As many of you probably know if you read more responsible Paleo bloggers than me, Paleo f(x) went down last week, April 11-13, in Austin, Texas. It was the usual amazing hoopla, with friends, food, and fun. This was my fourth Paleo gathering, so I won’t retread all the ins-and-outs, but suffice to say, if you haven’t come to meet your tribe, then you’re not really living. Panelists from left: Ryan, Wolf, Smith, Max, Durant, Miller. (Thanks to Chris Ryan for photo!) Now that I’…
About the AuthorJoshua Weissman was an overweight teenager, who, like many overweight teenagers was bullied and tormented by other kids. Unlike most, however, Joshua decided that he wasn’t going to let others dictate who he was, he would make a change. Even though he was only 15 at the time he realized that real food, rather than processed diet food, was the key to turning his life around. Getting into the kitchen, getting his hands dirty, tasting, smelling, reconnecting with his food helped him reconnect with himself. 100lbs later, Joshua is …
Today is the official release date of The Paleo Kitchen. George and I have been creating this cookbook and waiting to share it with people for over a year now and we could not be more proud of how it came out. The book is full of over 100 brand new paleo/primal recipes with a picture for every recipe, tips and tricks to starting paleo and keeping with it, along with tear out pages to put on your fridge with helpful hints to keep your produce lasting longer. Today we …
I am so excited about my first Vitamix giveaway! Every time I ask what you all one to win, I get about a hundred responses for Vitamix. Giving away a Vitamix has been a little out of my budget, but […]
So it has been some time since my last blog, and I apologize for that. I was heavily involved in a program to become a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner which I successfully completed. Many have asked when I was going to start up again – so here it is. I must admit that this blog was one that I wrote last year that was published in Today’s Charlotte Woman magazine. I wanted to share it again this year since many were not able to read it due to fact that …
I almost never bake, so the fact that I baked something from scratch is pretty awesome. And what’s more awesome is that these muffins are not only gluten- and grain-free, but they’re also nut-free, coconut-free and even flourless. I’m not kidding! I found a recipe for basic Paleo muffins from The Paleo Mom while I was developing a meal plan for a client, and thought they’d be a really great recipe to try out since I don’t really like baking but I…
Dear Friends, It’s been seven years since I started this blog. I started as a young mother who needed an outlet – a community. And I found it. Then when I found my current lifestyle, it transformed into a food blogging/Paleo/CrossFit/Gluten-Free/Family hybrid blog. It’s opened doors for me – professionally and personally – and for that I am grateful. But last week, the day a monster took a score of babies from their parents, I was out of the house working a 12-hour …
Ok, so after I deleted the 145 SPAM comments from the same IP address (really, people? You didn’t think I’d catch that?), it was down to 92 comments to choose from. In order to do it as fairly as possible, I used a random number generator to choose the winner. These are the results: Comment #6 was my “A. Mel”!! Please check your email (and SPAM folder just in case) as I need your address to give to the Verizon people to send your new DROID RAZR and …
Hey friends, Today is a special day because our dear friends Juli and George get to finally share The Paleo Kitchen (their brand new Paleo cookbook) with the world. Okay, so yesterday was the special day, and we are awful friends for not getting this post up yesterday, but today can be special too. We’ve been excitedly waiting for this book to come out, because we know it’s going to help a lot of people discover Paleo and eat really, really well. About three months ago, just before …
Ask any self-taught food bloggers — including Dave and I — how they learned the basics of food photography, and they’re likely to say the book Plate to Pixel by photographer Helen Dujardin. Last weekend, Dave and I took off to Atlanta, Georgia for an intensive food photography weekend with Helene and two of her colleagues. Our instructors were Mindi Shapiro (prop styling), Tami Hardeman (food styling), and Helene. With Dave heading to grad school in September, we realized it was time for me to up my food …
I’m in love with Portland. There I said it. This is one of the cutest cities I’ve ever been to and I’ve only been here for about 14 hours, 8 of which I was sleeping. It is a food heaven, super green, really happy town. I sound like a total hippy right now, but I don’t care. It’s amazing. I want to come back here, go boating and rent a house for a couple months. That’s seriously a new goal of mine. And it doesn’t …
Most parents I know want their kids to live long, healthy lives. OK…correction. ALL parents I know want their kids to live long, healthy lives. I’m sure there are parents who don’t, but I don’t know any, and if I did, I would un-know them very quickly. I grew up eating Lucky Charms, Coco Puffs, Bagel Bites, Blue Bell ice cream by the half-gallon, and soda. Looking back to that epoch of my life based on what I know now, it’s hard for me to swallow the …
Okay okay okay, so only one of these explicitly promotes “paleo”. There are a few general guidelines I followed when putting together this list: Paleo isn’t just about humans eating an evolutionarily appropriate diet, but also eating plants and animals that are being fed an evolutionarily appropriate diet. Grain fed ruminants, vegetarian fed chickens, and […] Evolvify recommends this paleo diet compatible body hacking program…
It is rare that I will get a client who is eating too much food. Often, it’s the other way around. Which makes sense, given what we have been taught about weight loss. It’s simple, really: “Eat less. Exercise more”. Hmm. OK. My job (in terms of weight loss clients) really should be obsolete then, right? If it really were as simple as eating less and exercising more, most of my clients
Have you ever heard of the ketogenic diet? Also known as “keto”, “nutritional ketosis”, or “keto-adapted” diet? What Is The Ketogenic Diet? Basically, it’s a diet wherein you decrease your carbohydrates and let your body start using ketones from fat as fuel instead. It’s a high-fat, moderate-protein, low-carbohydrate diet. And when I say low-carbohydrate, I mean in the range of about 0-15{4dd43735419885e2296c717ac798d5bb3483a708b4c1340b99a8b965668bd4df} of calories. For an average person , that limits carbs to about 75g max, and usually a lot less. …
; When I received an email asking if we’d be interested in participating in this promotion, I almost made a (very poor) snap decision that it probably wasn’t something that would appeal to the majority of people who visit Chowstalker, Dessertstalker or this blog. But that was before I knew all of the details! Like, […]
I recently have had the pleasure to be in contact with Russ Crandall from thedomesticman.com! If you haven’t checked out his site yet, it’s a must see. He has a new book coming out too called The Ancestral Table: Traditional Recipes for a Paleo Lifestyle. He agreed to give us an exclusive sneak peak into his book and is letting me feature a recipe! I found this recipe to have flavors that I love! Don’t let the spices scare you off, because I use many of them in my…
When people find out I’m Paleo, I’m almost always faced with some sort of debate. I’ve been thrown into a lot of arguments over Paleo (I mean, a LOT of arguments). And while usually I’m thinking to myself, “Can’t you just let me eat my bun-less burger in peace?” I also start thinking back to all the Success Stories I’ve interviewed for this site. If you want proof that Paleo works (or if you need help convincing someone else) I’ll …
Evolvify was started in part as an extension of a book I was working on synthesizing and applying evolutionary psychology to branding. For whatever reason, when I started shopping that idea around to agents and publishers, I was nudged more in the direction of “paleo applied to lifestyle” in a wider sense. Even though I hadn’t begun […] Evolvify recommends this paleo diet compatible body hacking program…