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 qualiant | Mar 24, 2015
Speaking Engagements Lani Muelrath is an award-winning, internationally recognized presenter and speaker who brings expertise and excitement about mindful, active, vegan living to the stage at your event. Lani has also been featured on CBS TV, multiple health...
by Lani Muelrath | Mar 15, 2015 | Plant-Based Journey
She now has a face! The Plant-Based Journey: A Step-by-Step Guide for Transitioning to a Healthy Lifestyle and Achieving Your Ideal Weight now officially has a front cover, six months to the day from release. This week also marks the last few days that I can...
by Lani Muelrath | Mar 6, 2015 | Recipes, Reviews
My friend Jill Nussinow, aka The Veggie Queen, has recently created a wonderful cookbook with a unique theme. And she’s giving a copy of the downloadable electronic book for one of my lucky readers. Nutrition CHAMPS – 200 recipes True to form – as...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 15, 2015 | Plant-Based Nutrition
I have heard Dr. John McDougall emphasize on several occasions that the “numbers” – cholesterol, triglycerides – don’t tell you everything. They don’t necessarily tell you exactly the condition of your arteries or your heart, for...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 9, 2015 | Move Your Body
Nancy gets stars all over the chart for what she has done this year to take charge of her health, fitness, and body shape. Actually, last year too, when she made major headway in a 40 lb weight loss and made a solid shift into a whole-foods, plant-based diet. One of...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 8, 2015 | Appearances, Media
One of the best ways to advance your mission to becoming the healthiest, happiest person you can be is to assemble support. Whether to get you moving your body, keep you eating better, make you more comfortable and skilled at eating whole foods plant based...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 18, 2015 | All Posts, All Setup, Move Your Body
It’s happened again. No sooner had I clicked send on my last email to you – demonstrating the strong link between eating whole grains and longevity – when this gem popped up in my news feed. It seems that just when I submit my book manuscript,...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 11, 2015 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
If you were to ask me the biggest challenges in writing The Plant-Based Journey, I would have to say one of them is this: Keeping up with the daily flood of information about the benefits of plant-based eating. News about easy weight management, longevity,...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 25, 2014 | All Setup, Animals, Holidays, Video
My first vegetarian Thanksgiving was in 1972. That was the same year that I met my husband, Dick Gregory came to campus to speak on his peace tour, I started teaching yoga, and I took up a meditation practice inspired by a sign posted at the local natty foods store,...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 16, 2014 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Reviews
If you haven’t already tasted or at least heard the wildly enthusiastic buzz about the famous non-dairy cheeses from Miyoko’s Kitchen, then you’ve come to the right place. Not only that, you have a chance to win a free gift collection of one of her...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 13, 2014 | Media, Move Your Body
Who’d have ever thought I’d get a call from USA Today to weigh in on how to get a back side like Kim Kardashian’s? And of course, my first thought was “who’d want a back side like that?” And also, of course, though not being...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 8, 2014 | All Posts, All Setup, Plant-Based Journey
I love it when you share your ideas. You have so many good ones! Based on number of reads and your replies in comments, Five Health Tips for Plant-Based Baby Boomers has emerged here as one of the most popular articles of 2014. I invited you to share your tips to...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 4, 2014 | Reviews
The winner of this giveaway – drawn randomly from the entries – is Rosemary Thompson. Thanks to all who entered! This week, BenBella, the publisher of my new book The Plant-Based Journey releases another title from their plant-based living collection. I...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 1, 2014 | Holidays, Recipes
Holy calendar whiplash. It’s November! This time of year is always a mix of good times, good eats, right along with challenges to healthy living, eating, and personal equanimity. Let me see if I can help a little bit on all fronts. Below, I’ve linked six...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 27, 2014 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes, Reviews
Enter the YumUniverse book giveaway at bottom of this post… Guess what just came in the mail? One of the nice things about being in the publishing world is that not only do I get to rub shoulders with some of the best authors in the business, but I also receive...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 20, 2014 | All Setup, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Move Your Body, Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition, Travel
I don’t care what any one says, when you become a ‘lady or gentleman of a certain age’, something shifts. Muscle maintenance can be harder, weight gain easier, and the inclination to simply not move as much can sneak up on you. When I jumped into my...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 2, 2014 | Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes
It was my lucky day when the proposal for my new book The Plant-Based Journey landed on the editor’s desk at BenBella Publishing. From the very beginning, the team at BenBella has been enthusiastic, gracious, and collaborative in the best of ways. And now,...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 27, 2014 | Plant-Based Nutrition
Finally – a pharmacist you can trust Like most healthcare professionals, Dustin Rudolph, PharmD, entered the field of medicine with one goal in mind—to help his patients get healthy. And like most pharmacists, Rudolph believed the best way to accomplish this...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 22, 2014 | All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition, Reviews
The new Forks Over Knives book is like a visit with the kind plant-based doctor you wish you had. You know, the doctor who is keenly interested in your health and well-being, assumes you actually ARE interested in taking practical steps – instead of pills...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 14, 2014 | Animals, Plant-Based Journey, Travel, Video
Safari Africa touches something deep inside you. Maybe it’s in our DNA. Our limbic memory, reaching back to our ancient ancestors. Picture this At 6,500 feet above sea level, we watch as a large family of elephants – from giant towering mothers to infants...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 23, 2014 | All Posts, All Setup, Move Your Body
The FDA called Holy health in high places! A staff member from the FDA in attendance at the recent PCRM International Conference on Diabetes – that I recently reported in to you about here – in apparent enthusiasm, shared her copy of my book Fit...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 11, 2014 | Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes
I guess it all started with the book recipe testing project. On schedule for the August first deadline at Ben BellaBooks – my publisher- for the full manuscript of The Plant-Based Journey meant testing the recipes as they are to be published in the book. Once,...
