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Hot Cocoa – How to Make it Quick and Healthy!
3 Ingredient Hot Cocoa I don’t know about you, but I love a cup of hot cocoa, especially on a cold winter day! The challenge has been that the easy packaged mixes are pretty scary once you read the ingredients…that is if you can pronounce some of them! In fact, let’s take a look at the list of ingredients used in one popular brand: “Ingredients: Sugar, Corn Syrup Solids, Vegetable Oil (Partially Hydrogenated Coconut or Palm Kernel, and Hydrogenated Soybean), Dairy Product Solids (from Milk), Cocoa Processed with Alkali, Calcium Carbonate, and Less than 2% of Salt, Cellulose Gum, Sodium Caseinate, Dipotassium Phosphate, Sodium Citrate, Guargum, Skim Milk, Sodium Aluminosilicate, Mono-…
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Green Tea – here’s a great tasting way to enjoy it!
Green Tea Green Tea tastes terrible! Or at least that’s what a client of mine told me the other day. So…I decided to write a post and share it with all of you about how I used to agree with her, but now I’ve learned to make a delicious rich hot cup of green tea that you just might love! I’ll tell you how I do it in a minute, but first, I want to extol the virtues of green tea. It’s amazingly good for you. Did you know that arthritis doctors say one serving of green tea can help ward of an attack of rheumatoid arthritis (RA)? In fact,…
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The Truth about Gluten Free – are all gluten free products good for you?
What is the Truth about Gluten Free? If you’re wondering what is the truth about gluten free, I want to introduce you to Dr. Mark Hyman, one of my favorite health gurus. In fact, he is largely responsible for my freedom from the depression that haunted me for decades. In addition, I lost 20 pounds without dieting. A nice surprise! I received an article from Dr. Hyman that I absolutely have to share with you. In it, he says: “Sugar and flour are THE main reason we get sick and fat. They form the root cause of our obesity epidemic and most chronic diseases, sucking the life out of our people and…
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Hunger Hormones – Did you know you have them?
Your Hunger Hormones… Say “Hello” to Ghrelin & Leptin Did you even know you have hunger hormones? As far as weight control is concerned, they can be your best friend or your worst enemy. Whether they are friend or foe depends on a number of things. Let’s talk a bit about what these hunger hormones are and how they are supposed to function. Ghrelin is a hormone that increases your appetite. It’s released in the stomach, and its job is to tell your brain when you’re hungry… that is, when your body needs more fuel, so you are cued to eat. When you experience a growling stomach prior to meal…
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Weight Loss Plateau – understanding what happens is key to success!
Weight Loss Plateau Weight loss plateau…has it ever happened to you? Nearly everyone who has dieted has started out with great enthusiasm, wonderful commitment and intention…only to be derailed by the dreaded weight loss plateau. Why in the world do we plateau when we’re trying to lose weight? The answers are several and are actually pretty interesting. The first answer is that early on in your diet, you’re most likely not losing fat yet, you’re losing water weight! Especially if you’re on a diet that means you’re consuming lesser amounts of sodium than usual, you are probably losing water weight. Entwined with this water weight dilemma is the fact that…
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Portion Control – Hara hachi bu
Portion control It seems most of us would like to lose a few pounds or maybe more than a few. In the coaching of my clients, I find the easier part is to help them understand how to make better choices in the food they eat. Often, once the changes have been made and the weight loss is still not happening as it should, we need to revisit portion control. Let’s discuss that and the reasons why it may not be as easy as you would expect. How do you feel when you’re finished eating? Are you full, really full, or do you feel stuffed? Our “All You Can Eat”…
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SAD or depression? Do you know what the difference is?
SAD or Depression? Many of us who struggle with depression wonder if we are truly dealing with SAD or depression. There is a difference. With depression, many aspects of our lives can be affected. They included sleep patterns, inability to sleep, changes in eating patterns and habits, disinterest in things that you used to enjoy and so on. But, what is SAD? Sadness can be a normal part of life, and people who are not depressed are sad from time to time. We are not all happy every day. Sadness can be triggered by a life event or tragedy such as death, divorce, job loss and so on. Depression can also be…
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New Year Resolutions
What are Your New Year Resolutions? What are your New Year Resolutions? Are they the same ones that you’ve made in past years? Is one of them to lose weight? What if you could actually realize that one resolution that would allow you to change your health, your mental state and clarity and your future wellbeing in general? You can do this once and for all! You don’t have to diet. In fact, I want you to commit to never diet again. You don’t need to weigh in every week. You don’t need to buy food that is delivered to your door. One popular program advertises, “If you’re not up…
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Quick, Easy Cocktail Sauce
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No Clear Link Between Sugar and Health Problems
Sugar and Health Problems Those of us who love the taste of sugar and who try to stay away from it to stay healthy will be thrilled with the results of a new study released that states there’s no clear link between sugar and health problems! Thrilled that is, right up until I tell you that this new study was funded by the world’s leading soda and snack companies!! Here’s a link to the article so you can read for yourself who the member companies are. The article, in part, says… “Food companies—soda makers in particular—are facing a growing research-backed scientific consensus that links consumption of sugary soft drinks to health…
