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It’s virtually impossible to go through any health or beauty store without seeing advertisements for the amazing benefits of coconut oil. Coconut oil is cherished by many health enthusiasts for endless reasons. There are thousands of videos on Youtube and social media showcasing all the creative ways people use coconut oil. Since it’s mildly scented […]

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Today’s awesome recipe is from Katie French, author of Paleo Cooking Bootcamp and instructor of our new online course that brings that book to multimedia life.

Whether you’re looking for a great keto- or Primal-friendly side dish or a game day buffet item, Katie’s recipe is a delicious choice. Check it out and learn a bit more about Katie’s own ancestral diet story. Happy weekend, everyone!

These cauliflower buffalo wings are a tasty way to add extra vegetables to your diet.

Ingredients

• 1 large or 2 small heads of cauliflower
• 1 cup (100g) of almond flour
• 1 teaspoon Himalayan sea salt
• 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/4 cup (56ml) avocado oil
• 1 teaspoon hot sauce

Have you met our Paleo Cooking Bootcamp instructor, Katie French? Get to know her paleo story!

And don’t miss out on the limited time offer for her online, multimedia course, Paleo Cooking Bootcamp: A step-by-step meal preparation course that allows you to cook breakfast, lunch, and dinner options for an entire week in a single, highly focused two-hour power cooking session. Four sessions make for a month-long bootcamp.

This innovative online course is inspired by creator Katie French’s live class that she presented in the San Francisco Bay Area, where it won the prestigious “Best of SF” designation by San Francisco Magazine.

Katie has now brought her intentional cooking method into digital format so you can join her and the featured students in the course—real-life busy moms and career folks trying to up their game in the kitchen—every step of the way.

Enroll in the Paleo Cooking Bootcamp course and receive a complimentary bottle of Primal Kitchen Extra Virgin Avocado Oil. Just use code NEWCOURSE at checkout. This offer includes free shipping for domestic orders. 

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Junk food can seem like an insurmountable hurdle of temptation to get over sometimes. With things like juicy steaks, soft white bread, and sugary sodas on the table, it can be hard to reach for fruits and vegetables at times. Before you happily grab your favorite junk food while glaring at vegetables with absolute disdain, […]

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We’ve all heard about ways to lower blood pressure for optimal health, but what about those of us who need to raise it? Here are some easy, natural steps you can take. Signs of low blood pressure Never fear — low blood pressure is only something to worry about if it gets too low. At […]

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I called my sister after a backpacking trip last September to tell her I had felt amazing tromping around the picturesque Colorado wilderness with a heavy pack on for several days. I was overjoyed because I had not felt amazing backpacking or otherwise throughout most of my life. She responded by saying, “Isn’t it amazing to feel your limitations melt away?”

I have been an outdoor enthusiast my entire life. Throughout my teens I enthusiastically planned multi day backpacking trips, and as I moved into my 20s I started “bagging” the 14,000+ peaks in my home state of Colorado. However, despite my love of nature and outdoor adventures, these feats were always more challenging for me than my peers. This fact frustrated me and for a long time I thought I just needed to push myself more athletically. However, as I’ve learned over the past few years, I actually needed to change my diet.

Health issues related to inflammation and food sensitives have plagued me my entire life. As a young adult I suffered from severe back pain, headaches, and stomach issues. My health issues became worse as I entered my mid-twenties. My headaches turned into crippling migraines, and everything seems to bother my stomach. I lost a lot of weight because I could barely stomach food at the age of 24.

My sister’s life had been transformed by the paleo diet. She suggested that we likely shared many food intolerances. She helped guide me through a lot of these initial changes through her own experiences with food sensitives. However, it took me years to make the full switch to paleo. I told myself I didn’t like the label, but more likely I didn’t want to face what I thought was a strict and limiting diet at such a young age.

My dietary changes certainly made me feel better. No more migraines, back pain, severe indigestion and so forth. However, my athletic abilities did not improve significantly. I often found myself struggling to keep up with my friends on big hikes. The wall that seemed to keep me from improving athletically was still there.

I started to become more and more frustrated that my athletic abilities did not match the person I knew I was. In 2017 I finally started making bigger changes. My sister was again an excellent resource as I made the full transition to paleo. She turned me onto Mark’s Daily Apple and other paleo resources. I completed my first Whole30 that January, which was great because it gave me the confidence to cut out sugar and feel great without it. It also helped me make the switch to full paleo. However, I still felt my limitations were surrounding me, and I was not sure how to overcome them.

