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Beet with Greens Sweet and Earthy Juice Recipe
Today I have a juice recipe that is a bit sweeter than the usual ones I post, but has some fun ingredients and tastes delicious. As with all green juice recipes, it’s great whether you’re on a juice cleanse or whether you’re just feeling like a juice would feel good for your body in the moment!
My August 2016 Juice Cleanse, And Does It Get Easier?
I’ve finished a 5-day Juice Cleanse about a week ago, and I told my newsletter subscribers that I’d write about it, so here I am taking to my blog. Some of you are clients of mine right now and were so kind tell me good luck and ask me how I was doing on my cleanse. It was odd to have the roles reversed!
Rainbow Spring Rolls With Peanut Dipping Sauce
This is so my kind of meal! It’s refreshing, crunchy, nutritious and it tastes amazing. It’s a fun, colorful way to give your body an array of veggies and to truly “taste the rainbow”.
I also love the fact that you can switch out what you put in these with the same wrappers and sauce, which gives you near-endless options to vary this recipe and make it new each time you prepare it. It also makes it a great recipe to use whatever odds and ends veggies you need to use up in your fridge.
5 Juice Cleanse Mistakes and How To Avoid Them
The right kind of juice cleanse has the potential to transform your health on a mind, body and soul level. The wrong kind of juice cleanse however will set you up for problems. Unfortunately, all too often I see juice cleanse blogs or news which describe how someone did a juice cleanse, and how they then felt bad and/or didn’t get the results they wanted. Usually reading their blogs I see at least a few if not all of the following mistakes in how they did their cleanse. It is no mystery to me why this person had the experience they had, and yet a bad experience can deter someone from juice cleansing all together. But fear not! These common mistakes are ones you can correct and alleviate most of the common complaints of juice cleanses.
Advice From A 10-Year Vegan
I’m a little late in posting this; the late summer of this year marked 10 years of veganism for me! There are so many ways people write “veganniversary” blogs, but for mine, I decided to create a Q&A with common questions people ask of me. So let’s dig right in!
The Real Reason You Compulsively Eat (And How To Change That)
I have Google Alerts for the terms “compulsive eating”, “overeating” and other similar keywords set up on my email. If you’re not familiar with Google Alerts, you set them up for any phrase or word to be emailed the top news stories and articles on those topics every day. It’s interesting for me as a compulsive eating coach and someone who has healed my own binge eating and overeating, to see what the world is saying about the topic. Mainly, I’m usually amazed by how most articles on compulsive eating are essentially written as such:
Chia Oat Porridge With Berries: A Radical Radiance Recipe
This is one of my absolute favorite breakfasts. If I don’t have a smoothie, it’s generally this recipe that I’m eating. In fact, when I have this around, it also sometimes serves as a great snack or dessert that satisfies, tastes great and is oh-so-good for us! I also love that you can make this in a big batch and it will keep for a couple days. It takes time for the chia to expand and be ready, so I like to make it at night before going to bed and when I wake up the next morning, voila! It’s ready.
Weight and Body Size: What Will Others Think of Me?
But what if they’ll notice I’ve gained weight? What if will they think when they see I’m still not thin. They’ll know I don’t have it all together if they see that I’m struggling with my weight.
Many of us are very afraid other people noticing our extra weight. We’re afraid they’ll notice we gained some, we’re afraid they’ll notice we haven’t lost any, or we’re just afraid they’ll notice we’re not thin. We are afraid not just about others noticing, but of them silently judging, or, even worse, commenting on it. We may be afraid, too, of the reactions of competitive people who might get some twisted satisfaction out of seeing us “fail” in regards to our weight.
Seaweed Salad with Cashew Garlic Sauce Recipe
This is one of my favorite recipes because it’s delicious, it’s super-packed with nutrition, and it’s relatively quick to make. It’s sort of a spin on a macro bowl, though I don’t always put in a grain or a bean, which are usually signature macro bowl features.
Orange Citrus Green Juice: A Radical Radiance Recipe
I developed and enjoyed this recipe in a chilly phase of a Colorado winter, but it’s refreshing and energizing anytime, anywhere!
