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I have partnered with the National Honey Board  to bring you this blog post and the delicious recipes included. All opinions are my own. Good morning! I’m so excited to share this day-in-the-life post because it incorporates three tasty recipes that are all made with honey! I usually think of honey as a sweet treat, more for desserts and baking, but lately, it’s become one of my favorite all-day ingredients to use! Today, I’m walking you through my day and showing you some of the ways that I incorporate it into my meals all day long! I hear Qman on the baby monitor. (My “baby” is actually going to be three tomorrow. Where does the time go?!) He’s up early this morning, so I wait a few minutes before getting out of bed—hoping he will, too. He falls back to sleep for a little while, but, of course, I’m wide-awake now. I take a second to stretch in bed and then immediately put on my workout clothes. I find if I put them on as soon as I get up, I’m 10 zillion times more likely to w...

‘Twas sort of a cold day here in Cville – I am currently wearing a fleece! So guess where we went? Nobody guessed right – it was Costco! Mr. Mazen loves the samples and the huge carts : ) We worked on our manners as he politely asked for a sample and said thank you upon receiving one. (He is very good with manners, but we are always practicing!) Surprisingly he said “No thank you” to the grapefruit… …but loved this chicken dumpling! I picked up  just a few essentials ; ) You know I put toilet paper and kettle chips both in the essential category! I only go to Costco maybe every other month, so when I go, I usually fill my trunk. I spy Quaker oats!! Back at home I wanted to curl up in a dog bed and take a nap, but we had things to do and games to play! And eventually, tacos to eat. We were invited by the new Fuzzy’s Taco Shop to come in on the house to enjoy a meal, so Thomas joined us after work and we headed to Fifth Street Station (one of Cville’s newest s...

^^ Thomas’s drone is somewhere up in that tree. No sign of it! Poor little drone. I spent the morning on work stuff – a call about the Virginia 2019 Commemoration , which I am excited to be a part of, working on some Designed To Fit Nutrition plans for my current clients, doing some YNABing , and working on this post for tomorrow –> I went to the gym for class at 10:30 wearing my new favorite shorts from Athleta! I have these in black too, and they fit so well! During strength class I tweaked the left side of my back, which I hurt on Saturday trying to help Thomas lift our new door, so I had to leave class and added 20 minutes of very straight stair stepping to my workout before heading home. For lunch I made an awesome salad! I massaged this prepared kale salad with some sesame oil, rice vinegar and a splash of soy sauce, an old dressing trick I learned from Matt. I topped that with half an avocado, peppers, almonds, goat cheese and beets from T’s parents’ garden...

I use my Los Angeles surroundings as a barometer for changes in the mainstream approach to health, and it holds up quite well. Silicon Valley can claim to be the cradle of technology, but L.A. is definitely the cradle of diet and fitness trends; and the latest is most definitely keto. At the local cafe where every species of Malibu fitness enthusiast gathers to gossip and fuel up, I’m seeing fewer gels and energy bars, and way more butter coffees and discarded packets of the new powdered ketone supplement products. Sure enough, keto is entering into mainstream health consciousness everywhere. Google searches for “ketogenic diet” are at an  all-time high . The stream of keto-related email queries and comments I receive has seen a major uptick. And early this year, a major publisher approached me with a keto book proposal, which I accepted. I dove headlong into a total immersion/participatory journalism experience where I walked my talk, and pricked my finger for blood tests enough...

I’m so happy to see that sales of Diet Coke and Pepsi keep plummeting … more people are wising up to the fact that these drinks are ridiculously horrible for the body and looking for healthier options. In their place, new zero-calorie drinks and flavored waters are flooding the market, and are now taking up some serious shelf space in major grocery stores. Some of these fruity waters and fizzy “sugar free” drinks are being promoted as health drinks – but are they really? Unfortunately, many of them are  filled with controversial additives that can be sabotaging your weight and your health – even if they have no calories, look like bottled water, or have really short ingredient lists! Let’s take a closer look at what’s in some of the most popular brands like Sparkling Ice and Cascade Ice. They sell these by the case at Costco, but are they truly any better than soda? These drinks have “zero calories” because they are sweetened with Sucralos...