by Julia | Jul 14, 2012 | Food Basics, Food Fuel
I used to be a delinquent grocery store grape eater. Just a few grapes here and there, you know? A few nonchalant bites would get me through shopping the aisles after a long day. Nevermind the dirty film resting on the purple fruit, or the fact that they weren’t...
by Julia | Jul 10, 2012 | Food Basics, Food Fuel
“Studies show that breakfast eaters tend to weigh less than breakfast skippers.” “Breakfast kickstarts metabolism, helps concentration, and improves performance in school and at work.” Sound familiar!? Question: Have you taken the...
by Julia | Jul 6, 2012 | Food Fuel, Real Food Tips
I love lard. Eggs cooked in lard. Chicken cooked in lard. Sweet potato hash fried in lard. Are you cringing yet? I grew up thinking that bacon and its grease was the devil. Didn’t we all? Not our grandparents or great-grandparents, necessarily. In the 19th century and...
by Julia | Jul 5, 2012 | Diet Dogma & Weight Loss, Food Fuel, Life Fuel, Soul
I’ve always been fascinated with the link (or missing link) between religion and health. On my own journey as a non-denominational Christian a few years ago, I couldn’t help but notice the same staggering statistics of overweight and obese Americans in the...
by Julia | Jul 2, 2012 | Fitness & Movement, Sports Fuel
Lately, I’m obsessed with working out outside. I often hijack playgrounds, stealing the monkey bars from the kids for pull-ups, using play structures for handstands, and basically make a fool of myself in front of stay-at-home mothers and their young ones. Why...
by Julia | Jun 27, 2012 | Diet Dogma & Weight Loss, Food Fuel, Healthy Living, Life Fuel
Deeply engrossed in Deep Nutrition: Why Our Genes Need Traditional Food by Catherine Shanahan, MD on a plane ride to NYC, I could feel the woman sitting next to me glancing at the pages. I used to play slot at daisy slots during my free time. Earlier in our flight,...
by Julia | Jun 14, 2012 | Baked Goods, Recipe Fuel, Sports Food, Sweets & Snacks
Despite attempts to avoid cooking at all costs in the past, I have succumbed to this new passion of mine…fervently!! There’s something addicting to whipping up a new concoction in the kitchen with my own hands, and making it into brilliant deliciousness (with just the...
by Julia | Jun 14, 2012 | Life Fuel, Soul, Stress
Honestly, who leaves a Christmas tree up for six weeks? My husband, Kyle, and I reluctantly took our huge, ten-foot Christmas tree down after its epic six-week stint through Thanksgiving, Christmas and the New Year. We went big this season, with it being Kyle’s...
by Julia | Jun 14, 2012 | Life Fuel, Soul, Stress
Five months ago, I was on a plane home from a MUCH needed four-day boost in Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain. I’m positive that seasonal depression is real, especially after living in Germany for a year!! The weather forecast? Rain, clouds, and 3 hours of...
by Julia | Jun 14, 2012 | Life Fuel, Soul
This past fall, my husband and I were crazy enough to host four people in six weeks!! It was a blast, but also an interesting learning curve to figure out “proper hospitality” as newlyweds. We do happen to currently live in Germany, too, so it adds an...
by Julia | Jun 14, 2012 | Food Basics, Food Fuel
We’ve all been hit with the organic food wave. I fought it for a while, not wanting to join the wheatgrass shot-drinking, “Coexist” sticker hippies. Isn’t it just a fad any way? An apple is an apple…is an apple, right!? Last summer,...
by Julia | Jun 14, 2012 | Food Basics, Food Fuel
For all of you milk-chugging lovers out there, I can’t say I’ve ever been a huge fan. As a teenager, rather than spending the money my parents gave me to buy milk at lunch, I deviously saved it to spend on clothes instead. I mean, we all know that what we...
