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Pumpkin Pie Spice
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Sauce for Veggies, Eggs and Fish
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Portion Size
Size does matter. How can you make impressive changes in your weight simply by reducing your portion size? I went out for ice cream yesterday. Yes, I went off the rails for a day and had a hot fudge sundae with raspberry chocolate chip ice cream and whipped cream! It was delicious… It was my first (and last) ice cream sundae of the season, and I had a junior size which was plenty big enough. When you’re eating a clean, healthy diet, ice cream sundaes are not on the list, but my point in sharing this is two-fold. First, you can have something you used to love once in a…
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Healthy Eating
What is Healthy Eating, and Why is It Important? There’s a quick, simple answer and a much more complicated answer to this very important and potentially life changing question. The simple answer is that healthy eating is a diet that is as pure and clean as you can manage that supports a healthier happier you with more energy and more ability to focus and function in your daily life. The more detailed answer is that healthy eating begins with a pure, clean diet and then is customized by you as you learn more about your body and how it responds to different foods as you continue along this amazing journey…
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Garlic Cauliflower Mashed Potatoes
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Water bottles…is your drinking water safe?
Safe Water Bottles…do you know what you’re drinking? These water bottles are so cool! Two years ago, I was at an online marketing conference in Las Vegas. One of the people attending had a water bottle that just looked different. I saw the man pouring the water the rest of us were drinking from the pitcher into the bottle, so I asked him about it. He said it had a built in filter that took toxins out of the water. At that time, I was well into my new eating adventure, and was becoming aware of the dangers presented by our water supply. Additives like chlorine and fluoride were not…
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Supplements
Supplements…which are the best to buy without spending a fortune? Do you know how difficult it is to find really good vitamins and supplements that don’t cost a fortune? I do ! It’s a long hard task, with lots of research involved, and frankly, it’s very confusing! I’ve done the hard work so you won’t have to! Vitamins often have ingredients like soybean or corn oil (which are most likely GMO these days); magnesium stearate; magnesium silicate, mannitol, sorbital, gelatin, etc. While using products that contain animal gelatin is a choice, the rest of the ingredients listed, and sooo many more, are just plain bad for you! Check the labels on the…
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Hunger Hormones – Leptin
Leptin and Obesity Leptin is what some experts refer to as the “master” hormone for regulating weight loss and controlling obesity. This hormone was only discovered in 1994; in fact, you may not have even heard of it until now. The Role of Leptin in the Body Leptin is responsible for regulating energy intake and expenditure, but it also controls appetite and hunger! Leptin travels through your bloodstream in order to reach the hypothalamus in your brain. It then tells your hypothalamus how much fat you already have in your body, and it sends messages when you are full and it wants you to stop eating. Balanced leptin levels are…
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Hunger Hormones, Leptin Resistance and Weight Loss
Your Hunger Hormones & Sugar How Leptin is Connected To Insulin Insulin levels increase within our body to some extent when we eat any kind of food. Whenever we consume simple sugars or refined carbohydrates (which are converted into sugar by the body), insulin levels rise significantly and much more quickly. Protein and complex carbohydrates in your diet help to ensure insulin levels rise in a more controlled and much slower manner. Whenever we consume a large meal, the body responds by releasing a large amount of insulin. How much insulin is released depends upon the quantity of food ingested and more specifically, what kind of food has been eaten. Eating large amounts…
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Back Pain and Exercise
Back Pain Can Make You Really Miserable! I am completely out of shape… I haven’t been to the gym in 9 months, and I did it on purpose! I went back to the gym this morning and did a really wimpy workout. I’ve been working with a new chiropractor, and she advised me to stop working out. The reason made sense to me. She was working on my muscles in an attempt to help my ever worsening scoliosis, and she needed to isolate the state of my back relative only to what she was doing. If I had a problem during the week or did well, it needed to be…
