Category: Health/Nutrition

  • Who’s Counting? : Experience Life Magazine

    Managing weight isn’t just about calories. It’s also — and perhaps primarily — about the quality and character of those calories. Great article talking about quality vs quantity — and I have found personally this to be true. Pick and her colleagues in functional medicine say it’s time to reframe the weight-loss debate. Instead of…

  • Akrasia – A weakness of will

    Happy Presidents’ Day Everyone! Just because it’s a holiday, doesn’t mean your body gets one – so make sure you get fitness in – take a walk, do some yoga, mobility whatever it is. You can even find a ton of good videos to follow via youtube to get some ideas.  If there’s a will,…

  • Five Ways Gluten Makes You Sick and Fat

    Three Hidden Ways Wheat Makes You Fat Five Ways Gluten Makes You Sick and Fat Gluten can trigger inflammation, obesity and chronic disease in five major ways. Full-blown celiac disease is an autoimmune disease that triggers body-wide inflammation triggering insulin resistance, which causes weight gain and diabetes, as well as over 55 conditions including autoimmune…

  • Try Mindful Eating!

    It’s a rest day thank goodness. Been a long week at home and I am wiped out. Here’s an interesting article about mindful eating –something most of us need practice with. Try it sometime! Mindful Eating as Food for Thought For many people, eating fast means eating more. Mindful eating is meant to nudge us…

  • Effects of Gluten are REAL

    I know sometimes it’s hard to read a few of my posts that bring out some inner thoughts. I decided from the beginning to be honest in this blog –the good, bad, and ugly. Because that’s life. Sometimes you are up and sometimes you are down. A commitment to live a fit and healthy life…

  • Calling All Diet-Coke aholics – Give Up the Soda

    I gave up soda almost 2 years ago. I was what I refer to as a Diet Coke-aholic so it was a VERY big deal and my family still likes to talk about how much soda I drank. Gotta love your siblings to help remind you of where you came from right?   I remember…

  • Revisit the Kid in you & uncover your Appetite for Knowledge

    ORIGINAL THINKING IS HARD Kids have an insatiable appetite for knowledge and an unapologetic curiosity for all things new and misunderstood. When they don’t know the answer they actively seek the truth. They have a natural humility without posturing, pretense, or ego wrapped up in their questions; they fill up their knowledge bank by being open. Whenever…

  • Can you be a Vegan?

    Never thought about being a Vegan –have you?   The Vegan Experiment Here is what I know…If you don’t eat meat I can’t help you. In fact, not only should you eat meat…you should eat a ton of meat! I don’t think you’ll get any worthwhile results by eating a vegan or a vegetarian diet.…

  • Drastic Weight Loss Measures Endanger the Young

    As a friend on Facebook said – I think people have SERIOUSLY lost their minds. Young, obese and getting weight loss surgery Though Shani Gofman had been teased for being fat since the fourth grade, she had learned to deal with it. She was a B student and in the drama club at school. She…

  • It’s all about the food you eat

    This is a really good thing to remember:   “You can’t exercise away a bad diet.”-Mark Sisson And it really is true — you see it all the time. People who literally work their butts off in the gym and for as hard as they work, still have to lose those extra pounds. Can you…