The fundamentals of eating clean encourage you to consume more whole foods — such as fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, whole grains and healthy fats — and limit highly processed snack foods, sweets and other packaged foods. Emily Brown, R.D.N., L.D. Since I am not a nutritionist, I prefer to source health information from experts. This…
Category: Eating Clean
Health Should Set You Free (Around the Web in 80 Clicks)
As in all things, human beings make the best choices when they are free. For the past few weeks, we have focused rather intensely on the career-related conversation. For the next week or two, we will be rebalancing the scale a little by focusing on clean eating, health and lifestyle. We are starting with this…
Working From Home: Eating to keep up with your Boss and your Toddler
Silence is golden – unless you have a toddler. Then, silence is very very suspicious. If your life, like mine, involves a chatty baby, a toddler whose silence means anything from quietly watching cartoons to carefully painting every single tile in the lounge, a hectic job and little time for anything else, then we need…
Clean Eating Tips for the Beginner
To have a healthy relationship with food means that one is able to eat for the reasons of physiological rather than emotional hunger and to stop eating at a point when the body and mind are truly satisfied. In order to have a healthy relationship with food, one must first have permission to eat. Our…
How Did you Lose the Baby Weight?
“Let us bust the myth of physical inactivity and obesity. You cannot outrun a bad diet,” British Journal of Sports Medicine If life FAQs were a thing, this question would be on my list: How did you lose the baby weight? Before I delve into answering the question, I must say something very important: if…
10ish Great Filling Food Items for Eating Clean
“ The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.” Thomas Edison Food is such a significant part of our daily lives that whether we know it or not we have a pattern of shopping for and preparing food. When we…
My Postpartum Wellness and Weightloss-then-Gain-then-Loss again Journey
“Don’t let your mind bully your body.” ~ seen somewhere on the Internet Did you know that when you have a baby you also get a bonus gift? An entirely new body. It sounds a bit like a joke and sometimes I actually find the degree of truth in this hilarious but I am serious….
A Love Letter To My Body
Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body. To My Darling Body, I looked at you in the mirror this morning and I realised that tomorrow will be too late for me to tell you how I feel…
10 Life Lessons to Excel in your 30s By Mark Manson (Advice From Those That Have Gone Before)
This is an article I came across and saved in the year I turned 30. I am 33 and so far it has been spot on in its advice. I felt at that time that I had to sort of preserve it for myself to refer back to over the 30s decade I am glad…