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Planning is Key When Traveling
Planning is Key When Trying to Stay Paleo When Traveling Now that I am more recovered from my trip there are a few things I wanted to share from the overall experience with regard to eating well and health and fitness. First off, it’s Vegas and we all know the Vegas of the strip and…
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Stop Lying To Yourself about Your Nutrition
Whole Life Challenge: Are You Being Truthful? We are headed into the second week of the Whole Life Challenge at CrossFit Impavidus and for some the first week was mind blowingly hard. For others, it has opened their eyes and they see how easy it can be. It just takes some attention. Most of us…
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Resources to Start your Paleo Journey
Just looking into Paleo? Or doing a Whole Life Challenge for the First time? Here’s a good group of resources where you can begin your research… Practical Paleo & Primal – How to Sustainably Eat Better to Look & Feel Better Mark’s Daily Apple (Primal expert) Robb Wolf (Paleo expert) Balanced Bites (nutritionist specializing in Paleo) Elana’s Pantry PaleoPlan Well…
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Too Much Fat in My Diet
I was talking to Coach Jerry this AM about my re commitment to being more mindful of what I am eating and see if It moves the needle. He said something that struck me — he asked me how many nuts i eat on a given day. I think that may be the key! I eat too…
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14 Best Sites to Learn About Paleo
I get asked a lot about Paleo and how to do ‘it’. With the Whole Life Challenge coming up at CFI — i am sure the questions will be the same. Top 14 Sites I use to help me stay on the Paleo track! The Beginner’s Guide to the Paleo Diet Pinterest: Recipes Encouraged Paleo Foods…
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NPR Talks Paleo Eating
We Evolved To Eat Meat, But How Much Is Too Much? But modern medicine tells us that too much meat is bad for us, so what’s a consumer to do? During a workout at a CrossFit gym, a gathering spot for lots of paleo-enthusiasts, Durant told me it’s no longer a challenge for him to avoid…
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Paralyzed by Paleo Perfectionism
Diane writes a great post about Paleo Perfectionism. I often tell people that they have to do what works for them –and slowly easing into it or finding parts of this perspective that does work is better than not doing it at all. One size does not fit all — yes eating no gluten, no…
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Sugar, Not Fats and Oils, is What is Causing the Obesity Epidemic
Why are we so fat? We have not become greedier as a race. We are not, contrary to popular wisdom, less active – a 12-year study, which began in 2000 at Plymouth hospital, measured children’s physical activity and found it the same as 50 years ago. But something has changed: and that something is very…
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Being Reasonable about Nutrition
Food fascism and the 80/20 rule There’s no doubt in my mind that a Paleo diet is what we’ve evolved to eat. That’s hard to argue with. But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to be healthy while eating foods that are not considered “Paleo”, regardless of what the Paleo zealots will tell you. Some of…