I tried every diet under the sun and none of them worked but, more importantly, they were robbing me of my love of food.
Don't make a different meal for every person, but make buildable meals. And, I do this with my kids, try to expand their palates gently.
Having been to culinary school, the single greatest asset I learned there was how to cut and chop properly. It's an investment of money that will save you hours of time down the road, and hopefully some cut fingers.
I get to help people create lives that make them happier and healthier than they were yesterday. I knock on wood that my family is healthy and happy and love each other.
I am doing what I am supposed to be doing right now. I smile knowing that I have the most wonderful husband, family, and friends. I work with friends whom I can learn from and whom I respect and who respect me.
Don't get stuck and don't worry.
Keeping stationary drains your brain, but moving around shows you new things, new inspiration, and keeps the blood moving.
Keep on moving: any motion is forward motion. You can always course-correct.
Your life shouldn't be anything short of spectacular.
If I don't get to go to the gym, walking is the answer.
This moment is precious and full of great potential: all we have to do is figure out the little changes that will make a huge impact on how wonderful life can be in this moment.
If you live your life all out today, not only is it fun, but you are preventing a midlife crisis.
I have so many girlfriends in their twenties who live in a white box apartment, having mediocre meals with mediocre friends, waiting for the life they want to hit them in their forties or fifties. They are settling in the now - what's the point?
I wanted to lose 30 pounds healthfully and still be able to enjoy my college experience. Having succeeded in doing just that, I wanted to share my experiences with others who could benefit from my direct knowledge of the difficulty of trying to balance college life with being healthy. It became a journey about healthy lifestyle choices, including tips and tricks for creating a new relationship with food where I was in control and could learn to love food healthfully again.
When I was young and growing up overweight, I believed the "eaten" was more powerful than the "eater," meaning the food was more powerful than I was.
The only reason I write at all is because I am going through, and growing through, something in my life I want to share with others through my personal experiences.
We can try to reform healthcare, but the fact is if we don't have a healthy food source, we are only treating the symptoms and not the problems.
If we make wholesome, healthy food accessible and affordable for everyone, we make the choice to be healthy an easy one.
The most imminent battle our generation is going to have to fight is food transparency: how food is made/grown, where it comes from, the quality of the source, and how it will effect our health long term.
We need to demand that our food is labeled, especially genetically modified foods, and learn how it is produced, processed, and grown.
You can tell your kids they are perfect and don't need to change - which could cause insecurity when they recognize their own shortcomings - or tell them they are terrible, which would undermine their sense of self-worth and confidence. There's a happy middle ground.
Tell your kids they are perfect the way they are, but they shouldn't stay where they are forever because growing, testing the limits, and evolving make life better and more fulfilling.
A wholesome family is one where there is a lot of love. It's living by example. It's acceptance of people at their core, but it's also pushing each other to be our best selves and try things we might not be good at.
Growing up in my family, it wasn't important that we always be the best; it was important that we were going to try to be our best and give it our all.
Anyone who knows our family knows this: we eat ALL the time!
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