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Taking Hunger Control Back

Ten suggestions to normalize your eating patterns and improve your health. 1. Place a five hour time limit between meals. If you go more than five hours between a balanced meals you increase the intensity of your hunger. As the intensity of your hunger increases, the quality of your food choices decrease. Ever chosen the [...]
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Satisfaction Guaranteed

What if I give in to the pleasure of eating and never want to stop? Trust is a powerful word in all relationships and food is not different. The trust in this relationship needs to be with your body and its ability to let you know when you are satisfied. Some food is there for [...]
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Green Food Companies

If you are going to make a resolution to improve your health and quality of life, surrounding yourself with quality products is a must.  I was reminded how healthy can be fun, easy, and cost effective today when I received my biweekly share of fruits and vegetables from Suburban Organics (serving New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware). [...]
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Hoping for Claireity

This is the face.  The face on my brain twenty-four hours a day.  All of my love, hope, and fears lie in keeping that beautiful smile on my daughter’s face.  This is Claire.   Since 2006, I have helped countless women in their battle against eating disorders.  Knowing that according to a recent analysis by the [...]
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Update: What is for Breakfast?

  Mommy found the pictures! (Actually it was Daddy who saved the day)    
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What is for Breakfast?

What can you learn from a toddler about self awareness?  This morning my daughter reminded me how to be intuitive and think outside the box.  Not the typical morning in the Diaz house, Lucas was sick and Claire woke up immediately requesting breakfast.  Here is how the conversation went: Claire: “Mommy I want those little [...]
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Letting Go of Judgment

I can never eat normal and lose weight. I have to restrict and eat diet foods to get to my goal weight. I will only be happy once I lose weight. I could never just eat one cookie. Do you notice any pattern in these thoughts?  Can you see the judgment?  NEVER.  HAVE TO. ONLY [...]
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What Does “Healthy Living for Life” mean to You?

Alison is a mother to a busy 19 month old, Isla, with baby #2 arriving early December.  Always fiercely independent with a taste for travel, she did not know how life would be as a busy mom.  Isla has made her appreciate healthy living more.  Enough from me, here are her thoughts: (make note:  Another [...]
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Blazing a New Trail

  Last week I introduced you the Fortune Teller and this week meet the Oracle.  What advice did she bestow on my husband?   Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail. The Oracle, at Waterfire, Providence RI   Blazing a new trail is [...]
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Never Give Up

This weekend my husband and I visited Providence Rhode Island for a weekend away.  While beautiful, Providence was not overly exciting.  WaterFire was an event we heard was worth our time to see so we set off in search of a good spot to sit and enjoy.  After an hour of watching fire pits burn [...]
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