Your Complete Guide to a Healthy Holiday in 10 Easy Recipes!
Christmas & Chanukah are upon us, people! It’s time to break out the stretchy pants and indulge in the tastes this season always has to offer. Not so fast, slick! You might be able to leave those spandexy, fly-less pants on the shelf this year and wear those skinny jeans after all, because I’m about […]
Work less, play more: What my daughter is teaching me about bringing the fun back into my adult life
Deck the halls with boughs of holly, fa la la la la, la la la….la! Tis’ the season for holiday parties, Christmas movies (Santa! I know him!!) and clearly, music too! As I’ll take any excuse to bring people together, this year, I hosted my very first holiday potluck! I made it potluck styles to […]
A 3 Day Nutrition Plan to Get You Back on Track After Thanksgiving!
Tis’ the season to eat your face off! Just kidding. Actually, no, I’m not kidding. Doesn’t everyone have an image of themselves laying on the couch post Thanksgiving dinner, pants open (if you’re silly enough to wear pants with a fly – amateur), tummy popping out of your waistline, uncomfortable, so full that you’re mad […]
What Meryl Streep has to say about success (and how it can motivate you the next time you need a lift)
The other night, Ted and I were watching the CNN documentary We Will Rise. It’s about Michelle Obama’s mission to educate girls around the world. In their own words, “In this film, the First Lady, Meryl Streep, Freida Pinto and CNN’s Isha Sesay take a journey to Morocco and Liberia, where they meet young women […]
8 reasons why I’m proud of my postpartum body
I had a giant sized poster of Keanu Reeves on my wall when I was younger (it was after I saw the movie Speed: I wanted Keanu to be my boyfriend, and I wanted to actually be Sandra Bullock). Before Keanu, it was Jonathan Taylor Thomas. And before him (and likely during that time too […]
10 Healthy Snack Ideas for Busy People (plus 2 quick & healthy dinner ideas too!)
In the haze of the political climate right now, my head is spinning too much to be able to control my emotions enough not to write about what’s going on. But I’m not going to do that. Because as a good Canadian girl who may or may not have just gotten her American citizenship, well, […]