I was so awful at first at finding Whole30 approved recipes that satisfied! Those first few days of the Whole30 for my husband and low phytic acid anti-cavity diet for me felt like torture. We were hungry, felt deprived, and every meal was a feat of self-discipline and mad knife skills. (Good thing my kids […]
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The great thing about a Whole30 is that it really makes you meal plan, and you find ideas for so many vegetables in your diet, you might buy out the produce section. You might even start your day with a load of vegetables, like this “tastes like pizza breakfast hash” I discovered. If you ever
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Nobody wants to think about heartburn, stomach pain or bloating after eating but #lifehappens and when it does, we want to get better fast and naturally, just like we help our kids get over a stomach bug or diarrhea with whole foods. We try our best, don’t we, moms? We want to eat the perfect
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Get up. Shower. Get dressed. Put on makeup. And fill my water bottle. That was me. Then remind myself periodically throughout the day to take a drink. Refill and repeat. Keep track of how much I drink. Make sure I’m getting my eight glasses at a minimum. Sound familiar? At the same time I was
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Yesterday I joked about how the D.A.R.E. to keep kids off drugs program was kind of like my hubby and I peer pressuring our friends to do a Whole30 – a diet that cuts out all grains, dairy, legumes, sweeteners, and alcohol. Did you know that some would say gluten and sugar are as addictive
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There’s still a small part of me that considers myself an athlete. I played soccer for 15 years (and a few seasons of softball as well). I dabbled with intramural sports in college. I was well acquainted with exercise, stretching techniques, exercising thresholds, and metering my stamina for two-a-day practices. And I bought into the philosophy:
Walking into the “diet/nutrition” section of a bookstore is overwhelming, the sheer quantity and variety of books absolutely staggering. I wandered into that section in a bookstore last week and started scanning titles. Almost immediately I began thinking about how many different diets one could embark on and how crazy it was that there were
Many of you have been curious to get the full story about how we naturally lowered my husband’s triglyceride numbers with diet alone since I began hinting at his weight loss and lipids numbers. It’s been a long time since I shared DH’s numbers online, probably because they haven’t been very pleasant. The last time
Protein shakes, energy bars, and supplements marketed to athletes sometimes feel like the worst offenders in the processed foods world. Between the odd chemicals claiming to boost muscle mass, increase energy, and extend endurance (creatine, anyone?) and the fact that most energy bars use soy protein, ignoring the fact that animal foods are the best
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Quinoa is not a grain. Technically, it’s a chenopod, related to beets, spinach, and the ever-delicious tumbleweed. As seeds go, it’s not incredibly high in protein but runs right around average for common nuts and seeds, but if you consider it a grain – and many do, since it behaves a wee bit like one
My husband doesn’t eat quinoa, no matter how I serve it, but when he tried this gluten-free quinoa oat protein bar recipe, his feedback was something like this: “Yeah, these are pretty good – and if you consider they’re supposed to be healthy, they’re really good!” So if you, too, are not a fan of
We joke sometimes that we’ll launch a “Kitchen Stewardship® Diet Plan” with weird taglines like “Eat nuts, all the time!” or “Eggs, and more eggs!” or “Make everything yourself so you’re too tired to eat!” But truly, real food weight loss shouldn’t be a diet plan. It should be a lifestyle, a change (series of
