I have bitten my fingernails for nearly my entire life. It’s disgusting and unhygienic and blah blah, but here’s the thing: since I’ve started eating paleo my nails and hair have never healthier. My hair stylist actually asked me if I was taking prenatal vitamins since my hair was growing so quickly and was so [...]
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I have wanted to go to a spin class for a few years but always talked myself out of it. I had a million reasons, most of them involving me thinking I was too fat for those tiny bikes and the deep appreciation I have for an intact vulva. I’d talked to a lot of [...]
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Eating healthfully isn’t yet engrained in my head. I have slip ups and cheat days and blatant “I will eat what I want because I am a big girl” moments, which are always (every. single. time) followed with a feeling of dread, physical discomfort, and guilt. It continues to happen, though the instances are fewer [...]
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The Whole30 is rigid and inflexible. I love it. Left to my own devises I have very little self control. I mean, I have some. I lost twenty pounds via counting calories. That’s all about control. But I’m discovering more and more that I need clear-cut boundaries in order to succeed. I am very task-oriented [...]
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I researched the Whole30 about two weeks before I started it to know exactly what I was getting myself into. The bottom line: lots of vegetables. Some fruit. Some meat, mostly grass-fed and organic. Good fats, like those found in nuts (not peanuts, which are technically legumes. The more you know!) and avocado. But yeah. [...]
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The biggest adjustment is breakfast. I’m not enthusiastic about breakfast time. Breakfast food is my favorite and has been for a very long time. Now I just eat eggs. It’s very uninspired. I suppose that’s my own fault. * * * * * * I’ve been sick for the past ten days with some viral [...]
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We built a bed, folks. Specifically, we built this bed. Specificallyer, Jason built the bed and I stood around and constantly asked him if he needed help. He didn’t, and I’m not sure the result would be so great if I had so much as picked up a paintbrush. It started because Garrett and Emily [...]
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If I had read this list before getting a puppy it probably wouldn’t have changed my mind at all because, well, PUPPY, so I know that no one will really find this list by Googling “things to think about before getting a puppy.” There is nothing thinking about anything before getting a puppy. People will [...]
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December kind of got away from us in terms of eating well and sticking to our budget. We ate exactly one meal at home when Garrett and Emily were here, which means we a) spent more than we’d planned and b) consumed more than we’d planned. Enter the reinstatement of the weekly meal planning. The [...]
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I have gained two pounds in the last two weeks and haven’t quite mustered up the motivation to start counting calories again. I’m living my life the way an “after” would, though I’m clearly a “before.” Hence the weight gain. Something I noticed when I wasn’t counting calories was how, most of the time, I [...]
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