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Hi, guys! How’s it going? It’s been quite the whirlwind summer for us. We had three  back-to-back vacations, which, obviously, were a blast, but, whoa, we need a vacation from our vacations! If you have little kids, I feel like you totally know what I mean – staying up late, having a few cocktails, lots of laughs, but then waking up with the sun! Oy. Let’s just say, we had some FULL DAYS on vacation. Anywayyyyyyy, it’s time for the next edition of  What I’m Loving Lately ! I’ve missed a few weeks, so I have quite the round-up for you this morning! My Instant Pot – Omggggg, best purchase ever! I’m a little late to the Instant Pot craze, but it’s truly life-changing. It’s basically a fast crock-pot that works like magic. I made shredded chicken in 15 minutes and potatoes in 11! In fact, I love my instant pot so much, I actually rearranged all of our kitchen cabinets the other day to give it its own home since I’m going to need easy access to it all the time no...

My friend, former co-competitor, business partner, and writing buddy Brad Kearns had been on a “Quantified Self” kick, tracking biomarkers, testing blood sugar and ketone levels, and staying abreast of all the various ways we can quantitatively check our progress. He’s months into a ketogenic experiment and had hoped to marry his subjective impressions to objective measurements to strengthen his intuition and improve his results. Then, several weeks ago, it all changed. Using the same finger prick sample, he checked his fasting blood sugar using three separate devices. Same blood sample, three devices purporting to give accurate readings. You’d think the results would be similar, if not identical. They weren’t: That’s not just a few points here or there. That disparity is well  outside the standard deviation. The numbers can’t be trusted, because which one’s right? And if you can’t trust the numbers, what’s the point of gathering them? Brad’s results were extraordinar...

Coffee, tea or … well, both have their fans. But only one of them is traditionally drunk with crumpets at teatime, so, hey, tea definitely has that in its favor.   What’s more, a new study suggests that drinking tea, especially for women, could actually affect us at a genetic level and modulate our risk for certain diseases, especially cancer. The results were somewhat different for coffee. Big ups for tea then.   “Previous studies have reported health benefits of tea and the aim of our study was to investigate if tea consumption lead to epigenetic changes on the DNA, which might be one of the mechanisms behind these health effects,” the study’s lead author, Weronica Ek, a researcher at department of immunology, genetics and pathology in the Science for Life Laboratory at Uppsala University, in Sweden, tells Healthy Eats. “We did find epigenetic changes in women, but not in men, drinking tea.”   Ek says the study suggests that the changes may be one of the facto...

We are coming along with the planning! I went to The Knot and used their master checklist to make sure I was remembering everything. I was able to cross off things that you might need for a bigger wedding (like hotel room blocks and buses for guests) and that was nice! Also, since our timeline is short, I combined “research DJs” and “book DJ” into one simplified category. Then I took The Knot’s list and put it into my Apple Lists app so I have one small, personalized list of things we still have left to do. On the one hand, it’s pretty short now. Other the other hand, so is time! ( Source ) We knew we wanted “simplify” to be the theme of our wedding planning. We want to focus on making the day about celebrating the two of us joining lives and less about details that make a Pinterest-perfect wedding. For example, we are foregoing ceremony decorations (like flowers on the end of the aisles) and programs because that stuff only gets 15 minutes of fame anyways. But don’t you worr...

Written by: Sarah Strange   So you’re looking to lose a little weight, tone up, and see some abs or lose a handful of dimples. You do what most of us do nowadays- you fire up the Google machine and try to find someone with an answer. If you know a little bit about diet, hopefully you won’t fall prey to the landslide of gimmicks, tricks, and pills. You’ll keep looking until you find a more sensible approach. Various Clean Eating approaches dominate the search. Some are essentially the same thing with different names- and most go with their own branding, like Paleo. Some of these groups leave each other alone, or link arms, while others fight great battles over single food items or groups and define themselves along these differences. All of them seem to have strong opinions, come across as well informed, have great before & afters, and pages of health turn-around testimonials. Your head starts spinning. Then you may stumble upon the growing movement of Flexible Dieting/IIF...