Most people don’t even bother changing habits that they know are slowing killing them like food choices, smoking or moving their body as little as possible because they don’t know where to start. They have a mindset that it will be the most difficult thing ever to change. They think that people who have successfully [...]
Like most American’s I too used to obsessively weigh myself. In high school, every morning I would hop on the scale and it usually read 130, 131 or 132 and every night I hopped back on that scale to find my weight at 135, 136 or 137. A five pound weight gain – oh no, [...]
Ever since I earned a Master’s in Human Nutrition, the most common request I get is “Can you give me a list of foods to eat?” And my answer is always, “NO!” As we discussed last week, everybody is going to have a different nutritional type and so many people will not do well eating [...]
Many, many years ago when I started eating real food again I would make myself steal cut oats for breakfast and flavor it with some maple syrup & butter and I would add a tbsp. of coconut oil for a little extra health. I would eat this when I arrived at work in the morning [...]
First I want to congratulate Shannon & Peter for winning the water kefir grain give-away. Their grains are happily acclimating to their new homes and are producing some really delicious water kefir (I tried some, it’s really great!). I learned from the contest that many of you struggle with changing your eating habits and that [...]
January 1, 2016 I am not a big proponent of New Year’s Resolutions. We tend to set lofty, unachievable goals and roughly one out of three resolutions gets tossed aside by the end of January. And 73% of resolution makers never achieve their goals… Rather than making New Year’s Resolutions, I work to continually improve [...]