How Are Your Lifestyle Choices Impacting Your Health? Quantitative Feedback
Over the years, the way I eat has gradually changed. Growing up, it was definitely ‘meat, potatoes, vegetables’, with milk and cereal for breakfast. => As a young adult, the milk and cereal disappeared, to be replaced by (non-dairy) homemade fruit smoothies – a change that relieved the lower-abdominal pain I had suffered regularly for as long as I could remember. => I dabbled (for about five years) with vegetarianism, and thoroughly enjoyed the assorted ethnic meals (Indian, Indonesian, Italian, Mexican…) that formed my take on vegetarian-eating. => Moved to...
Read MoreIt’s Friday Night – Try a Curried Vegetable and Feta Cheese Tart
It’s Friday night, the fridge is looking kind of bare, and you’ve already used up this week’s motivation to serve healthy meals for your family. Option 1: call the delivery guy and order a few pizzas Option 2: dig out one of those frozen dinners from the deep freeze; plan to supplement with some popcorn in front of the tv later Option 3: clear out all of the vegetables sitting in the crisper-section of your fridge, and make this delicious, and nutritious, curried vegetable tart! I used to make this all the time! And then I had kids. And for a while they seemed like pretty...
Read MoreBook Recommendation: The Raw Food Detox Diet
I’ve been interested in the whole idea of eating Raw for several years now, since a few friends of mine did a Raw 90 day challenge in the summer of 2008. I did a 7 day Raw Detox the following year (it went well – I lost close to 10 pounds, was seldom hungry, and felt great – except that for a few days I really despised salads for supper 😉 And the fruit smoothies that had been my breakfast for many years morphed easily into Green Smoothies. So, what kept me from making the switch to 100% raw? I guess laziness is as appropriate an excuse as any. I have a husband who was not...
Read MoreWhat’s For Lunch? Try Cilantro ‘Tabbouleh’ Salad
What should I have for lunch? If you work nine-to-five, then you’ve probably struggled with this question regularly – even daily! Of course there are many options. You can go to a restaurant near where you work ($$$). You can go to a fast-food place near where you work (cheaper). You can eat at your company cafeteria, if there is one. All of these options are expensive, and will almost certainly result in long-term weight gain. Or you can bring something from home. Frozen prepared meals are a convenient option, but over time can become a little expensive, and are frequently...
Read MoreBook Recommendation: Live More, Want Less
Mary Carlomagno’s book Live More, Want Less offers 52 ways (one a week for a year-long project) to strip away the chaos and clutter of life, to free “space in your life for order and serenity.” Here are five of the professional organizer’s suggestions: – If you’re trying to organize and pare down your stuff, don’t get trapped by thinking you need to buy storage items like bins and boxes: “We see an opportunity to upgrade our stuff by buying a different kind of stuff: organizing stuff. We fall into the same cycle, putting our consumerism into...
Read MoreHow Are You Going to Choose to be Today?
How are you today? Have you ever given any thought to that question? Besides just answering “Fine, how are you?”, without really paying attention, I mean. The question kind of implies, to me at least, that how you are today is something that just happens, and is beyond your control. And, indeed, most of us just go through the day reacting to whatever comes our way. So, if you’re tired and grumpy, it’s because you slept poorly, had an argument with your spouse, got in to work late… What if, instead of leaving ‘how you are’ to chance, you decided to...
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