What Am I Doing Wrong?

“I lost 12 lbs right at the beginning of going Paleo and have been “stuck” there for 10+ months. I definitely feel better and have lost all my puffiness and stomach aches so I am happy about that, but still have more weight to lose which is just not coming off.  What am I doing […]

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Is It Really Fructose Intolerance?

“I can’t eat any fruit”, a client told me. Assuming she must have been tested for fructose malabsorption, which, according to Wikipedia, “is formerly named “dietary fructose intolerance,” is a digestive disorder in which absorption of fructose is impaired by deficient fructose carriers in the small intestine’s enterocytes. This results in an increased concentration of fructose […]

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Gut Check

Whether you’re in the information gathering process about Paleo and are on the fence about trying it or if you’re well into the lifestyle and loving the benefits, it’s always a good idea to do the occasional gut check. If you’ve been Paleo for a while and are feeling on top of the world, it […]

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Paleo Buffet- Is It Possible?

Without a doubt. Don’t get me wrong; I’m certainly not professing that it’s commonplace to walk into any given restaurant and find a selection of grass fed meats, loads of fresh, organic veggies and wild fish to choose from, however, with just a little bit of question asking, it’s actually quite easy to make a […]

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Fantastic Day at Honu

Congratulations to all of the athletes who raced yesterday and Mahalo to the volunteers who produced this year’s Ironman Hawaii 70.3! It’s always an honor to race here and one can never tell what Madame Pele holds in store for us out on her oceans, lava fields and long stretches of endless highway in the […]

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Race Day is Here

When this post goes live, I’ll just have started my swim of today’s Ironman Hawaii 70.3. The bike course is pat of the very same road we race on in October (pictured above- me racing along the Queen K…) Aside from World Championships in Kona, this course, this race, is always a very special one […]

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The Prevalence of Pseudo Paleo

You decide.  Which is more Paleo? Option 1: Tropical oil blend (coconut, palm , coconut), canola oil, salt, natural flavor, sunflower lecithin, lactic acid or Option 2: Fresh coconut Not too tricky to pick, is it?   This may be a simplistic example, but it speaks volumes for the inundation of products we’re seeing these […]

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Great Food, Wrong Place

I just arrived in Hawaii and was reminded of something that’s rather odd, yet all too common:  foods that we demand being available to us in places they’d not typically be found. We enjoyed a lovely breakfast yesterday, consisting of Waimea spinach and mixed lettuces, fresh fish, pineapple and mango, all from the buffet bar […]

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Grocery Store Atrocities

Eating straight from the salad bar, munching on a bag of chips with the same hands that are pushing the shopping cart and snacking on unwashed berries from the produce section are just three of the behaviors I see all too regularly when I’m doing my twice weekly grocery shop. And it’s not little kids […]

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