dish of rice mixed with Huang Guading.

In fact, this match is not very appropriate. Because these two kinds of food may cause diarrhea.
Cold cucumber and sweet, often eat the next life, but more than peanut oil. Generally speaking, if the sexual encounter cold food and oil, will increase its sliding profits, may cause diarrhea, so should not the same food.

Some people would say, I often like to eat, but I do not have diarrhea.

Yes, for those of gastrointestinal function good people. It doesn't matter, but for the function of intestines and stomach is not very good friends, it is best not to both with food, even with the food is best not to eat.

4 healthy, delicious Pie Recipes as today's PI day!

As Marissa noted earlier, today is National Pi Day I mean, in the event you have a day of the year that happens to be 3/14 (three.14), is there a better excuse to whip up a pie? Or, for that matter!
These are recipes for healthy pies, courtesy of Anthony Stewart, executive chef of Pritikin Longevity Middle and Spa. For each, he is swapped in some surprising, good-for-you ingredients, which still promise a yummy result.
Pumpkin Pie
A slice of traditional pumpkin pie often has five grams of saturated fat? That is the same amount that you'll find in a cheeseburger. This version is still filled with lots of pumpkin flavor and zero saturated fat.
Ingredients
Half of giant butternut squash (cut squash in half), seeds removed
two cups canned solid-pack pumpkin (no additives)
three egg whites, beaten until stiff peaks form
one tsp. lime juice
one tsp. cinnamon powder
1/4 tsp. cardamom powder
1/2 cup soy milk
three Tbsp. Splenda
two tsp. vanilla extract
two cups low-sodium, fat-free corn flake cereal

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place butternut squash half in a nonstick baking pan in oven, skin side up. Cook until fork-tender, about 25 minutes. Scoop out cooked "meat" with spoon, and place it and one cup of the canned pumpkin in a food processor. Puree. In a immense bowl, combine the squash/pumpkin mixture, remaining pumpkin, egg whites, lime juice, cinnamon, cardamom, soy milk, Splenda, and vanilla. In food processor, grind corn flakes until they are the size of peppercorns. Lightly spray bottom of pie baking pan (8 inches in diameter) with Pam. To make crust, press corn flakes in to bottom of pan. Fill pie pan with pumpkin mixture, and bake in oven at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

Cherry Pie
This recipe makes use of fiber-rich oats as a topping.
Ingredients
8 cups frozen pitted cherries
four Tbsp. apple juice concentrate
two Tbsp. lemon juice
6 Tbsp. cornstarch
two Tbsp. vanilla extract
two cups oats

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a giant bowl, mix all ingredients except oats. Place mixture in baking dish. Pour oats on top. Bake for 25 minutes. Let cold and serve.

Peach Cobbler
As with the pumpkin pie, the crust of this cobbler is made with fat-free corn flakes.
Ingredients
1/2 pound frozen peeled peaches, sliced
1/4 cups date sugar
one pinch cinnamon powder
1/2 nutmeg
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
two oz corn flakes, fat-free, no salt added

Directions
Grind corn flakes with one Tbsp. water (added slowly) and layer on bottom of baking pan. Bake for two minutes at 350 degrees. Remove from oven and let icy. Mix remainder of ingredients together and spoon softly over crust and bake for twenty to 25 minutes at 350-degrees. Let icy before cutting.

Spiced Apple Pie
The surprising ingredient here? Shredded wheat!
Ingredients
five Red Delicious or Fuji apples, peeled, cored, and cut in to wedges
one Tbsp. water
two tsp. cornstarch
one tsp. apple pie spice (a simple blend of cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice)
Juice of 1/2 lemon (one Tbsp.)
two cups low-sodium, fat-free corn flakes

Topping
1/4 cup crushed shredded wheat
Pinch of ground cinnamon

Directions
Merge apples, water, cornstarch, spice, &and lemon juice in a medium mixing bowl. Lightly spray bottom of pie baking pan (8 inches in diameter) with Pam. To make crust, press corn flakes in to bottom of pan. Fill pie pan with mixture, and bake in oven at 350 degrees.

