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,…
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12 Ways to Stick with Your Health & Fitness Goals
Start Today Any time of year can be the right time to lose weight, get more exercise and eat right? Fill in the blank. 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 health goals, get on…
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…
3 Ways to Cook with Tofu
Tofu is a very versatile food with a plethora of cooking options. As the saying goes, either you love tofu or you haven’t had it prepared well. It’s made from soy beans and if you’re eating a plant-based diet, you’ll want to learn how to properly cook with tofu. Baked Tofu Tofu Scramble Rev up…
4 Reasons Why Diets Don’t Work
I’m excited to share an article about why diets don’t work from Jill Thomas, Healthy Habits Hypnosis. Jill is a certified clinical hypnotherapist and knows her stuff! Her services were a wonderful help to me when I was going through a tough time. I still have the hypnosis session she recorded and it’s comforting to know…
6 Tips for Dealing with Food Triggers
Do you get cravings you can’t ignore? Just recently I made the mistake of looking at desserts on Pinterest – late at night. Oh boy, that was a mistake. I just couldn’t wait to make the blondies I discovered. Good thing they were made with chickpeas and oats, but sugar, too. ? I had to make them, but I…
Uncommon Ingredients
Scroll down for stores that may carry these uncommon ingredients, however, if you’re having trouble finding these in your local stores, keep this handy free PDF of links to products on Amazon.* Why does it seem that many plant-based recipes have such strange and uncommon ingredients? The main reasons are that they are great for getting…
10 Every Day Quickies for Health
What You Do Counts! These 10 EVERY day quickies for health can make a difference in your life – who you ultimately become or what you end up doing. Every step contributes to that. It’s the same with our health. We make choices every day about what we eat or do that adds to or detracts…
My first Giveaway October 1-31
I’m excited and ready for my first ever giveaway to celebrate reaching 1000 followers on Facebook and the opening of our new tee shirt shop. I feel so honored to share plant-based recipes and how to live a healthy life. Not to mention how excited I am to be opening the tee shirt shop. Read on to see what you…
Oil-Free Hummus Formula
Why eat hummus? Well, it IS a great snack and much cheaper to make yourself than buy it at the store, and it’s also one of the easiest ways to eat beans. Eating beans every day is turning out to be a very good indicator of longevity, so this oil-free hummus is good for you…
