December 2nd, 2009
Your favorite Clean Eating Coach can sometimes find herself in a clean eating pickle. Can I make clean eating dishes that are focused on the healthiest foods? You betcha, but that doesn’t mean I always eat slowly and mindfully, taking clean eating to a whole other level.
If you must know, sometimes I eat really fast and
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March 10th, 2009
I want to encourage you to think outside the box about what constitutes a meal, especially a healthy one.
We tend to think of a meal as something that’s big, often heavy and has to come at certain times of the day. But I when I think healthy meals, I’m of the mind that less is
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February 24th, 2009
One of my new favorite tools to support healthy eating and exercise is fitday.com. Are you one of the millions of people who are already familiar with the power of Fitday? If not, now’s the perfect time to learn more about his handy, useful tool to help you stay on track with your health.
I first
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February 6th, 2009
We can all chew our way to better health, one mouthful at a time. And given the chronic health problems and record levels of obesity in this country, I wish more people would join my slow chewing movement and adopt this habit. You can lose weight, feel more satisfied and enjoy your food more just
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January 14th, 2009
In Ayurveda, the traditional medicine of India, my constitution type is classic Vata. By nature, Vata people tend to be cold, thin and dry (as in dry skin, etc.). So I always thought that a raw food diet would just make me more cold –no hot soup and cooked food just seemed like a stretch
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December 1st, 2008
Let’s talk diet…as in post-Thanksgiving, get back on track, healthy eating. Diets really don’t work unless we’re talking about a diet of healthy, good for you food that you’re maintaining for life (with the occasional departure, of course).
The question is, did you enjoy Thanksgiving in moderation, consciously eating and feeling good afterward, or did you fall
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November 25th, 2008
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, and the urge to consume huge amounts of food beckoning many of us, now is the time to begin with the end in mind when it comes to cooking that sumptuous meal.
Holidays are the perfect time to throw our healthy eating out the window, kicking diets to the curb. We
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November 21st, 2008
It used to be that I would gorge myself on Thanksgiving, losing all sight of healthy eating and consuming so much food that I was uncomfortable for hours. Ring a bell?
And back when I was in my 20s and 30s, it wasn’t such an issue to eat like that — no serious repercussions. But as
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Filed under: Diets, Healthy Meals, Healthy lifestyle, Holidays, Mindful Eating, Overindulging, Turkey, weight gain | 1 Comment
