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These breakfast cookies are low glycemic and good for you — so you can have them for breakfast or for a snack.  Just be careful not to eat too many!  Ingredients: 1 cup Special K Cereal 1/3 cup uncooked oatmeal 2 tbsp. All Bran Cereal Natural sweetener to equal 2 Tbsp. sugar (I used three…

Maybe our eyes really ARE bigger than our stomachs.  An old trick we’ve heard of forever is using a smaller plate.  It turns out that some studies show that the size of our serving dish really does affect how much we eat. Brian Wansink, Phd, who is a food psychologist at Cornell University, told of…

In our last post, we talked about eating with a fork to help you slow down and eat mindfully. Here is a video to help you remember by making you smile.

“They forgot to give me my burger,” I said, peering into the bag from the fast food chain. “You just ate it,” Paul said. “I did?”  Maybe I did.  Here was an empty wrapper and Paul is not one to lie.  But I didn’t remember eating it.  My mind was on the tasks ahead of…

The sun beamed down from a clear, blue sky, sending diamond shimmers across the lake. The deep, silent woods was a perfect place to spend time in Bible study and prayer .Except for the bugs! I shook off the latest contingent of ants crawling up my left leg and slapped at an overgrown mosquito on…

“Grandma — There’s a black bear in your closet!” three-year-old Sylvia shrieked.  “Come and see.” I sighed. I was really getting tired of that bear. “There are no bears in my closet,” I said firmly. “But Grandma, I can see him, too,” said her cousin Justin, who was also three on that long-ago day. “If…

You know what you want — to be at a healthy, attractive weight.  But how can you possibly get there?  It seems too hard, if not down-right impossible.  I’ve been reading in the book of Joshua for my devotions lately, and I can see some real parallels there between the experiences of the Israelites and…

Good morning!  Are you ready to get down to brass tacks about how to start giving your autopilot the right message?  Ready to start losing the pounds and feeling stronger and more energetic? That’s where we are headed.  We’re talking today about the glycemic index. So how do you start a low glycemic eating plan? …

Okay folks, we’ve already been on every diet known to man — or woman. We have done without fat, red meat, sugar, and carbs at various times. We have eaten grapefruit until it was coming out our ears. We have crunched, kicked, danced, and jogged. But now it’s different. Why? Because, let’s face it, we…
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