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Description From internationally renowned intuitive counselor, life coach, motivational speaker, and author Colette Baron-Reid, a four-step, eight-week program for managing empathy overload--the hidden cause of unwanted weight gain Through her own personal experience and work with thousands of clients, Colette Baron-Reid understands the real reason many of us struggle to lose weight and keep it off. It isn't that we don't know what to eat or that we don't have enough willpower; it's that we are responding to feeling too much. Weight Loss for People Who Feel Too Much focuses on the keys to weight loss for sensitive people: managing empathy, setting and maintaining healthy boundaries, eating to support well-being, and dealing with challenging situations that can trigger disordered eating. With a simple, practical program, Colette shows you how to release the extra pounds and create a new, healthy relationship with your body, your weight, and food. Review One thing

Book Description   Today’s baker faces a great challenge: With little time and a limited repertoire, she often needs to whip up a delicious dessert that’s dressed to impress. Rachel Schifter Thebault, founder and head confectioner of Tribeca Treats in New York City, knows all about making a sweet statement. Combining a confectioner’s expertise with fashion sense, she shares a scrumptious cache of popular dessert recipes that can be accessorized to fit any occasion. What’s more, transforming a basic dessert into a masterpiece brimming with personality and flair can be easy, quick, and fun. In the same way you’d plan an outfit, Sweet Chic pieces together a Devil’s Food Cake—the little black dress of delights—with such irresistible accessories as Caramel Buttercream (think knee-high boots) for ultimate decadence, turns Vanilla Cookies (the crisp oxford shirt) into Strawberry “Shortcakes” ideal for casual or dressy occasions, and blends brownies (the cashmere sweater of confection

Book Description   Join the edible (R)evolution! You don’t have to give up junk food to eat healthy—just make smarter choices. Discover yummy alternatives to your favorite treats. Unjunk Your Junk Food is a quick and easy guide to: • Healthy choices for the snacks you crave • Savvy alternatives to conventional brands • Tips for reading food labels and recognizing false claims • Nutritious ingredients to look for and dangerous additives to avoid • A tear-out Worst Ingredients chart, and more Now you can have your cake and eat it too! Book Review   This book was definitely an eye opener for me.  There are so many items that I buy in order to eat healthier alternatives, but these foods have additives in them that actually make them worse then some of the foods that I was trying to avoid. I first found out about this book through Naturally Savvy , the creators of the book.  They have tons of great information on their website.  And when they pointed towards this book, I just

One of the things that I have recently learned about is an upcoming awareness campaign called Live Below The Line .  This campaign is trying to help raise awareness about the extreme poverty that many people world wide live in.  Did you know that over 1.4 BILLION (yes you read that right! that says billion) people only get about $1.50 worth of food and drink per DAY!  Most Americans eat more then that in snack food alone per day.  So the challenge is to attempt to live for 5 days with only eating or drinking $1.50 worth of food and drink per day.  They are also asking to help raise money for the charities that they are partnered with.  For the US, those charities are Shot@Life , Unicef , Care , The Global Poverty Project , Global Syndicate , Malaria No More , and Rainforest Foundation US . As a review blogger, I get forwarded marketing campaigns through BzzAgent a lot.  It is usually for various products.  However, this one I felt was a very good social concerns cause that everyo

Book Description   In TASTE WHAT YOU’RE MISSING, Barb Stuckey, a professional food developer, explains how everyone can get more enjoyment from the foods they’re already eating. In easily accessible terms and with real-life examples, Stuckey explains the science behind what’s happening in your mouth, nose, and mind when you eat. By understanding the anatomy of taste, you’ll better appreciate food, whether when you’re cooking, or just eating. Book Review   This was a very interesting book.  It showed me how little I truly knew about food and taste.  Barb Stuckey is a professional food developer.  This job requires her to have full use of all her senses, especially taste and smell. In this book, she talks about how all the various senses relate to food and eating.  As well as providing various exercises and tests so you can see how each thing interrelates and how you can develop your taste sensation to the fullest. Believe me!  Eating after reading this book is a whole ne

Product Description   ABOUT THIS BLEND An aromatic sweet cinnamon tea with hints of orange. Our full flavored signature blend offers up a rich, spicy fragrance followed by a sweet, warming, clean taste without added sugar. INGREDIENTS Black tea, artificial flavor, rosehips, chamomile, cinnamon, lemongrass, peppermint, jasmine tea, papaya leaves, anise seed, ginger root, orange peel and orange oil. Product Review   We drink herbal teas A LOT in our household.  I think a lot of that is due to having a British heritage.  My family has always had the propensity to drink tea over coffee. This tea has become the new favorite in our house.  The flavors don’t overpower each other.  In fact, they all blend in so wonderfully together.  One thing that I loved about it was that while the tea is still in the mouth, you get the sweet & spicy tastes together.  Then just as it is going down your throat, you get a little zing from the cinnamon.  It was so heavenly delicious. 

