Fitness
Resolution Reform: 5 Steps to Embrace Your Best You, Always
For New Year’s or at any time in your life, these five steps will help you become a healthier, happier and very best you.
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Fitness
Lose the Holiday Heft: Three Simple Steps to Stay on Track this New Year
This year make New Year’s Resolutions work by using our three simple tips to stay on track. Make 2012 your best year yet by using these do-able tricks brought to you by SpaFinder and our Wellness Week spokeswoman, Mariel Hemingway.
Fitness
Ask Susie: Month-Long Weight-Loss Retreats
Q: I am looking for a spa to lose weight. I would like to go for a month next year. Read on for Susie’s response!
Recipes
Festive Lower-Calorie Holiday Cocktail Recipes
Photo via Flickr user Dinner SeriesWho doesn’t relish in a good cocktail when the holiday season rolls around? While we love festive cocktails, we don’t love the extra calories that some of them bring. Try these two lower-calorie cocktail recipes!
Recipes
Grail Springs Recipe: Three Sisters Soup – An Inspiring Tale
We love the story of the three sisters, which Grail Springs Health Spa and Wellness Center of Bancroft, Ontario, recently shared in its newsletter. Perfectly fitting for the holiday season, the story of the three sisters personifies corn, beans and squash in an inspiring way. Read the story and get the recipe!
Recipes
Recipe: Wasabi Mashed Potatoes
We know it’s not Thanksgiving with some sort of mash, so we set out to look for new takes on the always-present mashed potato sides to mix things up. From mint to celery root to wasabi, we’re excited to try something new this year.
Recipes
From Our Kitchen: Forest Farro Stuffing with Fennel, Wild Mushrooms and Sage
For a healthier stuffing alternative, try mixing it up with some whole grains; we love farro—an ancient superfood grain well-loved in Italy—for its nutty taste and firm chewy texture, and also its immense health benefits.
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Holiday Eating Tips + Spicy Peppered Sweet Potatoes Recipe
Camp Shane at Shane Diet & Fitness Resorts shares some holiday eating tips that will hopefully help all of you get through the holidays feeling healthy satisfied. Get the tips on how to eat more mindfully during the holiday and all throughout the year.
Living Well
A Simple, Delicious Juice Cleanse – That Works
I have heard good things about juice cleanses, so a few weeks ago I decided to try one by Terri, a restaurant in Manhattan’s flatiron district. The eatery was launched by two vegan chefs, Craig and Mike, who wanted to provide “a respite for those looking for a healthy, organic meal…to find nourishing food quickly.”
Recipes
Shane Diet & Fitness Resorts Recipe: Tofu & Vegetable Lasagna
Full of protein from tofu, fiber from spinach and flavors from basil, parsley and garlic, this healthy vegetarian lasagna is nice and simple, both in ingredients and in cooking.
Living Well
The Pioneer Spas: Hilton Head Health
We love this destination’s bold, unpretentious admission: “More than a fat farm!” Indeed, this South Carolina seashore retreat has changed thousands of lives with their smartly conceived program of calorie reduction and personal attention to mind/body fitness. We salute them for their inspiration and education.
Living Well
The Pioner Spas: Green Mountain at Fox Run
While it doesn’t define itself as a spa, Green Mountain’s 40 years as a treasured destination for women seeking healthy solutions to weight loss make it an essential pioneer for our list. Their caring program of mindful meditation, nutrition, and fitness has helped thousands of women break the cycle of yo-yo dieting in a healthy,