by Lani Muelrath | Jun 12, 2014 | All Posts, All Setup, Move Your Body, Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition
How exactly is it that taking a brisk walk not only improves your mood, it also elevates your ability to make better choices when it comes to what you put on your plate? A little bit of exercise quite literally is the quickest and easiest way to get a jump on the...
by Lani Muelrath | May 14, 2014 | Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition
This JUST came across my radar. And as my book The Plant-Based Journey: a A Step-By-Step Guide for Transitioning to a Healthy Lifestyle and Achieving Your Ideal Weight is still in production with Ben Bella Publishing – meaning I can’t get it into your...
by Lani Muelrath | Mar 11, 2014 | All Setup, Plant-Based Journey
I flew out of my author’s nest last week to be a guest at February’s McDougall Advanced Study Weekend. An unprecedented affair, the headliners was a fleet of all-stars – one after another. And catching up with plant-based buddies from all over the...
by Lani Muelrath | Dec 11, 2013 | Plant-Based Nutrition
I’ve just signed the contract for my next book! The Plant-Based Journey from BenBella Books – by yours truly – is now a work in progress for release in 2015. This is the exciting news I’ve been absolutely dying to tell you about. I told you in...
by Lani Muelrath | May 3, 2013 | Move Your Body, Plant-Based Nutrition
What should you eat before and after your workout? Trendy marketing materials and the supplement industry push shakes, powders, and special supplements. But what if you are more interested in the real food, plant-based diet solution? Does meal timing making a...
by Lani Muelrath | Apr 22, 2013 | Appearances
What a week this has been – filled to the brim with opportunities to share enthusiasm about healthy, happy, plant-based fit living. Here are some highlights I can’t wait to tell you about. First, NPR: I was invited to appear as Plant-Based Fitness...
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 | Sep 4, 2012 | Travel, Video
Our morning river walk in Harper’s Ferry, W. VA., where the Potomac meets the Shenandoah… Early September found us on plant-based fitness adventure in Virginia, Maryland, and even scrambling all over the nation’s capitol for a 7 hour junket on a hot,...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 3, 2012 | Move Your Body
Sign up for this FREE Teleclass at the bottom of this page. “Top 10 Reasons You Need To Move Your Body” PLUS “Fast Fitness To Go for Busy People” There’s nothing like the combination of a whole foods, plant-based diet and a simple...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 5, 2012 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
Imagine… • Walking into any restaurant, popping open the menu, and navigating to the plant-based diet items. And even better, vegan and vegetarian choices starred with ‘no added fats or oils’. And you don’t have to ask “Is there lard in the beans?” Heck,...
by Lani Muelrath | Jul 24, 2012 | Recipes
Key to success with your whole-food plant-based diet is simplicity. It’s easy to get caught up with what you should eat, fancy recipes, and old habits of thinking with meal planning that rub up against a much simpler solution. My idea of a perfect recipe is 5...
by Lani Muelrath | Jul 20, 2012 | Animals
Rockie, who became an overnight sensation and quickly claimed fame as the plant-based fitness mascot, is now a year old. Greg has just released video #4 “Rockie IV: Ready for my close-up!” You’ll see Rockie swinging in a hammock, leaping off tall...
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 | 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 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 | 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 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 | 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 | Oct 25, 2011 | Plant-Based Nutrition
My friend and plant-strong buddy Julieanna Hever, R.D., has the face of an angel and a sexed-up voice always on the verge of a hearty laugh. Combined with her enthusiasm for all things plant-based eating, Julieanna is winning minds and palates with the recent...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 13, 2011 | All Posts, All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition
45 notebook pages and 3 days later I’m back from the long drive to the McDougall Health and Medical Center Advanced Nutrition Study Weekend. 45 pages? I kid you not. I took my promise to report in to you quite seriously, and knowing there will be eager ears on...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 12, 2011 | Plant-Based Nutrition
What did early humans eat? And what about the answer to that question should we pay attention to when it comes to designing our own, modern, personal diets? Two of the most popular – and two of my own personal favorite – presentations at last weekends...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 25, 2011
You’ve read the books, you know the skinny and scoop on the benefits of a plant-based diet, and you’re totally inspired to go for it, jump your health and energy, and dump the extra weight. And now you need to know, simply, what to eat. And more often...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 22, 2011 | Plant-Based Nutrition
We knew it – the antioxidants, phytonutrients, and all their health-promoting and disease-protective buddies are found in the plants, the basis of a plant-strong diet. As a matter of fact, plant foods have 64 more times the antioxidant content than animal-based...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 19, 2011 | All Posts, All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition
If you have been hovering anywhere near the plant-based diet and plant-based nutrition world, then the name Esselstyn is no news to you. And if you’re looking for one perfect primer to switching up to a whole foods plant-strong diet, then Rip Esselstyn’s...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 3, 2011 | All Posts, All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition
I promised in Part 1 of the “Plant-based Nutrition Certification via Cornell University” report to address the juiciest question of them all: Q. “Lani, what was the single biggest thing you learned from the Plant-based Nutrition course? Honestly?...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 2, 2011 | All Posts, All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition
Do you need to supplement vitamin b12 on a plant-based diet that includes no animal products? The short answer? Yes. But does that make a diet without animal products somehow flawed? Not when you understand where the b12 comes from. Where does vitamin b12 come from,...
