Sticking to Your Goals This Holiday Season
With the holiday season just around the corner, many people find themselves in a time of mixed emotion. While the…
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Batch Cooking for Busy Seasons
It’s almost December, one of the busiest months of the year. With Christmas parties, shopping, family visits and so on…
How to do a Meatless Thanksgiving
What a playful coincidence that Thanksgiving falls on a Monday! I felt it was a great opportunity to discuss this…
FREE January Resolution Revolution Calendar
Free Downloadable Change Tracker January is finally here, and so is our My Viva Plan revolution! This new year, trade…
Food Shaming, Diet-ism and Dietitians
Diet-ism: the assignment of morality to a specific way of eating and an intolerance of “different” diets. I will be…
Eating Bad Food Doesn’t Make You A Bad Person
The following is a response to the article Good Food, Bad Food, and Subversive Food Combining, a thought-provoking piece discussing the…
Edmonton’s Winter Wonders
When I was in my second year of university, I was living with my older sister in a small house…
2 Easy Tips to Handle Halloween Candy Differently This Year
It’s a typical, fun-filled Halloween night and your kids have just returned from trick-or-treating with full pillowcases. After sorting through…
Planning a Mindful Thanksgiving
Why I don’t feel thankful at Thanksgiving? Thanksgiving conjures up images of model-like families sitting around picturesque tables with an…
Autumn Tapas Menu
Instead of coming up with a traditional Thanksgiving menu for our followers this fall, we decided to shake things up…