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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! Growing up I was always very energetic and athletic but had a very high metabolism so weight gain was never an issue. Really didn’t start gaining weight until I moved to Florida 5 months before joining the military. I joined the military in 2007 when I was 21-years-old and at this point had gained some extra weight. For the Air Force I believe the cutoff for a height of 5’10 was 191 lbs, and I remember my recruiter putting me on the fat boy program a month before joining because I was within 10 lbs of that cutoff. That was a very high weight for me, I don’t ever remember being more than 150 lbs before...

The cake that keeps on giving! We decided to freeze half for our anniversary next year and had some of it with Mazen as a special treat our first night home. Passionfruit, raspberries and vanilla custard! (We also had a chocolate layer!) Delish! So what’s been going on in normal life? ^^Little red riding dog <3 Breakfast Sandwiches Thomas got me into breakfast sandwiches! He often makes them on the weekends and will make one for me too. I like the English muffin-style, with jam, eggs, and cheese – the best! (He doesn’t put jam on his, though! Haha.) Online Design As much as I like decorating, I sometimes lack the confidence to make bigger decisions. I flip flop between minimalism and the perfect styled look that you see in magazines. You know, the coffee table that is covered but the items still look neat? I have very little art on my walls because it makes me feel cluttered. Sometimes I think I just need a decorator! But, I don’t want to spend more than a few hundr...

Hi, guys! Happy FRIDAY to you! We had quite the fun day yesterday. It actually ended up being a double celebration since we had my sister’s and mom’s birthday to celebrate! My morning began bright and early at 5:01 AM. I sort of panicked when I woke up because I was in such a deep sleep and had no idea what was happening, but I knew I needed to shut off my alarm immediately, so I didn’t wake up Quinn. See, I’m a hot mess at all times of the day! Ha! Once I was semi-awake, I headed downstairs for tea. I know… you’re probably thinking what the hell?  And, truthfully, I can’t blame ya. I’m not much of a tea drinker (except Sugar Cookie Sleigh Ride in the winter), but I definitely overdid it with caffeine last week. I’m not sure if it was travel, time zone changes, or having Blue Bottle so close, but my body literally started to reject coffee to the point where it was making me feel ill and my skin started to break out. It’s like my body was telling me something, so I decided to ...

I’ve been lucky enough to travel to interesting places. The trips I’ve taken in the last 10-15 years, during my “Primal period,” have been the most meaningful, rewarding, and downright enjoyable because I’ve been able to view other cultures and customs through the prism of health, nutrition, and human evolution. I bring something back every trip—a tip, an insight, an alteration of an existing conviction. Travel abroad isn’t just a good time. It’s educational. What have I learned eating abroad? There’s Something Uniquely Terrible about Wheat in the U.S. I have the perfect level of sensitivity to wheat. I’m not celiac, but I’m sensitive enough that it affects me. If my sleep is bad, or I’ve had alcohol, or my stress is high, wheat reliably produces symptoms. But even those symptoms are manageable—mostly superficial bathroom stuff. This means I’m quite attuned to the quality of wheat. Wheat simply doesn’t affect me to the same degree in other countries. When I was in Greece, a c...

Thomas and I spent hours debating what to do the day after the wedding. We are taking an official honeymoon to the Mexican Riviera in two weeks, and so we didn’t want to take more than a day off of work post-wedding. But we wanted to do something special so that we weren’t just going home, unpacking, and going to the grocery store the next morning. We discussed going a mountain resort, hiking, doing a spa day, or spending the day in Richmond. Ultimately we voted just to stay put at the Clifton Inn  for one more night so we wouldn’t have to pack up and leave right away. When we woke up, we were SO GLAD we had absolutely nothing planned because all we wanted to do was relax! If I have any advice for brides-to-be, it’s to plan to do absolutely nothing the day after and postpone your honeymoon a week or two. That gives you time to unpack and re-pack and makes the days leading up to the wedding much less stressful. Many of our family members stayed at the Clifton with us, which wa...