I don’t know about you, but I have a problem with MSG (monosodium glutamate). It gives me a migraine headache and makes me hungry all the time. A lot of commercially prepared Chinese food has MSG in it, which is why I can eat a big meal in a Chinese restaurant and then be hungry [...]

I have always enjoyed cooking. And in particular, I love making up new things to eat. A few of my cooking experiments haven’t been wonderful, but if you ask my friends, they will tell you that my successes far outnumber my failures. Recently I needed to bring a snack to a meeting I was attending. [...]

I was talking to one of my coaching clients the other day. She has been following the food-sensitivity eating plan for several months, and in general, has had good results. However, she called to report having had some gastric pain, abdominal cramping, and related lower gastro-intestinal tract problems the day before. She asked if it [...]

I was up late last night watching television and for some reason I actually watched the advertisements instead of ignoring them like I usually do. It was a real eye-opener about why so many of us have problems losing weight. The ads were primarily promoting two different kinds of products – weight loss and food! [...]

I had to gas my car today. Ouch! Only a few months ago, people were talking about $4-a-gallon gas, and now the newscasters are starting to talk about when (not if!) gas reaches $5 a gallon! The newspapers report that this is not a temporary thing, but a worldwide condition based on the economics of [...]

For the past two months, I have been working really hard to get my taxes done and filed, to get this website up and running, to keep up with a number of other commitments that I had made… and then everything got done. Kind of like climbing up a long set of stairs that just [...]

I decided the other day to have some ice cream. Because I had tested sensitive to dairy and to yeast (which meant no sugar), I had avoided traditional ice cream for over a year. But there is a local ice cream place that I used to love, and some friends visiting from out-of-town really wanted [...]

I spent some time visiting my Mom this past week. She got tested several months ago and has been avoiding all the foods she tested sensitive to. It is fun, and takes some creativity for us to coordinate cooking when I go home for a visit. For example, she is sensitive to garlic, but not [...]

I have been telling everyone I know that my website is up. I think the information can really help a lot of people, so I am excited and enthusiastic when I talk about it. My friends aren’t tired of this yet, but they have started to say that I should go talk to groups of [...]