We often feel when we go to a restaurant it is a special occasion and should therefore be a chance for us to splurge or eat something unhealthy to enjoy the experience. We do not want to feel restricted when doing something special. In reality, eating out is...
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Multigrain does NOT equal whole grain. Multigrain can be whole grain, but not necessarily. This is a tricky truth used as a product labelling manipulation in our food industry today. I used to eat these 100 calorie english muffins thinking because they were...
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I refuse to diet. A friend told me today, “I HAVE to diet. I need to lose 10 pounds by next month because I am going on vacation.” I have been there. I completely feel the weight of that emotion and experience. Yet “HAVE” is a very powerful word and to...
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The song from Ciara featuring Missy Elliott, 1, 2 Step, runs through my head as I sit here pondering why we eat more than a few bites of ANYTHING. We do not need a lot of something to feel a lot of pleasure from it. In our culture of more, we often equate...
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Have your cake and drink your nutrients too. Life is meant to be lived in joyful balance. Green juice all the time would be boring. Chocolate cake all the time would feel terrible and cause weight gain. The solution is balance. Think of the old joke of the...
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Nikola Rosa is an artistic rendering of the soul that has come to exist after rising from the ashes. Her thoughts are from Nancy Gass, and yet they are in some ways, a different person entirely. We all have hearts and souls that are a deep ocean of complexity and this dichotomy is no different.