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Dairy is one of the foods that many people struggle to give up when transitioning to a whole food plant based diet. You can find dairy in most of the supermarket processed items. Everything contains some sort of dairy, cheese, milk, milk traces. People are also used to drink their coffee or tea with milk….

On my last post I told you that I was starting a 30 day weight  loss challenge and that for 30 days I was not going to eat outside my normal eating time, and that I was going to stick to all whole food plant based diet. Well I have to confess that my challenge…

In 2011 I started A Happier Self Blog and as I was posting about properties of vegetables and fruits I got more and more interested in the raw diet. I learned that vegetables and fruits can affect your mood.  I tried the raw food. I did a 7 day raw food challenge and a 10…

Talk about frustration. I have two children a 9 year old son and a 6 year old daughter. My son does not have a problem trying healthy meals. He does not like everything, but he tries it all. He also does not like eating lots of veggies, but he eats what I give him. Since…

I have not written for a while because I have been dealing with lots of emotional issues. Four weeks ago my dad passed away. So sad. He was 82 and relatively healthy till he had a stroke. They told me it was not too bad and that he would recover. They told me there was…