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Don't get stuck and don't worry.
Food is medicine! We have forgotten that!
I do what I do because my favorite thing is to learn.
Your life shouldn't be anything short of spectacular.
If I don't get to go to the gym, walking is the answer.
Worrying is just a prayer for the worst possible scenario.
Anyone who knows our family knows this: we eat ALL the time!
I didn't grow up eating meat - I was a vegetarian until I was 18.
Keep on moving: any motion is forward motion. You can always course-correct.
Ultimately, it's how you approach things in life that puts a smile on your face.
If you live your life all out today, not only is it fun, but you are preventing a midlife crisis.
Fun for me is to take what I learn and teach others in a way that is accessible and applicable in their own lives.
I love to look at my life and look at what I can do better, how I can contribute more and where I can push myself.
I am proactive and looking to change my own behavior rather than others' - which is generally much more successful!
More than anything, having adventures with my siblings and spending time with my family and my husband make me happy.
While fad diets might seem like the quick-fix solution to lose weight, they won't help you get healthy in the long run.
If we make wholesome, healthy food accessible and affordable for everyone, we make the choice to be healthy an easy one.
I tried every diet under the sun and none of them worked but, more importantly, they were robbing me of my love of food.
Keeping stationary drains your brain, but moving around shows you new things, new inspiration, and keeps the blood moving.
I have been very, very lucky because I have my health, a wonderful husband, family, and friends, and I get to do what I love.
Everyone has their own definition of a healthy lifestyle, and mine has come to mean making health a priority but not an obsession.
We need to demand that our food is labeled, especially genetically modified foods, and learn how it is produced, processed, and grown.
A 'diet' is simply an individual's eating regimen: it doesn't have to mean the restrictive plan we've come to associate this word with.
I want to be a vehicle to help people connect the dots that let them make their lives healthier, happier, more beautiful, and more fun.
Don't make a different meal for every person, but make buildable meals. And, I do this with my kids, try to expand their palates gently.
We can try to reform healthcare, but the fact is if we don't have a healthy food source, we are only treating the symptoms and not the problems.
My parents always wanted me to know why eating healthfully was important to overall performance, probably to drown out my whining for junk food.
When I was young and growing up overweight, I believed the "eaten" was more powerful than the "eater," meaning the food was more powerful than I was.
Growing up in my family, it wasn't important that we always be the best; it was important that we were going to try to be our best and give it our all.
Figuring out how to eat healthfully on your own without your parents' guidance is one of the hardest lessons you must learn when you leave home for college.
Standards are what you hold for yourself, too. If I don't hold those standards with friends, colleagues, and lovers, I can't hold them to their relationships.
The only reason I write at all is because I am going through, and growing through, something in my life I want to share with others through my personal experiences.
I have two pairs of stretchy maternity leggings and jeans, which I will never give up, because once you experience an elastic band for a waist, you will never go back.
I get to help people create lives that make them happier and healthier than they were yesterday. I knock on wood that my family is healthy and happy and love each other.
This moment is precious and full of great potential: all we have to do is figure out the little changes that will make a huge impact on how wonderful life can be in this moment.
I learned that pretending you don't have feelings makes you feel unhappy and unfulfilled and, ultimately, is what really makes you vulnerable because you are hiding from the truth.
My mom is a great cook, and family dinners were a must growing up, even if that meant eating at 10 p.m. when my dad got home from the hospital. It's where we did our family bonding.
We all have so much access to the information on the Internet and in books, but we don't necessarily get that information in a usable way so that we can turn information into action.
Exercise is important, but exercise in a gym is not important. Go and take a walk outside. Skip the umpteenth coffee date and go for a hike instead. Take the stairs. Walk your errands.
Tell your kids they are perfect the way they are, but they shouldn't stay where they are forever because growing, testing the limits, and evolving make life better and more fulfilling.
I was a good 30 pounds overweight throughout high school, and it wasn't until I was going away to college that I really wanted to make sure I was doing everything possible to feel as confident as I could.
The most imminent battle our generation is going to have to fight is food transparency: how food is made/grown, where it comes from, the quality of the source, and how it will effect our health long term.
I am doing what I am supposed to be doing right now. I smile knowing that I have the most wonderful husband, family, and friends. I work with friends whom I can learn from and whom I respect and who respect me.
The Dorm Room Diet is nothing like the conventional diets you may have tried in the past. It offers guidelines for creating a healthy lifestyle on your own, without the daunting restrictions of a quick-fix diet.
Having been to culinary school, the single greatest asset I learned there was how to cut and chop properly. It's an investment of money that will save you hours of time down the road, and hopefully some cut fingers.
If you have expectations, you try to put your standards on someone else's behavior. The fact is you can't control anyone but yourself, so creating standards, as opposed to expectations, keeps the ball in your court.
A wholesome family is one where there is a lot of love. It's living by example. It's acceptance of people at their core, but it's also pushing each other to be our best selves and try things we might not be good at.
I have so many girlfriends in their twenties who live in a white box apartment, having mediocre meals with mediocre friends, waiting for the life they want to hit them in their forties or fifties. They are settling in the now - what's the point?
Developing a diet that is healthful, balanced, and appropriate for your particular caloric needs is easy enough and is absolutely critical to establishing a healthful lifestyle that incorporates proper nutrition, adequate fitness, and mental resilience.
A gluten-free diet still allows you access to almost every fruit and vegetable, a variety of grains and legumes, your pick of dairy products, fresh meats and fish and a whole slew of special gluten-free delights to satisfy your pretzel-bagel-muffin-doughnut craving.