My first Not Buying Anything Challenge Challenge

I catered a party for 30 people this weekend for a friend with Celiac Disease. She needed someone she can trust to cater the party to ensure she got a gluten-free meal. This experience taught me Lesson #1 of this no-impact challenge: One must plan ahead thoroughly to be successful.
I have been very busy this [...]

no impact challenge

My fiance came home the other day and casually said he would like to experiment with not buying anything new besides things like food and underwear for one year. Groups like The Compact and people like No Impact Man have brought this type of effort into the media in the past few years and somehow their message made [...]

Green Smoothie Recipes

I am convinced that my daily green smoothie habit is what is responsible for my recent significant improvement in the control of my blood sugar. I used to not be able to eat any carbs after 5pm without having my blood sugar so disturbed that it would keep me up at night. I now can [...]

Sugar Free Free Makes a Difference

I have been pretty sick for almost 6 days now, and we just got the Internet service activated at our new home a few hours ago. This is why I have not been doing daily food/fitness journal posts as I had committed to a couple of weeks ago.
I have only been sugar free free for [...]

Sugar Free Free

For the past two weeks I have been working on writing down every little morsel I eat in a little food journal I keep in my purse. Big pat on the back to me for doing this EVERY day.
This journaling has made me unable to continue my habit of mindless, sneaky eating. Specifically, there are [...]

4/10 Food journal

20 minutes yoga to start the day
B-coconut water, pear, spinach smoothie. Wow that coconut water does amazing things to smoothies.
Snack-big apple
L-Big Salad with avocado and lemon juice
Snack-Kale Lime Cilantro flax crackers
Snack-apple and banana
Healing touch energy therapy session-has been ages since I had my last session. It was so needed. I felt so calm afterwards. The [...]

Coffeeless Celebration

I am celebrating 5 weeks without Coffee/Decaf Coffee today.
I did not start drinking coffee until the last month of undergrad., (approx. 3 yrs ago) because I hated the taste. 
But I have always loved the aroma. My Italian father is a life-long coffee lover and gourmand.  I loved to go with him to our local fine food [...]

4/9

b-green smoothie with kiwis in it…yummy
snack-big apple
l-big salad
snack-celery and carrot curry flax crackers
run/bike combo for 35 minutes+3 min on trampoline
dinner-Curried Veggie soup made in the vita mix, salad on the side, yum!
desset-biggish chunk of dark chocolate
Beautiful, sunny RAW day.

4/8/08

Breakfast 1-Green Smoothie on yesterday’s post
Snack 1 at work–Pear
Lunch–My signature romaine salad with shredded beets and vinaigrette
Snack 2-carrot curry flax chips
Snack 3–apple
Jogged slowly  around Stanford Dish after work, then home to jump on trampoline for 3 minutes,
dinner–shredded purple cabbage with zucchini, daikon, and carrot ‘noodles’ and ‘peanut’ sauce, 1 slice Lydia’s sunflower bread with 1 [...]

A Green Smoothie kinda’ Day

I so wish that I knew where my camera was! I really want to start posting pics of my beautiful recipes. I made the most gorgeous green smoothie this morning with spinach, a teeny banana, and a few chunks of fresh pineapple. I like to add a pinch of stevia because I am afraid of [...]