• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Dr Ricki - Your prescription for a best-selling book

Ricki Heller

A healthy lifestyle can be sweet!

  • Home
  • WORK WITH ME
    • GET STARTED
    • KEEP WRITING
    • POLISH YOUR MANUSCRIPT
  • About
  • Press
  • Blog

motivation

How your mindset affects your diet

by Ricki Heller Leave a Comment

Ricki in a turquose shirt talking about how mindset affects food choices

I love stories of people who “made it” later in life. For instance, did you know that Julia Child didn’t publish her first cookbook until she was 50? Laura Ingalls Wilder didn’t publish her first Little House book (which became the TV show Little House on the Prairie) until she was 65. Grandma Moses didn’t […]

Tagged With: anti candida diet, anti-candida, candida diet motivation, candida mindset, dairy free, diet motivation, egg free, food allergies, food sensitivities, gluten free, grain free, healthy, healthy mindset, motivation, positive mindset, staying on track, sticking with it, sugar free, vegan, video, wheat-free

If you think you can’t change the way you eat (Part 2)

by Ricki Heller Leave a Comment

Ricki explains how to love healthy foods

“I’ve tried to eat healthy foods, but they just don’t taste as good as the “real thing.” Have you found yourself thinking this way? The thing is, if you’ve tried to change the way you eat in the past, you probably already know how important it is to change your diet, for your ultimate health […]

Tagged With: anti candida diet, anti-candida, candida diet motivation, dairy free, eating healthy foods, egg free, food allergies, food sensitivities, gluten free, healthy foods, motivation, stick with it, sticking with it, strategies, sugar free, vegan, video, wheat-free

How to get your diet back on track

by Ricki Heller Leave a Comment

Ricki talks about getting your diet back on track

I was talking with a collegue the other day about our current grocery shopping habits. At the time of this writing, the COVID-19 pandemic is still in full swing (although many retailers and other services are beginning to open up again), so we were both still “sheltering at home” as much as possible. There were […]

Tagged With: anti candida diet, anti-candida, dietary restrictions, food allergies, food restrictions, food sensitivities, motivation, positive mindset, stick with it, sugar free, vegan

My recipe to deal with anxiety about the future

by Ricki Heller 2 Comments

Ricki talks about dealing with anxiety around COVID openings

At the time of this writing, we’re still in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic; millions of people worldwide have contracted the virus. Scientists are working furiously on a vaccine and the general public is self-isolating as much as possible at home, “socially distancing” from others (maintaining at least 6 feet or 2 meters from […]

Tagged With: anti-candida, anxiety, coping strategies, food allergies, food sensitivities, motivation, positive mindset, positive thinking, video

Does your restricted diet make you feel deprived?

by Ricki Heller 2 Comments

Does your restricted diet feel like deprivation?

I When I first started following an anti-candida diet, having so many food restrictions made me feel incredibly deprived. I mean, no more cake? No more pasta? No more ice cream? No more CHOCOLATE????

Tagged With: mindset, motivation, sticking with it, supplements, symptoms, treatments, what to eat

Living with Candida, Twenty Two Months Later: The Ugly, the Bad–and the Good

by Ricki Heller 112 Comments

Are you ready to start an anti-candida diet? The Candida Kick-Start can help! Kickstart your diet and pave the way for success on your anti-candida journey! Find more information here.   Grrrr! Candida can be pretty scary.] The Ugly: The Monster Returns Here it is, 2011, and it’s already time for a confession (don’t worry, […]

Tagged With: bingeing, diet strategies, dieting, Geneen Roth, holistic nutrition, Irvin Yalom, Meghan Telpner, motivation, new year's resolutions, overeating, stress, weight gain, weight loss

Updates: Diet and Dessert*

by Ricki Heller 34 Comments

*  Or, Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad (sorry, Girls) [Soy-Free, Sugar-Free, Gluten-Free Chocolate Buttercream Frosting from Sweet Freedom] Okay, let’s get to the dessert first (really, we should all eat a meal that way at least once):  I received my cookbook’s (paper) proof in the mail today (the sample that I must approve before […]

Tagged With: anti candida diet, cookbook, dessert, diet, dieting, dogs, motivation, sugar addiction, Sweet Freedom, weight loss

What To Do With The Weight When You Lose It

by Ricki Heller 15 Comments

Here’s how I was going to start this blog entry: I simply can’t believe it–it snowed yet again yesterday.  Will this accursed winter never end? The drifts on the driveway (oh, lord, another few hours of shoveling!) have already enveloped my car in a duvet of white, and little tempests are performing pirouettes in our back yard, propelled […]

Tagged With: diet, diet strategies, glycemic index, motivation, snow, weight loss

Primary Sidebar

Hi! I'm Ricki, cookbook author, professional recipe developer, holistic nutritionist and anti-candida crusader. Let me show you how easy it is to eat plant-based, sugar-free, gluten free food that tastes great!

[read more about Ricki...]

As seen on…

Categories

Become a Patron!

Ricki Heller

Footer

  • Home
  • Subscribe
  • About
  • Press
  • Blog
  • Dr Ricki Cooks
  • Privacy Policy
  • Disclosure Policy

Copyright © 2023 · RICKIHELLER.COM