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BBC Honey Muesli

Belated by a day . . . it’s time for step three in the Year of Self-Care! The coming two weeks, your new self-care goal is to eat breakfast every day. More specifically, your goal these two weeks is to eat a breakfast every day and make sure that it contains protein, complex [...]

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How’s your grocery planning and weekly shopping coming along? Victories? Dramas? Difficulties?
Elisa from Bo Bee Sah left a comment a few days ago, saying, “I’m so incredibly glad that I found you when I did! We, as a family, were ready for this change. Meal planning is very new to me, but so far it’s [...]

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Perhaps you are a lucky soul who lives in a time and place where, during your day, each day, you get to take a lovely stroll through stalls or shops selling fresh vegetables, fruits, breads, cheeses, meats, etc.  You carefully inspect each in-season fruit or vegetable to pick out the highest-quality combination of tastes and [...]

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My friend Chris (whom you can find writing these two blogs) has struggled with eating at home for the two years I’ve known him.  Chris is a successful, intelligent person who is good about determining what he wants and going for it, and one thing he wants to do is cook and eat at home [...]

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We’re one week into 2008, and one week into the Year of Self-Care!  How are you feeling? Are you pumped about this year being one where you will grow in your ability to feel more soothed, more fulfilled, and healthier? I know I am.
I’ve struggled lately, emotionally.  About half the time, I feel fine.  The [...]

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The worst cravings are at the beginning.  You find out you have to live with food restrictions, and you can’t figure out what to eat because all you can think about is what you can’t have.  You create mental lists of lamentations in your head over what you’ve lost.  Your stomach feels hollow in a [...]

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This is the time of year when people tend to be fired up about their resolutions to get healthier.  One impediment in the past, for me, was that I never seemed to be able to find a sports bra that actually held these suckers in well enough for major motion.  Then I found the Enell [...]

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I’m trying to look on the bright side of the theft of my belongings that occurred as we moved.  The brown pair of dress shoes they stole had gotten a bit too big as my feet have shrunk from weight loss.  Now I get to replace them with a comfy, new pair that fits just [...]

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I just ate a little bowl of ambrosia while I was sitting in a steamy hot bath.  It was decadent.
Between Halloween and Christmas, my husband and I took part in the dessert slide of doom.  You may know what I’m talking about—a slippery slope from dessert as an occasional treat to dessert nearly every day [...]

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