by Lani Muelrath | Jul 19, 2011 | All Posts, All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes, Video
Should you drink smoothies when trying to lose weight? Go to To smoothie or not to smoothie? The skinny on blending your fruits and greens for more food for thought. As if on cue from my “greens, go in and get moving” expose, this charming and deelish...
by Lani Muelrath | Jun 6, 2011 | Plant-Based Nutrition
Fellow foodies… From the minute I announced the fact that I was closing in on completing the course requirements for Certification in Plant-Based Nutrition via Cornell University, my email box and facebook messaging have been sizzling with questions about the...
by Lani Muelrath | May 15, 2011
News, updates on my new book, event announcements, and articles straight to your inbox. Think of it as more juice for your plant-based journey. Your body, mind and heart will thank you for it. And . . . it’s FREE! Get The Mindful VeganNewsletterJoin our mailing...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 28, 2010 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Travel
True to my promise to report in on how I fueled the heady and grueling ascent to the top of Half Dome n Yosemite last week (see How A Busy Woman Trains To Climb Yosemite’s Half Dome) I’m here to report that we did the whole darn thing on our usual, easy...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 14, 2022 | All Posts
The elephant orphans of Kenya again called to us, and last August we once more journeyed to Kenya to work with them, and to be with the magnificent wildlife that lives in this part of Africa. This time, another extraordinary experience was ours in meeting Jack...
by Lani Muelrath | Apr 5, 2020 | All Posts, Recipes
Just as I experienced post-trauma after the Camp fire that I shared with you in my article title After the Camp fire here, the turbulent times of Covid-19 have inspired a resurgence in these same ways of supporting family and community: with shared sustenance and...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 6, 2019 | All Posts, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Video
This latest video release from my husband Greg opens with a sunrise in Africa and moves to our town of Magalia with a message of symbolism and hope following our experiences in the Camp fire. Says Greg: “In August 2017, we had the good fortune to witness a...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 17, 2018 | All Posts, Holidays, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition
This just aired on NPR and now archived for your listening pleasure!NPR Special Program With Dr. Michael Greger and Lani MuelrathThe Back StoryNot long ago the host of a popular local North State Public Radio program, Nancy Weigman, reached out to me and asked if I...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 19, 2018 | All Posts, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, VegWorld
Cover girl is not what I ever anticipated would be on my resume. Yet mindfulness I know is always a lead story when it comes to healthy, happy vegan living. So when the new ownership of VegWorld Magazine approached me about their upcoming mindfulness issue – the...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 26, 2018 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes
Have you ever been to Alaska? I’ve always wanted to go and this summer my opportunity came. Don’t worry, we’ll get to the recipe shortly. First, a little bit about Alaska. Alaska Vegfest The organizer of Alaska Vegfest, Delisa Renidio, wrote to me...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 17, 2018 | All Posts, Animals, Travel
We’ve just returned from our fifth journey to Africa. Wildlife advocacy and adventure travel keep my husband Greg and I coming back. Once you get Africa in your blood, you can’t help but return each opportunity you get. Maybe it’s because it’s...
by Lani Muelrath | Mar 14, 2018 | All Posts, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Video
We keep our fingers crossed that the facts themselves will sell people on eating less meat. But the research tells a different story. People are more inclined to make choices based on the social norm. So if facts are presented in a way that speaks to that norm in a...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 8, 2018 | All Posts, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
Sometimes a letter is just too compelling not to share. This note just in from Kathy, whom you met here a couple of weeks ago. In today’s letter, Kathy described some clear outcomes from diving into meditation and instruction in The Mindful Vegan: A 30-Day Plan...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 4, 2018 | All Posts, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Move Your Body, Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes
The Day The Blue Zones Called Imagine my delight when the managing editor at Blue Zones central reached out to me regarding The Mindful Vegan. They had fallen in love with the book, and were particularly interested in sharing an excerpt from Day Seventeen in The...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 25, 2018 | All Posts, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Video
I’m a big fan of the work that the people at Vegucated.com have done and continue to do to advance the cause of veg living. True to their name, they are the champions of veg education and they have a gazillion resources at their website to prove it. A few days...
by Lani Muelrath | Dec 30, 2017 | All Posts, Recipes
Imagine my delight when Forks Over Knives called and asked me if they could feature one of my recipes from The Mindful Vegan: A 30-Day Plan for Finding Health, Balance, Peace, and Happiness. Mom’s Baking Powder Biscuits with Almonds recipe had caught...
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 | Nov 20, 2017 | All Posts, Holidays, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Video
Thanks again to Jeanne Schumacher, who I introduced you to recently when she interviewed me on video for Insights on Being a Mindful Vegan with Lani Muelrath. Jeanne continues to catalog an impressive collection of video interviews of thought leaders and world...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 18, 2017 | All Posts, Holidays, Recipes
The very same day I had scheduled to publish the recipe for Chocolate Mousse here on The Mindful Vegan blog, Christa from The Artistic Vegan did the same, accompanied by a giveaway for a copy of the book The Mindful Vegan: A 30-Day Plan for Finding Health, Balance,...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 22, 2017 | All Posts, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
In this in-depth video interview with Jeanne Schumacher of starchqueens.net, I describe the mindfulness practices as taught in The Mindful Vegan: A 30-Day Plan for Finding Health, Balance, Peace, and Happiness that have restored a healthy, happy relationship with...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 5, 2017 | All Posts, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Video
Think you are addicted to sweets? Sabotaged by mindless snacking and stress eating? This conversation will expand your awareness of what might be driving these – or any other compulsions and obsessions you might find creating misery – and introduce you to...
