School starts on Wednesday of next week and I am starting a new part time position at a friend’s Insurance Agency, so I decided today would be a good day to begin preparing “heat and eat” meals. Enter, Hearty, Healthy Chili Recipe.
In my 6 quart slow cooker I layered. Continue reading →
Its pretty easy. Two delicious meal replacements a day, your snack bar, your energy tea, and your 3-in-1 booster tablet. You choose your own healthy dinner choice, drink 8-12 glasses of water a day, and move your body!
The Cinch program isn’t just delicious – it’s easy to follow. Continue reading →
What do you think about food? REALLY?
When I plan and fix a meal for my family, I want it to be healthy, diverse, colorful, and tasty. However, when I sit down to eat that meal, do I even taste it? As a mom I am frequently jumping up to fill a glass with water or milk, get the missing item from the fridge, grab the salt or pepper from the counter, finishing the last part of the meal that didn’t get timed just right, or even running toilet paper to the little one in the bathroom. Then there is the ever roving mind considering all I need to get done as soon as dinner is finished, what can I begin cleaning up first, how can I multi-task to complete the tasks the fastest.
Often, I don’t think I even taste what I’ve fixed. I am the last to sit down and the first to jump up to clean the table. Hmmm. I know that I am making healthy choices for my family and myself, but choice I am making to inhale it rather than enjoy it can cause other issues for my health. Continue reading →
We’ve heard the news reports, we’ve seen the studies, it is becoming common knowledge that attention to prevention can assist us in living with a higher quality of life for a longer period of time, than if we continue to abuse our bodies.
Yet, studies continue to show that 9 out of 10 heart patients, when told to change their diets or die, do NOT change their diets.
A report from TIME, June 22, 2009, provided these statistics. If our medical treatments and options are getting better, then why are these numbers still on the rise?
What can I, as an individual, do to combat this increase in prevalence of debilitating diseases? Continue reading →
What are your thoughts on weight loss/weight management? Do you see weight loss as a goal, or as an outcome from healthy decisions? Perhaps the old adage of “You are what you eat” could also be “You are what you think.” Many of us, myself included, tend to sabotage ourselves rather than support ourselves with our thoughts, beliefs, and the way we treat ourselves.
My Facebook Page this week is focusing on different thoughts and patterns that different people have. Some may apply to you, others may not. I know as I looked down the list there are some who apply to me more frequently than others. Why the focus on thoughts? Continue reading →
What ever we believe becomes our reality. If we believe we are unworthy, we work to make ourselves unworthy. HOWEVER, If we believe we can change, if we believe we are worth our own time and investment, then we become such and those around us begin to taken notice.
A friend of mine often says, “I am on a Journey” and I think I’ve actually opened the door to that vehicle and am beginning to get in. The journey has to do with being mindful, deliberate, and gentle in all that I do. Continue reading →
(This recipe is modified from July/August 2002 Issue of Energy For Women Magazine.)
We are a health conscious family, and we still like and eat meat! The trick is to find healthier ways to fix it!
1 12-16 oz Flank Steak, trimmed
1 tablespoon brown sugar
3/4 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2+ teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon black pepper Continue reading →
Thank you to Heather Lloyd LMT for your question regarding Magnesium for muscle cramps and specifically, how do I find a supplement that won’t work against me with my IBS. Here is what I have found in my research. Continue reading →
Grandma, and the Romans were right. Chicken soup is good for your cold, just ask the Nebraska Medical Center who conducted the studies that proved just such a thing.
Into a Crock pot place
1 whole chicken (the nutrients need to be cooked out of those bones into the broth)
Water to cover the chicken
4-5 Large Cloves of Garlic (a natural antibiotic)
1 Chopped onion (we chop it small so the young one doesn’t realize she’s eating it)
2-3 Carrots Chopped
2-3 Stalks of ORGANIC Celery (the leaves of celery like to hold onto the pesticides – no need for those here)
Salt & Pepper to taste
Let it all cook on Low for 7-8 hours. Serve with long grain or brown rice, or high fiber/protein pasta noodles if you choose.
A major thing to stay away from when fighting a cold: is refined sugars because they inhibit your body’s immune system. According to Jacob Teitelbaum, MD, an internal medicine specialist and author, "The sugar in a can of soda suppresses immune function by 30 percent for three hours." (THEREFORE: stay away from sodas, candy, and processed flours and foods, please)
Also try:
Spicy foods or perhaps a good, homemade guacamole with local grown, organic ingredients. Avocados, Tomatoes, Bell Peppers, & Garlic are good for the body and the spicy peppers can help to clear out that congestion!
Happy recoveries to you and yours, and may your husbands not spend more than a day at a time moaning on the couch because they are sick. 
My hubby has come down with an off season cold, and he is miserable.
It didn’t help that he knew he was fighting something and chose to go camping for memorial day anyway with tons of sweet sodas and a lot of beer to help inhibit his immune system. (At least the bloody Maries contained tomato juice) 
This made me begin thinking of what should I do for his (really my predicament as he will lay on the couch an MOAN until he feels better. – I love that man so much!) For lunch, he asked for, “whatever will make my cold feel better.” Poor guy.
First things first: Continue reading →
Healthy Grease Monkey 
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