

Vegan Ice Cream
My sixteen-year-old niece recently discovered that she’s lactose intolerant, right before she was going to an ice cream festival. When...
This Life Is In Your Hands
I didn’t expect the book This Life Is In Your Hands to be so much about food. When I heard Maine author Melissa Coleman talk about and...
Primary Foodsâ„¢
Note: Learn more about the Institute for Integrative Nutrition® here or at www.integrativenutrition.com. I like doing things my own way,...
How To Be Hungry
Note: Learn more about the Am I Hungry? Mindful Eating program here or at www.AmIHungry.com. Do you know how to be hungry? For some...
Fitting Out and Glass Slippers
Note: Learn more about IIN (Institute for Integrative Nutrition) here or at integrativenutrition.com. In one of the recent lectures I...
Rebellion
Diets make me rebellious. Admittedly, most diets I tried were when I was a teenager; rebellion and questioning authority went with the...
Mom and Weight and Food
Mother’s Day is always a little tough for me. Not only because it’s now been over 12 years since I lost my mom, but because remembering...
Defeated
Have any of who’ve struggled with weight felt defeated? That you’ve tried everything and it doesn’t work? That you might as well give up...


Cadbury Creme Eggs
When I was growing up, our Easter celebrations were more secular than religious. We had an Easter egg tree (well, branch), egg hunts...
Pieces of Me
When I recently read Women Food and God by Geneen Roth, one image particularly stuck with me because it made me shudder. She wrote that...