Get Your Motivation On With TED Talks Sometimes all we need is a pep talk, you know the one that gets you motivated to take action. It can renew our commitment to avoid a bad habit or or move us to take steps to create a new one. That’s what these TED talks could do for you. All…
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Plant-Based Success Story – Carol
Meet Carol, a Plant-Based Success Story I’m very excited to share Carol’s success story with you. I met Carol through a Facebook group for the Plant Pure movie / movement and when I read her post, I was moved at how positive she was and motivated to live a plant-based life. Check out how she…
Why You Can’t Resist Food Temptations and What To Do About It
Chocolate chip cookies. Mmmmm. Just saying the words makes us want to have one. And, for sure, don’t put one in front of us because we’ll get weak in the knees and give in. It makes us ask, “Why can’t I resist food temptations?” Resisting food temptations is hard and we can find all kinds…
Free Plant-Based Cooking Summit 2017
Join me online… I posted this today because I don’t want you to miss out! PLANT-BASED COOKING SUMMIT Join me for my first ever online summit interview starting Monday, February 20th. A big part of eating a plant-based diet is preparing your own meals. I understand that this could be overwhelming. That’s why was so excited when…
10 Plant-Based On-the-Go Meal Ideas
It’s always good to know what people find challenging. I love it when people ask me questions about their journey eating a plant-based diet. And these make for great blog post. Today, I received a question on my Facebook page about plant-based on-the-go meal ideas, “My husband and I just started this way of life yesterday…
Seitan – Protein Packed Meat Alternative
Used as far back as the sixth century, seitan is a low-carb, low-fat, protein-packed, meat-alternative derived from wheat. Perhaps you’ve seen bags of wheat gluten in the baking section of your local grocery store? That powder, which is the protein part of what, is what seitan is made of. Of course, if you have a…
Cooking with Tempeh
A traditional Indonesian food, tempeh is mainly used as a meat-substitute. It’s dense and chewy with a savory, earthy, nutty sort of flavor. It’s a great source of plant-based protein, with a 3-oz serving containing roughly 16 grams. That same serving also provides you with about 9% of the RDA of calcium, 13% of iron, 17% of…
Intermittent Fasting for Optimum Health
With 2017 just hitting, you might feel that you overindulged during the holidays. Consider, to the rescue, intermittent fasting for optimum health! It just might jumpstart your health while contributing to anti-aging. A few years back, I started a program of intermittent fasting. I’ve heard so many good things about it – from my fitness trainer,…
12 Ways to Stick with Your Health & Fitness Goals
Start Today This is the time of year that you might decide it’s time to lose weight, get more exercise and eat right? Fill in your new year’s resolutions. Perhaps, your doctor said you’d better…….. or you’ll have to take medication, or worse, that your very life was at stake. If you’re struggling with keeping your…
Cooking without Oil
OIL-FREE COOKING AND BAKING To promote optimum health, many in the plant-based community recommend eating very little or no processed oil. I agree with this so cooking without oil is a great skill to have. Even olive oil is partially saturated and contains 119 calories in one tablespoon. We can find fat, which we do need,…
Oil-Free Salad Dressing Formula
Expand Your Salad Dressing Options Not many of us eat lettuce salads without dressing. It can be the highlight of the salad or even what gets us to eat more veggies! However, we know that salad dressing is USUALLY where all of the calories and fat are loaded. You’ve gone to the effort of making…
Getting Started on a Plant-Based Diet: 12 Tips
How to Start a Plant-based Diet Where are you right now? You may be thinking like I did a few years back … did I even eat any vegetables today? Yep, there was a time when I realized that vegetables were almost totally missing from my diet. I’m not sure what spiked this realization. Maybe…
Create a Vision Board to Rock Your Goals
Why Create a Vision Board? The Brazil Olympics just ended last weekend, and I thought I’d share a skill that many athletes use to accomplish their goals. Visualization. You may have noticed athletes seemingly concentrating and tuning out all else around them just before competing. It’s a skill they undoubtedly have practiced throughout their training…
The Safety of Soy
The Myths of Eating Soy Ask someone for their opinion on the healthfulness of soy and you tend to get one of two answers: it’s a nutritious superfood we should all be eating, or, it’s a poison that wreaks hormonal havoc. WAYS TO EAT SOY Soy comes in many forms for consumption. There are the…
10 Things About Me
Here’s a few more things about me… For more, read My Story. 60th Birthday Celebration I’ve been married for 36 years. Charles was a budding studio photographer when we were first married. Since then he’s had a great career and started one of the first digital stock photograph companies in the world. He’s an amazing nature…
