Diets

There are two main obstacles that trip up meal planning for busy professionals: 1) Time; 2) Decision fatigue. I have a solution for both in this article. If you need a guide to planning meals that won’t be a second full-time job, you are in the right place. This is the DAO Little Black Dress Method for Meal Planning. ™

I have seen a lot of my colleagues who travel frequently marvel at how the period we have been working from home has produced effortless weight loss. Well, not really. One big factor at play is that we have been taken out of the traveling and associated wining and dining. Restaurant meals are a trap for the unwary, because they are under pressure to make food taste amazing to justify paying twice the amount you need for groceries for a single week at a meal.  Unfortunately, that means adding sugar, salt, oil, butter and heavy cream to – everything. And…

Do you drink smoothies for breakfast and/or eat salads for lunch? Do you often feel tired and run-down for no obvious reason? Are you always freezing? If any of this sounds familiar , you may want to rethink the approach after reading my experience with Chinese medicine’s “warm” food diet. This is the primary way to treat a common condition that Chinese medicine has labeled as a “Spleen Qi deficiency.”  You may be thinking, I don’t even know where my spleen is, let alone that it has any kind of deficiency, but it’s really more about a blockage in energy….