Balanced Bites Podcast

Balanced Bites Podcast: Episode #2: Celiac Disease, Fertility & Paleo, Weight Gain, Vitamin D, PMS, Raw Food

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Episode #2 Topics:  1: Celiac Disease [5:04] 2: Fertility and Paleo [16:09] 3: Weight gain (wanted) without eating a lot of fruit [27:35] 4: Vitamin D [35:17] 5: PMS & carb cravings [43:00] 6: Raw food, Intermittent Fasting & Ketosis [47:05] Links Chris Kresser’s Healthy Baby Code Dense sources of Paleo carbs. Notes Check out more on this topic from Robb Wolf’s …

Real Life Changes – Lori’s Story “Small Tweaks Matter… Go Paleo”

Diane Sanfilippo Featured, Lifestyle & Mindset, Testimonial, Weight Loss 2 Comments

This is a recent testimonial from one of my clients, Lori, who lives in Ohio. When Lori first came to me, she was still eating along the lines of what many consider to be Conventional Wisdom (CW) around what is healthy food: low fat and whole grains. She had already begun to make shifts towards Paleo, but was certainly experiencing …

Balanced Bites Podcast

Balanced Bites Podcast: Episode #1: Paleo Pocast, Still Hungry After Lunch, New to Paleo, Alternatives to Water & Weight Loss Stall

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Episode #1 Topics:  1: Paleo podcast critical mass? 2: Still hungry after lunch, what’s missing? 3: New to Paleo: How much fruit? Milk & cheese? 4: Alternatives to water? 5: Weight loss stall, why? Note: we’ll get time stamps noted for each question with future episodes. The episodes will all be available in iTunes soon!  [smart_track_player url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/balancedbites/1__Welcome_to_The_Balanced_Bites_Podcast.mp3″ title=”#1: Paleo Pocast, …

5 Questions with “Make it Paleo” authors Bill Staley & Hayley Mason

Diane Sanfilippo Featured, Five Questions With, Paleo and Primal 10 Comments

I recently had the great pleasure of not only meeting, but also becoming great friends with Hayley Mason and Bill Staley, authors of the popular blog The Food Lovers Primal Palate and now, the brand-new, amazingly beautiful and completely useful cookbook Make it Paleo. This young and vibrant dynamic duo exudes enthusiasm for the Paleo lifestyle and I feel lucky to …

Announcing: The Balanced Bites Podcast

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I’ve been searching high and low for the right co-host to tackle a podcast with me. Well, the day has come and now I have some VERY exciting news: The Balanced Bites Podcast is getting ready to launch! Let me introduce you to my fantastic co-host, Liz Wolfe. Liz runs the popular blog, Cavegirleats.com and was first introduced to evolutionary nutrition through …

FAQs: What are good Paleo carbs to eat?

Diane Sanfilippo Carbohydrates, Health & Wellness 97 Comments

I’ve decided to start a bit of a series of FAQ posts since it seems like a good idea to get some of these questioned answered up in writing to share with my readers, and for you all to share with others who likely ask the same questions of you. So, here we go… starting it off with one I’ve …

Real Life Changes – Emily’s Story: “Every choice matters.”

Diane Sanfilippo Featured, Lifestyle & Mindset 9 Comments

This is a recent testimonial from one of my clients, Emily, who lives in San Francisco. In the middle of my 29th year, obviously anticipating the big 3-0, I found myself fat, unhappy, depressed and battling chronic ‘stomach issues’ (to put it tactfully). I looked in the mirror and didn’t like what I had become. The scale was tipping 181 pounds …

10 Things I Learned at MovNat: On Life, Movement and Being in Nature

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Last week I spent 5 days in Mt. Nebo, WV with Erwan LeCorre, Vic Verdier and Clifton Harski learning the pillars of MovNat while camping at Summersville Lake Retreat. I learned a lot over those five days, some of it directly from the instructors, some from my peers, and some just from the experience of being in nature and observing …

Introducing The Healthy Baby Code by Chris Kresser, L.Ac.

Diane Sanfilippo Amazing Practitioners, Featured, Five Questions With, Health & Wellness, Pregnancy & Babies 8 Comments

Words can’t express how excited I am about the Q&A session I had with Chris Kresser recently. Many of you may be familiar with Chris’s work over at The Healthy Skeptic where he writes about important topics like heart disease and cholesterol, depression, thyroid disorders, diabesity (diabetes + obesity) and many more.  I decided to ask Chris some questions since …

Bacon: Health Food or Devil in Delicious Disguise?

Diane Sanfilippo Beef, Pork & Lamb, Fats and Oils, Featured, Food & Recipes, Nutrition Myths 101 Comments

It seems I’ve become a bit well-known in my community as “the bacon girl.” Maybe it’s because I always seem to be eating, posting pictures of, and wearing T-shirts proclaiming my love for bacon. I’m okay with that nickname, but I have wanted to write this post for quite sometime now in order to explain my choice to consume what …