There are many alternative sweeteners out there. In this post we will cover the ones we found work best for us. Erythritol! Erythri.....

I grew up with my mom, cooking delicious meals nearly every night. Dinner was a time for our family to be together, talk, and catch up on...

As part of our new lifestyle, one of the first changes we made was to eliminate sugar and half-and-half from our coffee. For years, we...

MCT (medium-chain triglyceride) We had never heard of MCT until last year, little did we know, we had been consuming it for some time as...

Gardening Woes Over the years, we have made several attempts to garden with marginal success. The most common issue was the proliferation...

Recently, Laith and I went to Asheville, NC, for a quick weekend getaway to celebrate our 9th anniversary. We visited the Grove Park Inn,...

In the early 1900s, processed food was introduced into the American diet. By the 1950s, fast-food restaurants and highly processed foods...

I've had a love/hate relationship with the scale, for most of my life I avoided it. I dreaded having to weigh in at the doctor's office...

The first time I heard the words "intermittent fasting" come out of Laith's mouth, I literally looked at him and said, no way! I couldn't...

I'm an exceptional planner. However, when it came to planning our meals, I was hesitant to be too rigid when it came to our food. I liked...

What I'm doing different today is I ditched the "diet" mentality and changed my lifestyle instead.

One of the first questions Mary asked me when we first spoke was if I used sugar in my coffee. Um, yeah, of course, but I knew where she...

Cravings and hangry moments are a thing of the past. We eat slower, enjoy and savor every bite of food.

Food is for nutrition, to feed the body with necessary vitamins and minerals. Gut health is the key to being healthy....

I review my Why's on a regular basis to remind me of the reason I am worth this effort.