by Lani Muelrath | Feb 22, 2015 | Plant-Based Nutrition
This week the U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee pulled back the curtain on its official advisory for what Americans ‘should’ be eating. Due out every five years, the last Guidelines were revealed in 2010. That means this is the year for an update....
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 5, 2012 | Weight Loss
Victoria asks a great question today on facebook and I thought I’d share my reply to her here as well. Hi Lani, Could you please comment on the recent NYT article in Tara Parker Pope’s column, “The Fat Trap”? Thanks!! ~ Victoria S. Certainly...
by Lani Muelrath | May 4, 2011 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition
You hear the reports on increasing incidences of disease – and death by disease – and it can’t help but register fear in our hearts. Yet you, my dear, smart reader, already know that you can make a big difference in your health simply by what you put...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 11, 2011
Body Transformation Booty Camp with Lani Muelrath, M.A. For optimum weight loss and body shaping If you want to shape muscle, you will need to exercise and overload the muscle to make more of it. However, if you want the muscle to show, you need to lose body fat, and...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 16, 2010 | Weight Loss
Do you want the bad news or the good news first? The bad news is that we do have genetic tendencies for weight gain. Some women gain weight more easily than others. But I didn’t have to tell you that. It’s in your genes, right? You just got the dreaded...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 10, 2009 | Weight Loss
A physician friend, healthy as a thoroughbred and enviously slim, tells me he has one primary rule of eating: “I eat fiber”. This is his rule of thumb for food choices. And upon close examination, it’s a powerful tool you too can use to up the...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 22, 2009 | All Posts, All Setup, Weight Loss
Provocative question. Compelling evidence. Literally. Is the fat you eat the fat you’ll wear? Apparently, the fat you eat is the fat you’ll wear. if a researcher were to biopsy the fat deposits of your thigh, abdomen, or (pretty much anywhere else that...
by Lani Muelrath | Jun 5, 2009 | All Posts, Weight Loss
image: Misty Donna is having a great year. She has cracked her personal fat loss code and was finally able to drop more much-desired size. She is realizing successful changes in multiple ways. Her body is getting stronger and trimmer, her dietary practices that...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 28, 2013 | All Posts, All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition
The mammogram results alert letter arrived in my mail late on a Friday afternoon. I tore into the envelope, looking for the usual ‘normal’ results report to which I had become accustomed. Instead, I found a formally worded letter with references to...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 17, 2010 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
I can count the diet books I’d recommend on one hand. Or less. But there’s a new diet book out that has elbowed its way to the top 5. Rip Esselstyn’s Engine 2 Diet. The Engine 2 story Yes, Engine, as in fire engine. Rip Esselstyn is a fireman in...
by Lani Muelrath | Mar 4, 2009 | All Posts, Move Your Body, Weight Loss
Looking for the magic weight loss bullet? Tricks for “burning off” the fat? Let’s face it. When it comes right down to weight loss and fat loss, it’s the calories that count. Yet how many of us have spent years – decades even – in...
by Lani Muelrath | Dec 26, 2017 | All Posts, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Weight Loss
Are you hooked on dieting? Has an obsession with getting thinner hijacked your eating mentality, ruining your innate wisdom about when to eat? If your days are filled with constant reference to and thinking about anything eat-to-lose-weight related, the question may...
by Lani Muelrath | Apr 11, 2017
x Already have your copy of The Mindful Vegan book? Click here for the Audio Guides referenced in Resources in The Mindful Vegan. #1 Amazon Bestseller / Vegan Diets, Vegetarian Diets, Holistic Medicine the mindful vegan a 30-day plan for finding health, balance,...
by Lani Muelrath | Dec 14, 2015 | All Posts, Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition, Reviews
Now Doctor Recommended for Your Health: The Plant-Based Journey Book! We know that a plant-based diet has been increasing extolled by doctors and the medical community as the diet for optimal health: I am excited to announce that The Plant-Based Journey is now...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 22, 2015 | All Posts, Holidays, Recipes
6 Plant-Based Pumpkin Pie Recipes Having made many a plant-based pumpkin pie in my time, at this time of year I find myself again on the lookout for a new variation on the pumpkin pie theme. Oddly enough, as a kid I couldn’t stand pumpkin pie – go figure!...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 22, 2015 | All Posts, Holidays, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
A Plant-Based Guide to Thriving at Thanksgiving For those of us who have opted out of flesh for feasts, simply sitting down to the family gathering with a big, lifeless and featherless bird in the center of the table can present a challenge – and at the least...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 15, 2015 | All Posts, Plant-Based Journey, Recipes
Recipe Photos from The Plant-Based Journey If I had a wish list… …for The Plant-Based Journey, it would be that she (1) go into second printing quite quickly, (2) be reviewed by a major publication such as VegNews, and (3) that she have marvelous photos of...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 25, 2015
PCRM 21 Day Vegan Kickstart BonusesI’m thrilled to be in ongoing partnership with PCRM – Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine – as Presenter and Coach for the 21 Day Vegan Kickstart Challenge. This 3 week program invites you to immerse...
