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Printable Meal Plan for Weight Loss with Fiber and Whole Grains
Healthy eating for weight loss can be simple and tasty. This is a simple meal plan full of whole grains and fiber so you can manage hunger and get more nutrients. Most of the meals take only a few min


What Are Some Healthy Snacks You Can Have Without Breaking Your Calorie Budget?
What snacks can you eat that won’t put you over on calories or carbs? Here are some healthy snacks that can fill you up while you stick to your weight loss and healthy eating intentions.


Eight Tips for Healthy Eating on a Budget Plus Ten Healthy Low-Cost Meals
Prices seem to be going up every day, but there are some tips and tricks that can help you stick to your health goals. Here are eight tips to eat healthy on a budget.

Diabetes and Rice | Can I Eat Rice With Diabetes?
When you have diabetes, what you eat is a large part of maintaining blood sugar levels. Is rice safe for diabetes? It depends on what kind!

5 Easy, Healthy Breakfast Ideas for Prediabetes
A healthy prediabetic breakfast can stabilize blood sugar and improve insulin action for hours, and it need not take hours to prepare.

9 Tips For A Healthy Fast Food Breakfast for Diabetes
Eating fast food can be hard to avoid. Here are some tips for a healthy fast food breakfast for diabetes to keep blood sugar stable.

Can I Eat Chocolate with Diabetes? Everything You Need To Know
Happily, chocolate has a low glycemic index (GI), which means it does not lead to sharp spikes in blood sugar when you eat it.

Is Oatmeal Gluten-Free?

Alcohol and Type 2 Diabetes
How does Alcohol and type 2 diabetes affect blood sugar? You might be asking this common question if you have diabetes or prediabetes.


What's Better: Whole Wheat or Whole Grain?
When trying to add more whole grains, you need to know which ones to choose. Whole-wheat and whole-grain products are everywhere, but which are best?

High Carb Foods and Low Carb Foods
For most people, carbohydrates are the main source of energy in the diet. Here are foods high in carbs and foods low in carbs as your guide!

Serving Sizes and Carbs
Carbohydrates are necessary for energy and are the main source of fuel for most people. But how many carbs are in the average serving size?

How to Follow a Low Glycemic Index Diet
The glycemic index of a food is a measure of how it affects your blood sugar. Foods with a high GI leads to a quick and high spike in your blood sugar levels, followed by a dip. Foods with a lower GI have a less dramatic and healthier effect on your blood sugar.

The Perfect Plate

What to Do with That Broccoli


Glycemic Index: How to Determine High vs Low Glycemic Foods
The time has come to rethink what you thought you knew about carbohydrates if you thought all are the same. Instead of following a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet that was popular decades ago, or avoiding nearly all carbohydrates with a low-carbohydrate diet, you can take a more moderate approach by choosing the "good" carbs using the glycemic index.

6 Ways to Eat Healthy on a Budget
When you are eating for health and weight loss, you may notice something: healthy eating can hurt your wallet! But it is possible to eat healthy on a budget

10 Surprising Foods with Added Sugars
Added sugars bring calories without essential nutrients, drive up blood sugar levels, and contribute to diabetes and other chronic diseases.

6 Myths about Gluten-Free Foods
Gluten-free foods are everywhere these days, and you may already be enjoying them! But are these foods really healthier, or are these myths about gluten?

Why Fish Is a Healthy Protein, And How To Get More Of It
Fish protein is among one of the best sources of protein. It can help you lose weight reduce carb cravings, and lower blood sugar.

But I Hate That Healthy Food!

Calories

Sodium

Welcome to Badges: Fruit
Most types of fruit are rich in nutrients such as dietary fiber, potassium, vitamins A and C, and phytochemicals. They are nearly fat-free.

Welcome to Badges: Veggies

Caffeine

Don't Let Hidden Sugars Fool You!
Cutting back on sugar? Choices such as desserts and sugary sodas are obviously high in sugar. But many other foods have more sugar than you may think!

Welcome to Lark Badges: Fried Foods
Fried foods are consistently linked to unfavorable health outcomes. People who eat more fried foods may be more likely to gain weight.

