Vegan Fitness & Running

If I could take care of my mind, legs, and nutrition, I’d speed recovery, and stay focused and injury-free.

To consider each run not as just the time on the road or trail, but the entire workout experience.

I’m not saying either of these better than the other; I respect both choices. But I know the one that I choose, almost every single time.

Although the foods here are the ones I actually do try to eat every single day, more importantly, I explain how I make sure to eat each one. And by making these foods a regular part of certain daily meals — salad, smoothie, etc. — you can make it an automatic habit that each and every day, the diet you eat is built around not just a random assortment of whole, plant-based foods, but the healthiest ones you can possibly eat. No Meat Athlete – Plant-Based Diet for Fitness | Vegan Recipes & Nutrition | Vegan Fitness & Running

Get Better At Life Through Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Nutrition and Philosophy

Feeling, tasting, sensational experiment, etc., are dogmas and not true knowledge as they can be wrong. Objects of perception, therefore, are ruled out of true knowledge.” -Bruce Lee Lately I’ve been talking with friends and family about their personal goals. A common thing I hear from them is they don’t […] You wake up each day.

You wake up each day. So do I. So does Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Tony Robbins. We all get the same 24 hours, and we all need about 7-8 to sleep. We all have to shower, eat and go to the bathroom. After that, there are about 14 hours left each day for us […]

This essay was originally featured in my free Sunday newsletter. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” -Confucius There is this concept known as Neophiliac, which is a personality type in which a person has a strong affinity for novelty. I think that we all are, at least in our Western culture, a bit […]

Today I feel great! Hooray for me! Ok… now that you know how I’m feeling right now, what about you? Do you have days when you feel awesome? These are the days in which you should spend a little bit of time doing something that might, at first, seem not-so-awesome. This is what you should do […] Get Better At Life Through Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Nutrition and Philosophy –

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Vegan Recipes by Angela Liddon

At long last, I’m sharing the recipe I’ve probably made the most since Adriana started eating solids (which somehow feels like forever ago and just yesterday at the same time). I’ve had so many requests for this recipe, but never got around to sharing it because it would always be devoured right away, leaving no time for photos. Last week, I finally made it in the morning so I’d have a bit of time to snap a few shots.   I use the term “recipe” lightly here because I never measure the ingredients for this pasta; not having to measure anything is part of its beauty and ease.

I use the term “recipe” lightly here because I never measure the ingredients for this pasta; not having to measure anything is part of its beauty and ease. I measured it here so you can get a feel for it, but once you do, I encourage you to throw caution to the wind and wing it! It’s really hard to mess up. You can often find me glugging marinara, spooning hummus, and dumping hemp hearts with abandon into the cooked pasta. The quicker the better, especially when there’s a hangry toddler screaming “Paaaaaaaasta!” at your feet.

Anyway, I’m sure we’ll have a mix of “my baby/toddler/kid loved this” and “my kiddo only ate one bite” in the comments—that’s just the nature of the beast. (And by “beast” I mean toddler, in a sometimes cute/sometimes scary kinda way…am I right?) But my hope is that some of you will be able to fall back on this recipe as often as we do. I don’t know what I’d do without it as it’s just so easy. Oh, and yes, us adults like it too, so even if you don’t have kids you may want to give it a try on those busy, too-tired-to-cook weeknights. It’s great paired with a simple side salad and Lemon-Tahini Dressing, which can be thrown together while the pasta cooks.

This pasta goes lovely with a simple side salad and garlic bread. If your little one isn’t a salad fan, try giving them small lettuce leaves for dipping into the dressing. Vegan Recipes by Angela Liddon | Oh She Glows

Fit Foodie Finds

Celebrate your birthday the right way and start off with these HEALTHY Birthday Cake Batter Overnight Oats. They’re prepped in less than 5 minutes and packed with healthy ingredients.  If you don’t like read more…

This Pumpkin Pie Slow Cooker Oatmeal is creamy as can be and full of flavor. It’s made with steel cut oats, pumpkin puree, pumpkin spice, and a hint of maple.  The last day of Oatmeal Week is always the read more…

This fluffy banana bread oatmeal is double whipped on the stove and made with chia seeds to make it extra fluffy and deliciously filling!  You’re all I ever wanted. You’re all I ever read more…

Nothing like cheesecake for breakfast. This Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake Overnight Oatmeal recipe is prepped in less than 5 minutes so that you can have a healthy breakfast ready to go in seconds in the read more…

Have your dessert and breakfast too with this out-of-this-world Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Oatmeal! It’s vegan and the perfect nutrition-packed way to start your day.  Welcome to Fit Foodie Finds’ third read more… Fit Foodie Finds – Where healthy meets delicious.