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 | Jul 15, 2014 | All Posts
Snapshots from Summerfest! (click to enlarge) Double trouble – with Dr. Michael Greger At the author’s signing table in the bookstore! With Fran Costigan, Miyoko Schinner, and Jill Nussinow Lucky me – Victoria Moran and I planned a special session...
by Lani Muelrath | Jul 9, 2014 | Appearances
This breakthrough healthy living event is just one week away! Here is a promotional flyer the fine folks at PCRM put together for the event, where I’ve been asked to present re: physical activity for healthy living, with an early morning Fit Quickies session...
by Lani Muelrath | Jul 8, 2014 | All Posts, Appearances, Plant-Based Journey
Everyone should have this much fun in one summer week. Just returned from the annual Vegetarian Summerfest in Johnstown, Pennsylvania where I’ve been for the last week. I had been asked to give four different presentations, including Five Minute...
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 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 | Apr 16, 2014 | Plant-Based Nutrition
I don’t recall if I ever told you about the first time I met John Robbins. It was at a large event and he was scheduled as one of the headline speakers, along with Dr. Dean Ornish and a list of other plant-based diet dignitaries. But between you and me, everyone...
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 19, 2013 | Recipes
With my new silicone baking trays having just arrived – in the same box with a copy of LeAnne Campbell’s The China Study Cookbook – and three cans of pumpkin perched expectantly on the pantry shelf – well, you put it together! I don’t...
by Lani Muelrath | Dec 2, 2013 | Recipes
I’d forgotten how absolutely yummers lentil loaves can be. That is until I was combing through my recipe collection for not only a main dish for Thanksgiving, but for something that I would also be able to slice for fast, hearty sandwiches. Honestly, it’s...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 13, 2013 | Recipes
When wildlife threw a “let’s gnaw-the-drain-hoses under the dishwasher” party while we were away for two weeks on scuba adventure (see video below) – taking any last vestiges of ‘ease’ out of kitchen clean up – we had to...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 7, 2013 | All Posts, All Setup, Animals, Holidays, Recipes
Though Thanksgiving is officially a couple of weeks off, celebrations around here are already underway. And that means time for three Thanksgiving musts: orange cranberry sauce, Forks Over Knives style mushroom gravy, and Farm Sanctuary. Must #1: Farm Sanctuary...
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 | Oct 8, 2013 | All Setup, Transformations, Weight Loss
Debby is a shining example of courage in the face of extreme health challenges. She exemplifies the power of tenacity, being connected with vision, and doing what it takes – including the often-overlooked important attention to mindset and habit change –...
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 | Sep 26, 2013 | Recipes
As a big fan of breakfast and a big fan of the bean, I have long aspired to figure out how to make the two meet in my kitchen. I know the power a gusto brekkie delivers for supporting you evenly through the rest of the day with lasting levels of satiety, and beans...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 18, 2013 | Plant-Based Nutrition
The Healthy Taste of Sacramento extravaganza has come and gone yet the effects are still lingering days afterword. The best analogy that comes to mind for this sold out celebration – with over 250 in attendance – is ‘tidal wave event’ –...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 29, 2013 | Fasting, Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes, Travel
If the names Lisle and Goldhamer sound almost as familiar to you as Rogers and Hammerstein, it may be because they are co-authors of the brilliant and popular The Pleasure Trap. This visionary book could be considered the foundation of the practices and principles...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 23, 2013 | Plant-Based Nutrition
This Teleclass/webcast has already taken place. Not to worry! You can still download the recording of the call; simply fill in the sign-up form further down the page, click the confirmation link, and the link to download the mp3 will be sent to you. ...
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 | Aug 14, 2013 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes
Potato Palooza Salad is inspired by my new Instant Pot that has me cooking an entire 5 pound bag of organic potatoes at a time on a regular basis. This means I’m a fast 15 minutes away from a bucket of taters good for steaming hot spuds for dinner, leftovers...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 9, 2013 | Transformations, Weight Loss
Janice, then Janice, now Are these the same person? When Janice sent me these pictures to post side-by-side as we reflected on our three month benchmark of working together in the Fast Start Program, these are the first words that came to mind: are these the same...
by Lani Muelrath | Jul 31, 2013 | Plant-Based Nutrition
What a delightful surprise to discover, in my mailbox, a package addressed to “The Plant-Based Fitness Expert” from Ben Bella books, containing their most recent release Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition by one of the most respected science and...
by Lani Muelrath | Jul 23, 2013 | Recipes
P.S. To get $50off the retail price go to Instant Pot . The coupon applies to the IP-DUO60 model enter this code in your order form: lani. Should you have any trouble with the code, please send me a message via the Contact form. The model I have is the Instant Pot...
by Lani Muelrath | Jul 20, 2013 | Move Your Body
“Exercise not helpful for weight loss!” – so read the headlines on a recent newsflash that just surfaced in my inbox. As you can imagine, I received a flurry of emails asking me to speak to the article. It took a little bit of sleuthing, but a...
by Lani Muelrath | Jul 16, 2013 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Travel, Video
I’ve just returned from Vegetarian Summerfest – and there is SO much to tell you! For starters, I was thrilled and honored to be invited to present at this by-invitation-only annual event in Johnstown, PA. I’ve heard about Veg Summerfest for years...
