About: Alan Carpenter

Recent Posts by Alan Carpenter

Use a Fitness Monitor

Use a Fitness Monitor
What’s your level of daily physical activity? Most people have no idea. Lack of self-monitoring may partially account for the fact that most US adults don’t get the recommended minimum of 30 minutes of daily moderate intensity physical activity. Most US adults don’t take the recommended minimum of 10,000 daily steps, either. Why is self-monitoring…
more

Eat Earlier, Lose Weight

Eat Earlier, Lose Weight
Having trouble losing weight? Try this. Make breakfast or lunch rather than dinner your biggest meal of the day. Recent studies suggest that shifting eating to earlier in the day can help you lose weight. Without having to cut or count calories. Overweight or obese volunteers in California were eating-restricted to 10 hours per day…
more

Snack Better With Healthy Snacks

Snack Better With Healthy Snacks
Snack Better with Healthy Snacks Snacks are frowned upon by health authorities. They cite the abundance of sugar, fat, and salt in most snack food-like materials. But can you imagine not snacking? I can't. Rather than feeling guilty about snacking, I suggest a better approach: Snack better with healthy snacks. Do tasty, portable, and healthy…
more

Stop Catastrophic Thinking

Stop Catastrophic Thinking
Stop Catastrophic Thinking, Reduce Stress When a problem arises, do you launch into catastrophic thinking? Thinking of all the awful things that could happen? If so, do you know that you can learn to stop catastrophic thinking? Here’s a fresh personal example. Two days ago, my iPhone 6 developed a huge problem. I couldn’t send…
more

Recent Comments by Alan Carpenter