The Power of the Pause: Listening to Your Body’s Hunger & Fullness Signals “The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.” ~ Deepak Chopra, author & alternative medicine advocate One of the most powerful wellness tools in our toolkit is also one …
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What Do I Eat? That Depends (Part 3)
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” ~ Robert Collier, American author In Part 1 of this series, we explored changing our relationship with food, moving away from labeling foods as “good” or “bad” and toward a more mindful, balanced approach. In Part 2, we focused on the basics …
What Do I Eat? That Depends (Part 2)
Building a Balanced Plate “The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.” ~ Ann Wigmore, whole health practitioner Becoming aware of and practicing more mindful eating by slowing down and focusing solely on eating without distractions. The next step is learning how …
What Do I Eat? That Depends (Part 1)
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” ~ Hippocrates, ancient Greek physician One of the greatest lessons I have been learning through my Precision Nutrition certification training over the past several months is this: simplicity over complexity. When people begin a wellness journey, one of the first questions they often ask is, …
Design Your Environment, Design Your Success
“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.” ~ James Clear We often think that achieving our goals requires more willpower, discipline, or motivation. While those qualities can help, one of the most powerful and often overlooked success factors is the environment we create around …
What Would You Do?
“Character is revealed by what you do when no one is watching.”~ Justin Zorn, author Imagine you’re walking down the street and notice a piece of trash lying on the ground. You have a choice: pick it up and throw it away, or ignore it and keep walking. Most people walk right past it. It’s …
An Homage to a Faithful Companion
Last month, my 2008 minivan died. Not gracefully. Not gradually. Not with a gentle warning that our time together was coming to an end. It simply seized, suddenly and definitively, after fifteen faithful years. And I have to admit, I felt like my close friend had died. That van carried more than people. It carried …
Root Vegetable Lady
“I know the pleasure of pulling up root vegetables. They are solvable mysteries.” ~Novella Carpenter. As a kid, I would ask my mom for boiled cabbage for dinner. Yes, I know an odd request coming from a child but I never had to be prompted to eat my veggies. I especially liked boiled cabbage even …