If you want to lose weight, or make any kind of healthy change, the conventional wisdom says to put it off until January. After all, we’re right in the middle of the “eating season,” and the beginning of the New Year seems like a better time to get started with [continue reading]
11 Ways to Love Your Body
Recently, we talked about 3 reasons for learning to love your body. Those reasons are important, and I think that every woman should think about and begin to work on them. But it’s one thing to know why your should love your body, and quite another thing to convince your [continue reading]
Healthy Eating 101, Part 4 – Let’s Get Started!
OK, it’s time. If you’ve stuck with me through the first 3 parts of Healthy Eating 101 – organization and planning, bad news about processed food, and good news about real food – you’re probably giving serious thought to changing the way you and your family eat. (Includes affiliate links) Wonderful! [continue reading]
Healthy Eating 101, Part 3 – 4 Reasons to Eat Real Food
You know that you’re supposed to eat real food, but what exactly is it? I’m sure there’s a formal definition somewhere, but here’s my definition – real food is the food our great grandparents ate. It’s the food everyone ate, back when food came from farms, not factories. Basically, it’s [continue reading]
Healthy Eating 101, Part 1 – Get Organized and Make a Healthy Eating Plan
Why You Need a Healthy Eating Plan If you’re striving to live a calmer, healthier and sexier life, one of the keys to achieving that goal is feeding yourself well. Your body (and your mind and spirit) craves the nutrients that fruits, vegetables, nuts, whole grains, lean meat and healthy [continue reading]
17 Ways to Prep Healthy Meals and Snacks in 15 Minutes or Less
Let’s talk about ways to prep healthy meals and snacks more quickly and easily. Because the reality is that prepping and cooking real food takes time – much more time than heating up processed food or picking up dinner at a drive-thru window. Which leaves us wondering, where in the [continue reading]