Fall in Love with Your Salad

The fabulous Ensalada Azteca from Native Foods Cafe

I love salads. You have no idea how weird that must sound to people who knew me years ago. Not only did I not love salads, I pretty much avoided them at all cost. I used to think there was no fricken way a salad could be a real meal. Then again, in those days I [...]

No Diets, No Depravation, Just Healthy (Yummy) Eating

Hazelnut Chocolate Cream Pie - a raw dessert I made on the weekend that is completely healthy and will blow your socks off.

Eating healthy. Can this be done without leaving you feeling at least somewhat deprived? Absolutely, positively YES!!!!!!!! I am living proof. After years of baby steps toward healthier eating, I finally took a huge leap 2 ½ years ago. I went vegan (that means I don’t eat animals or animal products). I also don’t eat [...]

Does Pizza Have any Place in a Healthy Person's Life?

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So you want to eat healthier, lose some weight, or just get serious about getting fit? What’s one of the main foods that you are told right away is “off limits.” Pizza, right? What’s with the bad rap? That nice white, fluffy pizza crust that is the foundation of most pizzas is absolute crap for [...]

The Healthiest, Yummiest Pie Ever

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I’m going to give you a treat today. We workout hard, right? We think about what we eat and choose real foods and stay away from the crap foods, right? We do what we can to live strong, healthy, fit lives. Does that mean we have to miss out on the yummy tasty things out [...]

Discombobulation Strikes, Marathon Training Survives

You know that old saying  . . . Failure to plan is planning to fail. Well sometimes all the planning is there, things go crazy, and you have to scramble to make things work. Well, major discombobulation struck yesterday and Shauna and I had to do some serious scrambling yesterday. Friday, Shauna and I jumped [...]

Two Fantastic and HEALTHY Recipes

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I just had to share these two recipes with you. They were so, so good. Here’s the background. We had a potato bar at our Strongevity gathering last night. That’s the one night a week a bunch of us get together for a meal and talk about fitness, health, life, and all the stuff we [...]