A quick update before we decide today if being gluten-free is ‘enough’! Since last post – I moved! I didn’t kill Drew or anyone else, although they likely wanted to end me at a few points along the way – but I’d say it was a reasonable success! We now live about 20 mins drive… [Read more…]
April 23, 2011
It’s guessing game time! I’m going to give you a clue, you guess what it is, then we’ll both find out if you’re on pace to win what’s behind door #1! The big prize here could be a longer, healthier life – if you’re down for that prize then giddy-up, let’s play, WHATS. THAT. HEALTH FOOD!!!! 1) It… [Read more…]
February 20, 2011
Most people, at some time in their life will try to lose weight. After a baby, after college binge-ing, before a wedding, before a race – at some point – everyone will probably try to shed some weight. And there are thousands of gimmick-y ways to drop that weight – what you don’t think about… [Read more…]
December 26, 2010
With the holidays came at least a few conversations around most dinner tables about exercise, nutrition, and health for the New Year. Here are the top misunderstandings I heard over the holiday about gluten intolerance, and the truth about each of them. Being misinformed is a dangerous thing (think Atkins diet and the ‘all carbs,… [Read more…]
November 26, 2010
I’m rushing around today getting ready to leave for vacation with Drew – it’s our 3rd one together – and I just got news that it’s going to be the one that I go into with the best health out of all the years he’s known me!! You see, our first vacation together was before… [Read more…]
September 22, 2010
500 days of living gluten free living. I had no idea that mini-milestone was fast approaching, but from Day 1 to today, #500, gluten free eating has gone from “oh, poor you….what’s gluten?” to the “HOT diet trend of athletes everywhere!” Thankfully, gluten free eating is NOT a diet trend like low-carb, sugar-free, etc. It is a real, scientifically… [Read more…]
June 6, 2010
I am non-Celiac gluten sensitive. It means I don’t have Celiac disease, but absolutely should not eat gluten if I want to live to my full life expectancy, as a happy, healthy, fit person. There’s a 1 in 33 chance you, yes YOU, are also non-Celiac gluten sensitive, and a 1 in 133 chance you’re… [Read more…]
April 6, 2010
As you know if you read this blog for any amount of time, I am gluten intolerant. Not Celiac level intolerant. Mildly gluten intolerant. And if you read posts here, or have heard me on my soapbox, you know that “mildly gluten intolerant” does not mean it’s ‘more OK’ to allow a little gluten to sneak… [Read more…]
January 3, 2010
What a fantastic thing to wake up in the New Year & read THIS! A huge front page article on Huffington Post detailing how gluten is such a dangerous protein to much of the population! I’ve spent almost 1 year living Gluten Free & over the months, my passion for others going GF to live… [Read more…]
December 16, 2009
Two of the easiest (and cheapest!) things you can do to manage your health are -exercise & -eat well. Of late, there has been a massive over-saturation of food-products that claim to help “lower this!” or ”increase your fiber intake that!” (very few of which actually are what they claim). This over-saturation does make it more challenging to know what is truly… [Read more…]
December 4, 2011
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