About Veggie Bee

Welcome to Veggie Bee!  My name is Rachel and I’m passionate about helping people learn to incorporate strategies for healthy living into their daily lives. Being healthy means being fabulous and loving yourself from the inside out.

Veggie Bee is a guilt-free, positive-thinking zone, which means accepting where you are on your journey to living healthier. It’s time to start taking an unapologetic, “no-excuses” approach to your health. You’re not “good” because you eat carrots & sprouts; you’re not “bad” because you love chocolate. You are simply making choices that are either effective or ineffective for your long-term health and well-being.

Developing the strategies for making better choices requires a certain set of skills, behaviors and environmental cues for you to be successful, so before you decide that you just can’t make the right choices all the time, keep reading. It’s all about finding the right strategies for your life that support your success.

Action as well as knowledge
There is a wealth of information that most of us already know about losing weight and getting healthy. We’ll focus on how you act on that knowledge and what works to keep you healthy that fits your lifestyle.

Strategies not rules
You may simply be contemplating the idea of losing weight and changing your lifestyle. You may be ready to go, but have no idea where to start. Or you may be currently maintaining a healthy life. Together we’ll come up with strategies to help you start or maintain a healthy lifestyle and the nutritional and fitness behaviors that go along with it without the rigid rules of deprivation.

Process as well as results
Focusing on results is one way to measure our progress toward a healthy life. It’s important to know the reality of your health related numbers, such as body mass index (BMI), blood pressure, cholesterol and weight. But focusing on, and learning to enjoy, the process of staying healthy will help you stay on track over the long term, even when your results may not be exactly where you want them to be.

Eating not dieting
Find foods you enjoy and strategies that you can practice that will keep you healthy over the long term, not just as a temporary fix for weight loss.

Whole food more often than products
With all the focus on components of our diets, from carbs to proteins, from trans-fats to omega-3’s, it’s easy to forget that there are whole foods out there that are naturally created for optimal health. Food that doesn’t have to be enriched, that doesn’t have ingredients that sound like a foreign language – just whole, natural food. Don’t worry, we’ll also talk about products that are created to help us live a healthy life conveniently.

Being active without excuses
Walking, finding activities that you actually enjoy doing, or ones that you at least don’t hate.  It’s inevitable, healthy living includes exercise for those of us blessed to be able to do it. Don’t make excuses, be grateful for the exercises you are able to do.

Accountability without guilt
It’s time to use the tools of health management to measure your progress and allow you set goals for yourself based on the reality of where you are. For some of us, it takes practice to look at our health without bias, denial or guilt. Learning to detach your worth and worthiness from the number on a scale may take time, but it may be necessary at times to maintain momentum in healthy behaviors.  Weighing yourself regularly, keeping records related to healthy behaviors, knowing your health-related numbers like (BMI), blood pressure and cholesterol are all healthy reality checks to ensure you’re on the right track.