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Sweet 60: I’m More Fit Than Ever!

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It’s Friday, everyone! And that means another Primal Blueprint Real Life Story from a Mark’s Daily Apple reader. If you have your own success story and would like to share it with me and the Mark’s Daily Apple community please contact me here . I’ll continue to publish these each Friday as long as they keep coming in. Thank you for reading! I read The Primal Blueprint a little over a year ago and was inspired to try it. For decades I’ve been health conscious but have had little success avoiding the yo-yo cycle of weight gain/weight loss. The worst mistake I made was succumbing to the low fat craze in the 80s. I was a marketer’s dream! I became aware of the perils of “white poison” (sugar, bread, etc.) about 10 years ago. As a nurse anesthetist, I was seeing an alarming number of children coming to surgery either overweight or obese with some of the maladies that come with it. Most notable were high blood pressure, high lipids, and depression. They were already taking a host of

Primal Challenge Point: Slow Down

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With the holidays just behind us, I’d say this weekend offers the perfect opportunity to slow life down and spend some time in flagrant leisure. The holidays are fun of course (they certainly offer some good parties…), but several weeks’ worth of erratic schedules, a full social calendar, and extra to-dos can take a toll—particularly for some of us. It’s little wonder people quietly welcome the return to routine after it’s all over. January comes with a good deal of capital for self-improvement, but what if we also claimed it as a time for self-centering? If we didn’t have the agendas of the outside world to consider, how would we choose to spend our days? What rhythm truly suits us best? While most of us won’t be quitting our 8-5 jobs and living like Grok did, we can be more intentional stewards of our free time. What will we do with that freedom? From Primal Connection : “How do I see the connection between slow living and Primal living? I think slow living on some level reclai

Snow Storm Party

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We got quite the snow storm on the South Shore yesterday. It was crazy. The snow and wind gusts came fast and furious! But I was more than happy to have a “snow day” with my family. Actually, one of Quinn’s teachers at school said we should have a “storm party” to celebrate, so we called it that instead. I mean, doesn’t storm party sound a lot more fun!? When we woke up on Thursday morning, I expected to see the ground covered in snow, but there wasn’t a single flake. In fact, the snow wasn’t even expected to start until nearly 8:30 AM, so we decided to get ourselves ready for the gym. Mal and I figured we’d be snowed in for the rest of the day, so might as well get out while we could! Before we left the house, we ate breakfast. For me, it was rice cakes with peanut butter and banana. For Quinn, it was apple slices eaten via tongs. Hey, whatever works, right? 🙂 Apple mustache! 🙂 Fun gym workout! I’m feeling a whole lot better since my injury, but I still scaled the Box Jumps t

2018 Word Of The Year

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It’s time for the 2018 Word of the Year! I’m excited about this one because it’s a totally different mindset change from the previous two. In 2016 my word was PRESENT because my future was so unknown. In 2017 my word was INTENTIONAL because I wanted to focus on action rather than reaction. In 2018 the word is… Last fall I reconnected with a friend of mine from Charlotte, Diana, who writes the blog  The Chic Life.  She wrote  this post  about her divorce that was similar to my Things I’m Afraid To Tell You post. I found her post to be so inspiring, especially when she talked about vulnerability: “But as Brené Brown has taught us, vulnerability leads to connection. So here’s me trying to allow myself to be vulnerable. If nothing else, my hope is that someone reading this post who is going through a similar situation will see that they’re not alone.” I LOVED reading her thoughts because c o n n e c t i o n is what inspired me to starting a blog a decade ago. I wanted to share

Clean Eating Roasted Chickpeas Recipe

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These clean eating roasted chickpeas are the perfect snack while I’m enjoying this new time warping discovery of mine. You see, I have a new addiction. The Pinterest.com web site is nothing short of… Read more → from The Gracious Pantry http://ift.tt/2lYM0HI