Our Recommended List in Random Order:

Real Life Nutrition WebMD bloggers: Carolyn Brown @onesmartbrownie, David Grotto @davidgrotto, Janet Helm @JanetHelm, and Maryann Tomovich Jacobsen @mtjacobsen

Eat + Run USNews.com @eatandrunUSN
Many well known RD bloggers, including Keri Glassman @KeriGlassman, Bonnie Taub-Dix @eatsmatbd, Keri Gans @kerigans, Elisa Zied @elisazied, and Tamara Duker Freuman @tamaraduker

Nutrition and You! by Joan Salge Blake @joansalgeblake

Health.com News and Views by Cynthia Sass @cynthiasass

Joy Bauer @joybauer

Nutrition Twins by Lyssie Lakatos and Tammy Lakatos Shames @nutritiontwins

URockGirl by Erin Macdonald and Tiffani Bachus @urockgirl

Gluten-Free Goodness by Cheryl Harris (No gluten, dairy, soy, eggs, or corn)  @CherylHarrisRD

The Gluten-Free RD by Rachel Begun @RachelBegunRD

The Spicy RD (gluten-free) by EA Stewart @TheSpicyRD

Demos 10:30 am – 3 pm: May 13 – Frederick, May 14 - Columbia, May 15 - Glen Burnie, and May 16 - Wheaton

Maryland

Columbia (North of Baltimore)
6675 Marie Curie Drive
Elkridge, MD 21075-6457
(410) 423-4052

Frederick (North of DC)
10 Monocacy Blvd
Frederick, MD 21704-7256
(301) 644-1483

Glen Burnie (Baltimore)
575 East Ordnance Road
Glen Burnie, MD 21060-6575
(410) 590-8603

Wheaton (North of Bethesda, Just opened)
11160 Veirs Mill Rd
Wheaton, MD 20902
(301) 692-1330

New York

Holbrook
125 Beacon Drive
Holbrook, NY 11741-4309
(631) 244-0292

New Rochelle
1 Industrial Lane
New Rochelle, NY 10805-1203
(914) 235-2233

Virginia

West Henrico (Richmond)
9650 West Broad Street
Glen Allen, VA 23060-4115
(804) 727-3050

The NuGo Family variety pack is also available at Costco in the following locations: Northern CA, OR, WA, ID, UT, NV, and Pittsburgh. We only do the Costco Roadshow in the Pacific Northwest. Please check our website for the Roadshow schedule.

Would you like to be able to buy NuGo Family at a Costco near you? Be sure to request NuGo at your local Costco store!

For more information about celiac disease, visit the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness (NFCA). NuGo Dark, NuGO Slim, and NuGO FREE REAL Dark Chocolate coated protein bars are certified gluten-free and sold at stores in the US and Canada.

May is National Bike Month and National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. Riding your bike is a great way to participate in the FitStreak challenge. NuGo is proud to sponsor the Koeles Cycling Team in Pittsburgh. Encourage your entire family to participate in the FitStreak challenge and enjoy getting fit together.

As nutritionists and personal trainers, it’s important for us to incorporate all aspects of nutrition to help everyone whether it is obesity, diabetes or sports enhancement. We agree with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics top 10 reasons you should be talking to an RD today!

1. Registered Dietitians can help you plan a balanced diet if you are diagnosed with pre-diabetes or diabetes. It can greatly affect your diet if you aren’t careful so get the proper advice from an RD!

2. With each community hurting for more wellness programs with the obesity epidemic in America, dietitians can help get those programs started. They can help fight for backing by the government to make a difference in eating healthy and help communities become physically fit!

3. Registered dietitians can work with food scientists on new healthy foods for the local grocery stores and markets. They can phase out the bad foods or at least make them healthier for consumers to make healthier choices.

4. Dietitians specializing in sports nutrition can help you to become fit – the healthy way! You’ll see results when following and setting healthier goals!

5. Registered dietitians can help you manage meals and create a plan for you, whether you want to lose weight, become more physically fit or just had a major surgery that curbs your appetite! They are the best to talk to about this.

6. If you’re a Mom or even a Dad that just doesn’t cook and has no cooking skills, RD’s can help you find the basic culinary skills to get healthier and simple foods on your table, homemade!

7. If you’re suspecting a family member or maybe even yourself of having an eating disorder, an RD can help you overcome this challenge and help you to eat healthier again!

8. Registered dietitians can help create healthier food choices in the community whether it be a food drive or even a farmers market, they can help get the resources you need to create a large impact!

9. New moms can benefit greatly with making sure their babies are getting the adequate nutrition they need for a normal and healthy weight gain.

10. Registered dietitians can help with the elderly to make sure they are also getting the adequate nutrition they need to stay healthy, such as Meals on Wheels programs.

Now you know the many benefits to seeing an RD! There are obviously so many different ways an RD can make an impact on you personally or in the community. Don’t be afraid to find one in your local area and start asking questions to make a healthier and happier you!

