First I want to thank all of your for your kind comments on Friday’s post.   I didn’t sit down to write about my past mental illness.  I had planned to just post the playlist and (as usual) I got carried away.  I was very nervous about letting that skeleton out of the closet free […]

I talked about the how’s and why’s of sane meals but I think it’s important to discuss the meal/day after.  For some of you this won’t apply.  You can have your sane meal or day and the happily return to your healthy plan no problem.  For people like me, the song of the siren gets […]

On Monday I wrote about why I decided to call what most people refer to as cheats or free days “sane meals”.  To recap, sane meals takes on two meanings serving two purposes.  One including sane meals in my weekly plan makes it easier more enjoyable to stick to a healthy food plan all week.  But […]

Many people use free meals, reward meals or cheat meals (or days) as a way to indulge in fun foods or enjoy Aunt Sally’s apple pie a la mode without guilt.  I use this strategy too but I don’t like to refer to them as free, rewards, or cheats.  The opposite  of free is imprisoned or […]