The Healthy Apron

*Sidenote: Check out my Roasted Red Pepper Hummus recipe!

This week is all about finding your self worth and loving your body, mind, and soul. You will discover there is so much more to life when you stop obsessing over your self-proclaimed “imperfections,” the numbers on the scale, or the amount of time you do or do not spend at [...]

Operation Beautiful On YouTube

*Sidenote: Had trouble getting the Youtube video embedded directly in to this post. Please click on the link and watch this video before reading!

Operation Beautiful

How many times a day do you say: I hate my thighs, my love handles are disgusting, I wish my nose was smaller, why couldn’t [...]

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It’s just a fact: when it comes to emotions, we will have them the rest of our lives. Happy, sad, angry, frustrated, jealousy, depression, excitement, etc; we deal with emotions everyday, it’s quite the emotional roller coaster and food usually plays a role. Will we ever catch a break? No wonder weight-loss can be so [...]

Are you familiar with the all or nothing mentality? Do you have feelings of guilt and shame if you don’t diet or exercise perfectly? If you order dessert, do you eat the whole thing because you feel that you have already blown your diet? Or, if you can only fit in 10 minutes of exercise, do you feel like you [...]

If you are just tuning in and missed my post yesterday about natural eating, take a few moments to catch yourself up!!  

I started the Your BEST Self one month makeover speaking about natural eating because:

before you lose weight, you have to start listening to your body.
this is not a diet…it’s a new way of life!
we must all relearn [...]

Does this sound familiar?

You are out to dinner at your favorite restaurant and everyone is ordering the most decadent dishes… but YOU are on a diet! As you scroll the menu searching for the “Weight Watchers approved” entrees, your eyes begin to wander to the description for the luscious, creamy mac n’ cheese!  Talk about torture! Your friends add fuel to [...]

 Slimming Strategies to Successful Weight-loss! 

For the past several months, I have been working on my own strategies for how to help YOU find your happy weight. I’m not talking diet foods and calorie counting; I’m speaking of addressing issues that will lead to lifetime changes! With my month long slimming strategies, you will be on your [...]