Sugar Cravings Mean Your Body is Out of Balance

Sugar Cravings Mean Your Body is Out of Balance

Cravings Mean Your Body is out of Balance Let’s continue our story about our friend Sugar.  Sugar wants you to want her in your life as often as possible.  She manipulates her way in and then she makes you crave her after breakfast, maybe at 3 pm, the second you

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Are you addicted to Sugar

Are You Addicted to Sugar?

Are You Addicted to Sugar? How do you know if you are addicted to sugar?  Most Americans are addicted or have been addicted to sugar.  It is just so easy to be because sugar is in about 75% of the packaged items on your grocery shelves.  Sugar is hiding everywhere.

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Improve Your Health Habits

Improve Your Health Habits

Your Healthy Habits Your Health is improved by your habits.  If you choose to do one small step at a time you get closer to the person you want to be.  Making that choice to create one small habit at a time becomes a big change in your life.  You

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Sugar is Hiding in Your Food

Sugar is Hiding in Your Food

Your Friend Sugar Tries to Manipulate You by Hiding We have discussed previously how sugar is processed in your body, the benefits of less sugar, and how sugar impacts your weight.  What many companies don’t want you to know is they use sugar in many different foods to get you

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Sugar Impacts Your Weight

Sugar Impacts Your Weight

How does Sugar cause Weight Gain? Your friend Sugar comes around and wants you to take her with you everywhere.  She wants you addicted to her.  She wants you to want her all the time.  What does she give you? Sugar impacts your weight. First is in How We Process

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Benefits of Eating Less Sugar

Benefits of Eating Less Sugar

Benefits of Less Sugar So we have talked about Your Friend Sugar and her twin High Fructose Corn Syrup and we said hello to Miss Refined Sugar and her bud Mr. Processed Carbohydrates. Now you know some of the things that happen in your body when you choose to have

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Natural Sugar vs Refined Sugar

Why We Care About Natural Sugar vs Refined Sugar

Natural Sugar vs Refined Sugar Why do we care about natural sugars versus refined sugars?  Most of our foods contain sugar.  One of the big problems for the body is processing the sugar without the other components that naturally come in whole foods with the sugar to dampen its effect. 

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Your Feelings Impact Your Health

Your Feelings Impact Your Health

How Do You Feel About Your Health? How you feel about your health is very important in how healthy you actually are.  Your feelings impact your health and influence how you act.  Your actions result in your health. I want you to have good health and one of the ways

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High Fructose Corn Syrup

Sugar’s Evil Twin

Let’s talk about Sugar’s Evil Twin High Fructose Corn Syrup High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) is a sweeter made from corn starch.   She doesn’t fall far from the tree, just like Sugar she gets into your heart and keeps you addicted to her.  HFSC mostly hits you in your beverages. 

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Sugar has a Split Personality

Sugar Has a Split Personality

Sugar is Your Thin Friend Trying to Keep You Cheating your Body out of Health What is Sugar? Sugar or sucrose is made from cane sugar or sugar beets.  The difference is in where the crop is grown.  Typical table sugar in America is sugar beet unless the packaging specifies

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Hi, I'm Michelle!

I help women lose weight without the fear of gaining it back.  I live in El Paso, Texas with my husband Mark, my three children, and dogs, Sky and Kahlua. You often find me on my morning walk or on the back patio listening to the waterfall.

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