How I Stopped Overeating and Handled My Late Night Food Cravings

I can’t believe it.

I’m having one of those major “A-ha!” moments in my life and I have to share it with you.

I look back at my life and I truly cannot count the number of times I felt more like my food controlled me, than that I controlled my food choices.

Overeating, eating late at night, pigging out one night, then “fasting” on water the next morning.

Sheeeesh!

Some days I wondered if I would ever break free from the constant obsession about food and the struggle to just find balance and eat the things I *know* are good for me in the amounts that I know are good for me.

Until now.

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7 Great Reasons to Eat More Blueberries

By Maureen Lauder

There aren’t enough blue foods out there, if you ask me.  But as one of the few representatives of the blue (er…purple?) food group, blueberries do a pretty good job.  We all know that berries in general are super-duper healthy, right?  Well, blueberries may be the healthiest of the berries.   Among other things, blueberries rock the antioxidant game:  studies have shown that blueberries contain more antioxidants than almost any other fruit or vegetable.

Here are a few more reasons to love blueberries (aside from their general yumptiousness, which might be reason enough):

* Blueberries are heart healthy. Blueberries contain tons and tons of an antioxidant called anthocyanin that helps prevent cardiovascular disease.

* Blueberries support and stabilize the body’s tissues. The antioxidants in blueberries protect against free radical damage to cells and tissues, helping to prevent varicose veins, hemorrhoids, peptic ulcers, and cancer.

* Blueberries are good for Read more »

Raw Diva Fitness: The History and How-To of Hooping

by Michelle Rankin

Hula Hoop is a registered trademark of Wham-O, Inc. so for the purposes of this article, we’ll simply use the words hoop and hooping, which I feel fairly confident that no one owns.

As usual, I’m not an expert; just the girl that volunteered to write the article and my qualification this time is that I absolutely love my hooping hobby. I use it as a quick break when I’ve been in my head working on a project too long, hooping helps return me to my body and grounds me, and I use it as a hip loosening fertility exercise. As a Mayan Abdominal Massage Therapist, I incorporate hooping as a warm up to loosen hips and lower backs as well as the hearts and minds of my clients.

In fact, I was introduced to grown up hooping at my Mayan Abdominal Massage training. A beautiful girl named Chaya brought two hoops and reunited many of us with our childhood hooping hobby. I was such a hooper as a child that my mom kept my pink peppermint smelling hoop all these years for memory sake. The thing that concerns me is that it still smells like peppermint after some 30 years but that aside, I’m glad she kept it. On numerous occasions I’ve picked up my old hoop and given it a whirl only to find Read more »

Raw Food Recipe: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Meat Loaf

This week’s recipe is from Angela Elliott who is just in time for the holiday season with a not so meaty meatloaf! Free the turkeys and make this your healthiest Holiday season ever. Check out Angela Elliott’s Holiday recipe guide and enjoy your holiday favorites with a healthy new twist.

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Meatloaf

By Angela Elliott

Ingredients:
• 2 cups walnuts
• 1 red pepper
• ½ cup sweet onion, minced
• ½ cup celery, minced
• 1 tomato
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 1 tsp onion
• Dash of oregano
• ½ tsp of miso
• Salt and pepper to taste
Directions:
Add all the above ingredients to a food processor, pulse chop until evenly distributed. Place meatloaf on a platter and shape into a loaf and serve.

*Note: This actually looks like real meat loaf and is absolutely delicious!

Let Me Tell You What I Think of the Raw Food Movement

Oooh! With all this huffing and puffing I’ve been hearing about meat, veganism, raw food and dairy on Facebook lately, I decided it was time that this article resurface. I wrote it a few years ago, but it’s as true today and perhaps I didn’t say it loud enough the first time.

By Tera Warner

Okay, I admit that I’ve had more than my fair share of contradicting information when it comes to the “right” way to approach the Raw Food Diet, and today I’d like to set the record straight.

This morning I received an article in my inbox and it was talking about the dangers of consuming too much fruit in the raw food diet. First of all, I love the author and felt like everything was written with great integrity and clarity. The proof was carefully laid out, and the reasoning behind it all was perfectly “sensible,” and yet reading this article, I started to feel rather upset!

Why?

Because I could show you another link, well, dozens of them, in fact, that claim the complete 180 degree opposite of this to be true with as much “sensible” reasoning and proof to back them up as well.

Frankly what shocks me is Read more »