by Lani Muelrath | Jun 22, 2012 | Move Your Body
If you live in Arizona, perhaps you got a chance to tune in to the Dr. Don Wagner Medical Hour where I was guest on Wednesday June 20. If not, no worries, the call recording has been archived and you can play it back right here: Sitting Risks and Fit Quickies with...
by Lani Muelrath | Jun 19, 2012 | All Posts, All Setup
Just a few months back I had the pleasure of being guest on the Dr. Don Medical Hour live call-in radio show. I’m happy to announce I’ve been invited back for the hour from 3:00 – 4:00 p.m Pacific on Wednesday June 20. More about the good doc: Dr....
by Lani Muelrath | Jun 18, 2012 | Move Your Body
VegRun is up and running! And as if the lineup of celebrity coaching, professional support, workout schedules and healthy veg fuel isn’t enough, how about that gorgeous logo? I’m honored to be on the advisory panel for this most recent brainchild of the...
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 | Jun 7, 2012 | Move Your Body
Glutes, hamstrings, and transversus abdominus muscle to the rescue! Excessive anterior pelvic tilt creates a multitude of problems for our backs, bellies, and posture altogether. In Parts 1 – 4 of this series, you learned some stretches and what to watch for. ...
by Lani Muelrath | May 27, 2012 | All Posts, All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition
I am thrilled with the contents and format of this new book from Dr. John and Mary McDougall. When it comes to building a foundation of health, it really is so simple and McDougall keeps reminding us of just that. A whole-foods, low fat, vegan diet is easy to...
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 | May 11, 2012 | Weight Loss
How do you maintain weight loss on your own? This week the educational kit that is companion to the upcoming Weight of the Nation programming arrived. Some quick stats from the kit that may interest and inspire you. People who complete intensive weight-loss programs...
by Lani Muelrath | May 3, 2012 | Plant-Based Nutrition
Shame on Oprah. Today’s newsletter from the “O” camp features “healthy” snacks. Actually, it says ‘NO carrots – good for you snacks that taste amazing!” On the list? Pita chips with reduced fat sour cream, muskateers...
by Lani Muelrath | Apr 29, 2012 | Plant-Based Nutrition
The Food Revolution Summit hosted by my friend John Robbins launched and continues for several days. Did you hear about it? Online, listen in for FREE, dirt cheap to order recordings and transcripts of the presentations if you want to hang onto materials for future...
by Lani Muelrath | Apr 24, 2012 | Animals
She was gone for awhile and now she’s back! And she was here a few minutes ago too, promoting her new movie: In case you missed parts 1 and 2: Part 1: Merry wildlife Christmas! The Saga of Rockie our Squirrel – NEW video Part 2: Rockie returns! The squirrel...
by Lani Muelrath | Apr 19, 2012 | All Posts, All Setup, Move Your Body
I’ve been dying to tell you about this – it’s been so dang busy around here that I haven’t had time to take a minute but enough is enough! A publisher approached me regarding doing a book and, long short, they want the manuscript for Fit...
by Lani Muelrath | Apr 15, 2012 | All Posts, All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition
Today I came across a reference to me on a discussion forum. It went something like this: “I see Lani has gotten somewhat diety.” Earlier, if you had peeped inside my kitchen you would have seen the following: Sweet onions, bok choy, brussels...
by Lani Muelrath | Apr 10, 2012 | Travel
I hope the Easter bunny was good to you this year, as she sure was to us. We had the fine good fortune of having Larry Wheat’s famous ‘Larry’s pancakes’ and the pictures pretty much tell the story. Not only that, but this was on the heels of...
