The goal of the Happy Healthy Mama Healthy Year Challenge is to work on one specific health goal each month. Together, we are working for form habits that will stay with us and help us be our healthiest selves. I'm so happy that February is the Eat More Plants Challenge! This is something I feel ...
Healthy Year Challenge
Cut the Sugar Challenge Update: Week 4 and February Challenge Announcement
Well, I can say that cutting sugar was a great way to start out the year. I feel like I've got myself on a strong foundation for eating healthy all year long. Let me tell you a little bit about my week and then I'll reveal what February's challenge is going to be. I didn't eat 100% added sugar ...
Cut the Sugar Challenge Update: Week 3
As part of my Happy Healthy Mama Healthy Year Challenge, January is Cut the Sugar month! This is my week 3 update. You can find the week 1 update here and the week 2 update here. Woo hoo! We made it through week 3 of the Cut the Sugar Challenge! How was this week for you? The Highs All I ...
Do You Really Know How Much Sugar You’re Eating? 12 Foods with Added Sugar
If you've decided to cut back on sugar, you need to be aware that there are more foods with added sugar than you might think. Grocery shopping probably takes me longer than most because I never put a new product in my cart without reading the ingredient label. I want to see exactly what I'm going ...
Cut the Sugar Challenge Update: Week 2
Whew. What a week. Here's what I learned about myself this week: I like to eat sugar when I'm stressed. Monday, Meghan was on a two-hour delay for school. The meant my blog-working time was cut from the normal 2 1/2 hours while Luke is at school to about an hour. Then during that hour, ...
How to Sweeten Coffee without Sugar
The year was 2006 and I'd just read multiple books and articles about the detrimental effects sugar has on our body. I decided I was cutting it out of my diet, cold turkey. My biggest fear was the coffee. At that time I drank my coffee with copious amounts of CoffeeMate French Vanilla creamer (I ...
Cut the Sugar Update: Week 1
Hello, friends! I'm here to check in and see how everyone is doing with the cutting the sugar in January! If you missed it, this is part of the Happy Healthy Mama Healthy Year Challenge where we will be focusing on one specific health goal each month. You guessed it, we're cutting the sugar in ...
Introducing the Happy Healthy Mama Healthy Year Challenge!
How many of you made a health-related resolutions for the new year? According to ABC News, the #2 New Year's Resolution for 2016 is "Live a Healthier Lifestyle." Nobody is going to say no if you ask them if they want to be healthier. It's the getting there part that's hard. The problem is, ...
