Author: CynthiaJ

• Let’s do Lunch!

  ShareIt’s Back to School time for many kids, and time to tackle the “what will the kids eat for lunch” question again.  Both of my youngest children now have two options for their lunches – either taking a packed lunch from home, or purchasing  lunch from a lunch truck or similar vendor at the school. Neither of their schools has a cafeteria, so buying or bringing along are the only options! Buying from a vendor Buying lunch every day isn’t [...]

• Say What?

  ShareYou talk to yourself, don’t you? I know I do, all the time. But although many years ago I learned about self-talk and how the things you say to yourself can affect how you feel, I haven’t thought too much about it in recent years. Not, that is, until last week when I was lucky enough to go to a short seminar about “how to use goal setting and positive self-talk to forge an indomitable spirit and mental power”, given [...]

• Sleep, the Final Frontier

  ShareI originally posted this in January, and thought it was worth sharing with those who weren’t reading PaleoChix back in the “Dark Ages” In my post on “Summertime”, I declared an intention to sleep until ready to wake up, and I’m happy to report that that part of the summer at least is going according to plan!  Whether or not such a luxury will be possible when school starts in late August is another question entirely, but I think that [...]

• The “Vision” thing

  ShareI’ve been thinking a lot about eyes recently. Mine are pretty nice looking (other than the wrinkles!), but they haven’t been perfectly functional in a very long time. I got my first pair of glasses at age 9, and still remember the moment when I stepped outside the optometrist’s office and saw the Stillwater Public Library across the street: it had BRICKS! Individual, rectangular, red bricks! Up until then I truly had no idea that the place I went every [...]

• Summertime…

  ShareSummer is here, and with it come both opportunities and challenges. Most summers over the past 15 years I have spent shuttling kids to camps, busy from early morning til late in the evening, and frequently struggling to  find a balance and rhythm for the 3 months of the “out of school” schedule. I’ve been too busy to cook, we’ve eaten “on the run” and in the car, and over-consumed packaged foods and take-out food. Many times there haven’t been [...]

• Paleo Birth and Early Childhood

  ShareGiving birth is probably the most intensely personal experience a woman can have. For our Paleolithic ancestresses the process had to have been quite simple, and natural, with a limited number of options available to ease the process and mitigate against the risks. Over the last few thousand years, “medicine” has developed and various interventions have come along, some of them great, some not so wonderful. In 1932, Dr. William Stevens (Chief of Staff in Obstetrics, Ottowa Civic Hospital) made [...]

• Motherhood Paleo-style, Part 1

  ShareI got a little carried away with writing this week’s post, so I’m breaking it up into pieces. This week, the focus is on Pregnancy Nutrition and Exercise for the PaleoMomma. Future installments will cover the Birthing Experience, and Post-Partum Nutrition and Exercise. NOTE: If you are or plan to be pregnant, breast-feeding etc.. remember that I’m not a doctor and my suggestions are based on personal experience coupled with my own investigation into the Paleo lifestyle, pregnancy and birth! [...]

• I don’t like to cook! I’m not creative! I don’t know what to make! I’m bored! I need some ideas!

  ShareI hear those excuses and complaints frequently from people who have tried shifting to Paleo, or who think they want to but don’t think they can, or who’ve been Paleo for a while and have gotten stuck in a rut (myself included, I’m afraid!). Fortunately, there’s no reason to panic or stay stumped  when you have access to a plethora of healthy, nutritious recipes! Here’s a compilation of the best resources on the web and in print  that I’ve found [...]

• Are yours large and fluffy, or small and dense?

  Share Today, we’re sharing a post written by our friend and fellow Paleo-Dude, Jonathan Allen (aka “Goat” on the CrossFit Main Page).  He originally posted this on his CrossFit Rising website. Before you read Jonathan’s article, let me give you some links to additional articles on Cholesterol, which I hope will add to his fine piece and make a somewhat sticky subject a little more understandable. Mark Sisson has several great posts, including his Definitive Guide to Cholesterol and  Eight Foods to Lower [...]