by Pamela Hernandez | Oct 27, 2014 | Healthy Holidays, Motivation, Nutrition
I stopped trick or treating when I was 10 years old. I didn’t think I was too cool or too old to go. It’s just when I could no longer eat the candy it became a lot less fun. My type 1 diabetes diagnosis a few months earlier meant I had to find an alternative to this...
by Pamela Hernandez | Oct 20, 2014 | Farmers Market Finds, Nutrition, Recipes
Fall vegetables may be the ones I have the least experience with. Zucchini, berries, asparagus, sweet corn and peppers are easy to cook and add to various dishes. Beets, turnips and delicata squash are like a foreign language to me. Yet they looked so beautiful at the...
by Pamela Hernandez | Oct 16, 2014 | Fitness, General Health, Nutrition
Breast cancer is a battle. Not only are you fighting the disease but also the effects of the treatment. During this time food can feel like the enemy too. Eating can feel like torture, trying to find foods that sound appetizing and that the body can tolerate. In...
by Pamela Hernandez | Oct 9, 2014 | Farmers Market Finds, Nutrition, Recipes
Photo by Pamela Hernandez I don’t get excited for Pumpkin Spice Lattes. For one, I am a tea drinker. Two, I eat pumpkin all year long. I eat pumpkin every morning in my Morning Mug Souffle and every night in my pumpkin pie oatmeal. What really excites me about fall is...
by Pamela Hernandez | Sep 26, 2014 | Nutrition, Video, Video Blog
Personal Trainer Pamela Hernandez answers a viewer’s question about getting started with food journaling. In this video: When to go easy. When to get into the weeds.
by Pamela Hernandez | Sep 15, 2014 | Farmers Market Finds, Nutrition, Recipes
Photo by Pamela Hernandez September at the Farmers Market is a perfect mix of summer and fall. There are still plenty of summer favorites like zucchini and peppers with a few tomatoes too. Next to them you will find the beginnings of the fall harvest, which includes...
