Welcome back to the Healthy Body, Healthy Mind Book Club! This is the final week of thought questions for The Pleasure Trap by Doug Lisle.

This Week's Thought Questions:

1. Do you agree about the myth of moderation? 

2. Do you agree that you should change everything all at once (ie., diet, exercise, drugs/alcohol/cigs) instead of 1 at a time?

Please leave your comments below or at Goodreads, you can also weigh in on previous questions there.

Don't forget, …

You've got questions, I've got answers!

1. I've been plant-based for about 3 months and I'm not losing any weight. I'm thinking that it's because of all the carbs. I may be eating more than one serving because it's so good. Any ideas?

As for weight-loss, have you tried our meal plans? We have so many success stories and having a plan in place helps you with portion control. That aside, you can see this blog post about losing …

When I first started blogging, I used to get jealous when other bloggers got free swag and I didn’t. Then I started getting swag too, and that was nifty, but I never found time to actually review it. The result? I would just feel like a jerk for accepting free stuff and never reviewing it.

When I lived in St. Maarten all last year, I had to decline because I lived abroad but now that I’m back in the states, …

I've been getting a lot of questions about being plant-based or vegan during pregnancy so I thought I'd put a blog post together on this happy topic. (Congrats to all the expectant Herbies!)

Since I haven't been pregnant myself, I sought out for tips and recommendations on HH's Facebook and several wonderful suggestions for books and websites came in (see below). 

I'm not a medical doctor or nutritionist (so this isn't medical advice, please talk to your doctor! …

Last week we met Jennifer, who has more energy and lost 50lbs after going plant-based. This week we meet Pragati, our first international Herbie of the Week!

HH: What brought you to the United States?

I moved to US in the early part of 2000 for a post-doctoral fellowship at the Univ. Texas at Austin. I'd just finished graduate school in India and at the time, the US was the place to be for folks who wanted to make …