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Life Daily Break

I have loved connecting with people from around the world. I’ve loved meeting them in person, sometimes, when they visited NYC or I visited somewhere else. I’ve made good friends this way. I’ve heard many hundreds of life stories. I’ve gotten recognized a few times on the sidewalk and felt cool. I’ve knocked professional goals off a stubborn list. I’ve gotten very fast at writing essays. I’ve proven to myself that I could build something out of nothing. I’ve been amazed by how many people were interested in reading my words. I’ve embarrassed myself and distinguished myself and gotten furious and hurt and once someone wrote to me to tell me she hated me and we talked and talked and she changed her mind and apologized and told me her story. People I’ve never met have told me I suck and I’m stupid and I’m shallow and I’m harmful and I’m generally a huge humiliating failure. People I’ve never met have told me that they are grateful for me. Once someone offered to tithe to me. People I’ve never met were happy for me when I was happy and sad for me when I was sad. Thank you so much for that. When I started blogging I’d literally never read a blog. Four years later, I think this experiment has taught me a lot about my own worth.

This is how we, as a culture, celebrate older women, when we celebrate their beauty. And often, unfortunately, we are celebrating beauty first and the rest later, in a smaller room in the back. We praise those women who, like great illusionists, amaze with the magic trick of their appearances. We are impressed with women over forty for looking like they’re not yet. We admire women for confusing us at first sight, we show respect to the ones who can manage, mysteriously, to look nothing like nature suggests they should look. Eat the Damn Cake

Mark’s Daily Apple

Now my life goal is to help 100 million people get healthy. I started this blog in 2006 to empower people to take full responsibility for their own health and enjoyment of life by investigating, discussing, and critically rethinking everything we’ve assumed to be true about health and wellness.

The Primal Blueprint is a set of simple instructions (the blueprint) that allows you to control how your genes express themselves in order to build a strong, lean, healthy body with as little pain, suffering, and sacrifice as possible. The Primal Blueprint is also the first in a series of bestselling books I have written that all center around ancestral health principles.

Be inspired by life-changing success stories of primal enthusiasts who have lost 100+ pounds, reversed diabetes, and refined their diet and exercise programs to attain goals they thought were impossible. Check back every Friday for a new Primal Blueprint Real Life Story….maybe even share your own!

Ready to become one of the world’s most trusted, experienced and knowledgeable health coaches? Get certified as a Primal Health Coach. Mark’s Daily Apple

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No Meat Athlete – Plant-Based Diet for Fitness

In my opinion, the holidays are all about two things: Spending quality time with family and friends, and indulging on good food and drink. A few weeks ago I shared tips on how to stay happy and healthy this holiday season, so this week I thought I’d shift gears and focus on the good stuff — the indulging. More specifically, the best plant-based holiday meal, drink, and treat recipes to get you — and your non-vegan family and friends — through the holidays.

In this updated post, author Doug Hay has added an eighth running workout to the original seven, expanded on many of the sample workouts and added several more, and included a “Putting It All Together” section — to help you not just read and nod along, but actually put this stuff into action and build a training plan around it.

Of course, it probably comes as no surprise that the workouts on your training plan aren’t there just to piss you off. They’re included to help you run stronger, faster, and for longer distances.

Motivated by a laundry list of health issues, of which the heart scare was only the most recent, he hasn’t only gone plant-based … he’s been so thorough about eating healthy, micronutrient-rich food that he has motivated me to do better in my own diet. And his dietary changes have been led to the reversal of nearly all of his health issues, including the atrial fibrillation that first motivated the change. No Meat Athlete – Plant-Based Diet for Fitness | Vegan Recipes & Nutrition | Vegan Fitness & Running

The Hungry Runner Girl

My run was done in two segments yesterday: Segment 1(5 miles) done on the treadmill while Andrew was out getting our tires changed.  Then when he got home I had to be somewhere so I pressed pause on my run. Segment 2 (5 miles) done later once I got back home to finish on the … Continue Reading

Missing that little dude already big time. 7.5 miles in one hour on the treadmill while Beretta stared at me… I went outside to go for my run and once I realized it was ridiculously windy, I gladly jumped on my treadmill instead.  I’ll do rain, snow etc but wind is just not my thing … Continue Reading The Hungry Runner Girl | It’s rude to count people as you pass them… out loud

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