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This post is somewhat related to my post about whether nonstick pans are bad for you, because I worry about making healthy choices for my kids, while trying to take all the doomsday articles about things that can cause cancer with a grain of salt. My parents always cooked healthy meals at home, but things like […]

Eating, especially recently, has become one of the most difficult areas of my life. In a lot of families, difficulties around eating are due to the children of the family. However, in our household, challenges around eating have always revolved around me and my chronic illnesses. I was recently, finally!, diagnosed with gastroparesis, which, in […]

When I was a kid, I didn’t have many restrictions on sugar. My brother and I ate all the sweet cereals like Super Golden Crisp, Pops, Honeycomb, Cap’n Crunch, and Lucky Charms. We had Hi-C and Capri Suns in our lunches, as well as Fruit Roll ups for a snack, and of course Lunchables or […]

I suffer from IBS and Ulcerative Colitis and have now for 18 years. I first started getting sick when I was 16 and it progressed and got really bad when I was 19. I lost 30 lbs in two months and had days where I could not move at all. I was exhausted and it […]

Mr. Bee suffered from sinus infections for years that left him miserable. He went to several different ENT doctors, tried rounds of antibiotics but nothing worked. Then he read online that fasting allows the body to detox and clear up sinuses, so he gave it a try and it worked! Now he gets sinus infections […]

My journey back to my pre-pregnancy weight I’ve always had a complicated relationship with fitness and weight. As a 5’7 big-boned person with an athletic build, I’ve never had the quintessential Asian waif-like figure. Growing up it didn’t help that my mom and sister were both petite and thin. Once my mom tried to comfort […]

50 pounds. Yup, just typing the number is terrifying. This time around, I gained 50 pounds while pregnant with Luigi, meaning my scale hovered around the 200 mark during the last few weeks of pregnancy. I don’t remember exactly how much I gained when I was pregnant with the Trikester, but I think it was […]