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This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for awhile, but I wanted to fully test out my tips and tricks before I shared them with you. I’ve dealt with pretty severe menstrual cramps since my late teenage years and always felt like it was something I just had to accept. But over the [...]
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My favorite healthy chocolate company, Gnosis Chocolate, recently opened up a pop-up shoppe here in NYC. The pop-up store on East 23rd Street is nestled inside Organique, an organic take-out restaurant. I knew I wanted to check out the shoppe and show the Gnosis team my support because there’s no telling how long they’ll be [...]
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Thursdays are my busiest day of the week, but I’m hanging in there with lots of sweet treats! At lunch I swung by my favorite health food store on the Upper West Side called The Health Nuts. They have tons of specialty items (like my favorite frozen young coconut meat), a huge selection of supplements, [...]
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Last week I held my second blogging marathon. It was 7 straight days of healthy desserts made at home, and I had a lot of fun dreaming up the recipes. My boyfriend was also very happy to get to enjoy all the tasty leftovers I had around the house! I hope you enjoy all my [...]
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Cookies! It’s Friday and I’m celebrating the end of a looooonnnng work week. Plus, the holidays are coming and I have friends coming to visit soon! With just two days left of my healthy desserts marathon, I knew I had to make cookies on at least one day. This recipe was adapted from Cynthia Lair’s [...]
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It’s Day 2! I’ve been dying to grill some more fruit on my Calphalon grill pan, so I picked up fresh pineapple slices at Trader Joe’s on my way home from the gym. I had a pretty frustrating and stressful day of work (typical Monday), so a long cardio workout and homemade dessert were exactly [...]
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Now that the holiday season is on its way, most grocery stores are carrying lots of chocolate, hot cocoa mixes, marshmallows, and candy treats. I wanted to make my own healthier hot chocolate the other night and here’s what I came up with. Most store-bought hot chocolate mixes have chemicals, preservatives, and unnatural sugars that [...]
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I’m spending my first Halloween in NYC, and it’s bound to be a crazy week. When I left the gym on Sunday, I was walking along Broadway and suddenly a motorcycle gang of about 200 guys came racing down the street with scary Halloween masks, revving their engines and weaving around all the other cars [...]
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This is Day 3 of my blogging marathon: “7 Days of Healthy Eating Out.” Read the details on my marathon here. It’s been a rainy and chilly couple of days in NYC, but I decided to brave the weather and head to the Upper West Side for lunch. I was dying to get out of [...]
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In the world of raw foods, desserts are where it’s at. After falling in love with the raw coconut macaroons I found at health food stores and NYC’s raw/vegan restaurants, I knew I wanted to make them at home. Since my birthday is this weekend, I figured today was the perfect time for an early [...]
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