Body Love

Do you embrace your body? Do you love your body? For years, I have judged the way that my body looks. Never happy with where I am. But over the past couple of months, I have been truly learning to love where I am today! Recently, I have gained some weight (rather quickly). I knew…

Accountability

Accountability is so important when you are working on changing habits. Habits don’t change overnight. They take time and some are easier to change than others. I have found that one of the best ways to change habits is to surround yourself with people that you trust. They will support you and hold you accountable…

Meal Planning

Meal planning has become such an important part in my life. It has helped me put delicious meals on the table in minutes because I took the time to plan out what we were going to have and made sure that I had everything that I needed to make that meal.  Let me share with…

Granola Bars
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Granola Bars

This granola bar is a family favourite in our home. I love it because you can modify the ingredients to your taste. You can add coconut, switch out the dried fruit or seeds, add nuts (as long as it is not going to school). If you don’t want to add the Rice Krispies or Puffed Quinoa, you will need to increase the oats by at least 1/2 cup. It makes 40 good size granola bars and more if you want them to be smaller. They are not overly sweet (around 6g of sugar per bar), they are perfect for school lunches (when they don’t have any nuts) and they freeze really well!!!

My Journey

I have struggled with an eating disorder for over 20 years of my life!  There, I’ve said it!  I am sharing with the world to hear, that I have struggled!  And I have struggled for a long time!  But I will NO LONGER struggle in silence! Recently, I was looking at photos of myself before…