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Operation Back to Basics

Operation Back to Basics

September didn’t used to mean all that much to me. When I lived on the East Coast, it meant colder days ahead and a shift from summer’s simple foods to healthy food of a heartier sort. When I relocated toTexas, pretty much nothing in my life shifted come September. Light, healthy eating remained since it’s [...]

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Getting Back on the Healthy Snack Bandwagon

Getting Back on the Healthy Snack Bandwagon

I’m a believer in the saying pride goeth before a fall. I’ve learned its veracity the hard way.  For that reason, even when things are chugging along happily for me in the health & fitness realm, I no longer let myself become, well, prideful. Weight loss maintained for a while? Careful whatcha brag about as that’s precisely the [...]

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Skipping Breakfast- Life Lessons Learned Along the Way

Skipping Breakfast- Life Lessons Learned Along the Way

I’m a believer in living in the present. I reflect upon my past, but never with regret. I’ve done myriad moronic things (things I won’t list here lest my parents stumble upon the post), yet all of these missteps come together to create the person I am today: a little wiser, a lot flawed, and [...]

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3 Tips for Mindful Living

3 Tips for Mindful Living

For me, as with pretty much everything else in my world, arriving at real living has been a process. A very circuitous path. I started down this road close to nineteen years ago with nary an iota of healthy lifestyle awareness. I was an egocentric 20-something.  I valued being skinny over feeling fit.  I consumed [...]

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Grandma knows best

Grandma knows best

As I began my trek down this healthy living path I somehow became an eliminator. I decided if I didn’t eat certain foods (thankfully I’ve repressed what they were as I quite clearly recall the repetitive nature of the foods which remained) my excess weight would miraculously  melt away.  Swiftly, easily and permanently. Not only [...]

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