by qualiant | Sep 24, 2015
PCRM 21 Day Vegan Kickstart BonusesI’m thrilled to be in ongoing partnership with PCRM – Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine – as Presenter and Coach for the 21 Day Vegan Kickstart Challenge. This 3 week program invites you to immerse...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 28, 2015 | All Posts, Plant-Based Journey
The official Plant-Based Journey blog tour launches September 1! You’ll find the complete list – including links added each day when that day’s tour stop goes ‘live’ – at the end of this article. More about the tour in a minute, but...
by Lani Muelrath | Jun 21, 2015 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
Which Plant-Based Food Plan is Right For You? Have you noticed that the more popular whole food plant-based eating becomes, the more it can seem that ‘plant-based diet’ can mean one thing to one person, another thing to someone else? It might...
by Lani Muelrath | May 30, 2015
One-on-One Private Coaching with Lani Muelrath When You Work With Me This is your chance to personally work with not just a “coach” but a true healthy living mentor. When we work together, you get to work with an advisor who’s been through it all. It doesn’t matter...
by Lani Muelrath | May 30, 2015
“Lani has been and continues to be instrumental in my success.” Wow! How did I let my weight get so out of control? That is the first thing that comes to my mind when I look back at these pictures. It wasn’t that I did not know how to eat properly and...
by qualiant | May 22, 2015
Fit Quickies: 5 Minute Targeted Body-ShapingWorkouts by Lani Muelrath, M.A. Fit Quickies: 5 Minute Targeted Body-Shaping Workouts is an effective, research-driven collection of exercises for functional fitness and body shaping. Fit Quickies cuts through the...
by Lani Muelrath | Apr 7, 2015 | All Posts, All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes
For decades now, my diet has been plant-based. You can tell by taking a peek inside my refrigerator. So when someone complains they can’t think of ways to get more vegetables in their diets, as you can imagine I have plenty to say. For me, I’ve been...
by qualiant | Mar 24, 2015
Amazon Best-Seller NOW in 3rd 4th Printing! The Plant Based JourneyA Step-by-Step Guide for Transitioning to a Healthy Lifestyle and Achieving Your Ideal Weight It’s been proven that a plant-based diet is good for your weight, health, budget, and the environment, but...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 30, 2014 | All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition
This event took place on December 4, 2014. If you missed it LIVE, not to worry – I’ve got the recording of the call available for you! Simply fill out the form lower on this page, click on the link in the confirmation email you will be sent, and the...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 5, 2014 | Appearances
The trail to D.C. was decorated with three good omens. First, getting onto the plane in San Francisco for the flight across country – as lines snaked past each other to board – I overheard a short conversation, catching it midstream – “…I used to be...
by Lani Muelrath | May 30, 2014 | All Setup, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Weight Loss
What I’m about to tell you breaks the number one rule of marketing. In case you haven’t heard it, the number one rule of marketing is this: Don’t tell people what they need to hear. Tell them what they want to hear. In all the marketing courses of...
by Lani Muelrath | May 5, 2014 | Plant-Based Nutrition
“Paleo Vegan” may sound like an oxymoron to you. After all,on one hand we have the carnivore camp – in the other, plants rule the plate. Which is exactly what makes my friend Ellen Jaffe Jones’ new book Paleo Vegan so interesting. Join us...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 4, 2013 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
People look at me today and tell me that they find it hard to believe that I ever had a weight problem. But I did. I’m the one on the left (see above, circa 1998). It doesn’t help that everyone else in the picture is skinny. For decades, over thirty...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 21, 2013 | Plant-Based Nutrition
I had the great good fortune of meeting up with Sharon and her family earlier this summer at Vegetarian Summerfest in Pennsylvania where she first told me her story. I’m honored to share it with you today. Prevent Breast Cancer: Shifting the Focus from Treatment...
by Lani Muelrath | Jun 21, 2013 | All Setup, Transformations, Weight Loss
Keturah was in one of my Body Transformation Booty Camps several months back. It sets my boat to floatin’ whenever someone writes to me months later, out of the blue, to tell me of their ongoing success. Keturah did just that. I asked her if I could share her...
