Adding, Not Subtracting: An Alternative Perspective on Health
For a long time now “health” has been defined by subtraction: removing weight from our bodies through rigorous exercise and removing foods from our plates.
This method has proven to be ineffective as it has contributed to a slowed…
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Almond Bites With Healthy Chocolate Frosting
Almond Bites With Healthy Chocolate Frosting
Almond butter oatmeal cookies topped with buttery chocolate frosting. Yum! These flourless healthy cookies are full of that nostalgic, delicious nut butter flavor you know and love, but are gluten free and dairy…
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An Eating Plan That Avoids Restriction And Focuses On Addition
The fitness industry is swamped with diet plans that promise things that even the genie from Aladdin’s lamp couldn’t grant. Even worse, every single one focuses on a restriction and rules that peg you into a camp of people that…
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Double Decker Super Healthy Gummies
Double Decker Super Healthy Gummies
Gummies are the perfect snack for kids and adults alike. However, most store-bought gummies contain refined sugars like glucose syrup, sugar, dextrose or artificial flavors and colors, which doesn’t make them the healthiest option. Even…
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Blueberry Avocado Smoothie Bowl
Blueberry Avocado Smoothie Bowl
When life is in super speed mode, there are mornings that you can forget to eat. YES! Imagine that! Its possible to forget to put food in your mouth until lunch time. I practiced this…
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Coconut Oil Fudge
Coconut Oil Fudge
This decadent creation combines the smooth richness of coconut oil with the luscious swirls of peanut butter to make a melt in your mouth fudge! This Coconut Oil Fudge recipe proves you can have it all…
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Peanut Butter Cottage Cheese Bark
Peanut Butter Cottage Cheese Bark
Frozen cottage cheese bark is a high protein snack that is cool, creamy and bursting with chocolate peanut butter flavor! Its where creamy peanut butter and cottage cheese meets chocolate-y swirls and crunchy peanuts…
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Addition Not Restriction Is The Best Approach For Healthy Eating
Dieters and health-seekers talk freely about food elimination diets. They report leaving foods like grains, or dairy, or meats out of their diets. Or they advocate cutting carbohydrates or fats from your menu.
But have you ever considered a food…
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Why Dieting Doesn’t Work, And What You Can Do Instead
Diets Just Don’t Work
When someone mentions to you that they are on a diet, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? In most cases, we start thinking about what they aren’t allowed to eat on their diet and…
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Better Eating Through Adding Healthy Foods Not Subtracting
We have all been there. Telling ourselves that we will eat ‘No more cookies’, ‘No more late night snacks’, ‘No more sugary drinks’. If you are anything like me, this usually lasts for about a week at best before I…
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