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Mountain High Yoghurt asked me to share my “Mountain High Moment” with you. A Mountain High Moment can be anything you enjoy doing such as a hobby, reading a book, or listening to some great music. It’s something that makes you happy! Ironically, my Mountain High Moment is truly “mountain high.” I love looking at [...]
Today’s guest post is by Mari L. McCarthy. Mari’s a journaling therapy specialist and author. She runs Create Write Now, a website dedicated to all things journaling. The site includes hundreds of journaling prompts, personal journaling stories, interviews, a blog, and many other resources. Mari has published nine books to date; her most recent ebook [...]
Here at This Mama Cooks! On a Diet, I post about health from a diet and lifestyle perspective. However, I wanted to change things up a bit and address health from a mental and emotional aspect. That’s where today’s guest post from Mari L. McCarthy comes in. Mari is known as the Journaling Therapy Specialist [...]
I’ve been reading the most wonderful book this summer, Second Wind: One Woman’s Midlife Quest to Run Seven Marathons on Seven Continents, by Cami Ostman. It’s about her quest to run marathons in all seven continents. While training and running each race, she challenges herself to overcome obstacles – both mental and physical – and [...]
Recently a friend asked me, “How do you feed your kids healthy meals everyday?” She told me how hard it was trying to change her habits and theirs. I told her it’s all about taking small steps and role modeling healthy living for your kids. With the kids home for summer vacation, it’s a great [...]
So many of our family traditions revolve around food. For example: We go out for at least one fancy meal per vacation like to the El Tavor at the Grand Canyon or to Rick Moonan’s RM Seafood in Las Vegas. We eat potato pancakes during Hanukkah, even though our family isn’t Jewish. And we have [...]
I’m beyond thrilled to have Wade Rouse guest post here at This Mama Cooks! On a Diet today. I first became aware of Wade when I attended the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop in 2010. He taught the Three H’s: Humor, heartbreak and honesty workshop, which I enjoyed so much that I immediately reserved his first [...]
It’s been more than a year of setbacks when it’s come to my health. First, it was sciatica. Then it was tummy issues. At 45 years of age, the warranty was off the old model, and I was slowly coming undone. The sciatica was the first to throw me off my normal routine of getting [...]
Thanks to Trop 50 for sponsoring my writing about fabulous bloggers. This year Trop50 is granting 50 fabulous wishes. Click here to enter for a chance to win $1,000 to help grant a friend’s wish! More than just “good enough” food bloggers A while back there was a discussion about food blogging at BlogHer, [...]
If you’re like me, you’ve read a lot of books on weight loss. In fact, you probably have a few gathering dust on your bookshelf right now. Well, before you think, “Oh no, I’m not going to read about another diet and exercise weight loss plan,” let me introduce you to Marty McGee Bennett and [...]
At the time I was a charter school founder, I hoped creating the school would provide my community with a place where kids could be mentored by adults, whether it was moms leading a Girl Scouts troop or kids working on Odyssey of the Mind projects with their teachers. When I worked as a Usborne [...]
Help get the word out and feed the hungry. The United Egg Producers will donate a dozen eggs for every Tweet that goes out so go ahead and “egg a friend,” spread the word, and help feed someone today! About United Egg Producers: United Egg Producers (UEP) is the nation’s leading farmer cooperative for US [...]
Tomorrow I’m on my way to FitBloggin, a social media conference for those of us who blog about fitness, wellness, and good food. It’s also where I’ll be handing out probiotic chocolate bars from my sponsor to my fellow healthy lifestyle bloggers. Have chocolate, will travel, I say! When I signed up for FitBloggin last [...]
Want to know what the US Olympic athletes ate during the Games? Here’s a brief video showing Alison Leach, site manager for the Whistler USA House gives us a view of the lunch that is being prepared for athletes and visitors. The food was prepared by the chef who helped create President Obama’s inaugural meal. [...]
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