As promised last week, I’ll present the last 5 principles of Intuitive Eating. In review, the first five are: Reject the Diet Mentality Honor Your Hunger Make Peace with Food Challenge the Food Police Discover the Satisfaction Factor Principle #6: Feel Your Fullness Just as we are...
Diet: a regimen of eating and drinking sparingly so as to reduce one's weight; to eat sparingly or according to prescribed rules. (Merriam-Webster) Intuitive Eating: rejects diet culture, a set of beliefs that values thinness, appearance, and shape above health and well-being. This past weekend I attended an...
Some of us haven’t seen the sun in…well, days. There’s been so much rain that I’ve been looking around town to see if anyone is building an ark. Temperatures may swing from eighty degrees during the day to the fifties (or lower) at night. Do I...
If you’ve been reading my blog for the past year, you probably recall the weekly countdown to the birth of baby Angelos. We followed his size in the womb relative to the size of various kinds of produce until his birth, March 30, 2021. Yes, that...
Yes, it truly is possible to do both. Many believe it’s an EITHER, OR situation. This past week I received the following text: “Down 1 pound :) And I went out to eat with people a total of five days in a row. That was crazy. But...
Now that we’ve gotten past the almost official end of summer, Labor Day weekend, thoughts of pumpkins and turkeys begin to dance in our heads. Not. So. Fast. For fun, I checked out some rather whimsical holidays and observances happening the rest of this month, that...
Last Sunday I was outside and heard the familiar sound of an ice cream truck in the neighborhood. I hadn’t seen one of these in…well, quite a long time. I was so amused and delighted when I heard the music, that I decided I had to...
I recently received a head of green cabbage as a gift. Now, I’m not one to buy cabbage, although I like it on occasion. Roasting it seemed like a good idea, so I sliced it in rather thin wedges, placed the wedges in a single layer...
1 cup bittersweet (at least 70% cacao) chocolate, chopped or wafers 1 cup raw almonds ...