by Lani Muelrath | Apr 2, 2013 | Move Your Body
There are lots of exercises that target the “backyard”, as I like to call that beautiful assembly of muscles known as the gluteals. Yet regardless of which specific training exercises you employ, there are four very important reasons that – bottom...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 18, 2013 | Weight Loss
Note: Today’s guest author Dustin Rudolph, PharmD., is throwing a Fit Quickies book giveaway contest on the Pursue a Health You Blog. Click on the image below to enter. Weight Loss – The Recipe For Success by Guest Author Dustin Rudolph, PharmD ...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 11, 2013 | Appearances, Move Your Body
Brian Wendel is the industrious, creative and visionary power behind the ultra-popular documentary, Forks Over Knives. This movie has been an agent for change and has had a tremendous impact on the health education – and health – of our modern society....
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 16, 2013 | Transformations
I know, officially the Fit Quickies book hasn’t released yet – that’s not until February 5. But my publisher pushed for an early release to meet the demand of the book tour and blog tour. And last week’s winner of a book giveaway contest,...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 14, 2013 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Plant-Based Nutrition
There are those of us who sometimes complain when we can’t find the exact blend of brown rice. Or a papaya that is just the right degree of ripe. Guilty – that was me today. We forget – too easily – that there are people with far greater...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 7, 2013
Interval Training Action Guide and Tip Sheet Lani Muelrath, MA, GFI, CPBN, FNS I am excited to bring you all the news about one of my best “don’t have time to work out but want to look and feel like I do” tricks – High Intensity Interval Training. Sometimes I call...
by Lani Muelrath | Dec 16, 2012
“I Am Thrilled With The Results From This Program!“ I am thrilled with the results I have gotten from taking this program. Early on, Lani told me, “Change your mind, change your body, change your life” and that is exactly what has happened for me. When I signed up for...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 15, 2012 | All Posts, Holidays, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
November advances. And so can your health and fitness – or not, depending on how you navigate the minefields of the holidays! No worries, here to help. As someone who for years successfully plowed through bowls of Christmas cookie dough and carried an extra 50...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 14, 2012 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
Diet, exercise, mindset Aside from the obvious reasons that Jessica’s cancer recovery and 92 pound weight loss are such an inspiration, there is a message of huge importance to underscore in her story. Jessica makes it very clear that action in three realms...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 16, 2012 | All Posts, All Setup, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Weight Loss
If you have never struggled with a weight problem, I know the following scenario may sound crazy. But if you have, you know exactly the angst we weight-challenged have associated with the scale. You jump on the scale in the morning and your weight registers up 3...
by Lani Muelrath | Jul 26, 2012 | Plant-Based Nutrition
Have you signed up for the free Teleclass I am hosting with Dr. McDougall yet? I’m excited to announce that the next guest on my Teleclass series is none other than plant-based nutrition pioneer Dr. John McDougall. You’ve heard me report in on Dr....
by Lani Muelrath | Jun 27, 2012 | Move Your Body, Plant-Based Nutrition
It seems the more Scott shifted his diet away from the standard American and toward a whole-foods, plant-based diet, the better his performance at his true love: The world of ultra-running. Scott Jurek is one of my fellow coaches at the first annual VegRun via...
by Lani Muelrath | Jun 17, 2012 | All Posts, All Setup, Recipes
Full disclosure! Yes, as you know I am a champion of a whole foods, plant-based, low-fat diet. It’s a passion and along with staying fit, it’s what I talk about and teach every single day. At the same time, I have never professed to nary a stray outside...
by Lani Muelrath | May 14, 2012 | Plant-Based Nutrition
Thanks to Stacy who posted a fleet of questions in a response right here on the plant-based fitness blog. They made for a great, simple article so that’s exactly where it went – to the posts! Ive been trying to find the answer to this question, and can’t...
by Lani Muelrath | Apr 9, 2012 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition
Where do you get your protein with a plant-based diet? Excerpted and adapted from The Plant-Based Journey: A Step-by-Step Guide To Transition To A Healthy Lifestyle and Achieving Your Ideal Weight If you follow a plant-based diet, or eat in a way that is even...
by Lani Muelrath | Apr 4, 2012 | Move Your Body, Weight Loss
Which do you think is better for your health goals: Shorter exercise sessions rmore often or fewer, longer workouts? If you are moving ahead with your health and weight loss plan, you know that physical activity plays a huge, health-protective role in the big...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 29, 2012 | All Posts, All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition
This just in! A video vignette of the February McDougall Health and Medical Center Advanced Nutrition Study Weekend. I took pages of notes during the event so that I could report directly back in to you, and this 7 minutes of video clips gives you a tantalizing...