In order to celebrate the festival of Pi, are you sure do healthified version of the pie?

Ignored by Dieter problem

My readers know, I find interesting news story, in the title of diet, exercise, weight loss and all related things. Most of you know I would suspect that most of what I read the book, I put my thoughts of you, so you can suspect, and when you buy diet or exercise products. This is a new title, I want you to ignore. This is about to lose weight eat avocado.

Avocados can suppress appetite!
No one more than I love an avocado. So I am very happy when I saw it on a survey study, eat half an avocado is at lunch time can help to curb your appetite. The good news is, according to the study, it can suppress appetite good. Sounds great, right?!

This is the problem of. First, in this very small study, the researchers did not on the number of calories consumed during the day. According to these results, they only build participants felt more "satisfaction" and "reduce the desire to eat". They do not establish, the participants eat less.

This is the key. We eat a lot of reasons, these reasons are not hungry or full of feeling. Avocado contains healthy fats, but total calories they are high in calories and increase the weight of too much. If you eat high calorie avocados help you eat less, overall, and this is a good thing. But if you eat the same number throughout the day, then eat an avocado whole semi lunch time is not necessarily a good thing.
With another problem? It is funded by the Haas avocado. Once again, I like avocado! However, a single service avocado is far less than half of the fruit. So I will continue to eat, only a small amount of.

Have a look star Reese, Witherspoon, Johnson, South Dakota, what to wear and Kim Kardashian

So what are your favourite workout clothes? I am kind of choosy: the pants need be neither tight nor loose (falling-down pants make my brain hurt); the shirt needs to stay put, without riding up high or looking like a miniskirt; the sports bra must keep thingsa??you know, steady, but not feel in any way like a corset. &, yes, this means that I am probably way more mindful about my exercise gear than I am about my everyday clothes.

I think I probably finish up seeming like a leeeeetle small bit of a creeper, because I am liking checking out other women's workout geara??but it is only because I am always looking out to find the absolute ideal workout wear. I mean, the more comfortable and assured you feel, the better your exercise session, right? Today, I was taking a look at pics of celebs in the kind of garments they like to wear to their workoutsa??and I daresay I have found some inspiration. What about you?

Reese Witherspoon in her running gear (sidenote that it is my mission to find this top!):

Kim Kardashian, preparing for a class at Barry's Bootcamp:

Ellie Goulding, in matching sports top and shorts:

Minka Kelly, post-workout:

Dakota Johnson, jogging in the work of a break of filming Fifty Shades of Grey:

However, your own sportswear and what is the standard?

For people who want to lose weight fast success, but the real scientific slimming methods do you know?

1, once a week, to treat yourself, eat well but the heat is not much. Always treat yourself, don't often because of greedy and eat. There are several food taste good, but contains quantity of heat is not high, such as:

Lobster: every one hundred grams of lobster calories to 83 calories.

Shrimp: shrimp 12 calories to 60 calories.

Whipped cream: 1 tablespoon whipped cream contains only 8 calories of heat. Do Fresh Fruit Salad plus one or two spoon, was able to satisfy my appetite.

2, high calorie food can only be "icing on the cake". Do Fresh Fruit Salad plus one or two spoons of butter, is "icing on the cake", with self defeating.

3, in addition to breakfast, other time all the water when the drink. Breakfast time, can eat a cup of fresh Orange Juice, drink a cup of milk; but the rest of the time, substituting water for drinks and soda. Especially in the summer, many people is because imperceptibly drink beverages, daily intake of more than two hundred calories. This year the cumulative, multi intake of energy up to 90000 calories, weight 25 pounds. Also, drink the drink, won't let a person feel full, will imperceptibly in drink.

4, every day carry notebook, write down all the things he had. The researchers found that such a diet diaries diaries 15% less than no food.

5, buy a pedometer, to set their own goals, adhere to the 1000 steps per day. For those used to sit at a desk all day people, the best adhere to the Duoliangsanqian step.