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 | Apr 2, 2012 | Move Your Body
“Kickstart Your Spring 2012 Healthy Fitness!” with Lani Muelrath, M.A. Look, there’s nothing like the combination of a whole foods, plant-based diet and a simple exercise plan to keep you fit, healthy, trim and energetic. To keep you going through...
by Lani Muelrath | Apr 1, 2012 | Travel
Back on the grid after floating around in the bubbles in the Rock Islands of Micronesia. Extraordinary adventure, and even lucky enough to have a plant-based Manchurian cook on board. All’s well! Now, to tear myself away from the video and get back to tasks...
by Lani Muelrath | Mar 11, 2012 | All Posts, All Setup, Move Your Body
We should arrive in this world with a note tacked on our cute little human hiney: Warning: Too much sitting may be hazardous to your health Except it’s more than ‘may be hazardous’. There’s a mountain of evidence that it definitely...
by Lani Muelrath | Mar 5, 2012 | All Posts, All Setup, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
Has this ever happened to you? You get all ramped up to get started on your health and weight loss plan. You’ve got your whole-foods, low-fat plant-based diet plan organized and ready. You’ve stocked your kitchen and in your enthusiasm and resolve, even...
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...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 28, 2012 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
Have you ever had something you knew to be important simmering for a long time on the back burner?That’s what Boot Camp Mind was like for me. I kept adding to it, tweaking it – for 3 years – and finally a few weeks ago my ‘it’s time to...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 26, 2012 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
Daily – no, several times a day actually – I receive email questions about how to get started on eating for plant-based health and fitness. People see the changes that I have gone through and note my unbridled enthusiasm for a whole-foods, low fat,...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 25, 2012 | Plant-Based Nutrition
The long awaited plant-based diet doctors debate has come and gone. I took pages of notes during the event so that I could report directly back in to you. Dr. McDougall arrived for the event dapper and distinguished in suit and tie, while Dr. Fuhrman looked ready to...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 15, 2012 | All Posts, All Setup, Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
Excerpted and adapted from Fit Quickies; 5 Minute Targeted Body Shaping Workouts, by Lani Muelrath, Penguin/Alpha, 2013. What? The Plant-Based Fitness Expert Advisor for the McDougall Health and Medical Center Discussion Boards is putting the words...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 14, 2012 | All Posts, All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition
It may be too late to snag a seat at the upcoming McDougall Advanced Study Weekend, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get a ringside cyber-seat at the long-anticipated great debate between these 2 plant-based diet heavyweights: Should You Eat Vegetables (Dr....
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 12, 2012 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
Is Pinterest a prescription for melting stress and boosting willpower? OK so uber-stressed on projects and decided to relax with a little Pinterest. Now ready to go again! Who’d a thunk it. That was moi on facebook yesterday. And to think I just heard of...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 10, 2012 | All Posts, All Setup, Move Your Body, Plant-Based Nutrition, Travel
Look. If I can do it in a 3rd world country, you can do it anywhere. Europe and the U.S. are easy. Not to belittle your efforts. But when you travel to far-flung off-the-beaten-path places and still make your plant-based diet work AND squeeze in your body-shapers...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 6, 2012 | Move Your Body
Between you and me, not a week goes by that one of these questions about exercise, breakfast, ‘fat-burning’, ‘metabolism’, and ‘burning muscle for fuel’ doesn’t come across my desk: Should you work out before breakfast to burn...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 1, 2012 | All Posts, All Setup, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
ThIs is part 4 in the Willpower Workout Series. If you missed it, you can catch up here: Part 1: Scone: 1, willpower: zip. Is there a way to give your willpower a workout? Part 2: 2 proven ways to give your willpower a workout Part 3: 5 minute willpower workout...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 31, 2012 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Move Your Body
This is part 3 in the Willpower Workout Series. If you missed it, you can catch up here: Part 1: Scone: 1, willpower: zip. Is there a way to give your willpower a workout? Part 2: 2 proven ways to give your willpower a workout In Part 2 of the Willpower Workout...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 30, 2012 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Move Your Body
Part 2 in the Willpower Workout Series. If you missed it, read part 1 here: Scone: 1, willpower: zip. Is there a way to give your willpower a workout? In part 1 of the Willpower Workout Series, we found out how compounded stress chips away at your willpower. No...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 29, 2012 | Move Your Body
