Is Your Self-Care Sabotaging Your Weight-Loss?
August 22, 2012
By Guest Blogger
Exercise. Avoiding sugar. Green smoothies. These are brilliant weight-loss tools. However, just like exhaustion and high cholesterol tend to be symptoms and not a diagnosis, consistently making sound nutritional choices and moving your body are “symptoms” of self-care. When working with my clients, the self-care basics of bio-individuality nutrition, exercise and manicures and massages helps to re-organize depleted energy, frustration and weight-gain. They start to feel better, lose a couple of pounds and then BAM,… Read More >
An Apple a Day Melts the Pounds Away!
April 27, 2012
By Kathy Freston
Here’s the secret to weight loss: It’s all about crowding out, not cutting out. Crowding out is a term used in nutritional circles to describe how to eat in a healthy way so that you never even have the chance to feel hungry. You literally crowd out the junk you think you want to eat by choosing to eat key foods throughout the day so that you’re always satisfied. Isn’t that preferable to depriving yourself of foods and white-knuckling… Read More >
Will Feeding Your Spirit Release Excess Pounds?
March 8, 2011
By Guest Blogger
by Ali Shapiro Weight loss for the chronic dieter is not about willpower. It’s a wake-up call. It’s your body’s way of literally grounding you, often to a standstill. Those stubborn pounds are delivering a message: A lighter life is waiting. Spirituality and its relationship to weight loss don’t often get discussed. Why? Partly because spirituality is hard to define, but mostly because it doesn’t offer a profitable quick fix. Let’s start with a working… Read More >
Q & A with Vegan Arm Wrestler Rob Bigwood
July 15, 2010
By Guest Blogger
Rob Bigwood has been a professional arm wrestler since the age of 20. Currently 27, Rob is one of the top-ranked arm wrestlers in the Northeast and among the top 20 overall in the United States. He has won over 40 state tournaments covering the entire East Coast, as well as the PAC’s World Championship in 2006 (left handed). What inspired you to become a vegan? I first considered giving up meat after an arm… Read More >
How I Transformed My Life
May 6, 2010
By Guest Blogger
By Philip McCluskey As I sit in front of my computer and ponder the last four years of my life, I can hardly believe it was “me” living it. There have been many days that I would find my eyes welling up with happy tears and laughing at this newfound joy and happiness I discovered. I’ve been overweight my entire life, tried over 30 diets and was always the biggest kid in school. At 400… Read More >
Making Healthy Choices at School
February 12, 2010
By Daphne Oz
When I was growing up, I was very fortunate to be surrounded by health advocates: my dad is a cardiac surgeon; my mother is a reiki master and aficionado of holistic and homeopathic medicine. As such, I was uniquely exposed to the nexus of Eastern and Western medicine, and our dinner table chats covered everything from the latest advancement in robotic surgery to the newest research in Co-Q10 therapies. And yet, I was a good… Read More >
3,287 Days of Veganism
January 25, 2010
By Michael Parrish DuDell
Need some powerful pointers this Meatless Monday? Don’t miss Michael’s 5 Easy Breezy Tips for Transition at the end of his blog! When I was a baby I would eat frozen peas straight from the freezer. They should have known then. On Saturday, January 23, 2010, I celebrated my ninth year of vegetarianism, which, as I’m sure you’ve deduced from the title, means I’ve been meat-free for 3,287 days. The extraordinary part of this tale… Read More >
