Health & Wellness

Hump Day Lesson of the Day: Learn to Check the Labels on Your Makeup for Parabens and Other Toxins

[source] Happy Wednesday ladies, and congrats on making it half way through the day. Now time for our weekly Hump Day Lesson of the day! This week we’re going to talk makeup. I know, I know, makeup on a healthy living website? Get outta’ here! You know nothing about fashion! Well that may be true,

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Friday Favorites: On Outdoor Patios, Homemade Guacamole, Pumping Iron and More

[source] Good morning lovely ladies; hope you are all having a glorious Friday. I’m about to take off to New Hampshire for Memorial Day Weekend with my family and The Boy. We’ve got lots of fun events planned for the weekend, including  Chowder Fest, hiking, and lots of margaritas. I’m sure all of you have

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Good Food Made Simple Brunch: Thoughts on Reading Labels and Knowing What is In Your Food

As I mentioned in Friday’s post, I attended a blogger brunch at Stir (Barbara Lynch’s beautiful test kitchen and food library) sponsored by Good Food Made Simple on Friday morning. The company was launching part of their new healthy, flash-frozen product line and we were lucky to be among the first people to try it and

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National Mediterranean Diet Month: The Scoop on The Mediterranean Diet Featuring Oldways

Usually, I don’t agree with diets. I simply hate the word. D-I-E-T. Blah. It sounds scary. There’s the Cabbage Soup Diet, the Celebrity Diet, the South Beach Diet, and the Grapefruit Diet, and all of them are failures in my book. But when a diet has to do with a lifestyle and way of eating

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Tuesday Talk on Embracing Change: How to Change Up Your Workouts and Eating Habits

[source] In life, it’s very easy to get stuck in a routine. We find comfort in going to our favorite restaurant week after week, always ordering chocolate ice cream, wearing that sweater you’ve had forever one too many times because you love it too darn much. It’s not necessarily a bad thing but it is

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Blast From the Past Series: Post 4 on the Hidden Benefits of Running

If you’ve  been keeping up with my blog, you know that I’m off to Florida with The Boy, then road-tripping back up the East Coast to drive his grandparent’s car back to NY. I’ll be gone a week straight (and felt like disconnecting from technology for a while) but also didn’t want to leave you

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Blast From the Past Series: Post 2 on Reaching Your Happy Weight

If you’ve  been keeping up with my blog, you know that I’m off to Florida with the boy, then road-tripping back up the East Coast to drive his grandparent’s car back to NY. I’ll be gone a week straight (and felt like disconnecting from technology for a while) but also didn’t want to leave you

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