A good friend of mine had been trying the ketogenic diet, and she felt amazing. She suggested I try it as she thought my problem likely was that I had not fully embraced fat while eating really low carb and making myself miserable with that arrangement. I hesitated at first especially because of the lack of research about keto and women. However, feeling like I had nothing to lose, I went for it the first week of June. I did not notice much change the first two weeks likely because I had not overcome my fat aversion. However, I began to embrace it more and more, and I finally noticed changes.

Throughout the summer of 2017 I hiked more mountains than I ever had, and I felt amazing doing it. Waking up to hike a big mountain started to feel like Christmas morning. Finally, the barriers that had always surrounded me began to melt.

My diet has primarily been keto based for the last eight months. I eat healthy fats, grass fed meats, lots of green veggies, nuts, and berries. I’ve had a great time experimenting with many keto recipes and enjoy making fat bombs and other great on the go snacks. I also practice intermittent fasting and often only eat in an eight to ten hour time window each day. I often will eat more carbs around bigger athletic endeavors such as summiting a big mountain, but I typically keep my carbohydrates to less than 50 grams per day.

The entire experience has been very liberating. I finally feel free to follow my passions without feeling like there is some impenetrable barrier blocking me. Liberation from food has been amazing as well. I now can go for extended periods of time without having to think of my next meal. I often find myself forgetting when I last ate!

I have more physical energy than I ever recall having in my life. I finally feel liberated to be the person I always knew was inside but somehow struggled to get into the world. Finally, finding a relationship with food that works for me is the most liberating feeling of all.

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I’ve suffered from anxiety for most of my adult life, and probably a fair chunk of my childhood if I’m completely honest. While it’s often kind of like a background noise, constantly humming it’s awful tune but difficult to pinpoint, I’ve become used to sudden onslaughts of full-frontal anxiety seemingly out of the blue. And […]

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There’s a delicate balance between making sure your body gets the fuel it needs and eating too much. Especially if you’ve started a new eating or fitness plan, you might find that you’re hungrier than usual. It seems counterintuitive to turn to food to help control your appetite, but there are a number of healthy, […]

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Habit #10: Be Affluent

We often talk of having affluence, but I think there’s something more powerful about being—embodying—that sense of abundance. Having suggests gaining, even measuring from the outside. Being or embodying, on the other hand, suggests an internal decision and process. An attitude, a choice that today I’m going to live abundantly.

To our ancestors, the concept of affluence, if it existed, was probably very different than what we think of today. For them, the ultimate commodities were time and leisure. Funny how those were so beneficial for evolutionary progress…

Compare time and leisure to what we’re encouraged to pursue and define our affluence from today—status and possessions. We often tether ourselves to them really. Even beyond the point at which our basic needs are met, the drive for accumulation and ascent takes over and can co-opt every other priority whether we even realize it or not. Sometimes we’re working so long and hard we don’t even see it creep into our consciousness. We don’t consider ourselves particularly materialistic people, let alone greedy, but somehow we get sucked into the cultural grooves.

What does abundance mean to you? While we don’t need to swear off the blessings of modern conveniences and novelty, it’s important to define our most deep-seated priorities. What values do you want to be the center of your life? What genuinely nourishes you at the physical level? What fills your intellectual, creative, social, emotional and spiritual dimensions, however you conceive of them?

Too often we wind ourselves around a distorted sense of our basic needs (e.g. food, shelter, security, upgrading our kitchen or car because our neighbors did) all while depriving ourselves of what we’d call our core priorities (e.g. time with family and close friends, volunteering, time and outlets for self-expression and creative development, etc.).

The fact is, our basic needs are simpler than we often think. And…our other, more nuanced needs, are more essential than we often think. How about embracing the idea that you get to have fulfillment on all levels? Seriously. What should it look like for you as an individual? (This is the real crux.) Be bold enough to create a vision for your life, however counter it is to our culture’s version of success or linear progression. Think about experience and satisfaction, about playing hard and sleeping well. There’s where living abundantly begins.

The central premise of The Primal Connection is that we can use the model of our ancestors to create not just a healthier physical existence but also a more balanced and fulfilling life. To be affluent is among the habits I call our inner dialogue—the assumptions, patterns, and narratives we can create or accept for ourselves. That dialogue has the power to limit or expand our lives. It will influence our potential to connect with the world and those around us. It will ultimately determine how successfully we live as modern hunter-gatherers but most importantly whether or not we will live the full measure of our Primal selves in this lifetime.

Thanks, everybody. I’d love to hear how you’re taking this into the weekend.

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Day 289 Of 360

Rest as needed between aggressive, uninterrupted sets. When scheme is listed as “3 x 12″, it always refers to “Sets” x “Reps”.

Reminder: Position and range of motion always govern weight.

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