Product Review   I received several snack sized bags from the Frito Lay company to try out of their new Sun Chips 6 Grain Medley Parmesan & Herb flavored chips. According to the bag, the chips contain corn, wheat, oats, brown rice, buckwheat & quinoa.  The flavor that I got to try was Parmesan & Herb. The chips were wonderfully crunchy.  They definitely satisfied my hunger.  I especially loved the flavor.  It wasn’t too overpowering as I find many of the flavored chips are.  These had just the right amount of seasoning on each chip. What a nice way to enjoy a healthy snack. These are perfect to pack in lunches or even pop a snack sized bag into your purse.  They are the perfect pick me up whenever you need it. Sun Chips on Facebook Sun Chips on Twitter Sun Chips In conjunction with the Wakela’s World Disclosure Statement , I received a product in order to enable my review. No other compensation has been received. My statements are an honest account of

Book Description   With little more than two backpacks, a camera, and a tarp, Mandarin-speaking American brother and sister Nate and Mary Kate Tate traveled more than 9,700 miles throughout China to share the country's inspiring culture and cuisine with kitchens in the West. What began as a travelblog ( feedingthedragon.com ) documenting the duo's journey has evolved into a visual narrative of food, culture, and travel inside Feeding the Dragon . Arranged by the authors' travel itinerary to highlight the uniqueness of nine specific regions in China, Feeding the Dragon is part cookbook and part cultural travelogue, overflowing with sumptuous but easily prepared authentic dishes. From Buddhist vegetarian dishes enjoyed on the snowcapped mountains of Tibet to lamb kebabs served on the scorching desert of Xinjiang Province, one hundred recipes are presented alongside first-person narratives and travel photographs. Western cooks will find healthy recipes brimming with

Product Description (from the NuvoGene website) NuvoGene Tea® is a patented, safe and efficacious product for weight management, fat-burning, hunger-control, and high energy levels.                     NuvoGene Tea® is the only non-drug product that addresses genetic risk-factors for obesity in humans. Dedicated to improving health and wellness worldwide, Boresha's® NuvoGene Tea® is a delicious Peach Mango Green Tea designed to address the difficulties associated with excess body fat, diets, and hunger-management. Additionally, NuvoGene Tea® provides maximum natural energy levels. Product Review   First off, I apologize for not having a picture.  I didn’t think to take a picture of either the packet or the cup of tea before I drank it.  Now, I would like to say that the tea was very delicious.  I enjoyed it immensely.  It was quite easy to mix up.  I didn’t have any lumps or anything in it once it was mixed.  Which is nice.  Sometimes when you have drinks from pac

If you are looking for a fun way to dress up cupcakes, then you have to check out Cupcake Cuties .  They are so easy to use.  First off, bake your cupcakes as you normally would.  You can even use ones you buy at the grocery store if you don’t bake. Then you place one of the wraps around the base of the cupcake.  You ice your cupcake as directed.  Then you use whatever other decorations come with the kit.  There are kits for every occasion.  If you are hosting a baby shower, there are some really cute ones for that.  So whatever party you are throwing, you can always find the right way to dress up your cupcakes. We received the Happy Birthday ones to be used at Steve & Eddie Wayne’s birthday party.  Not only did the kids love them, but the adults as well.  Everyone was definitely enchanted by our cute cupcakes.   In conjunction with the Wakela's World Disclosure Statement , I received a product in order to enable my review. No other compensation has been received.

I recently received 2 coupons from Gorton’s to allow me to get any of their frozen foods.  I bought the beer battered fish tenders and the crispy beer battered shrimp. First off, my brother-in-law will normally eat just about anything you put in front of him.  In fact, we refer to him as the human garbage disposal.  However, the one thing he refuses to eat are fish sticks or tenders.  He remembers back in the day the ones that they served at school.  Now this is going quite a ways back in time so cafeteria food was pretty bad back then. So when my brother-in-law heard what I was cooking, he was stomping around, pouting like a little kid instead of acting like a 45 year old man.  He was upset that I was going to cook food that he hates.  Well, since he was acting like I kid, I decided to treat him like a kid.  I told him that he had to eat all his food or he couldn’t get dessert. As soon as he took his first bite, he couldn’t shovel it in fast enough.  He realized that he actually