Author: Aileen Ryan

• Cave to the Crave?

  ShareCravings We all get them.  For whatever reason, we get a craving.  We start thinking about a nice juicy steak, made just the way we like.  It makes our mouths water.  Literally.  We plan that into one of our upcoming meals and when we dig in, it is oh-so-satisfying.   Mmmm-hmm. But what if the craving you have isn’t for steak but for ding-dongs?  Or a brownie?  Then what? Do you fight the cravings?  Suppress them?  Indulge in them full force [...]

• Cooking Creatively with Paleo

  ShareWith the elimination of so many standard ingredients, cooking Paleo could be very routine.  Nah, routine is too mild a word.  How about BORING.  I hear it all the time, “But WHAT do you eat?”  and “Don’t you get tired of eating the same things over and over?” People assume that a diet sans grain and sugar equal monotony.  Ah, they are not using the big muscle between their ears!  They are thinking that having short list to work with makes for repetitive and [...]

• Destination: Satisfied

  Share I decided to repost Destination: Satisfied after re-reading Stephanie’s post on food addiction.  I think this makes a good follow up and may have been missed by new readers to our blog.  Enjoy and look for a new post from Jack on Saturday! Today’s post takes Patty’s excellent post on warning signs of Eating Disorders and adds in some thoughts and tips from the book Intuitive Eating.  A few weeks back on Mark’s Daily Apple,  a poster mentioned the [...]

• Radical Hate Loss via Paleo

  ShareToday’s guest post is written by Stephanie Marie Vincent of Radical HateLoss. There are many reasons why people go Paleo. Maybe they want to lose weight or improve physical performance. They might be into the science behind it or start just because the coach at their CrossFit gym said so. From personal experience I know another reason someone might give Paleo a try. I was an overweight kid, an over weight teenager and an overweight adult. The reason? It’s complicated, [...]

• It’s All in The Approach

  ShareI’m curious as to how you approach cooking.  For me, it’s all about the process.  If you saw the movie Julie & Julia, with Julia Child walking around the market stalls in France, delighting in all the different textures and fragrances, well, that’s me.  Except for the clothing.  I dress WAY better. I’m short too.  I’m also getting distracted.  The point here is that I truly enjoy everything about cooking.  Figuring out the recipe, either by selecting one or making [...]

• Sea Hunting… Part Two

  ShareSuccess!  That about sums it up for me as far as my fishing trip.  I took a half day trip on  The Sea Hunter and was floored by how I LOVED the experience.  Several times I found myself wondering, “WHY have I never done this before?”  I caught 7 fluke,  Jack nabbed 9.  Even though they were not “keepers”- the minimum 18 inches needed to bring them home,  I still consider it a success. There’s a few reason for my [...]

• Sea Hunting… Part One

  ShareHave you ever eaten fresh fish?  No, I don’t mean from your supermarket, labeled “fresh -caught, never frozen”.  I don’t mean at a fancy restaurant where it was flown in from wherever exotic locale. I mean fresh as in was just caught hours ago?  Then you know the absolute delicious flavor that has been in my memory since I was a child. My uncle loves to fish, and would drop off large batches of fish at our house.  Not having [...]

• more than Paleo

  ShareHerm’s post on Saturday set off a long winded comment from me.  I ended up not posting in the comments, deciding to save for it a post of it’s own.  I know that the “supplements” he was referring to were the kind of muscle building and recovery potions that get lumped together in the “supplements”  category along with “supplements” like fish oil and vitamin D, as well as “supplements” like cat’s claw,  oil of oregano, milk thistle and cinnamon, and “supplements” [...]

• Coconut Oil vs. Sunscreen

  ShareI have been going to the dermatologist every winter for skin cancer screening for years, since my parents have both had skin cancers removed and a fellow instructor at my gym died from melanoma at age 35. I am fair skinned with freckles, blue eyes, a bottle blonde with naturally auburn hair. I have never really had a tan. My usual outdoor MO was slather on ridiculous amounts of sunscreen with as high an SPF as possible, wear a hat/visor, [...]