Losing weight is difficult The underlying message from diet programs is that losing weight is difficult. You’ve got to count calories or points! Deprive yourself. Or pay for ready-made meals that may be calorie-conscious but lacking in freshness and Prana or vital nutrition! The truth is if you choose the “quick [...]
Dieting doesn’t lead to sustainable health Relying on diets and diet programs for long term health and well-being creates 2 problems worth looking at. First, it creates an unhealthy relationship with food. We find ourselves constantly categorizing foods as “good” or “bad”. In my new ebook, 3 Dieting Mistakes Sabotaging Your [...]
Cynthia couldn’t believe what the consultant at the wellness center was telling her! A few weeks before, Cynthia had woken up in the hospital remembering only that she had been standing in the supermarket with her 6 year old granddaughter for what seemed like just moments before. To her relief, she [...]
Yes, food choices matter. However, our obsession with certain types of foods that we call “super” or “clean” completely disregards the fact that some foods just don’t agree with us. So while we focus in on “super” or “clean” foods, we suffer through gas, bloating, indigestion or sluggish digestion. […]
…for Optimum Digestion and Effortless Weight Loss According to Ayurveda, the root cause of weight gain is a build-up of waste due to faulty digestion. Therefore, Ayurvedic diet and lifestyle practices focuses on: 1) improving digestion, 2) boosting absorption and 3) eliminating waste for effortless weight loss. […]
Physiological hunger vs habituated hunger In an excellent article on the Biology of Hunger, John Immel, founder of Joyful Belly, talks about the 4 internal mechanisms that control hunger. First mechanism: the physical sensation of either emptiness and fullness. When your stomach is empty, ghrelin, the hunger hormone, is produced to [...]
How do you know when you’re really hungry? On the journey to weight loss, one of the greatest challenge is to differentiate between body hunger and mental hunger. Often times barely 2 hours after you eat you feel hungry again. Yet this feeling is NOT body hunger. What happens in the [...]
Buckwheat, an excellent grain for weight loss Buckwheat pancakes are lighter than the traditional pancakes. Ayurvedic Medicine considers buckwheat light, and uses it when people have Kapha-type imbalances, like weight gain. In France, the crêpe, a lighter and thinner version of a pancake, is traditionally made with buckwheat for both savory [...]
Women, Don’t Go on Diets but Focus on Making Healthier Food Choices Instead! What’s a Diet? Diets are any “disordered eating behaviors”. According to a survey by Self Magazine in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 65% of American women between the ages of 25 and 45 [...]