About the Authors:

Tammy and Lyssie Lakatos, a.k.a. The Nutrition Twins®, are twin sisters, registered dietitians and personal trainers with over a decade of experience helping thousands of clients boost their energy naturally, get healthier, happier and in tip-top shape. They have been featured as experts on major TV shows/ networks and popular press ranging from The Doctors, Good Morning America Health, Fox and Friends and Discovery Health to USA Today, Health Magazine and Vogue. They are experts and bloggers for msn’s health site, Fitbie and for the host of Dancing with the Stars Brooke Burke’s site, ModernMom.com. They are authors of Fire Up Your Metabolism (Simon and Schuster), The Secret To Skinny: How Salt Makes You Fat (HCI Books) and The Nutrition Twins’ Veggie Cure: 100 Tantalizing Recipes for Health, Energy and Beauty, due out in January 2014. They live in New York City where they enjoy running and biking to keep fit as well as chasing after Tammy’s twin daughters. Follow the Nutrition Twins on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.

We love all types of photos, and you can submit as many photos as you would like. Take a photo of a NuGo bar in its wrapper, unwrapped, on a store shelf, with a family member, at the gym, while traveling, or be creative. We will randomly choose two winners and announce them on Valentine’s Day. Winners must live in the continental US. Good luck!

We all start out the year with the best intentions. Lose weight. Eat healthier. Manage stress better. Exercise more. Save money. Improve our relationships. Sound familiar?

So why, by February 1st, have we slipped back into our old habits?

When you make a resolution, it’s usually a very large, over-reaching goal. Lose 30 pounds. How can you expect to lose 30 pounds as quickly as you want to, especially when it didn’t get put on overnight? Big goals with no game plan equal big failure. And when we fail, we beat ourselves up over it. After many years of setting up unattainable resolutions, and failing to achieve them, we’ve labeled ourselves as failures and thus have little hope for actually succeeding when we set out to try again. And yet we continue to try again. I give an “A” for effort, but unfortunately the outcome is the same because we haven’t changed the game plan and the results are the same.

Another reason we are doomed to failure is that we are very impatient. We want results and we want it NOW! That’s normal for a society of instant gratification. So, waiting for results is very difficult.

The solution? Take it slowly, be patient, and break those lofty goals into smaller, more achievable goals. Try U Rock Girl’s “Goal A Day” challenge.

You want to make changes that will last. This year will be different. You will succeed. All you need is a game plan. Here are the tools you need:

• Give yourself specific directions. Vague resolutions like “Lose weight” are doomed for failure. How are you going to do it? How many pounds? Over what time period? Do not give yourself too many options. Set focused goals, like “I will eat breakfast every day,” “Walk 20 minutes at lunchtime every day,” or “Only one glass of wine at dinner.”

• Give yourself inspiration. If your goal is to increase your strength, then find a picture of yourself when you were in better shape and tape it to the refrigerator as motivation. Make the inspiration reasonable – don’t put a picture of an elite athlete as your screen saver or you will set yourself up for frustration.

• Get motivated (and stay motivated). Take a look at the larger goal (Losing weight). Now break it down into little, attainable goals, i.e., bring lunch to work every day; drink 8 oz. water first thing in the morning; have a fruit or vegetable at every mini meal. When your goals are smaller and more easily achieved, you will feel successful. This feeling will encourage you to make more changes that will get you closer to your next mini-goal, and ultimately your big-picture goal.

• Make your environments supportive of your goals. Your home and work or school are the two environments in which you spend the most time, so make sure they support the healthy changes you are trying to make. Get rid of your trigger foods and stock the refrigerator, freezer, and pantry full of fruit, vegetables, nuts, whole grains, beans, lean protein, and healthy snacks, like NuGo bars. If you know you always crave sweets at 3 p.m., then have a healthy snack of some sweet berries and a protein, like Greek yogurt, to satisfy your craving and keep your hunger in check. Or try a NuGo Slim bar (I love the Roasted peanut flavor) which satisfies the sweet and savory craving. Other environments, like social, travel, and commuting are also situations in which you can make changes to keep you successful. If you know you’re going out for dinner, look at the restaurant menu on-line before you go out and decide what you’ll be ordering. Also, having a light and healthy snack before you go out to eat or to a party will help you from making a poor food decision or overeating.

Remember, change doesn’t happen overnight. It’s a process that takes time and practice. You may occasionally fail or have a set-back. That’s ok and you should even expect that to happen. It’s how you deal with that set-back. Accept it, own it, figure out why it happened, and what you can do to prevent it from happening again in the future. By taking the time to assess your progress – what’s working and what’s not – you will be able to make the necessary changes to allow you to be successful in achieving your health and wellness goals.

About the Author:

Erin Macdonald, R.D. is a Nutrition, Fitness, and Wellness Coach in southern California where she has a private practice and teaches cooking classes. She is the co-founder of U Rock Girl, a web site full of nutrition, fitness, and wellness information and recipes to nourish the mind, body, and spirit. She also writes a regular column for Oxygen Magazine, called “Easy Does It” and will have a new column in Clean Eating magazine called, “Ask the dietitians.” Follow her on Facebook and Twitter.