Life Is Good

A while back Marsha Hudnall, the director of Green Mountain At Fox Run (GMFR), Ludlow, Vermont, invited me to spend a week, experience all that GMFR has to offer, and write about it here on this blog. GMFR is a holistic healthy living retreat for women that focuses on repairing your relationship with food and your body. And best of all, I am going to give away a free week’s stay at GMFR to one of my readers. Stay tuned for that. I head to Vermont tomorrow, so next time you hear from me, I’ll be there! In the meantime, GMFR maintains an excellent blog and you can find it on Facebook and Twitter.

I’m also thrilled and honored to announce that I will once again be speaking at Fitbloggin along with Shauna Reid (The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl), Mara Glatzel (Medicinal Marzipan), and Intuitive Eating & Body Image Coach Christie Inge. This year we will be addressing the role of self-acceptance AND weight loss (NOT “self acceptance versus weight loss”). It’s most definitely a both/and thing, not an either/or thing!

I am starting to fill my 2012 calendar with various events so check out my Events & Press page.

A quick update on wheat-loss: so far, so good. I haven’t found this to be all that hard (as I said, announcing that I was going to do it was harder). I may have gotten some wheat/gluten via my oatmeal, which isn’t labeled “gluten-free” but which does not have wheat or gluten listed in the ingredients. Based on what I’ve read however, because many brands of oatmeal are processed in factories that also process wheat products, oats can be “contaminated.” I have since purchased some gluten-free oatmeal. But here’s an interesting bit: last night we ordered take-out Indian food and I decided ahead of time that I wanted some naan. I was consciously making the choice to eat it. But once we got it home, I had no desire for it. Hmmmm…