Welcome to Badges: Healthy Protein Foods
Healthy protein is a nutrient that is necessary for maintaining muscle mass, supporting a healthy immune system, and letting your body function properly.

Welcome to Lark Badges: Healthy Fat
Certain types of healthy fats are essential (necessary) nutrients in the diet, and these and other healthy fats have certain benefits

Tipping the Balance

Meat

Welcome to Badges: Grain
The main nutrient in grains is starch, which is a type of carbohydrate and a source of calories. Grains are an easy source of energy or fuel for your body.

Putting It All Together

Welcome to Meal Logging & Badges: Protein
Protein is an essential nutrient. It is part of your muscles, and various proteins make up your immune system and some hormones.

Welcome to Badges: Pickled
Pickles and pickled foods can have benefits, especially if you choose them instead of less-healthy foods. Most pickled vegetables are low in calories!

Welcome to Lark Badges: Sugar
Sugars are types of carbohydrates. They supply 4 calories per gram. That means, like any type of calorie-containing nutrient, consuming too much can lead to weight gain.

Welcome to Badges: Saturated Fat
A good amount of evidence suggests that diets high in saturated fat are linked to higher risk for obesity and heart problems, along with diabetes.

Welcome to Badges: Whole Grains
Whole grains contain dietary fiber, a bit of protein, and are natural sources of nutrients, but can be high in carbs and sugar.

Welcome to Badges: Starchy Veggies
Starchy vegetables are naturally rich in a variety of nutrients. They are good sources of dietary fiber, which lowers cholesterol and aids digestive health.

"Healthy" Summer Foods That Aren't Healthy
Summer is the peak season for fresh foods, But be warned: some of the most popular ways of preparing them are not quite as healthy as you may think!

Practice to Beat Your Triggers

Healthy Sides for Burgers
Healthy grilling can quickly become unhealthy based on what you eat with it! Here are some easy and healthy, sides you can pair with your gilled meals.

Expert Food Logger

Consistency Is Key

Honey vs. Sugar: Are Honey and Sugar Okay For Diabetes?
Are sweeteners okay at all with diabetes? Honey and sugar are both carbs, but they do have some differences that can help guide decisions.

Blood Sugar Chart: What is the Normal Range for Blood Sugar?
Blood sugar is an important part for you to be healthy but remembering what a normal level can be hard. Let our blood sugar level chart help!

Mastering Food Logging

Make Healthy Foods More Delicious
We should eat healthy, but making good choices can feel like a chore rather than a pleasure. Food that is good for you can taste good, too!

Tweak Your Plate for Easier Weight Loss at Home
As you continue your weight loss and build your expertise, you may have learned quite a bit about creating healthy meals for losing weight.

How Will You Enjoy Your Healthy Meals?
It is easier to make the “right” choice when it is also the tastier choice. Try new foods and recipes, and making small swaps!


Insulin Resistance Diet
If you have prediabetes, improving your diet may be the most effective way of reversing it, like with an insulin resistance diet.

Five Reasons Why "I Can't Cook"... Beat The Excuses!
Cooking at home can lead to lower-calorie, more nutritious meals. You may have trouble cooking at home, but there are responses to those barriers that turn them into nothing more than excuses.

All Sugars Aren't the Same

Simple Swaps to Make Your Restaurant Meal the Real (Healthy) Deal
Learning how to find the healthiest option at a restaurant can be challenging, so we've created this guide to help manage your prediabetes!

Smart Fats for Heart Health
You often hear about “fat” as a single entity, but that is not an accurate picture. All types of dietary fat are high in calories, but some are beneficial!

Get Out of Your Cooking Lull - Healthy Recipe Ideas
Often times one of the hardest parts of healthy cooking is continuously finding new recipe ideas that are easy to cook, and follow your DPP diet.

Best Foods for Preventing Diabetes
There are plenty of other nutrients that can help improve health and lower blood sugar, and these are some of the superfoods that contain them.

Clean Delicious Eating at Home

Painless Ways to Lose a Pound a Week
When you follow a crash diet, you may see results quickly, but the weight loss vanish at the end. Learn how to lose a pound a week, painlessly.