Choose Your Splurges, Then Make a Plan

If you find your December calendar is booked every week with parties, events and gatherings of some description, it can seem rather daunting to imagine keeping Paleo with all the food and drink typically found during the seasonal festivities. You needn’t think of it as a measure of extreme will power and discipline if you […]

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Keep Your Holiday Sanity and Go For The Fat!

The last thing anyone needs during the festive, yet hectic, holiday season is spiking, then crashing, blood sugar levels. If your approach to staying slim during the holidays has been one based on the idea of eating a low calorie or low fat diet in a futile attempt to ‘save calories’, you may already have […]

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“Scent-sational” Holidays

The smell of mulled cider simmering on the stove, the scent of pine emanating from the tree and the clovey- citrus aroma of a fresh pomander are just a few of the scents that come to mind when I think of the holidays. Some studies show that scent may be our strongest scent: “Although we […]

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Keeping the Kids Gluten and Dairy-Free During the Holidays

If you have children that are lactose intolerant (and if the kids are human, they are) or have Celiac disease, the need to be vigilant about not allowing dairy or gluten to pass their lips becomes significantly higher compared to kids who are Paleo because their parents simply want their diet to be healthier than […]

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