Archive | March, 2012

Three Key Ingredients to Proper Self-Care

by Janelle Holden “Doug, can you give me some help over here?” I gave my husband the-look. You know, the look? The one that says, “You’re in trouble, and if you don’t help me immediately you will regret it.” “Huh?” he said. He was sitting at the kitchen counter, pleasantly chatting with his dad, oblivious [...]

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Secrets of the naturally-thin

by Janelle Holden I remember the first time I saw someone eat half a cookie. The woman calmly broke the piece off, nibbled on it for a while, and left the other half in the common area of our staff kitchen for someone else to enjoy later. I had two reactions. First, I took it [...]

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5 Simple Gluten-Free Dinner Menu Ideas

As a gluten-free life coach, two of the most common excuses I hear from my clients are: “I don’t have time to eat gluten-free” or “I don’t want to spend that much time in the kitchen.” When I don’t agree with them, they are often surprised. It’s not that I don’t think eating gluten-free and [...]

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Irish potato soup for the gluten-free soul

I lost 50 pounds while eating potato chips. And so did my husband. I’m going to let that sink in for a moment. I don’t normally tell people this fact, because for some reason, people think that eating potatoes makes you get fat and want to spend hours on the couch watching Friends re-runs. They [...]

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Is your gut in-shape?

Do you believe that food IS medicine? Tracy Konoske does, and she has some remarkable reasons to believe that food has the power to prevent, treat and reverse chronic diseases. Tracy is a nutritionist trained in natural, integrative and functional medicine based out of Laurel, Montana (right down the road from me). She is also [...]

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