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Featured Weekly Tips

MENTAL WELLNESS: “Soul Food” by Golda

Ridding Yourself of Your Old Diet Rules

Never eat after 7PM! Drink 8 glasses of water a day! Don’t eat carbs! Don’t eat fat! Don’t eat! Do any of these admonishments sound familiar? Even if you’ve stopped dieting and started listening to your body, those old diet rules can creep into your consciousness and cause lots of fear and guilt about food. Breaking away from dieting rules is an important part of being able to really hear what our bodies are telling us when it comes to food. This week, write down all of your old dieting rules (the more conflicting the better!), and then intentionally let go of the rules that no longer serve you. Learn specific ways to rid yourself of old diet rules with this week’s Soul Food post.

NUTRITION: “Feed Your Life” by Sara

Buy ‘Em, Try ‘Em, Fillet and Fry ‘Em - Get Your Omega 3s While They’re Hot!

This week, think about foods that have Omega 3 fatty acids in them so that, when you are deciding what to eat when listening to your body’s intuitive needs, you can consider these foods.Then, try to incorporate 1 or 2 different sources of Omega 3s into your diet. It’s best to get one small serving of Omega 3s daily, but this is about learning to enjoy foods that have this important nutritional source in them so starting small is just fine. If you get one serving in this week, try two next week. Check out a few examples of foods with Omega 3s and learn why these fatty acids are good for your body and the benefits they can have in Feed Your Life.

FITNESS: “Fitness For All” by Sue

Listen To Your Internal Wisdom

Jon Robison, author of 10 Things You Can Do Right Now to Ease Concerns about Your Weight and Improve Your Health, offers the following advice on learning to be an intuitive eater: “Learn to eat according to your internal signals; appetite, hunger and satiety. By paying attention to these signals, you can avoid having to pay someone else to tell you what and how much to eat.” To read Sue’s post about raising our kids to be intuitive eaters, check out Fitness For All.

Word of the Week: Calm, by Jay

Read about Jay’s recent experience with Reiki and how it contributed to his sense of calm.

Quote of the Week:

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
- Langston Hughes