Body Surfing Your Mind
One of my favorite things to do in life is to body surf. You stand waist high in the ocean feeling the current pulling against your legs. The wave builds in the distance and your adrenalin flows as you try to judge the size, swell, and speed. Will this be a wave you can catch? [...]
8 Ways to Stop a Killer Craving
Do you know that feeling when a craving takes a hold of your mind and you can think of nothing else? For me, it’s usually for something salty like McDonald’s French fries (the BEST, I don’t care what anyone else says) or Doritos chips. I have friends who crave sweets, a candy bar or an [...]
You Have to Own It to Lose It
If you enjoy this article please share it with your Facebook or LinkedIn friends or tweet or google it using the buttons above. Thanks! Coming up on the end of the school year I received notices from my daughter’s school to check the Lost and Found. The Lost and Found is a box in the [...]
Food Frauds- Ten Foods You Think Are Healthy But Are Not
If you enjoy this article please share it with your Facebook or LinkedIn friends or tweet it using the buttons above. Thanks! Are you still hanging onto those pesky, extra ten to fifteen pounds despite eating healthy and working out? Do you catch a cold or two every year even though you hear from [...]
Food Labelling Lies
I am not a fan of fat free foods or diet cheeses or diet sodas. I know when they remove the fat from something they have to replace it with something else. Usually that something else is sugar though sometimes it can be chemicals. For diet sodas it is definitely chemicals made to taste sweet [...]
Quinoa or Cardboard? How to Enjoy Quinoa
Forever on the search for healthy ways of eating, I have been researching grains and a plant based diet. Some grains contain gluten which can have harmful effects on the body. Gluten, pronounced glooten, is defined as: A substance present in cereal grains, esp. wheat, that is responsible for the elastic texture of dough. Just like the word [...]
Learning to Drop the Drama and Let Go
Much of our suffering is self- inflicted. An event happens and then it is over. We ruminate on it, agonizing over our role in whatever happened. We tell ourselves ineffective things like, “If only I had done this.” Or “How could she have done that to me?” As human beings we have the amazing [...]
Learning to Love and Cherish Yourself- Part 2
Listening to Your Body When we are babies we are totally in tune with our bodies. When we are hungry we cry. We are fed and stop eating or nursing when we have had enough. You never see a baby over nursing, continuing to drink just because it tastes good. When they have had enough [...]
Learning to Love and Cherish Yourself- Part. 1
“You can’t punish yourself into change. You can’t whip yourself into shape. But you can love yourself into well- being.” ~Susan Skye We are told the surest path to love is to love ourselves. I know from personal experience and my work with clients that you can lose weight and gain health through multiple [...]
