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Caffeine Clean: Four months without coffee

Just over four months ago, I gave up caffeine for good. It wasn’t the first time I’d done without – periodically through the last two years, usually when our coffee habits had quietly and sneakily grown past the point of healthy, we’d do a week or two of no caffeine, and then reset our consumption to a more reasonable level. [...]

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My Mother, the Rodent

For my entire life, my mother has hoarded food. Not like the “hoarders” on TV, for sure, but as long as I can remember, she has stored food in the house like she was expecting an imminent extended famine. (If the characters in The Road had stumbled onto her place, they could have lived there for years.) [...]

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It’s just exercise (Part II)

First, if you haven’t read Part I in this series, please do so now – you’ll need a little background to follow along with the discussion. Earlier this week, I talked about the idea that for most of us, our time in the gym is just exercise. [...]

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It’s just exercise (Part I)

Those three little words gave me pause, because for most of us, it is just exercise. Emphasize any word you like – it IS just exercise, or it’s JUST exercise, or my favorite… it’s just EXERCISE. Most of us aren’t professional athletes or Olympic contenders. [...]

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Whole30 Success Story Contest Winner: Jennifer’s Story

In December, we published a call for Whole30 success stories – people who had completed the Whole30 program in 2010, and had amazing, life-changing results with the program. We received HUNDREDS of entries – all which embodied the spirit and intention of the Whole30 program. [...]

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The Whole9 Envoy Extraordinaire Program

We are excited to announce a new resource for our nutrition programs – a new source of inspiration, motivation and encouragement for our readers, and an important sounding board and focus group for us. We’ll be collaborating with some hand-picked folks who have made significant contributions to the Whole9 community, enthusiastically participated (and succeeded!) with [...]

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We are thankful

For the remainder of the week, we’ll be re-posting some “best of” Whole9 articles, and putting away our computer to spend time with family and friends. Today, we’d like to reflect on the past year, and express some gratitude. [...]

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Taking note

By Melissa, who is gunning for five gorgeous dead hang pull-ups Last weekend, we visited CrossFit Denton County and presented both our Foundations and Trainer’s nutrition workshops.  We brought along a special guest for this particular Trainer’s event – Dutch Lowy, CrossFit Level II trainer, competitive Olympic weightlifter and strength and conditioning educational speaker.  Dutch [...]

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The conscientious omnivore

As we’ve got the “choices” part down, we’ve spent the last few months expanding on the concept of “eating healthy food.” The natural place for us to start was taking a good, hard look at our food quality – specifically, where our animal protein comes from. You are what you eat, quite literally, and we believe they health of the animals you eat impacts your own health in a far more direct manner than, say, the quality of your vegetables or fruits. [...]

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Finding our voice

We finally received our advance copy of Robb Wolf’s new book, The Paleo Solution. Dallas and I have been taking turns reading it as fast as we can, making notes for our review (coming next week). Last night, while re-reading the section on sleep, I came to this line: [...]

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