Author: Debbie

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How to vegetize your favorite meals

Here’s a post I created a couple of years ago, which I decided to share again.

With so many of you changing your meat-eating habits, I thought this post would be helpful.

Happy cooking!

Being the only vegetarian member of a meat-loving family has its challenges.

But despite that, there are just so many advantages of a vegetarian diet – including making me feel lean and clean – that I’m still going strong after 7 years.

Yay!

Now maybe you, on your road to being more aware of your health, have decided to go more plant-based but aren’t sure where to begin.

I want to share with you some easy ideas that can turn traditional meals into veggie dishes with just a few key ingredients that I always keep on hand.

The top 6 ingredients I recommend are:

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Making lunch plain and simple

What are you eating for lunch these days?

If you work outside your home full time, brown bagging your lunch can be super beneficial in many more ways than one.

The key to a successful brown-bagged lunch is to keep it plain and simple.

Because you don’t want to spend a tonne time and effort planning and preparing it.

And so I’m a big cheerleader for eating the same lunch every day.

Yup.

The same lunch, every day.

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The skinny on eating fat

As a kid or young adult growing up in the late seventies and eighties, you witnessed the birth of “low-fat/no-fat” foods.

It was the beginning of the fight against fatness.

It’s when we decided that fat was making us fat.

And, on the surface, that theory sounds pretty plausible.

But hundreds of studies later, it’s very clear that fat isn’t responsible for making us fat.

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Why you need more silly in your life

Last weekend I taught a kids’ Yoga class…

To a group of adults.

This is about the fifth year that I give this one-off class at my Yoga teacher’s studio (I introduced you to my teacher Helene in my video post “What’s a Yoga Therapist?“)

Each year, as her Yoga teacher training is coming to a close, she invites me to demonstrate kids’ Yoga to her newest batch of Yoga teachers.

Because kids’ Yoga isn’t adult Yoga.

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How’s your sleep?

I heard a statistic this week that blew me away.

If we assume the average person lives to be 78 years old, 26 of those years are spent sleeping.

I never thought of it that way before.

26 years is an amazing amount of time to spend on one activity!

So it stands to reason that sleep is a pretty important part of your life.

Maybe even THE most important.

And no matter how old you are, you need good sleep.

But as you get older, even though you still need the same amount of sleep in general as when you were younger, chances are you’re not getting it.

And there are many possible reasons why.

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