Lorraine Matthews-Antosiewicz
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Lorraine Matthews-Antosiewicz Quick Facts
Lorraine is a food and nutrition expert specializing in weight management. Her passion is working with individuals yearning to be thinner who have spent years failing at one diet after another. She is committed to empowering these individuals through education, support, and inspiration to make real changes that lead to optimal health and lasting weight loss.
Her signature style of counseling is the reason why so many of her clients are successful. She incorporates scientifically-based nutrition and health information with specific techniques and strategies proven to be effective in motivating change.
Lorraine received her education at Boston University and completed her internship at the New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston. After graduating, she spent 10 years working as a hospital-based clinical nutritionist in New Jersey. During that time, her entrepreneurial spirit began to take shape and she decided to start her own business. What began as a part-time general nutrition practice evolved into a thriving full-time practice specializing in the care of overweight and obese adults. Many of her clients suffer from fatigue and other weight-related health issues including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and high cholesterol that greatly improve with weight loss.
Lorraine is an active member of the NJ Dietetic Association; the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics; the Nutrition Entrepreneurs dietetic practice group; the Sports, Cardiovascular, and Wellness dietetic practice group; and the Integrative and Functional Medicine practice group. She was named Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year by the New Jersey Dietetic Association.
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5 Tips To Help You Lose Without Counting Calories
If you think that calories are calories - and it doesn't matter whether they come from cookies or carrots - then it's time to rethink what you're thinking about calories. Contrary to what you may have heard, all calories are NOT created equal. Believing that you'll lose weight simply by counting them or cutting them will likely leave you hungry, irritable, malnourished and frustrated when you end up not much lighter than you were when you started - and maybe even heavier. POWERFUL WEIGHT LOSS TIP: Rather than counting calories, eat until you are satisfied.
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Shed That Winter Coat and Get Back Into Your Summer Clothes
Did you gain weight over the winter? If so, you're not alone; it happened to many people. But don't fret. Spring is in the air and it's finally time to shed your winter coat and reverse the winter weight gain. Get off to a good start by checking out the solutions to some all-too-common weight loss challenges. CHALLENGE: Striving for perfection.
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Could You Be Suffering From Celiac Disease?
Last weekend I took a trip to the East Village to check out a new gluten-free bakery called Jennifer's Way. This totally adorable bakery was opened by actress Jennifer Esposito, known for her roles in Spin City, Crash, and Summer of Sam, and Blue Bloods. I'm a huge Blue Bloods fan and always wondered why she was written off the show. Now I know - she was diagnosed with a particularly debilitating case of Celiac disease in 2009 and needed time off to take care of herself and get better. That's exactly what she did - and more - she opened a 100% gluten-free bakery.
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12 Ways to Motivate Yourself to Exercise
Everyone knows why we should be exercising: to improve health, to look good, to feel good, to fit into nice clothes, to burn fat, to lose weight - all that good stuff. And yet, we're just not doing it. In fact, many of us hardly move at all. We drive everywhere we need to go and then look for the closest parking space; we take the elevator instead of the stairs; we work in front of our computers for hours and then go home and plop on the couch; we watch way too much TV; and then we go to bed.
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Ready For Success? Eat What You Want.
Intuitive eating (also called mindful eating) is structured around the belief that people need to trust themselves enough to believe that they will eat what and how much food they need. When you eat intuitively, you use your internal cues for hunger, appetite and satiety to guide you. The truth is, only by eating what you truly want can you adequately nourish yourself and achieve optimal health - including a healthy weight.
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5 Simple Steps To Healthier Eating
Making changes to eat a more healthful diet usually doesn't happen ove ight; rather, it's an evolution. Becoming a healthy eater involves a gradual shift toward making better food choices over time. Here are five simple ways to help you evolve what you're eating today for a healthier tomorrow! And if you're looking to lose some weight, this is a great way to get started.
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8 Tips to Help You Create a Healthy-Weight Lifestyle
There are many ways to lose weight - some sensible, others not so much. In fact, the internet is loaded with tons of ridiculously bad advice on how to slim down. Despite what you hear in the media, the basics of achieving a healthy weight haven't changed all that much in the past few decades. Sure, there is a lot of debate about the details, but the overall principles remain unchanged. Here are eight time-tested principles to living a healthy-weight lifestyle.
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Grocery Cart Make Over: Just in Time for the Holidays
One of the best ways to eat healthier and avoid weight gain during the holidays this year is to plan weekly trips to the grocery store. That's right. Go shopping. I suggest you book an appointment for yourself each week (write it in your planner) to go grocery shopping. It's a simple, yet powerful, way to make sure you are eating foods that are good for you and avoiding foods that are not.
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How To Make Your New Year's Resolutions Stick
There’s something about the New Year that evokes a renewed optimism when it comes to losing weight and improving health. Our desire and enthusiasm takes over and we are certain that our New Year’s resolutions will totally work out this time. Never mind the fact that we abandoned last year’s resolution by Valentine’s Day. And the year before that (and the year before that) was no different. Sound familiar? But what if this year really could be different? It can; and you have the power to make it different.
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Juicing - Helpful or Harmful?
I get asked this question all the time. What do you think of juicing? The short answer - it can play a beneficial role in any wellness program if used properly. Drinking a nutritious juice every once in a while (even everyday) can be healthy, but it can also do more harm than good when it's taken to the extreme. Consuming only juice for weeks is not the magic bullet proponents are claiming it to be; and it can be downright dangerous. So what is juicing exactly?
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10 Ways Tame Your Sweet Tooth
Consciously or not, the average American consumes 28 teaspoons of added sugars a day – that’s more than 90 pounds of sugar per year. The American Heart Association recommends women limit their added sugar to just 100 calories per day (6 teaspoons) and men to 150 calories a day (9 teaspoons). So, the bottom line is that most of us eat way too much. Read on to learn why this can be a problem and what you can do about it. What’s the problem with added sugar?
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Dining Without Reservations: 7 Simple Strategies
Eating out in a restaurant can be challenging when you are trying to eat healthy and make weight-conscious choices. Things can get out of hand quickly when you are faced with too many options. It's easy to consume more calories, fat and sodium in one restaurant meal than you need for the entire day. With a little planning however, you can make your dining-out experience tasty, enjoyable, and weight-conscious. Consider the following powerful weight loss tip. Weight Loss Tip: Before you go out to eat, come up with a 'dining-out strategy'.
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