May 2011
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28 Day Healthy Eating Challenge: Day 1
“Who starts a diet on a holiday?”
My dad asked me this yesterday and, honestly, I was asking myself the same thing when I was invited to a Memorial Day cookout at my parents’ house. It’s only day one and already I’m having to turn down an invitation to a barbecue. This is gonna be harder than I thought.
It’s not that they wouldn’t have accommodated me,...
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Well, now that I've decided to show up...
I’m currently taking a break from cleaning my demolished kitchen and trashing all the crap food in our house. The thing that excites me most about the Engine 2 diet really isn’t about how good my butt is going to look in a few weeks; it’s that my chicken finger-lovin’ husband is going to eat the same thing that I’m going to eat! Being a lactose intolerant vegetarian...
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“Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with...”
– 3 John 2
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“Don’t eat bear balls. Eat healthy, delectable, plant-based foods so that...”
– Rip Esselstyn, The Engine 2 Diet
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The Carnivore's Dilemma
I’m a meat eater. I always have been, really. Sure, my parents forced veggies upon me as a kid (with varying degrees of success), but for the majority of the twenty-nine years that I’ve spent on the planet earth, I’ve eaten meat, and very little else.
It doesn’t help matters that I’ve grown up in The South, where everything is fried and covered in cheese, served...
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Hello again, friend of a friend.
I always suck at first blog entries.
I’ve done a lot of first blog entries over the years. Mostly that’s because I lose interest after a while or run out of things to talk about or, in most cases, I get bummed that nobody seems to be reading my blog and that if I wanted to talk to myself about myself, I could just walk around and do so like a crazy person instead of going to the...
