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Today is the last day to win a signed copy of Dave Grotto’s 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life. (Enter the giveaway here.) Dave’s book is filled with fabulous recipes for all kinds of entrees, side dishes, beverages, and desserts. This breakfast recipe comes from the Washington Red Raspberry Commission. Dave recommends raspberries if [...]
I originally met Dave Grotto, author of 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life and 101 Optimal Life Foods at the Quaker Oats Living Proof blogger event in 2008. Even though I had been blogging about diet and living a healthier lifestyle for awhile, Dave was the first person who got me thinking about all [...]
If you’re interested in learning how high ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) value foods like cherries can help keep your heart healthy, go to the Cherry Marketing Institute’s website at 1 p.m. EST, Wednesday, February 17th, for a live heart-healthy cooking class by Keri Glassman, MS, RD, CDN, dietitian and author of the book, The [...]
I’ve enjoyed dipping into The Eat-Clean Diet Recharged: Lasting Fat Loss That's Better than Ever over the past couple of weeks. Tosca’s philosophy is that we need to eat the way nature intended – lean protein, complex carbs, and healthy fats – no processed foods and lots of water. She believes that when you Eat [...]
As part of my Mayo Clinic Diet book and journal giveaway, I’m offering another excerpt from the book on learning how to identify potential roadblocks and develop strategies to help you with your weight-loss program. The giveaway ends TONIGHT! Go here to enter. Behavior obstacle – I’m a late-night snacker. Avoid eating late at night [...]
As part of my Mayo Clinic Diet book and journal giveaway, I’m offering another excerpt from the book: Learning to identify potential roadblocks and confront personal temptations is an important part of being successful in losing weight. If you find a strategy that helps you, include it with your weight-loss program. Behaviors obstacle – I [...]
The Mayo Clinic Diet: Eat Well, Enjoy Life, Lose Weight by the weight-loss experts at the Mayo Clinic and Donald Hensrud, M.D., M.P.H. is a no nonsense approach to healthy eating and weight loss. It’s the only diet developed at the Mayo Clinic and uses a common sense approach to losing weight and keeping it [...]
Today is the start of my seven-week whirlwind tour of four blogging conferences and one mom blogger event. It’s not exactly around the world in 90 days, but it’ll be an adventure. After all, how could I resist two food blogging conferences, a free ticket to IzeaFest and 50% off a full access pass to [...]
As I wrote last week cancer affects everyone. My husband just returned from the funeral of a good friend who lost his battle with cancer. My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year as well. So in honor of these two important people in my family’s life and for National Breast Cancer Awareness [...]
Since last spring, I’ve read several diet and health books such as: Jillian Michaels' Master Your Metabolism: The 3 Diet Secrets to Naturally Balancing Your Hormones for a Hot and Healthy Body! Anticancer: A New Way of Life The Skinny: On Losing Weight Without Being Hungry-The Ultimate Guide to Weight Loss Success (read my review [...]
I’ve been reading The Skinny: On Losing Weight without Being Hungry-the Ultimate Guide to Weight Loss Success by Louis J. Aronne M.D. with Alisa Bowman. I was interested to learn more about why Dr. Aronne feels some people, like me, never feel satisfied and overeat because they’re constantly hungry. It’s all about brain chemistry and [...]
I’m honored to have Jennette Fulda of the Pasta Queen doing today’s guest post. Jennette was my roommate at BlogHer 2008 – she’s a terrific person to room with since she goes to bed early like me. (We may look like fabulously hip bloggers, but inside we’re rather tired, achy ladies. Sigh.) We were both at [...]
As part of her WOW! Women on Writing Blog Tour, book author, Linda C. Wisniewski has written a guest post on yoga and meditation for This Mama Cooks! Linda writes for the Bucks County Herald and teaches memoir classes for Bucks County Community College. She is regional representative of the International Women’s Writing Guild and [...]
Life has its ups and downs, and so does my weight it seems. I’m back on the heavy side again, even though I’ve been working out regularly when I haven’t been traveling. I’ve decided I’m in a diet and exercise rut and need to change it up to get back to where I want to [...]
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