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    Stephanie Quilao

    Stephanie Quilao

  • Healthy Eating Is Not Perfect Eating. Practicing An 80/20 Philosophy To Stay In My Skinny Jeans

    I was out at happy hour with some new friends a couple months ago, and I ordered french fries with bacon and a big IPA beer from tap. When my food arrived, I was completely focused on gleefully dipping that first crunchy potato stick in ketchup and then into my mouth.

  • Happy Thanks-living! I'm Exposed: Feeding the Body Gratitude

    In celebration of Thanksgiving, this post is about gratitude for....the body. This is about feeding ourselves with gratefulness for the body we have and all it's wonder.

  • A Fit Blogger Answers: Is Diet Blogging a Helpful or Hurtful Thing?

    Jezebel wrote an interesting post last week asking: Is it possible to write about your weight struggles for a living and emerge unscathed? Since I am one of the top bloggers in the diet/fit niche category going on 3 years now and making a living from this topic, I thought this an excellent question

  • 7 reasons to let go of your skinny jeans (and embrace the healthy body you have now)

    To feel good just as we are is a long journey for some of us. Those skinny jeans sitting in your closet are proof that part of you can't let go of the dream that one day you'll be fashionably thin and your life will be perfect, or at lest better than what it is today. Parting with those skinny jeans

  • Fried Rice revisited: Quinoa Chicken “Fried Rice”

    Who says Fried Rice has to have rice in it? Well, okay, it does, but in this recipe instead of using rice I experimented with Quinoa, and saying "Fried Quinoa with Chicken" sounds like a completely different dish, so I embellished a bit.

  • "Two Tiny Changes": 5 'failure' pick me up tips

    Yesterday, the theme for this week's tiny inspiring signs was about failure. Today, I thought it would be a fantastic opportunity to offer tips on ways to pick yourself up during those times when you feel like a failure.Your Inner Resistance Monster just thrives on those "failure" periods as a way t

  • Noshbox Idea: Cherry Salsa with Sea Salt Rice Chips

    I'm so happy that cherry season is here, as cherries are one of my favorite fruits. For a refreshing afternoon snack, try some of this cherry salsa with sea salt brown rice chips.

  • Fruit salad revisited: Angel Hair Pear Salad with Kiwi Sauce

    I made up this recipe the other day when I wanted to play with this new grater I got at a Japanese grocery store. It's a cheap grater, $8, but boy does it make some fun looking angel hair. I went nuts grating all kinds of fruits and vegetables. In Japanese and Korean dining there are side dishes and garnishes, most often things like radishes, that are cut fine and stringy which always reminds me of angel hair pasta.

  • Light dinner nosh: Mango, arugula, and onions with chicken or tempeh

    This is one of my favorite dinner dishes because it's light, fast to make, and I love the mix of the sweet mango with the savory arugula. Normally, I make this dish with chicken but for vegans and vegetarians, you can easily use tempeh or an extra firm tofu.

  • Book Review: Quantum Wellness, is it a Diet Book or a Self Help Book?

    I'm all about holistic healing and so when I heard that Oprah was doing a 21-day gluten-free vegan cleanse along with kicking booze and sugar, I was highly intrigued as I too recently completed a 12-day gluten free vegan "Great Food Reboot Experiment" myself. Oprah was inspired by the book Quantum W

  • How to cook a tasty Quinoa

    I've eaten lots of Quinoa dishes but have never actually made it from scratch as a plain side like rice, so I went to the Internet to find out how to cook this protein packed grain.

  • Comparing nutrition: Cow milk vs Non-dairy milks

    Ever wanted to know the nutritional difference between cow's milk and some of the non-dairy milks? I thought it would be interesting to take a look at some of the nutritional difference between cow milk: non-fat, 1%, 2%, Whole, and non-dairy milks: rice, soy, almond, hemp, and oat.

  • Recipe: Vegan Mock Salmon Pate

    I loved the raw mock salmon at Cafe Soulstice so much that I attempted to make it myself. I found this mock salmon pate recipe at Living and Raw Foods, but modified it because 1. I have a Type II allergy to almonds (I know...like how does that happen? The Cafe Soulstice version uses almonds also.) 2

  • Challengers to the USDA Food Pyramid: Which one makes sense to you?

    Everyone knows about the USDA food pyramid which was updated in 2005. But there are many who debunk the voracity of this pyramid because the belief is that the USDA version is influenced by political pressure from the big food producers which come on, is no big shocker as it is no secret that money

  • Popular health drinks I bet you didn't know are owned by Coca-Cola

    You would never expect to see Coca-Cola in a place like Whole Foods, but believe it or not, Coca-Cola is well represented in the drinks section with brands that most of us associate with health and wellness like Glaceau VitaminWater, SmartWater, and FruitWater.Coca-Cola is starting to push with a ne

  • Culture and body image: How not having the Asian skinny genes affected my body image

    Camy's guest blog post about her new book and the pestering aunts who feel the need to point out all your fat flaws at family gatherings, got me thinking more about my own struggles of dealing with body image as an Asian woman. I'm Filipino with Chinese and Spanish ancestry.

  • 7 ways to save money on organic groceries

    The common gripe about buying organics is the cost; it's too expensive or pricey. Some avoid shopping at "Whole Paycheck" for this very reason. Some of you may want to buy organics but would like to save money or use your money to pay other things like the cell phone and electric bills. A pair of ne

  • Easy healthy recipe: The "no sauce" pasta meat sauce

    I'm all about easy and quick in the kitch, yet still want to eat healthy as much as possible.In an effort to cut down some calories and fat from a pasta sauce or just for the sake of doing something different especially when money is running tight, sometimes I make a sauce for pasta dishes that does

  • Can Paul McKenna really make you thin?

    Have any of you been watching the TLC show, "I Can Make You Thin" with hypnotist Paul McKenna? Ellen Degeneres went to Paul to help her quit smoking, and apparently it worked, so I thought why not check it out because hey this is potential primo Back in Skinny Jeans fodder. To help people lose weig

  • The Nutritional Low Down on Fast Food Salads

    How many of you are eating salads at fast food joints thinking that you are being healthier and saving on the calories and fat? Well, guess again. In some cases, you could be eating more calories in that salad than in a burger. Oh yeah, scary thought, no?I did a nutritional comparison of chicken or