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Eating my way to a healthy life, one bite at a time.

Vegetable-Alphabet-Soup2I won’t make this long, but just in case you clicked on the button to find out more about me or this blog, I will share a little bit with you.  I created this web-site to log the recipes that I am trying out on my health journey.  While my mother was here visiting, she was eating many of these dishes and really enjoyed them and she kept asking me to write them down for her.  To make life easier for the two of us, I created this site to log the recipes so we could both refer back to them.

 

I don’t believe that there is a one-size-fits-all diet.  We are all unique and individual with highly individualized nutritional requirements.  I also don’t believe in labels because I feel that they lock a person into a dietary journey that could possibly cause more harm than help.  In the past I would quickly announce to those around me that I was vegetarian, vegan and at one point 100% raw.  This caused me more harm and stress in the long run.  Throughout time, if I noticed that I wasn’t thriving with my current eating pattern, I felt locked into them.  I felt that if I didn’t stick it out, others would judge my “weakness” but I also felt that I somehow failed yet another diet in my quest of health.  Call me crazy, but that is where my head space was at the time.  Thank goodness for forgiveness and self-growth.

 

Over the years I have come to understand that certain foods cause me inflammation, bloating, digestive issues and just plain crappy feeling. Certain foods enhance my ability to concentrate at the work I do and other foods leave me feeling lethargic and drained.   It has been a very empowering experience to realize that I can trust my own intuition to find what diet works for me.  Better yet, I prefer to think of it as… what foods work for me.  Calling it a diet sounds temporary and puts me on constant alert that I could slip and fail.   This causes unwarranted stress on myself and I no longer want to be in that space.   The more I stress about what I eat the more I slow down my healing process.

 

As far as food goes, my goal is to eat S.L.O.W foods, meaning…  Seasonal, Local, Organic, Whole foods.   I do my best to buy whole, natural and unprocessed (or minimally processed) foods as the foundation of my diet.  Organic vegetables, fruits (berries, avocado, lemons), raw nuts, seeds, grass-fed meats and dairy, wild (not farmed) seafood, and healthy fats are my top choices.  Over the years I have become an avid label reader… which has taught me how to determine how to make healthier choices in the foods I eat.  One of my golden rules is,  if I can’t pronounce it… I don’t or won’t eat it.

So, for now, that’s about it in a tiny nutshell.  Signing off to go enjoy myself in the kitchen… it’s my playground.

Nutritional Disclaimer

Please note that I am not a medical or nutritional professional.  I am simply sharing my own experiences on this blog.  Please do not take anything I say here as medical advice.   You should always consult with your doctor before changing or starting any new diet program.  I provide the nutritional information for my recipes for myself, since I refer to my site as my “cookbook” and refer to it more than you do. :)  I plug most of my recipes into Sparke’s People Recipe Calculator and you should know that I remove Swerve from the final carb count since it doesn’t affect my own blood glucose levels.  This data is based on the brands of ingredients that I use so I recommend that you should independently calculate the nutritional data on your own before relying on mine.

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