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Salads for dinner with added protein are great choices for summer. 😀
On Sunday morning, before the days of intense heat started, I harvested all our heat sensitive crops, including baskets full of lettuce.
Stay safe, everyone!!!

Many people are uncertain if they should be eating starchy vegetables or not.

One of the most common pieces of advice about "healthy eating" is that starchy vegetables are bad for you. But is this nutrition fact or nutrition fiction? Or is it somewhere in between?

Like so many things in life, there are nuances to answering this question. Contrary to popular belief in the keto diet world, eating starchy vegetables is not bad for you.

But there are three things you want to think about when eating them.

Read more at https://www.foodcoachforme.com/eating-starchy-vegetables/

To boost your chances of success in changing how you eat, it is critically important that you shift the focus of your goal. Instead of focusing on your ultimate goal, focus on how you are going to achieve that goal. I teach this "shift focus" technique to people who see me for nutrition counseling.

It’s easiest to explain this with the analogy: Imagine you are trying to explain to someone how to get from city A to city B without using a travel app or GPS device. You aren’t going to spend the majority of your time telling them how wonderful city B is.

Instead, you’re going to focus on how they will get there.😀

Need help with this? Reach out to me!

This is a simple concept but an important one. When you are building healthier eating habits, you are on a journey to go from how you eat now to how you want to eat in the future. Like any journey, unless you’ve got a magic transporter, you don’t get from one place to another instantly.