As someone who struggled with my weight for the first half of my life, it breaks my heart to see others going through that pain. I was overweight from the time I was twelve-years-old until I was about twenty-two. Then during both of my pregnancies, I suffered from prenatal depression that led to me gaining a bit too much weight during my pregnancies that I kept on for many years…
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Recipe: Vegan Stuffed Peppers
Read moreHello, friends! It’s been awhile since I’ve posted a recipe. Now that I’ve got a colicky newborn on my hands, it’s a miracle when I find the time to cook, let alone to photograph and write about it! However, M. and I recently watched another…
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Good Food Made Simple
Read moreA few months ago, the folks over at Good Food Made Simple (GFMS) reached out and asked us to give their food a try. I am always skeptical about packaged/frozen food. In my experience convenience usually comes at a (nasty!) cost. However, when our sample…
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Whole Foods: Delicious, Raw, Vegan Recipes
Read moreAfter the last post in my whole foods series, I received another question about eating raw. This time I was asked to share some raw food recipes. When we think about raw food and incorporating raw food into our diets, we typically think of eating…
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Whole Foods: Raw Foods
Read moreAfter the last post in my Whole Foods series, I received a few questions about why I emphasize the word “raw” in some of my recipes. It’s a really great question and something that I’ve been meaning to write about. Simply put: eating raw foods…
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Whole Foods: Smoothies
Read moreBack in November, I mentioned that I would be making a big push toward a “whole foods” diet. It’s been going really well. At home, we eat about a 90% whole food diet. (Whole foods are foods that are unprocessed and unrefined, or processed and…
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Whole Foods + Plated.com
Read moreIf you visit my little blog frequently, you may have noticed that I’ve been talking more and more about whole foods recently. The more that I learn about human biology and nutrition, the more passionate I become about the importance of whole foods. If you’re…
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Baby Weight Loss: Smoothies
Read moreI’ve been working to lose the fifty pounds that I gained during pregnancy. It’s been coming off pretty steadily but the last ten pounds seems to be sticking. It is likely because I am breastfeeding, and as such, eating like a horse that got loose…
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Food Diary: Lunch – Homemade Avocado Hummus
Read moreI just wrote, “I can not believe that it’s been nearly a month since I started my new job!” But then I looked at the calendar and I realized that today is my ONE MONTH-iversary. My, how time flies when you’re blindingly busy, er… having…