My Top 10 Healthy Weight Loss Tips
Happy New Year! Do you have a New Year’s Resolution to lose weight? Seems like most people do! Here are my Top 10 Healthy Weight Loss Tips for starting a healthy and gradual weight loss program for 2013. 1. Drink lots of water! This may seem counter intuitive for weight loss but it’s actually quite […]
Read MoreGluten Free, Dairy Free Holiday Cookies?
Hey everyone, I wrote an article about some simple tips to make your favorite holiday cookie recipes healthier and specifically gluten and dairy free. And it’s been published (yay!) on MindBodyGreen.com. Check it out by clicking here. Leave a comment on their website and I’ll reply, I promise! To your health, Laren Watson Holistic Health […]
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Healthy Weeknight Dinner: Taco Tuesday
One of the easiest, most family friendly meals to make on a busy weeknight is a Taco Bar. This appeals to everyone because since everyone builds their own, it is full of choices for the kids and therefore no more arguments along the lines of “Yuck!” and “Just one more bite!” If I have plenty […]
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Make your own healthy pumpkin puree
I had never made my own pumpkin puree for our Thanksgiving pies until I joined my CSA and they gave me two little sugar pumpkins a.k.a. pie pumpkins. Even my mother thought I was a little crazy for making my own pumpkin puree back then. “You know the canned pumpkin is really good, honey”. But […]
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5 Time Saving Tips For Family Dinner
I have two sweet kids, 11 and 13, a hard working husband with his own business, a darling dog, 10 chickens on nearly two acres with a small orchard. As if that’s not enough to keep us busy, I’m a solo-preneur building my health coaching business. Most of the time, the house looks like a […]
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Coconut, Lime & Mango White Fish
Our bodies are all different and want different foods to thrive which is why I think there are so many dietary theories that work so well for different people–because they all work for some people. There’s one though, that isn’t really a diet as much as a lifestyle, and I’m pretty convinced it’s the way […]
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Clutter and the Lightness of Being
I admittedly know next to nothing about feng shui. I know that it has something to do with rearranging your furniture to release blocked energy flows in your house (I think). What I didn’t know until the other day is that apparently it also has to do with the elimination of clutter. Now this is […]
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Did you know stress can make you fat?
Did you know that stress can make you fat? Yes, it’s true! Particularly around the middle, that dreaded “belly fat”. Most everyone knows that stress is bad for us. Maybe you even know that it is linked to high blood pressure, and heart disease. But stress can also make you fat. It has to do […]
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What Does a Health Coach Eat?
I had a friend ask me recently what I eat, as a guide for her to know what a healthy diet is. My answer is that I eat everything! I follow the “90% food that is good for me and 10% what I feel like eating” rule. However, I do have some guidelines that I […]
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Cereal: good or bad for you?
Americans love cereal! There are about a billion different kinds of breakfast cereal (okay hundreds?) on the shelves at the supermarket. Most are loaded with sugar. Even the ones that seem healthy may still be loaded with sugar so be sure to read the Nutrition Facts label. Look for the sugar grams per serving. Did […]
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