On the road. We’re walking and adventuring every day, yet I crave that muscle challenge from a quick focused workout that keeps me energized, my posture in line, and my bum lifted. Here’s what I just completed out on the balcony with no special tools but...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 29, 2012 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
Scone: 1. Willpower: Zip. Has this ever happened to you? For stress-scenario purposes, I’m talking air travel and all the accompanying stress it can bring into play. But really, any situation where the stress has been compounded will do. I’ve...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 23, 2012 | Animals
Rockie, in the event you are late to the story, is the infant squirrel we found crawling around helplessly on the forest floor right outside our front door last summer, It was perfect timing, because with a little love, a lot of formula, and important shelter, she...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 21, 2012 | All Posts, All Setup, Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
It can be disheartening. You embrace a plant-based diet with the hopes of not only getting healthier, but shedding a few pounds and you are looking forward to slipping into your jeans a little more easily. xxxxxxx Yet for some inexplicable reason, a few days in you...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 18, 2012 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
To smoothie or not to smoothie? It’s the plant-based fitness expert’s blog. Of course I’m going to tell you to cram as many greens and fruits in as you can, right? Not so fast. With an upsurge in ‘smoothies’ and ‘cleanses’...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 16, 2012 | Plant-Based Nutrition
Yes, confusion about diet abounds in the media. In a free enterprise system it’s now wonder. Yet as I became acutely aware – and shared with you before – as a result of my Plant-Based Nutrition Certification at Cornell University, it is incumbent...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
The Disappearing Migraine – What You Need To Know To Cure Yourself Of Headaches Guest blogger Dustin Rudolph According to the National Headache Foundation 29.5 million Americans suffer from migraine headaches, with women being affected three times more then...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 9, 2012 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
Boot Camp Mind is… the voice of focus the voice of compelling commitment the ‘just do it’ you The part of you that is connected with your better judgement, that is inspired to realize your greater potential. You gain your health and get your body back through 3...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 6, 2012 | Weight Loss
Lose weight without losing your mind? Once you understand a few key principles about satiety, combined with our innate biological drives to seek pleasure (high fat, high sugar foods) and avoid pain (hunger), it’s actually a simple fix. You can’t fool...
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 | Jan 3, 2012 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
All congratulations and support if you are investing in your own health with an improved diet this year. Yet there are several critical things to consider before you start that new eating plan. And if you’re already started, no problem. Here are 7 of them. 7...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 2, 2012 | Move Your Body
Remember those ‘toning’ shoes that were so hot on the market a couple of years ago? In October 2010, I reported in to you with a short video warning about the false claims that were being made in the Reebok “EasyTone” shoe commercials. You can...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 2, 2012 | Recipes
Maybe you’re done with recipes for awhile. Not so fast. This invented-on-a-whim creation has turned out to be a unique bittersweet chocolate treat that is unusually grounding. That’s the best I can describe it. Kind of like Zen pie. You get the...
by Lani Muelrath | Dec 31, 2011 | Move Your Body
These 6 7 struck the deepest chord, according to page views. The plant-strong fitness blog hit over 1 million 300 thousand page views in 2011 – let’s hear it for simple fitness and the plants, what a combination! It’s simple, it’s happy,...
by Lani Muelrath | Dec 30, 2011 | All Posts, All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition
February 2012 fast approaches, and with it the long anticipated ‘conversation’ between Drs. John McDougall and Joel Fuhrman. And that’s not all! 😉 Look at the list of speakers and headliners. Scroll further down to video clips and slide show...
by Lani Muelrath | Dec 29, 2011 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
Dropping more hints about what’s coming, NEW from the plant-based fitness expert and motivator in 2012. Hint: Think MOTIVATION! Can’t wait to get this in your hands. Speculate in comments below or here on...
by Lani Muelrath | Dec 28, 2011 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
Need I say more? Inspiration, motivation, and practical tips in this phone-side chat. Healthy options, weight loss light bulbs, time-saver solutions. Webcast or telephone. Thursday December 29. Even if you can’t come, get on the list so I can send you the call...
by Lani Muelrath | Dec 26, 2011 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Move Your Body, Plant-Based Nutrition
It’s perfect! The timing, that is. To create your own healthy, fit, happy and hot ripple effect. Of course, it’s ALWAYS perfect timing when it comes to building and reinforcing healthy habits. Yet somehow coming off of the ‘season of...
