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25 Oct 2014
CLEAN Cleanse

CLEAN 28, Day 2: Raw Carrot Cake Cookies & BBG Workout

This is Post #3 in my Quarter Life Crisis series.To start from the beginning, click here. Snack Time! Instead of talking about breakfast and lunch first today, I have to tell you about this snack. This Go Raw Carrot Cake…
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24 Oct 2014
CLEAN Cleanse

CLEAN 28, Day 1: The Mental Cleanse Game

This is Post #2 in my Quarter Life Crisis series.To start from the beginning, click here. The first day of my CLEAN 28 Cleanse was pretty anticlimactic. I started the morning off with a green juice made with cucumber, celery,…
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21 Oct 2014
CLEAN Cleanse

CLEAN 28: My Quarter-Life Crisis

This past weekend, a few friends and I headed over to Princeton for a quick detour before our apple-picking adventures. Truth be told, being on a college campus just made me feel old. It reminded me that I am no…
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19 Oct 2014
NYC

How to Survive a New York Winter { A Californian’s Guide }

Winter is coming… I don’t mean to get all Game on Thrones on you, but the thought of a New York Winter can be really daunting to someone who has never really been through a real winter. Before moving to…
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17 Oct 2014
3 Michelin Star

NYC: Le Bernardin, a Seafood Chef’s Tasting

First, how beautiful and delicious does this caviar and king fish dish look? As if caviar on top of a fresh piece of sashimi wasn’t good enough, Le Bernardin adds to the decadence of it all by completing the dish…
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13 Oct 2014
Recipes

Roasted Pepper and Caramelized Onion Confit

For the past few weeks, I’ve been getting tons of red peppers and onions from my CSA and have been trying to figure out what to do with them. When I came across this recipe for a confit of pepper and…
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10 Oct 2014
Italy

The Best Bites of Italy: Rome, Venice, Florence and Cinque Terre

I love all Italian food – pastas, pizzas and gelato – oh my! So imagine my pure bliss during the ten days J and I spent eating our way through Italy! I’ve been asked what my food recommendations are for…
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5 Oct 2014
NYC Eats

NYC: YUJI Ramen, a Ramen Omakase in Pictures

My friend Pauline is a true ramen lover. She has a mission to try and document as many ramen places as possible in New York City. She’s the one who introduced me to YUJI Ramen which started as a stand…
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𝐍𝐨. 𝟑𝟒 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝟒𝟎𝐱𝟒𝟎 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 𝐓 ✅ 𝐍𝐨. 𝟑𝟒 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝟒𝟎𝐱𝟒𝟎 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭
𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 𝐓 ✅

The best piece of advice that I got from someone I truly admire is to never let anyone (parents, in-laws, friends, etc.) pressure you into having kids when you’re not ready.

“𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪’𝙡𝙡 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙡𝙮 𝙗𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮!” - 🙃 the other piece of advice that I heard the most.

Being ready looks different for everyone. For me, I’m glad I was able to spend my 30s learning ways to cope with ADHD.

Before I was diagnosed, I never really understood why some of the most basic adult tasks felt so daunting to me. I was scared to have a kid because the thought of having to get them ready for school in the morning and then managing my own start of the day was scary as hell.

How am I supposed to get them to school on time?

I know I seem Type-A as hell, so it is confusing when managing appointments and schedules feel like the hardest thing in the world.

Now I know that time blindness (inability to gauge passing time) and executive dysfunction (poor planning/prioritization) are issues ADHDers deal with.

Now I can actually build systems around my weak spots instead of just feeling like something is wrong with me. 

Don’t get me wrong, I still hate packing with a passion (and having to pack for Baby T on top of it is 😬), but knowing these are my weak spots helps so much with my mental health when I’m in the thick of it.

Huge thanks to Auntie Gemini for being my executive function on this trip. Nap schedules, feeding windows, jet lag logic, all of it - so I could actually just be present and have fun.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

#adhdmom #travellingwithbaby #adhdwomen
this one mindset shift about intermittent fasting this one mindset shift about intermittent fasting helped me lose 15 pounds in 3 months.

i stopped thinking about fasting as a way to eat less calories, and started thinking about it as a way to drop my insulin so my body could actually burn fat. 

that’s the key insight in lesson 3. 

before this mental shift, i was counting down to my next meal the whole time. the moment my 16 hours was up, i thought: “great! i can finally eat again.”

now i sometimes hit 16 hours and don’t even feel hungry. so i keep fasting. not because I’m forcing it, but because i know my body is burning fat for energy. 

follow so you don’t miss lesson 4, where I introduce you to your hangry beast and show you how to train it.

#intermittentfastingresults #insulinresistance #metabolichealth #fatburning metabolicflexibility
I’ve been growing this fiddle leaf fig for almost I’ve been growing this fiddle leaf fig for almost 10 years. It’s hitting the ceiling, tipping over, and desperately needs to be turned into a tree.

I’ve wanted to do this for years. But cutting the entire top off a plant I’ve kept alive for a decade feels... irreversible. Like once you do it, there’s no going back.

Then I spent way too long watching plant people on Instagram do it and finally hyped myself up enough to try.

This is No. 23 on my 40x40 list: do something that scares me. Not because the stakes are high, but because I’ve been overthinking a decision that isn’t actually that serious.

Some things feel like a one-way door when they’re really a two-way door. Worst case? I buy another plant.
Did it work? Still waiting to find out. 🌿

#fiddleleaffig #40by40 #becomingforty #houseplantsmakemehappy #plantmom
🙋🏻‍♀️ is it better to eat two small meals separate 🙋🏻‍♀️ is it better to eat two small meals separately, or one large one?

if you want to prioritize fat burn, consolidate your calories into larger meals and cut back on snacking.

𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝟮:

• every time you eat, insulin spikes 📈
• more eating windows = more insulin events
• your body can only burn fat when insulin is low 🔥
• same food, same calories — but timing changes everything
• fewer eating windows = more recovery time for your body ✅

note: the research on meal frequency vs. spike height is still evolving — the clearest benefit of fewer eating windows is giving your body more time to clear and recover between insulin responses.

lesson 3 coming soon: why intermittent fasting works for a completely different reason than most people think 👀

📲 send this to someone who thinks eating six small meals a day is boosting their metabolism.

#insulinresistance #metabolichealth #bloodsugarbalance #fatburningmode
the insulin series, lesson 1 🔥🔒 most people think the insulin series, lesson 1 🔥🔒

most people think fat loss is about eating less. but what they don’t tell you is that you can’t burn fat if your insulin is elevated.

here’s exactly how glucose and insulin work — and why the timing of when you eat matters just as much as what you eat.

this is lesson 1 of 4. save this and come back to it.

lesson 2 coming soon — same calories, completely different impact on your insulin. 

#insulinresistance #metabolichealth #bloodsugarbalance #glucoserevolution
POV: you’re sick of “move more and eat less” becau POV: you’re sick of “move more and eat less” because it’s never actually worked for you.

Turns out scientists are still actively debating what causes obesity.

🧬 There are two models:

1. Energy balance model - aka calories in, calories out
2. The carb-insulin model - less talked about but has changed my life

I enrolled in Cornell’s Nutrition and Metabolic Health program to get answers from the source. 

🤯 My biggest a-ha moment? Even the experts don’t agree.

No wonder we’re always getting whiplash from dieting advice.

If you’ve never heard of the carb-insulin model, you might just be missing half the picture.

#carbinsulinmodel #metabolichealth #insulinresistance
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