No Excuses
You’ve made your plan to get to the gym. It’s important for many reasons. Oh, but it’s been a long day and you remember that you need to run to the store and pick up a few items for dinner. You pick up those items, look at...
Author: admink
Now is Your Time
Are you waiting for the perfect time to deal with your nutrition, fitness, and health? If so, when is that time? Next week? Once you have a break in your busy schedule? When you clean out the pantry and buy some vegetables? The truth is that there is...
Perspective
The other day I headed to the gym to do a cardio step class. I’m a huge fan of classes—for the obvious social reasons. They also push me to work harder. When my friend showed up next to me and admitted that wasn’t sure she could...
Keeping it Simple
Happy First Week of 2019! Now that the celebrations are a fond memory, I am ready to settle myself down and focus on a daily routine that brings me even more peace and joy. Easier said than done, right? We schedule our lives so carefully, yet...
Gluten Free Bread
Ingredients 3 1/2 cups Namaste Foods Perfect Flour Blend 1 1/2 cups milk, any kind (I like unsweetened, plain almond milk) 1 Tbsp cider vinegar 2 Tbsp olive oil 2 Tbsp honey 1/2 cup finely ground tapioca flour* 1 tsp sea salt 3 eggs, at...
Gluten Free Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients 1 egg 1/3 cup unsweetened, smooth almond butter 1/2 cup canned 100% pumpkin 1/2 cup organic cane sugar 2 tsp pure vanilla extract 2 1/3 cups blanched almond flour 1 tsp baking soda pinch of sea salt 1 tsp ground cinnamon 1 tsp pumpkin...
Tips for Your New Year’s Resolve
As we count down to the arrival of another year, most of us have the desire to start fresh with some part of our lives--or all of them. How about you? Anything you’d like to switch up this year? I’ve said for a very long time...
The Magic of Passion and Purpose
Health is a priceless commodity. While food and exercise are at the top of the list of contributing to good health, passion and purpose are right up there alongside them. So, while I’m all about eating lots of vegetables and going to the gym, today I’m...
Consistency, Perseverance, and Toasted Almonds
‘Tis the season to be jolly. So…what if you’re not feeling it? Some days I’m not. Some days I’d rather stay in bed with the covers pulled over my head. Sometimes our lives don’t mimic those happy Hallmark Christmas movies with the seemingly perfect endings. Happy couple,...
Slow Down to Speed Up
This mantra seems counterintuitive, especially since there are only 19 days until Christmas. Yet, it hit me during a recent time of stillness. It also reminded me of a book I’d read years ago, “Be Quick—But Don’t Hurry!” by Andrew Hill with John Wooden. I can hear...