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4 Misunderstandings About Carbs and Stress

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The relationship between stress and carbohydrates is confusing, with seemingly contradictory arguments bouncing around the online health sphere. There are those who say high-carb diets cause stress, and that eating more fat and fewer carbs is the solution. There are those who say high-fat diets increase stress and eating carbs ameliorates it. Who’s right? They can’t both be right, can they? Well… You’d be surprised. Let’s dig into four common carb questions and assertions. “Stress Increases Carb Cravings.” This is well-established. You have a terrible day at the office, your kids have appointments twenty miles apart within fifteen minutes of each other, the traffic is backed up to your driveway, you’re late for work, the dog needs a walk, you haven’t even thought about what to make for dinner, you slept four hours last night—it adds up. People deal with a lot. And in that moment, a carbohydrate-based snack really does seem to take the edge off . Across millions of years of ho

Build-Your-Own CAVA Bowl

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It’s no secret that I love CAVA and would eat it everyday if I could. There’s just something about the variety of flavors and ingredients that satisfies the mind, body, and soul. The CAVA nutrition is especially great because you can totally customize your order to your individual taste and dietary preferences. If you love CAVA hummus, you can have it. If you’re all about the CAVA splendid greens or that funky CAVA green sauce, they’re yours to try. And, of course, you need some CAVA “Crazy Feta” in your bowl. Be sure to make THAT happen. I promise you won’t be disappointed. What are the best CAVA combinations? Long story short, my obsession with CAVA bowls has inspired many of my own meals at home lately. It’s so easy to throw together a CAVA-inspired bowl from whatever you have in your kitchen. Anything goes and the options are truly endless. My advice: Pick a “base,” one or two carb options, a source of protein, and then switch up the sauces and toppings, so you creations never

10 & 2 Q: Should You Eat Fat To Burn Fat?

Have you heard the advice ‘you have to eat fat to burn fat’? Is this the golden truth? Or a crock of lies? Check out my response in this short video: https://youtu.be/PtGdyxhfh74 Don’t have headphones (or just wanna skim)? Full transcript below: Nicki : Rob, there are some highly visible people in the keto community shall we say, that sort of eschew your take and people like Tyler and Louise from Keto Gains Approach, and Ted [Naiman 00:00:19] as well, that people that have a large amount of body fat on their person shouldn’t eat a lot of fat on a Keto diet. Your guys’ perspective tends to be if you have a lot of stored fat, you don’t want to be eating a ton of fat. Whereas, there are other people in the community that say that is one of the biggest keto mistakes you could make is to stop eating fat, even though you have fat on your person. Robb : If there wasn’t a little old lady parked in front of us, I would punch a fucking hole through my steering wheel here. This is one of

Front Porch Rockin’

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Just your regular sunny day crew! New Porch Furniture In anticipation of spring, I bought some new rockers for our front porch! I got the highly-rated Nantucket Rockers from Grandin Road (the same ones my sister has) along with these cushions  in Guava from Frontgate. Considering that the previous chair on the porch was a petite-sized rocking chair I spray painted a decade ago, these are a huge improvement! So big and comfortable and great for watching Mazen and the neighbors run back and forth. We are looking forward to many sunny days on the porch this summer. Note the hand on chest. That is not some cute gesture – he’s just wiping Goldfish crumbs on his shirt. Big boy got to go to a 7pm Hoos game with Thomas last week. We thought it wouldn’t be a big deal for him to stay up past bedtime on a school night just this once. We were wrong. Never doing that again! At least he had fun AT the game Lunch This post is sandwiched between all my breakfasts for the week (toast yes