Category: Blog
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Three Simple Steps to Step back From Sugar at the Holidays
The holidays are a great time for relaxing with family and friends, as well as taking time to participate in festive activities, such as holiday parties and celebrations. Typically, these types of holiday activities include lots of food and drink. It’s the most wonderful time of the year, right?! Yes, but perhaps not so much for our…
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Five Common Weight Loss Mistakes
We’ve all wanted to lose weight at some point or another. Whether it’s 5 lbs., 25 lbs. or maybe 50 lbs. Well, today I want to bust one of the big myths surrounding weight loss: Diets don’t work! Why Diets Don’t Work Because diets ultimately create restrictions in order to lose weight. When we feel restricted,…
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Three Secrets to Healthier Eating
Today, most of us are confused and overwhelmed by what we’re told is healthy. The market is flooded with diets and programs, most of them too complicated and detailed to understand and embrace permanently. How to succeed Ultimately, this overload of information keeps most of us from doing anything productive when it comes to self-care. Life…
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Healthy Burger & Fries Option
After my daughters switched to a vegetarian diet, coming up with yummy meals was initially a challenge. My oldest daughter led the way when she adopted a vegetarian diet about three and half years ago. A couple of years later, my youngest followed suit. I’ve gone back and forth and have now settled into a…
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Summer Tacos
Recently, while preparing my produce for juicing, I noticed that large Romaine leaves could make a great shell for a healthy taco. After I finished juicing, I grabbed some various food items already in my fridge and began experimenting. Fortunately, I had some Pepper Jack cheese (already shredded), which always packs a nice little punch and…
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Quick Healthy Meals for Busy Peeps
It’s a wonder I have enough hours in the day to even sleep, but I make sure it happens because it’s very important to me (I’ll be blogging about the importance of a good night’s sleep sometime in the near future.) Something else that’s very important to me, which I mentioned in my One-Pot Lentil Soup…
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On a Positive Note…
…which is what I keep telling myself. Have you ever noticed when you consciously decide to change something, sometimes it gets worse before it gets better? Maybe “it” — in this case, the habit of speaking negatively — was worse than I thought, or was it? I may never know because I was not entirely unconscious when I made…
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One-pot Lentil Soup
Simplicity is essential when it comes to mealtime. I’ve always been drawn to easy-to-make recipes that have few ingredients, take a short time to prepare and cook, there’s little cleanup, and provide leftovers. When I stumbled upon a one-pot lentil soup, it became a household staple. We’re also a vegetarian household. My oldest daughter has been a…
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Carrot Fennel Soup
So, first off, I just learned that fennel is an herb and not a green vegetable! As part of a challenge, I decided to cook with a green vegetable I had never cooked with before. While on my weekly shopping haul to Trader Joe’s (a.k.a. one of my “happy” places), I picked up some fennel. It was…