Yuck. Today is as Monday as Mondays get: A million things to do in a bleary, glassy-eyed state after a weekend of wine and song. By wine I mean wine, and by song I mean hearty, delicious, carbolicious Italian delicacies.
I’m cleaning out with a day of green smoothies. I’ll break the fast tonight. With steak.
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Finding a community is an important stage in becoming, and later maintaining, your groovy new health’n’fitness-lovin identity. It’s rewarding and renewing to share knowledge and rub shoulders while practicing the activities you love.
Case in point: Last night I breathed some fresh life into my yoga practice by going to a “yoga potluck.” Twenty-odd people gathered, […]

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All pasta is not created equal. Fans of the high-fiber whole wheat varieties know that it’s a much more satisfying bowl than traditional semolina. All that fiber slows down absorption of the sugar in the pasta’s carbs, lowering the glycemic index — something super important for hypoglycemics, diabetics, and those sensitive to sugar in general.
But […]

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My challenge is making veggies a part of every meal. I love them while I’m eating them, and yet if I don’t watch it I find myself reverting to grains and protein only. After eating pasta or rice I feel warm and comfy — sated. Veggies just go straight through. Plus they require a lot […]

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According to this article, soy and especially processed soy — yes, my darling tofu — is either harmful or it’s healthy. No one really knows, and it probably depends on the individual eater. So just like any food, I’d recommend avoiding the more processed forms, eating purer forms in moderation if you like it, and […]

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Often they have almost the same amount of calories as the originals. (Why? See 2.)
When they take out the fat, especially in deserts, they need something else to make it tasty: Sugar. So as the fat goes down, the carbs and sugar go up. You eat more sugar, you get more hungry. Whereas if you […]

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Cognitive therapy is more brainwash-y than I like, but that comes from the bumbleheaded me who told my high school biology teacher that I categorically refused to think of a flower as a reproductive organ. That’s the bad, anti-scientific me who never wants the curtains flung back to reveal the man behind them. Fortunately it’s […]

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I’ve been reading up on my new conviction that diets are the enemy. Turns out the movement, or at least one wing of it, has a name: Intuitive Eating, the idea that your best body will unfold like a flower if you simply eat when hungry and stop when full. This is also the heart […]

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When I was about 12, I begged my mom to let me join The Diet Center. It took persistence, but she eventually went for it.
Protocol at the Diet Center demanded we take 8 horsepills a day, which I carried in a plastic pill box that the center supplied. I remember lovingly settling the giant red, […]

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This is a neat idea: A month of daily tips on increasing your fruits and veggies. Maybe I’ll sit down and make my own 30 days of small habits to adopt.
I like the idea that a month of small changes adds up to a big change. Even though throwing out everything in your kitchen and […]

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