pimg class=”alignright” alt=”sundae” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/sundae.jpg” width=”320″ height=”212″ title=”Entitled to Sabotage” /Last week’s post on a title=”Weight Loss: The Emotional Element” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/weight-loss-the-emotional-element/#axzz2JVxgSuWH”emotional eating/a got people talking #8211; about the personal struggles they’ve had and the mental games they’ve learned to avoid in their quest for health. One such game, I think, is what we call treating ourselves. How many people justify a title=”How to Break Bad Habits” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-break-bad-habits/”bad eating abits/a because they tell themselves they deserve the treat? “Can’t I just enjoy a little pleasure in life?” “Aren’t I entitled?” Sometimes it takes on context. “With all I put up with#8230;” “Why can’t I just have this one thing?” “This is the one thing I do for myself.”/p
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pTreating ourselves. When the noun morphs into the verb, there’s a subtle but significant distinction. Treating ourselves invites us to step outside our normal life for the promise of something of sweeter #8211; and “better.” […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

Every once in a while I get an email that reads something like this:
I recently purchased your books and have been trying fasting for 2 months now. I fast for 24 hours twice a week, then on the days I’m not fasting for 24 hour I fast for 16 hours. I’m Paleo, except on weekends where I eat carbs, but only ever with protein (never with fat) I run 5 miles two to three times per week and I also do a spin class at least once a weekend. I am tracking my calories and I’m eating about 1000 to 1200 daily, I’m 5’6″, 155lbs. F.
 Lately, my weight loss has slowed down, can you help?
 If this sounds like you then I have a suggestion. If your weight loss is slowing down, try this one thing: Try Eat Stop Eat.
(Because what is written in that email is NOT Eat Stop […]

Original post by Brad Pilon

pimg class=”alignright” alt=”grokmemo” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/grokmemo.jpg” width=”320″ height=”240″ title=”10 Ways to Make Your Workplace Healthier and More Productive” /For the most part, we all got into this Primal stuff to improve our own health and that of those close to us. Maybe we#8217;re hoping to avoid the a title=”The Definitive Guide to Insulin, Blood Sugar amp; Type 2 Diabetes (and you’ll understand it)” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/diabetes/”diabetes/a and heart disease that got our loved ones. Maybe we#8217;re trying to a title=”Success Story Summaries” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/category/success-story-summaries/”lose a few pounds/a. Maybe we want to know what it#8217;s like to walk ten miles without getting out of breath or having to coax our creaky joints out of their torpor. a title=”Mirror, Mirror on the Wall” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/health-vanity/”Whatever the motivation/a, we#8217;re in this to make ourselves healthier and happier./p
pThat#8217;s how it starts. Once you reach your goals or even just begin to make headway, you notice everyone around you, especially […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

pimg class=”alignright” alt=”baby” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/baby.jpg” width=”319″ height=”225″ title=”Why You Should Wear (or Carry) Your Baby (At Least Some of the Time)” /For hundreds of thousands of years, humans have been trying to figure out ways to avoid carrying their infants so that they could drink Frappucinos and update their Facebook status on their phones. Ancestral Inuit mothers had sled dog strollers placed on top of skis. Native Australians kept several varieties of marsupials megafauna as pets and infant caretakers, using their pouches to store up to a half dozen human infants at once. I#8217;m kidding, of course. Just as all members of the family hominidae are and were ardent a title=”Co-Sleeping: How to Do It Safely” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/co-sleeping-how-to-do-it-safely/”co-sleepers/a, apes, humans, and (most likely) all extinct hominids carried or even wore their infants on their bodies as a general rule. And so, for most of human history, our infants have been swaddled, slung, carried, […]

Original post by Mark Sisson