Realistic Healthy Living with Gina

Here are some websites and apps that I recommend to help you enjoy the foods you love but to find healthier versions to improve your lifestyle:

 

Websites:

 

Ripped Recipes: http://www.rippedrecipes.com/

A website dedicated to giving you recipes based on your nutritional wants and needs. This website accommodates for all levels of fitness.

 

 

Eating Well: http://www.eatingwell.com/

Eating Well is a website that gives you recipes. menus, healthy cooking alternatives, diet and health information and food news.

 

All Recipes-Healthy Living: http://allrecipes.com/recipes/healthy-recipes/daily.aspx

All Recipes-Is just that. It's a website full of recipes but that has a healthy recipe section with daily recipes to help adjust your lifestyle without cutting out all the foods you enjoy.

 

Great List Healthy Substitutions: http://greatist.com/health/83-healthy-recipe-substitutions

Great List is a website that has healthy recipe substitutions that enable you to eat healthier but still use some of your favorite recipes at home.

 

APPS:

 

FOODUCATE: http://www.fooducate.com/

A Smartphone app and website that lets you browse and search a variety of foods. They not only given nutritional facts but give ratings so you can see the products you are eating and find better options

 

SHOPWELL: http://www.shopwell.com/mobileapp

Takes Fooducate one step further and customizes a food's score based on your own diet and food preference. This app shows you the Nutrition Label and uses color-coding to highlight the details that affect your diet and interests, such as sodium or fiber.

 

The Carrot: https://thecarrot.com/

Tracking central for anyone that likes to track their life on their app. Among its trackers: blood pressure, food journal, exercise routine, medication, menstrual cycle, mood, pregnancy, diabetes, sleep, symptoms and sexual activity. Yes is tracks everything!

 

Restaurant Nutrition: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/restaurant-nutrition/id285180322?mt=8

This app contains over 250 restaurants and over 60,00 food items because let's face it-we like to eat out and when we do we are more likely to make poor choices.

 

If you keep good food in your fridge, you will eat good food