Energy Boosting Foods

Sorry, no candy bars, sodas, chips, or fast food happy meals made this list of energy-boosing foods.  Here are my favorite foods that provide lasting, sustainable, healthy energy.  Dark Chocolate: The list starts with my favorite, dark chocolate.  Dark Chocolate naturally contains caffeine.  A couple of pieces of dark chocolate is an excellent pick-me-up snack…

Fasting Saviors

Depending on what kind of extended fast you are doing, there are helpful things you can do to make your fast more pleasant.  Have a cup or two of Black Coffee/Tea Black coffee and tea won’t break your fast and can be an excellent go-to during a fast.  Besides providing your taste buds something different…

12-Hour Intermittent Fast

     An intermittent fast or abstaining from eating food for a period of time is a practice as old as humanity itself.  Hunters and gatherers did not know when their next meal would come, going days without eating any food.  Skip ahead 12,000 years to today, and the average human has an eating window…

Healthy Lessons From Mom

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms and mom figures.  “There is no role in life that is more essential than that of a mother.”  I can attest and am forever grateful for mine.  Here are four lessons my mother has taught me throughout the years and, in turn, how it can help us all…

Pantry Purge

It may be overwhelming looking at the checklist of items above to remove from your pantry.  You may be thinking, “well, then what the heck do I eat (and drink)?”  The short and simple answer is real, whole foods—vegetables, fruit, 100% grass-fed meat, eggs, seafood, and poultry.  Also, the good news is, there are much…