eating

“I'm trying. I mean it, I am trying really hard to make the changes we talked about since the last time I saw you.”

Whether it's following a diabetes plan, exercising regularly, maintaining a healthy eating plan, managing anxiety or depression, or dealing with cancer, the struggle to make and keep healthy lifestyle changes is a challenge for everyone.

Too often lifestyle changes are fleeting experiences, and as Yoda said in “Star Wars”: “Do or do not. There is no try.”  read more »

Take action? Take no action?

What will you choose today?

How can you make it easy to make healthy choices on a daily basis?  The only secret is to turn your ideas into action steps. Think ahead, plan for healthy choices and track your actions on a daily basis.  read more »

At year's end, I must say that I'm hopeful.

Yes, we have an obesity and diabetes epidemic. Yes, we have a generation of children who are less healthy than their parents were as children.

But as I read all new books and magazine articles emerging on healthy eating, I see that there's an awareness growing that being mindful is the necessary backdrop for any kind of personal transformation, including weight loss and becoming healthier.
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I hope to invite Paula Anderson again to register and introduce herself here and link to her blog, but last year when she launched her blog I let people know about it on facebook and people LOVED it.  I just had a request tonight from Mitch in the Kitch(en) for the link again and I figured if he is asking, others would like to be reminded as well.  I couldn't find it when 'Googling' it, part of that whole 'Big O' (getting up in the Organic search) so by setting her up with a link from Lumigrate to her blog that will help us both.  Yes, the way the world works.  I used to  read more »