Sugar Cravings
Are You Eating Clean? 5 Mistakes That Sabotage a Good Diet
The road to learning clean eating habits can be a long one. For most of you, overhauling your diet doesn’t happen overnight. It starts slowly – first you swap your soda habit for sparkling water, next you cut back on your cheese addiction, and then one day you wake up and find yourself noshing on a…
Read MoreHow Stress Can Dissolve Your Bones…Plus 3 Steps to Fix It Fast
When you’re stressed out and cortisol, the main stress hormone, is wildly fluctuating, many things happen in a cascade of badness… Your serotonin, the happy brain chemical, falls off a cliff. Result? You feel like crap: weepy, despairing, and not like your happy self. You deposit belly fat, as in suddenly you stare down at…
Read MoreTop 5 Reasons Why Diets Fail
Do you ever wonder why you are not successful at dieting? Here are 5 reasons why your diets may be failing… #1: The Word “Diet” People who are in good shape are not those who went on a diet once—they are people who consistently make good food choices, aside from a few indulgences here…
Read MoreThe Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet – Dr. Sara’s Book Club #9
We all want to be healthy, vital and feel radiant from the inside out. But many of us, even as we try so hard to be health conscious, end up settling for “good enough” (and mistaking it for true health). In fact, most of us don’t even realize how off-balance we have been, until we…
Read MoreDo You Have FLC Syndrome?
What is FLC Syndrome? Chances are, you have it. It affects nearly half of our population. It causes weight gain and resistance to weight loss. And it causes a whole list of chronic symptoms and diseases. Yet most people have no idea what causes it or how to fix it. The truth is most of us…
Read MoreThe Real Truth About Sugar (The Good, The Bad, The Substitutes) – And How To Break Out Of The Cravings Cycle Once And For All
By JJ Virgin A Note from Dr. Sara… If you have a sticky relationship with sugar (no pun intended), now is the time to take action and take back control over your health, hormones and happiness. In today’s article, my good friend JJ Virgin reveals the real truth about sugar in all its forms, and…
Read MoreMadonna My Thyroid, Please
One comment personal trainers hear daily from overweight, middle-aged women is: “I want Madonna arms.” It makes them want to shoot themselves. Actually, um, I want Madonna arms. While she is controversial, chameleonic and doesn’t always comment wisely on her art, she is arguably looking might fine for her age. In fact, I think she…
Read MoreSake Bombs or Kale? Vacation Review
At the risk of sounding insufferable, I have to share some thoughts on two side-by-side vacations. Let me preface our discussion with two disclosures: I have adrenal dysregulation and two young kids. While I’m in adrenal “recovery,” as many of you know who are on this path with me — recovery takes a long,…
Read MoreWhat If… Breast Cancer? Dr. Sara's Top 10 List of How to Reduce Your Risk
With every mammogram I get, I think about what I would do if diagnosed with breast cancer. First, I’d wig. Then I’d get all empowered and put on my big girl face, and get down to business. It’s timely to chat about this because the National Cancer Institute just announced that there will be a…
Read MoreDetox, Gottfried-Style – Join Us!
We started our webinar cleanse last Thursday, but you can join us at any time up to March 30, 2011 right here. It’s never too late to detox. We are tasked with clearing out gluten, dairy, caffeine, sugar and alcohol over the first seven days as part of the “Pre-Cleanse” as well as starting…
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