• Tweet It So You Don't Eat It
• Terrific Tweeters
• Nutritious Nudge/Monthly Challenge

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Monday June 28, 2010

Tweet It So You Don't Eat It

We believe weight loss isn’t about knowing grilled chicken is the better BBQ choice than fried chicken. It’s about all those little decisions. What do you do when everyone is having pie after a summer meal or that order of fried calamari gets placed in the center of table? Of course there are times when partaking is the way you’ll choose to go but you can’t have the extra glass of wine and dessert every summer night, can you? We’re introducing something called Tweet It So You Don’t Eat It. Here’s what to do: 

1. Sign up for Twitter if you haven’t already. (see Nutrition Nudge/Monthly Challenge below for added incentive to sign up and participate!)

2. You can access twitter from your Blackberry or iPhone.

3. When you’re tempted to stray from healthy eating, tweet us by writing @Foodtrainers. Here are some examples of what we mean:  

      @Foodtrainers, I am in London surrounded by fish and chips - trying to resist.                                                              

      @Foodtrainers, At birthday party, screaming no to ice cream!                                                        

      @Foodtrainers, No it is not a requirement to order frozen margaritas at a Mexican restaurant!

You get the idea.

4. Use the pound sign (in twitter-speak called a hashtag) and TIDEA. TIDEA stands for Tweet It, Don’t Eat It. Once up and running, you can search on #TIDEA and see what food or drinks others are passing up. You’ll have the accountability of calling yourself out. We’ll be able to see it, tweet you back and offer some encouraging words. Try it, you may find it sort of fun and tweet your friends about it.
 

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Terrific Tweeters

Recipes: healthyeats, recipe_healthy, EatingWell, choosing raw

Health: WebMD_news, nytimeshealth, Dr Weil, Daily Green, Blisstree, DrOz

Workouts: activenetwork, fitnessmagazine, fitsugar

Interesting Info: fooducate, WellWire, slashfood, bittman
 

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Nutritious Nudge/Monthly Challenge

Each month, we like to incite healthy change with a little challenge. In accordance with our theme, we want to reward you for keeping in touch. The person who tweets (@Foodtrainers using #TIDEA) or comments on the blog  the most in the next month will win a free Foodtraining or Market Foodtraining session. With twitter and our blog accessible by phone, you can stay in touch wherever you are this summer. Start today!

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