Food and Mood

Gluten Free and Happy to Be

Posted on October 6, 2009. Filed under: Food and Mood, Gluten Free, Lifestyle |

You may be reading this because you have gone gluten free due to a health condition, or a current trend in dietary theory led you to discovering the impact that going gluten free can have on your life. Any information you are reading here comes from personal experience, along with research I have done on [...]

Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )

Calm those Sweet Cravings!

Posted on September 7, 2009. Filed under: Food and Mood | Tags: , , |

Fall is the time of year when the sweet taste is in season. You may notice yourself craving more sweets, and also be aware of the foods that are starting to be in season are round, sweet foods (ie apples, onions, squashes)
It is important to keep yourself fed with the sweet taste, so that you [...]

Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )

The Struggle is the Blessing

Posted on July 24, 2009. Filed under: Food and Mood, Lifestyle, Recovery | Tags: , , |

In reaching out, I find there is always a friend. It is in reaching in, that we can scare ourselves away from the light that is always available to us. Where are you reaching? What are you looking for when you go within? If there are parts of you that are unhealed–and if you are [...]

Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )

Gluten Free Bread for Radiance

Posted on May 24, 2009. Filed under: Food and Mood | Tags: , , , , , |

Thanks to Karina Allrich for the inspiration on this one. I added teff flour to her original recipe, rather than millet, and cooked it in a bit less time. Feel free to explore flours and add-ins as you like to this Simply Divine vegan gluten-free bread!
This came out of a need, a deep burning desire–to [...]

Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )

Energetics of Food

Posted on May 17, 2009. Filed under: Food and Mood, Recovery, Weight | Tags: , , , , |

Early on in my recovery from depression, anxiety, compulsive eating and bulimia, I decided to seek out natural healing methods to ease my stress and struggle. I found a book called “The Hip Chick’s Guide to Macrobiotics”, which I was originally drawn to because Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow followed this mode of self-healing. Eventually, I [...]

Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )

Have a Fat Life and Eat It Too!

Posted on May 15, 2009. Filed under: Food and Mood, Recovery | Tags: , , , , , , , , |

I keep hearing–is that fattening? Is that going to make me fat? Is is low-fat? Fat is good, fat is bad. Eat this fat, not that. Get a certain % of fat in your diet. Now, really, does that work? Are you a machine that needs measuring, or are you an energy body that needs [...]

Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )

Eat Your Way to an Uplifted Mood and Radiant Vitality

Posted on May 9, 2009. Filed under: Food and Mood, Recovery, Weight |

Are you stressed out by your weight? Are you trying to lose weight, while gritting your teeth not to eat? How about eating for energy, vitality and radiance? 
When you deprive your body of food, your brain may have to overthink what is wrong and in so doing, create added stress to the body. When you [...]

Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )

Chocolate for Breakfast?

Posted on December 29, 2008. Filed under: Food and Mood | Tags: , , , , , , , |

After years of following a macrobiotic diet and avoiding chocolate, this seems like an act of dietary rebellion. Breaking the diet can be fun, as can be experimenting with new things in life and learning that you won’t get hurt when you change. Have you ever hear the phrase, “diet’s don’t work?” Are you [...]

Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )

    About

    empowering people to create radiant lives from the inside out

    RSS

    Subscribe Via RSS

    • Subscribe with Bloglines
    • Add your feed to Newsburst from CNET News.com
    • Subscribe in Google Reader
    • Add to My Yahoo!
    • Subscribe in NewsGator Online
    • The latest comments to all posts in RSS
    • Subscribe in Rojo

    Meta

  • Categories

  • Foodie Blogroll

  • Meta

  • Categories

  • [IBlogGF_ButtonFALL.jpg]
  • Twitter

    • Willow's journey home. the end is in sight, and the destination is not nearly concrete: plot outline complete. here goes!Follow me on Twitter! www.twitter.com/createradiance2 days ago
    • share what you know and love. get published here: http://www.examiner.comFollow me on Twitter! www.twitter.com/createradiance6 days ago
    • juicy savasana here: http://shantiloveyoga.blogspot.com/Follow me on Twitter! www.twitter.com/createradiance6 days ago
    • whoops. i forgot halloween candy and so am giving away homemade raw choc truffles. hope the parents don't freak out!Follow me on Twitter! www.twitter.com/createradiance1 week ago
    • new website=delicious, ready to launch soon! feel better now!Follow me on Twitter! www.twitter.com/createradiance1 week ago

Liked it here?
Why not try sites on the blogroll...