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My top 5 Paleo essentials

I’ve done a  few Paleo challenges in my time. But these days, the husband and I like to eat a modified Paleo diet…meaning we give ourselves flex-days occasionally (weddings! backpacking trips!) and have made a few exceptions for foods we…

Paleo Fail-eo* 2.0

*I totally stole that line from Jen. But it does sum up nicely how I felt after this Paleo challenge, the second one I’ve done this year. (To refresh your memory…Paleo means no sugar, no grains and no dairy. Yes…

Paleo 2.0

Just when you thought it was safe to come back to my blog…well, it’s not. Mainly because I start another Paleo challenge today. Why would I ever do such a thing? Oh, you mean besides this? “Research has strongly associated…

Post-Paleo Ponderings

So I did it. Went Paleo, made a lot of jokes and then somewhere during the challenge, totally amazed myself. Six weeks of eating like a caveman. And all I have to show for it are these six-pack abs. (No…

Paleo Update: Holy heck–I’m halfway done!

I’m at the mid-way point of my Paleo challenge. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, perhaps it’s best to start over here with me explaining why eating like a caveman is going to be an interesting experiment….

Paleo Update: Week 1

I’ve been doing the Paleo nutritional challenge (I mentioned that I hate the word diet, right?) for nine days now. Not a ton of time, but enough to begin to see some changes and feel some differences. A few things…

Eat like a Caveman

This is my challenge for the next six weeks. Starting tomorrow, my diet can be summed up in this one line: meats, vegetables, nuts & seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. You read that correctly. No dairy, no…