6,Eat five or six small meals a day , eat three meals every day. A study in South Africa showed: if people eat a snack before lunch, lunch intake of 30% less heat than usual. Also, eat much food less, although the caloric intake as much,but the body insulin secretion will be less, keep the stable blood glucose level, can reduce Less hunger.

7, walking 45 minutes a day. We recommend a daily 45 minute walk instead of half an hour is because for those sedentary people, walking for half an hour every day just to prevent weight gain, but for those who want to lose weight, just by walking three miles every day than to burn 300 calories to achieve results.

8, every day to eat a cookie. Every day to drink a cup of cola, drink a glass of fruit juice, eat some hamburgers. These high calorie food, just eat a little, but saving for one hundred calories.

9, eat less refined white food eat white bread, white pasta and other carbohydrates, eat more whole grains, brown rice. To the survey of 74000 women of Harvard University: people insist on eating two servings of whole grains were likely to be overweight than the habit of eating white bread and other fine food every day is reduced by 49%.

10, eat breakfast oat food, five times a week. Oat contains rich cellulose and calcium, eat oats, not easy to gain weight and diabetes.

11, eat slowly. In twenty minutes after eating, people feel full. So slow down, don't eat too full.

12, maintain a positive attitude. Do not always think of you can't resist the temptation of McDonald's, do not support exercise. But I think I can eat healthy salad today, take a walk, go to your weight loss plan step by step!

13, find the balance point of own psychology. Some people will be in Food and keep fit between struggle, had to choose between them. To think, you can't have it both ways.

14, grains and vegetables, eat a bowl of noodles or 1:1. Steamed Rice 200 calories, while a bowl of vegetables has only 50 calories. Eat high fiber vegetables, can full belly, while reducing the grain intake.

15, drink less. Drinking a moderate amount of alcohol is beneficial for the body, but the wine is also a high energy food, so drink in moderation.

16, the refrigerator with low-fat yogurt. If the reduction in energy intake at the same time, Suannai every day, more obvious weight loss.

How to achieve the effect of fitness walking

We all know that walking can help lose weight effectively, but also can achieve the effect of physical fitness, but a lot of people after a long walk, found their own desire not to achieve, this is mainly because no reached a certain intensity and time when walking.

Walking is a everyone can exercise fitness method, and its fitness effect is also very good, it can not only improve the function of heart and lung, but also effective lipid-lowering, lowering blood pressure, make the body more healthy.
Walking exercise for the young and the old, simple, safe and effective. But if not up to the "moderate", then the fitness effect is not obvious. But how to control the intensity of exercise? Here I suggest you, at least 20 minutes walk, to breathe faster, a little out of, but also with the normal exchange of people as the standard, walking for fitness effect is good.

In sports training in a "recovery" of the concept, meaning that the physical quality (physical) -- both heart and lung function or power increased, the premise is the need to increase the load, after proper rest, the constitution has not returned to the original level, continue to exercise, can improve the already on the further increase step, this is the "recovery". Thus, with the exercise intensity and amount are very important to improve the fitness effect. Walking exercise, only the "moderate", in order to achieve the purpose of "recovery".

Walking in the so-called medium intensity exercise, is the maximum heart rate of 70% to 85%. For example, a man in the resting heart rate is 70 times / per minute, he the medium intensity exercise heart rate is about 130 times per minute, therefore, although took 10000 steps, the effect of exercise is not good.
Also some people while walking, while walking, even up to the medium intensity exercise, but not a long time, the effect is not good. Because the first 20 minutes walk to the strength, the body consumes just muscle glycogen, in only 20 minutes,

will use the fat to provide energy for the body. Therefore, if we want to eliminate fatty liver, reducing blood lipid and weight loss purposes, at least to walk more than 20 minutes.
Walking is not reach the exercise intensity, generally require vigorous walk or play not to walk, to speed up the pace, stride frequency, increase the swing of the upper arm. Or run alternate (premise is suitable for running exercise crowd), there is a special cross-country a stick.