Consider a Slow Food Weight Loss Eat-In
Mark your calendar.
This coming Sept. 7 (Labor Day) Slow Food USA is holding a National Day of Action to support its Time For Lunch campaign created to help get real food back into schools.
Slow Food San Francisco, for one, is holding an Eat In in support of the Time For Lunch campaign.
Now, you may not live in [...]
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Weight Loss Lesson From Michelangelo
You are a work of art.
And as you work on chiseling away that little extra bit of “you,” take a hint from that great Florentine artist, Michelangelo, who said, when asked how he produced one of his incredible statues, “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
The body you want [...]
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Divine, Heavenly Meals for Weight Loss
Have you been exploring the concept of “Divine, Heavenly Meals?”
I hope so. Eating rabbit food isn’t a good way to lose weight in the long run. It might work for a while, but how long can you stand it? And what happens when your metabolism slows down because your body thinks it’s starving?
Then you’ll really [...]
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Follow Italian Meals With Fruit
Traditionally fruit follows a meal in Italy, not some cumbersome calorie-laden dessert.
Of course, Italian meals are so satisfying, you don’t have to have anything after them, but fruit is the dessert of choice.
When I was on the Isle of Elba, a basket of fresh fruits was often brought to our table following a meal. We [...]
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Have You Expressed Your Love Today?
A friend of mine told me that a good friend of hers had died over the weekend of anal cancer — the same thing that took Farrah Fawcett.
My friend was pretty broken up and really felt the loss.
It was a reminder: Have you expressed your love today?
Sometimes we get so caught up in just surviving [...]
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Weight Loss Dreams of Italy
I attended a very fun “People to People” gather last night and got the chance to talk about Weight Loss, Italian Style! and my experience of losing weight on an unlikely diet of pizza and pasta in Italy.
As you might be aware, People to People is a group of internationally-minded folks who have traveled and [...]
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Light Weight Basil and Tomato Topping
My basil plant is growing rampantly with the abundance of summer sunshine we have in California’s San Joaquin Valley.
Plus, my parents and my boyfriend both grow a lot of juicy, red tomatoes.
It’s easy to whip up a tasty treat with just these and a couple other ingredients.
Try my easy, favorite ,delicious topping for both sliced, crusty [...]
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Add Twitter to Your Weight Loss Toolbox
In by inch I’m joining the 21st century!
I’m just gearing up on Twitter and hope you will create your own account and start following me (https://twitter.com/jillhendrickson ).
I’ve been dragged screaming into the Technological Age, but I think that Twitter can provide a quick, fun way of creating a supportive, like-minded community online.
If you enjoy the good [...]
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Tasty Foods Cookbook Helps Beat the Summer Heat
It was 112 degrees in Central California yesterday — and not a lot cooler today.
The upside was that it gave me an excuse to make one of my favorite standbys — Granita di Caffe. It’s a cool Italian treat you can make from leftover coffee.
The recipe is in Weight Loss, Italian Style! Recipes to Drool Over, [...]
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Lose Weight Following Simple Rules
Just a mid-summer reminder of the principles of losing weight Italian style.
Why am I reminding people? Because I’d love to get more testimonials from people who have found their weight loss freedom by eating and moving like a healthy Italian rather than dieting like an unsuccessful American.
Here, in short form, are the principles:
1. Rid your [...]
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