Black Beans & Baked Sweet Potato Recipe

Baked Sweet Potato Recipe

Tasty Baked Sweet Potato Recipe I absolutely love sweet potatoes and black beans.  I usually just put black beans on a sweet potato and eat it up but this sounds a lot tastier. Baked Sweet Potatoes with Black Beans Serves 4 Ingredients: 15oz can black beans, rinsed 4 medium-sized sweet potatoes, scrubbed 1 tbsp extra-virgin [...]

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Looking Back, Looking Forward

2012 Goals

Looking Back We had a lot going on this past year and are ready to put it behind us.  Quite a few family members had major health issues so 2011 wasn’t the best year for us and was pretty challenging. My father in law had a major stroke and many didn’t believe he was going [...]

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A Typical Day on the Paleo Diet

1. bacon, scrambled eggs and salsa

The Paleo Diet If you haven’t heard of the paleo diet, you can read the What is the Paleo diet? post I wrote for Angie last week where I explain what the paleo diet is in more detail. But today I wanted to share what a typical day might look like on the paleo diet. [...]

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Travel Week Workouts 12/12/11

Ft. Myers Beach, FL

This week was a travel week so I did the best I could considering I also fell down on some gravel here in FL while on my business trip (I know, clutz lol) and hurt my left leg and knee.  I’ll survive and it’s been a real nice stay here but I’m ready to get [...]

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Fun Finds This Week

Friday Finds

Here are some fun finds for this week! MentorMob.com organizes the best content for eating right over the holiday season in playlist form, so weight-loss seekers do not have to spend time sifting through endless articles and ultimately finding bad fits.  Here is their playlist page for health and fitness and you can search for [...]

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What is the Paleo diet?

What is the Paleo diet

What is the Paleo diet? The background of the paleo diet is built around the premise that our genetics have not changed too much since the Palaeolithic era, otherwise known as the caveman era. Palaeolithic researchers have gone into proving that this phenomenon is true and that many of our modern food sources are the key [...]

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