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Dear America, Get Over Your Fat Phobia

Posted by Stacy on May 16, 2013 in 2013, Featured | 122 comments

This post brought to you by the dozens of people who e-mail and comment to me in order to provide unsolicited dietary advice at least daily that I should stop eating carbs in order to lose weight. Dear America, get over your fat phobia. Seriously, being overweight is nothing more than a simple fact. Weight is an indicator of health – not the definition. SEVEN out of TEN people in this country are overweight… you can’t judge and be afraid of 70% of America and still be happy with your own life. After having lost over 100lbs and keeping it off for 3 years I feel slightly...

Look Ma, We’re On TV!

Posted by Stacy on May 6, 2013 in 2013, Featured | 8 comments

In the midst of everything else we had going on the last few weeks, we got a request from a local news team for an interview about our family’s experience with Paleo. Of course, we were thrilled to help spread our positive thoughts on how real food can affect a family! It’s our hope that other families watching their morning news would be inspired to give paleo a try if it means not just losing weight, but drastically improving health too. So we (nervously) invited a news crew with bright lights and a big camera into our home for a few hours to hang out and watch us prepare a...

Behind the Scenes at the Beyond Bacon Family Photo Shoot

Posted by Stacy on Apr 21, 2013 in 2013 | 8 comments

Back in the day the blog was just that – a place where our family did a brain dump, posted untouched photos from our phone or point-and-shoot, and jotted down foods we wanted to remember for next time. It has obviously evolved over time into something much more than we could have imagined, which is great, but we lost that connection to the now as it happens. But now that Monica’s here we actually got time again to blog about the stuff we want to share, instead of spending that time with the administrative upkeep of the blog! I know, I know… you guys are mostly here for the...

What Are We Up To?

Posted by Matthew on Apr 17, 2013 in 2013 | 2 comments

We looked around our own blog recently and realized that we were not writing for it ourselves very often. One of the promises we made to ourselves and to our readers was that we would always be involved in it and be the main contributors. It is unfortunate that writing Beyond Bacon has taken away from our blogging time. But, until we send the book off to print and get back to writing here a whole lot more, why don’t we show you what we’ve been up to? 1. Guest Hosting! Stacy and Sarah, our Paleo View team, took over the Livin’ La Vida Low Carb show this week to share some...

Stacy’s Skintervention and Primal Life Organics Review

Posted by Stacy on Apr 11, 2013 in 2013 | 35 comments

Stay tuned you deal loving readers, I’m delivering a spectacular deal at end of this post! The upcoming Episode 34 of The Paleo View all about teeth & skin guest stars Liz of Cave Girl Eats, the genius behind The Skintervention Guide, and Trina, creator and owner of Primal Life Organics, Paleo Skincare (PLO). And when we recorded that show I said I’d been sitting on a draft post of the before and after results from using the Skintervention guidance and PLO for weeks. Problem is, ever since my autoimmune flare last year, my skin has been the pits. Seriously, there have been...

Guest Post, Paleo Family Eats: How I’m Transitioning My Son to Paleo

Posted by Matthew on Mar 6, 2013 in 2013, Featured | 10 comments

Wednesdays used to be our Guest Blogger Series day; but, there’s just so many new and wonderful Paleo and real-food bloggers out there that we’ve expanded our series. We hope you enjoy the new view points and unique content; if so, we encourage you to show these guest bloggers your support by visiting their blog and social media links at the end of this post! Today we are joined by our friend, Rachel, of Paleo Family Eats. She shares her plan for helping her son’s Inflammatory Bowel Disease by transitioning him to paleo, a topic we are all interested in! After reading her post,...

Guest Post, Level Health and Nutrition: The Easy Way

Posted by Matthew on Mar 4, 2013 in 2013 | 12 comments

Note: You can find another post-surgery paleo success story, Shelly Good, join Stacy and the extremely witty Krista Scott Dixon of Stumptuous on Paleo Magazine Radio Episode 5 on Women’s Health this week, too. Stacy talks candidly about disordered eating, stress management, how living without a gallbladder and with an autoimmune disease shape her paleo template and of course – raising paleo children. Now – to our awesome guest! Wednesdays used to be our Guest Blogger Series day; but, there’s just so many new and wonderful Paleo and real-food bloggers out there that we’ve...

TPV Podcast, Episode 27: Mark Sisson and the Primal Connection

Posted by Matthew on Feb 22, 2013 in 2013, Featured, Podcasts | 2 comments

Our twenty-seventh show! Ep. 27: Mark Sisson and the Primal Connection In this episode, Stacy and Sarah are joined by the fabulous Mark Sisson! Mark’s new book, the Primal Connection talks about how to reconnect to the rest of your genes and ancestral heritage after you’ve accomplished the big diet and exercise goals. It was a fascinating discussion we are sure you will love too! Click the picture above to be taken to iTunes or download and listen by clicking the PodBean player below Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) If you enjoy...

A Fat Girl’s Confession on Starting Crossfit

Posted by Stacy on Jan 24, 2013 in 2013, Featured | 8 comments

If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you – no doubt – have seen my CrossFit photos lately. I want to take this opportunity to sincerely, genuinely apologize for inundating you with photos of me doing stuff that probably irritates, annoys, confuses or befuddles most of you (which I’m also about to do in this post). Please understand, when you’ve been sitting on your arse for a year recovering from an autoimmune flair and adrenal fatigue and then get in the gym and deadlift 193lbs, you want to shout it from the rooftop and tell everyone you know. Especially after...

Why the Metabolically Broken Can’t Eat Carbs

Posted by Stacy on Jan 20, 2013 in 2013, Featured | 68 comments

As we’ve posted about several times, the entire family went on the 21-Day Sugar Detox after indulging a bit this holiday season. This post is the result of Stacy doing the detox. Now, I want to be very clear about what “indulge” means for us because I think it’s important to understand in the concept of why my results are so drastic. Why we ate sugar at all to begin with We are not Paleo Perfectionists. We eat sugar, sometimes. Mostly it’s treats for the kids. Sometimes it’s treats for others. And not seldom, it’s recipes we’re making to perfect...

How Not to Sound Like a Crazy Hippy: Avoiding the Naturalistic Fallacy

Posted by Matthew on Jan 15, 2013 in 2013, Featured | 17 comments

Before my main and only hobby became paleo and paleo assorted activities, I spent a lot of time arguing with people. Let me backtrack a bit. In high school I lettered three times in Speech and Debate. Later, I spent some time in college studying philosophy, and further still took it upon myself to learn about logic and logical fallacies. So I like to think I know a little bit about how to try to be persuasive and logically coherent. So it really dismays me when a movement founded in a scientific hypothesis and backed by fairly substantial scientific and medical research is often argued from...