Weight, Food, and the Bully In Your Head
Many of us who have struggled with compulsive eating and weight have a pretty mean voice in our heads that is either ever-present, or comes out to take swings when the scale moves up or we ate that donut. It might be slightly critical or judgmental, or it might be flat-out abusive. The voice can differ from person to person, but the common denominator for most of us is that whatever the precise kinds of things we say to ourselves, the voice is anything but loving.
Warming Spicy Green Juice: A Radical Radiance Recipe
People often ask me how it’s possible to handle drinking cold juice during the winter, whether that’s in the context of a Juice Feast, or just adding fresh juice to your normal eating routine. I discussed this more in-depth in my post, How to Juice Cleanse in Cold Weather, but one of the tricks is to use lots of cayenne and ginger. This is a good tip if you want to eat a lot of raw food in winter, too.
Health and Compulsive Eating: How to Get Through the Holidays, Part 2
Hi friends! I wrote Part 1 in this series, called Health & Compulsive Eating: How to Get Through the Holidays, Part 1 a while ago about food and the holidays. This is a series I’m really enjoying writing. All of what I write blends with my personal experience, but this topic is especially important to me because I used to be that person who dreaded the weight gain of the holidays, and who did indeed always gain weight during the holidays, and feel overall pretty awful by the end of them. The holiday season was one where I always felt totally preoccupied and anxious, and in retrospect, I can see how little I really was able to actually enjoy the holidays because of that. And now I have had the experience of what it’s like to have the holiday season hold no fear. I don’t worry I will eat too much, I don’t worry I’ll eat lots of junk food, I don’t worry I’ll gain weight, and — I don’t. I would love for everyone to have that experience. We all certainly deserve it and are capable of it! And thus, it’s time for Part 2!
Travel Blog: Healthy and Happy in Iceland
Hi friends! I have returned from almost a week in Iceland and am very excited to blog about it. Sarah and I decided to go as Iceland has been on both of our travel lists for a while. I was particularly excited because I had not ever left the continent, and have really not been many places outside the USA. I have been to Montreal and also a bit over the border into Mexico, but that’s it!
Quinoa Chickpea Veggie Salad Recipe
I love this recipe! You can eat it as is, you can put it over even more greens, you could scoop it up to eat in some butter lettuce leaves. Between the quinoa and chickpeas, it’s a protein-rich meal, and of course with all the veggies, it’s even more nutrient-dense! You could probably consider it a high-raw meal, since all the veggies and herbs are raw.
Cucumber Dill Green Soup Recipe
This is the type of meal I love. Dill has taken a hold on me this summer and I have been making tons of recipes with dill. I just love it.
This recipe is based on my friend Gena Hamshaw‘s Green Soup/Blended Salad recipe. So thanks to her inspiration, I have a new favorite soup. I’ve made just a few changes to it for my own taste.
Is It Rude To Eat Differently From My Family and Friends?
Are these scenarios familiar?
You go to your family member’s house and they have prepared food for everyone, which is the kind of food they eat, but not the kind you eat (or want to be eating). You feel like you’d be rude not to eat what they prepare, or inconsiderate to insist on eating your own way. Perhaps they even tell you that you are indeed rude, or inconsiderate, or difficult. So you eat what they make, and it makes your body feel bad, or it brings you a conflict morally (ie. if your different way of eating is vegan or vegetarian for ethics).
Follow Up: Spring Modified Juice Feast and Recipe
My goodness, I am late in posting this blog! I did my little Modified Juice Feast that I wrote about in my last blog post (click here for that post), and then family came to visit, and so I am just now getting to share this with you.
A Cleansing Alternative: The Modified Juice Feast
Hi again! I am excited to talk about an alternative to a juice-only cleanse, something I’ve actually been teaching as well for many years. It’s called a Modified Juice Feast, and in short, the main difference is rather than all juice, you drink mostly juice and then eat raw, non-fatty produce. I’m actually going to be starting one tomorrow and then blogging about it throughout, so you’ll be able to get a bit of an idea of how it looks.
My Decision: My “Before and After” Photos
When I posted my first blog two weeks ago, called “Should I Post My ‘Before and Afters’?” I knew that hearing from you would be helpful, but the entire topic allowed for a rich and powerful discussion on the bigger topics of body image, shame, achievement, and inspiration. And out of the dozens and dozens of comments and thoughts about it that I received, everyone was so loving towards me and towards each other on the various threads. I just love that.