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Weight LossMonth: January 2012
Healing and Repairing my Digestion: Part III
For more on my healing and repairing digestion series, check out: Part I, Part II It’s day two of my juice fast. One last day of juice and I’m on to smoothies. Just one more day. One more day. Maybe if I keep on repeating it, Wednesday will be here before I know it? I’m…
Healing and Repairing my Digestion: Part II
For an introduction to the healing and repairing digestion series, check out this post. Before we get started with the menu for juice fast day #1, a couple of questions came up from last weeks’ post. You mentioned that you weren’t keen on cleansing in the winter. This is the first I’ve heard of this,…
GIVEAWAY: NuNaturals Stevia
Winners: Averie, Eileen, Rachel, and Karina whose favorite sweeteners are stevia, maple syrup, apple sauce and coconut sugar. Very nice! Thanks for entering, everyone :) ~~~~~ Thank you for your supportive comments from yesterday’s post. When I decided to be candid on the topic of my health and my personal struggles, I was a bit…
Healing and Repairing my Digestion: Part I
For more on my healing and repairing digestion series, check out: Part II, Part III, Part IV When we don’t listen to what our bodies need they have a tendency of screaming the solution in the form of symptoms. When we experience these irregularities it’s usually a sign that we’ve taken a wrong turn somewhere…
Crock-Pot Chicken and Rutabaga Greens Stew
Cold weather has hit Alberta. Over the past couple of months I tried to remind myself that the Spring-like weather was a treat for us in January. I had hoped that maybe, just maybe, we wouldn’t experience Winter this year. But as luck would have it, the temperature plummeted from 59F to -13F in the…
Superwoman Green Smoothie
I’m not one to make New Year’s resolutions. In fact, I’m not sure I’ve ever made a resolution. But as 2011 was drawing a close I made a small promise to myself to get back to putting my health first. 2011 was full of ups and downs, new beginnings and endless work hours. Though I’m…
Grain-free Apple Pancake Cobbler
We had the laziest day yesterday. I didn’t get out of my pajamas all day. We played rock, paper, scissors on who got to brave the outdoors and head to Superstore for an essential toilet paper run. I had two naps. I meditated for 30 minutes instead of the usual 15 just because I could….
Salad Challenge: Hot and Wild Roasted Veggie Salad
This weeks’ salad challenge posts: Introduction, Sweet + Creamy Broccoli Salad, Green Goddessphere at Sea, Spinach Salad with Tomato Vinaigrette, Cucumber Dill Kale Salad 5 days, 5 lip-licking, bowl loving, veggie packed salads. How did you do with the challenge? I don’t think I’ve ever ate this many veggies in my life, even when I…
Salad Challenge: Cucumber Dill Kale Salad
This weeks’ salad challenge posts: Introduction, Sweet + Creamy Broccoli Salad, Green Goddessphere at Sea, and Spinach Salad with Tomato Vinaigrette I never was big into kale. I remember making a salad with it many years ago – replacing romaine for a bunch of kale in a Caesar salad and nearly died. It was so…
Salad Challenge: Spinach Salad with Tomato Vinaigrette
This weeks’ salad challenge posts: Introduction, Sweet + Creamy Broccoli Salad, and Green Goddessphere at Sea We’re halfway done the challenge and there’s so much veggie love going on, it’s great! How are your salads coming along? Have you discovered any new and exciting ways to spice up your veggies? All this salad talk has…