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Want the best diet ever? Well it’s The Travel Diet™ and it was born through Dena Roché’s seven years as a travel journalist. She circled the globe, being wined and dined and never gained a pound. Sometimes she even lost weight. Yet she ate and drank more on the road than at home. Hmmmm. After figuring out the why behind it, she created The TravelDiet™. Following The Travel Diet, travel can be your new wellness plan; feeding your body, mind and soul in ways the Cabbage soup diet never could! Dena Roché is a luxury wellness travel expert and her site shows how a great spa can do wonders for your emotional and physical well-being, how to use the world as your gym and how to make smart and delicious food choices around the globe from gourmet dining to street eats. Deprivation is a four letter word at The Travel Diet. We show how making fun and smart choices when you travel we’ll let you see the world in style and not come back with 10 pounds as your souvenir! - Dena Roche thetraveldiet.com Sustainable living acquired a bit of a bad rap over the years. From extremist position visions of zombie apocalypse shelters to real little houses on the prairie – any way you splice it, the vision often doesn’t mesh well with the advances of our modern world. As someone who grew up watching Laura Ingles, I certainly day-dreamt about hanging out in that simpler time, but it wasn’t like I was willing to give up my Billy Idol t-shirt or Star Wars figure collection to get there. Though I opt to embrace a sustainable lifestyle today, I’m still resistant to giving up certain things like my smart phone or dishwasher. Instead, I make informed decision about the products I purchase, reduce energy use whenever and wherever possible, and reuse, repurpose and recycle. To conserve resources, to grow your own food, raise your own backyard chickens and to utilize all the glorious tools nature gifts us is not only practical, it’s doable! - Barbara Webb SustainableChick.com and Author of the book Getting Laid: Everything You Need to Know About Raising Chickens, Gardening and Preserving — with Over 100 Recipes! #OnTrendBlogs