Creamy Citrus Dressing & Thoughts on Raising Healthy Kids
Thanks for the awesome feedback on my post on sugar addiction yesterday. I loved the really helpful suggestions for how I might address it in my life. I’m going to start by cutting back on my date...
View ArticleWeekly Wrap-Up & No More Sugar!
I am loving everyone’s suggestions on how to break a sugar addiction. By the way, I realize I’m throwing the word “addiction” around a lot here. Whether or not a craving or a dependence is a true...
View ArticleNourishing a Healthy Mind
These photos are from a trip I took to Hawaii in August of 2010 and I thought I’d feature them here today with this discussion on meditation. Laura asked me yesterday in the comments if I would do a...
View ArticleClutter Busting & Ending Overeating
Remember when I wrote about the Emotional Brain Training program that I’ve been working on lately? The program is essentially a course in taking 2-minute meditations throughout the day to evaluate our...
View ArticlePCOS & Back to Basics
Good morning! I hope you had a nice weekend. I wanted to follow up on something I wrote in my post on Saturday about my current weight situation. I’ve taken some heat in the past from readers who...
View ArticleA Healthy Vegan’s Daily Food Photo Journal
Now that I’ve been home from Dr. Fuhrman’s Health Getaway for a good solid 4 days now, I’m starting to get back into the groove of daily life, but incorporating a lot of tips that I learned last week....
View ArticleHow I Battled My Sugar Addiction
Good morning and happy Monday! Did you have a nice weekend? It was so, so pretty here in California and I spent as much time outside as I could enjoying this: I was on the pier at a beach town north...
View ArticleCarob-Almond Wafers & What I Ate Yesterday
Happy Halloween and happy last day of Vegan Mofo 2012! I ended up with a total of 13 entries which, unfortunately, did not beat my record from last year, but I had a pretty good excuse this year. I...
View ArticleStress Eating & Saffron Cheese Sauce
Hi there and happy Friday! Well, we made it through another week. This was a tough one, I gotta say. I’m not sure if it’s end-of-the-semester stress, holiday blues or simply hormones, but I struggled...
View ArticlePhoto Food Diary & New Year’s Lucky Black-Eyed Pea Stew
Hi there! Does it feel like Monday instead of “What I Ate” Wednesday to anybody else? I hope you did something fun yesterday, whether it involved Christmas or not. My gym was open until noon so I was...
View ArticleHealthy Vegan Friday & Ready for Challenge
Good morning to you! I’m so happy it’s Friday and the end of a busy week. Life Update: I got some e-mails asking me about my doctor’s appointment on Wednesday and I’m happy to report that my thyroid...
View ArticleSweet Dessert Hummus
Good morning! I hope you had a nice weekend. Since I’m in the final stages of writing my master’s of public health thesis and working very hard, I wouldn’t say that my weekend was nice, but it...
View ArticleMy Vegan Summer Health Getaway
If you’ve been reading my blog for awhile, then you know that I’m a loyal follower of Dr. Fuhrman’s high-nutrient, plant-based program. I had been vegan for about three months back in 2010 when I was...
View ArticleVegan Photo Food Journal: Traveling Food
Welcome to another round of What I Ate Wednesday where I document a day’s worth of healthy, vegan eats (see all my previous photo food diary posts here). This past weekend, I was a travelin’ woman as I...
View ArticleIn Recovery
I want to share something very personal with you and that is that I recently started working with an eating disorders specialist. If you’ve been reading my blog for awhile, then you’ve probably read...
View ArticleWhy I Am No Longer Vegan
I wrote this post half a dozen times and shared drafts with a limited number of trusted friends before ultimately scrapping them all, starting over, and writing from my heart. You read from the title...
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