The CRAZY SEVEN: Things I Do to Eat What I Love and Still Lose Weight
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 me it looks...
1, 2 Bite
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 quantity...
Green Juice and Chocolate Cake Please
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 fast...
Counting Calories WITHOUT Counting Calories
I do not believe in counting calories. At the same time, I know that calories count. The magic trick we are all searching for is how to make the weight disappear without constantly keeping track of and cutting our consumption. Like a magic trick often has a slight...
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.