Get More Energy Naturally

January 15, 2017 by Unconventional Traditional Leave a Comment

Before and After Fibromyalgia energy Get More Energy Naturally Before and After More Energy

I remember the day I thought I was completely recovered from Fibromyalgia. I had been doing the Healing Cleanse religiously for about a month, then one day, everything was clearer, the brain fog was gone. I could get out of bed. I remember thinking I felt better than most people who never had fibromyalgia. There was so much I wanted to do! I didn’t want to waste any more time since I had been sick for 20 years. So what was next? One thing that I was ready for was more energy!

Best Sources

I wanted to challenge myself and work harder. I wanted to make the most of every minute. I knew that drinks and supplements didn’t offer the kind of energy I was desiring. I wanted energy that would last and would improve my productivity, so I started searching. The source that made the most sense is a forgotten bodybuilding secret that has been replaced with powders and shakes. It’s the perfect “unconventional, traditional” source of energy….Liver! You don’t have to like liver to get it into your diet! I wanted energy so bad that I started finding ways to get liver into my diet that didn’t require “tasting it.”

Delicious Foods

My determination lead me to create multiple recipes that I would use throughout the week. I wasn’t just cooking for myself. My son and my husband had to like what I was cooking, so it was even more challenging. Once the recipes were “family-approved,” I would add them to the list of meals I could make regularly. My stack became so thick that I decided to put them in a book!

More than just Recipes

My new book Eat to Energize, not only has recipes, it also has other ways of getting liver into your diet that might be better for you, if you’re not ready for cooking, so don’t worry, you will find something in this book you can use!

Special Update!! Eat to Energize has now been critically acclaimed by The Weston A. Price Foundation! Get your copy and know you are making an excellent choice for you and your family!

Eat to Energize is now available for $19.99 (in paperback).

Filed Under: Fibromyalgia Meals, Gluten free, Healing Food, Recipes, taking care of yourself Tagged With: energizing recipes, energy, get more energy

Healing Lunches to Go

September 30, 2015 by Leave a Comment

How to Prepare Lunch to Go with Ease

Finding decent food away from home can be difficult and expensive. It might surprise you but I pack a meal with me quite often. It’s healthier, tastier and a lot of times, just more convenient. I have a “formula” for my lunches so I am sure to include all of the food groups that are important to me:

Protein (sliced cold cuts, hard boiled eggs, leftover chicken, canned tuna)

Fat (cheese, sour cream)

Ferment (raw sauerkraut, beet kvass)

Soup/Stew/Broth (chicken soup, chili)

If you are making a bag for your husband or child, add the following for more carbohydrates:

Fresh fruit and/or veggies with dipping options of sour cream, yogurt or peanut butter (apples and peanut butter, strawberries and whipped cream, blueberries and yogurt, celery and cream cheese)

Milk (whole, unpasteurized and not homogenized)

As long as you have all those components showing up you are guaranteed a healing and fulfilling meal. This is a typical example of what you might take in an insulated lunch bag:

Meat “Salad” – this combines protein, fat and ferment

Hunk of raw cheddar cheese (fat)

Thermos of broth (see Raise the Dead Chicken Broth Recipe)

Cucumber slices and sour cream (veggie, fat and ferment)

Mineral water to drink

To keep soup hot, fill a small thermos with boiling water and let it sit for 5 minutes. While that’s going, heat up the soup or stew on the stove top; pour the water out of the thermos and immediately put my soup in. It will keep warm for several hours and the warm liquid really helps me to feel full.

To keep milk or other beverages cold, fill a drink thermos bottle with ice water, (this one is really great for kids because they can open it themselves), let sit for five minutes, pour out the ice water and immediately pour in the milk.

Put milk and other foods in an insulated lunch bag with a reusable frozen cold pack. Pack whatever eating utensils you will need, plus a napkin. Thicker glass containers are great for anything cold that might leak, such as the Meat “Salad.” This is all pretty easy to set up and almost everything can be put in the dishwasher for cleaning.

I have used this system for several years now and it really works! How do you eat healthy while you are out and about? What tips have you found that really work for you?

Filed Under: Fibromyalgia Meals, Gluten free, Healing Food, Meat Tagged With: lunch to go, pack a healthy lunch, pack a lunch

Partners in Healing

September 30, 2015 by 1 Comment

Recently I was at The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund Food Freedom Fest and Business Summit hosted by the Nutritional Therapy Association in the Shenandoah Mountains of Virginia. A spectacular setting for a fantastic event!! I got to meet healing professionals from all over the country and I even got to meet a personal hero of mine, Joel Salatin, The Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic-Farmer from Polyface Farm (sorry for the poor quality picture). There is grass fed beef and other pasture-raised products available in the US mainly due to the efforts of Joel Salatin and people like him. When farmers raise food that is nourishing, people are able to heal quicker and more completely.

In my book Freedom from Fibromyalgia: 7 Steps to Complete Recovery, one of the biggest pieces of the puzzle I discuss is healing nutrition. When one is recovering from fibromyalgia, good food is a necessity, but often difficult to acquire, much less prepare. Now there is a short-cut: Paleo on the Go. I met the owner of Paleo on the Go, Dave Rohdi, at this same conference. He takes the high quality food made by farmers that are like-minded with Joel Salatin and makes them into ready-to-eat meals that can be shipped anywhere in the country.

If you are too sick to cook, too busy to cook, or you just don’t want to cook, but you want the highest quality, nourishing food like I make, I think Paleo on the Go is a great option. While the way I eat is not strictly Paleo, the Paleo Diet is actually fairly close to what I do. Dave sent me some delicious samples of his food and I was very impressed. The quality and ingredients were outstanding, they were easy to heat up, and the portion sizes were perfect, just right!

My favorite was the Decadent Fudge, made with just dates, organic raw cacao powder, coconut oil and honey. No refined sweeteners! There was enough in the pack I could share with my son and husband too. My second favorite item was the Elk Burger with Wild Mushrooms. I was shocked by how tender the meat was. When I reorder the next thing I want to try is the Thai Chicken Soup-Tom Kha Gai.

Paleo on the Go has a wide variety of foods, even those without nightshades in the Auto Immune Protocol Section (no nuts, seeds, nightshades or eggs). They also have BROTH! Real, honest to goodness broth that I am excited to tell you about. I think the prices are also really fair, about the price you would pay for an entrée at a chain restaurant, but gourmet-quality food.

So here is a great deal if you want to give it a try, use coupon code FIBROLADY at www.PaleoOnTheGo.com for $20 off your first order of $150 or more. I would love to hear about what you ordered and what you thought of it!