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Real Food Changed My Life

Real Food Changed My Life

I have lost numerous times in my life. Do not get me wrong, I have had my failures, but I have had success as well. I am very good at portion control for a period of time. I also know how to track food very well. So why was it different four years ago? I [...]

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Why Bother with Real Foods?

Why Bother with Real Foods?

I was at a meeting last year when I struck up a conversation with a fellow blogger. After we introduced ourselves and our blogs, she told me, “I lost 60 pounds this year, but I don’t pay any attention to eating healthy foods.” I asked her why not. She said that she just counted calories [...]

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Confessions of a Yo-Yo Dieter

Confessions of a Yo-Yo Dieter

Weight Loss Wednesdays focus on hearing from people currently on their weight loss journey or who are maintaining weight loss as they share their  stories and write about topics related to keeping it off. We met Lara when she lived in San Francisco and wrote her weight loss blog Thinspired. She shares about finding that [...]

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Walking as a way of life

Part of living a healthy lifestyle is thinking about the big picture of your life and what you want to feel like when you are older. Activity plays a big part in helping alleviate daily stresses and exercises muscles that want to be moved. I’m not an expert in all things fitness, by any stretch [...]

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Helping your new healthy lifestyle become a habit

Helping your new healthy lifestyle become a habit

Let’s be honest. Changing your life- real, long-term change- is hard. It seems that everywhere we turn, our culture and our corporations are working against us. American food is about convenience and indulgence: Getting what we want, when we want it.  (And that usually means something loaded with sugar, salt, and bad fats!) Breaking this mold requires [...]

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