Healthy Eating Royalty: Purple Cabbage

Healthy Eating Royalty: Purple Cabbage

Purple Cabbage: A Quiet and Underrated Leader

In the plant-based world, leafy greens get a lot of attention for their health benefits. Most certainly, I have heard that message over the past few years. I eat leafy greens daily.

Mentally, I aways include purple cabbage as part of the leafy green family, even though neither “leafy” or “green” applies to purple cabbage. But, cabbage is used in similar ways as leafy greens, and purple cabbage embodies quiet strength in this world from a health perspective.

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Self-Talk and Strategies for Work-Life Balance
Rebalance with Ready-to-Eat Foods after a Long Weekend

Rebalance with Ready-to-Eat Foods after a Long Weekend

Rebalance with Ready-to-Eat Greens and Fruits

Despite my best intentions, my meals got sloppy over the long weekend. My balance of the foods got off, and I had too much fruit and too many higher calorie density foods, such as nuts.

This is a normal part of getting off balance for me. Today, I am readjusting. When I went to the store, I prioritized fresh greens and fresh fruits that are ready to eat, so I can find a sense of balance again.

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Real-time Failure: Taking Action to Move Back into Success

Real-time Failure: Taking Action to Move Back into Success

Speaking about my hunger drive is a new world to me, and so is blogging. I am learning about both as I do these simultaneously. 

I have learned that I should never title my blog posts in multiple parts.

Last week, I thought there would be nothing that I would like more than to write Part 2 about discovering my trigger foods. This week, the moment is all wrong. 

Writing about my trigger foods from a place of understanding and confidence is not currently where my mind lives right now.

What I need to do today, at this moment, is refocus myself. To that end, I center one of my favorite truths.

There are no magic answers, but the answers feel like magic.

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