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Simple and Super Healthy Thanksgiving Side Dishes

November 5, 2015 No Comments

This blog post was originally published on FitAfterFifty.com. Imagine not feeling bloated, heavy and guilty after dinner this year! Take a deep breath and close your eyes for a minute. I want you to imagine something very cool. You are sitting around the Thanksgiving table this year eating sublimely delicious food that is – drumroll please – actually GOOD for you! Imagine that! Imagine actually being healthier after your dinner because you’ve just indulged in whole, natural food that’s packed only with good things like vitamins, minerals and fiber, and has none or very little of the usual junk associated with Thanksgiving dinners. Imagine NO GUILT! Imagine no high fat, high sodium. empty calorie, processed sugar, preservative filled excuse for food this Thanksgiving. Imagine not feeling bloated, heavy and guilty after your big dinner. Out with the marshmallow topped casseroles (are you kidding me?), out with the fatty bad-for-you desserts […]

Health

Easy Tricks to Get Your Daily Dose of Vitamins from Food

November 3, 2015 No Comments

You and I know that an important part of having a happy life is being healthy, right? And we know that a big part of being healthy is getting the right nutrition. We all know it – but doing it? Not so easy. Most of us work, or we’re raising families or we’re just too busy to spend a lot of time in the kitchen. So we pop vitamins and supplements in an effort to get the nutrients we need. But not so fast! Increasing numbers of nutritionists say that supplements are a slippery slope, and that many people consume some micronutrients at excessive and possibly unsafe levels. Not only that, but it’s no surprise that your body absorbs nutrients from food, far better than it does from engineered pills. So what to do? Simplify the way you get your nutrients from food. Here’s the easiest formula that I know of […]

Health, Recipes

Simple Tricks for Avoiding Treats this Holiday Season

October 22, 2015 No Comments

This article was originally published on FitAfterFifty.com Did you know that sugar is the new fat? Yup. It is. And with the holidays right around the corner, I’m going to show you a plan that will help you avoid being tempted. First, understand why sugar is the new fat. Check out these 10 reasons why sugar is bad for your body and brain. I highly suggest that you print this list and post it where you’ll see it often. Read it every day as motivation to stay strong. But let’s go a few steps further. Once you understand why sugar is not good for you, plan ahead for how you’re going to get through the holidays without falling into sugar temptation. You not only want to “get through” the holidays but you want to enjoy them. You’ll have a hard time enjoying the holidays if you’re wracked by guilt because you ate […]

Health, Mindfulness

How to Quiet Your Mind for a Simpler Life, Even When It’s Busy

October 16, 2015 2 Comments

Don’t you hate the way your brain so quickly goes to “what if” thinking? What if this happens, or what if that happens? Or, I’d better shift to Plan B just in case “what if” happens, or I’d better not do such and such because “what if” might happen. Ugh. Did you know that every time your brain goes to “what if” thinking, you’re increasing your anxiety and stress? That’s because every “what if” is usually your brain thinking up some disaster scenario. Stop for a minute and ask yourself when one of your “what if’s” actually did happen! Probably never! Things usually don’t turn out in all the negative ways we imagine, do they? Or if they don’t turn out perfectly, we always have a way of finding another path. And oftentimes, things work out even better than we imagined. But that’s easy to say, isn’t it? I know […]