by Lani Muelrath | Dec 12, 2011 | All Posts, Holidays, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
Solid, simple tactics with real food and movement of your body – and your mind – to put you in the health & weight winner’s circle come January. Part 5 of 10: “How to Handle Food Pushers” Food pushers. You know what I mean. You go to a party, you go to an...
by Lani Muelrath | Dec 9, 2011 | All Posts, Holidays, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
Solid, simple tactics with real food and movement of your body – and your mind – to put you in the health & weight winner’s circle come January. Part 4 of 10: “What you have is what you’ll eat” What do you have going on in the fridge –...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 23, 2011 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
Yup, it’s the day before Thanksgiving, the big food holiday that precipitates a whole bunch of other ‘eating’ occasions. This year, don’t leave your health, happiness and self- harmony to chance. Take charge! 4 last-minute tips for a healthy,...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 2, 2011 | Weight Loss
Just between us, when I noted that, like clockwork, I dropped 2 lbs. in the last 2 weeks by doing exactly what I teach, I knew I had to share it with you. This has come on the heels of a 2 lb gain I experienced last month. You see, even my weight pops up a couple of...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 25, 2011
Looking for a specific post? You’ve come to the right place. Browse the archives bytopic, or use the search box in the sidebar. Alphabetical By Category Below are the key categories from the article archives. Below each description is a list of key posts from...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 29, 2011 | Weight Loss
This just in: Hi Lani! I’ve been using your 15-minute blast strategy every morning and it’s the best exercise program I’ve ever found. It’s BETTER than Tim Ferriss’ strategies in the 4-Hour Body, and much, MUCH easier to implement! ~...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 1, 2011 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes
I don’t know about you, but I get in food ruts. And pre-packaged greens and drive-through are my ideas of a perfect universe. As someone who hates to cook, and loves to eat healthy, I do eat – a lot. With a whole-foods, plant-based diet it just takes a...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 31, 2011 | All Posts, All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
Read Dr. Gupta’s post-production notes here. Dr. Sanjay Gupta is on a personal mission to never have a heart attack. And in the process, he embarked on a year-long investigation to find out what actions he could take to offset his family history of heart...
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 | All Posts, All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition
What does ‘vegan’ mean, anyway? And what does a vegan eat? The answer may seem obvious to readers at the Plant-Strong Fitness Blog, yet it’s one of those questions that is never too silly to ask and begs a specific spot for an answer and an easy...
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 4, 2011 | Recipes
As hummus is the new mayo, a girl who wants her sammy NOW shouldn’t be without it primed and ready to go on the refrigerator shelf. But sometimes it happens. To the best of us. Like today. Not easily daunted by this obstacle between me and my oil-free sandwich...
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 | Jun 8, 2011 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Weight Loss
Special occasion overeating. You know what I’m talking about. “But it’s Christmas!” “But it’s Friday!” “But it’s…..!” Special occasion overeating could also be called self-permission to eat all the wrong foods. You know, the ones that are not compatible with your...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 13, 2011 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Transformations
Sure, we all want to look good. Yet when you’ve experienced debilitating, life-changing pain that hijacks your attention, finding relief from that pain becomes paramount. This is what happened to Phyllis. At the relatively young age of 46, she was becoming...
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 | Jan 14, 2011 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
Why do most weight loss diets fail? I’m betting you already have an answer right at the tip of your tongue. As a matter of fact, if you happen to have a long and colorful diet history as I do, then I’m certain of it. Let me guess. Your answer to the...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 5, 2011 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition
Look, let’s face it. We’ve been marketed a bill of goods with the Diary Council’s milk and dairy campaigns. Remember these? “Milk – it does a body good” celebrity white-mustache campaign (still alive and kicking?) the...
by Lani Muelrath | Dec 13, 2010
When Friends Ask: Where Do You Get Your Protein? by John McDougall, M.D. If you don’t know where you get your protein while following a plant-food-based diet, you’re in good company. The Nutrition Committee of the American Heart Association, scientists from the Human...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 13, 2010 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition
It’s no secret that smack dab at the heart of my stay-trim-and-energized strategy is to pile the veggies on my plant-strong plate. I am always flabbergasted when a woman tells me that she struggles with getting in 2 or 3 servings of plant foods a day. I am...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 4, 2010 | Plant-Based Nutrition
In my fitness coaching programs, sooner or later the conversation always gets around to breakfast. What is it, when is it, how important is it? As a matter of fact, because of the value of breakfast, aka a ‘gusto brekkie’, I always either structure it...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 1, 2010 | Recipes
On a mission to eat healthy and yet find the holiday season has you wondering how to do just that? Here’s hope – and rescue menus and ideas – from Mary McDougall. Something for everybody! All newsletter archives referenced in the recipes can be...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 5, 2010 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition
Small plate trick? Fuhgiddaboudit. I need a BIG plate when it comes to staying slim. The headline you just read is not an error. I mean big plate, big time ;-). I never took to the “small plate” trick. I’d just go back for seconds. Sound counter intuitive? I can...
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 | Sep 14, 2010 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition
What do you get when you pile a whole tangle of world class nutrition experts, researchers, and physicians on one big platter, like a big heap o’ brown rice? Lively debate (they don’t agree on everything). Spirited discussion (everyone kept their sense of...
by Lani Muelrath | Jun 9, 2010 | Weight Loss
You can hear the excitement in Val’s voice and no wonder. Val has done not only a clear job of succeeding with simple, easy tools yet has also tracked her progress for an amazing snapshot of success. If you are looking for heightened energy, a more resilient and...
by Lani Muelrath | Apr 17, 2010 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition, Travel
My friend Hope had to dash home to the States for awhile and asked if we might like to stay at her home in San Miguel de Allende, high in the Mexico dessert, for a bit. Uh, yeah. So here we are. The house is beautiful, brilliantly decorated, and very private. And as...
by Lani Muelrath | Apr 5, 2010 | All Posts, Weight Loss
Denise and I can share a table any ol’ day of the week and be happy as clams eating our fill. Without gaining weight. Losing it, in fact. That’s because Denise and I both enjoy what I call the “Comfort Food Diet”. Yup. A way of eating that...
by Lani Muelrath | Apr 5, 2010
As Plant-Based Fitness Advisor for the McDougall Health and Medical Center Discussion Boards, I have the honor and privilege of reaching thousands of people who are looking for a health-supportive, body-friendly, easily successful food plan that delivers every time...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 27, 2010 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes, Weight Loss
If you are one of those people who thinks that preparing veggies for a solid, yummers meal is too much trouble, then you haven’t seen this video. This Veggie Sandwich Wrap is not only easy (you can use canned beans!), versatile (mix and match the veggies you...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 19, 2010 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition
Yes, as you can imagine or may have discovered, eating “out” can be challenging when you want to eat healthy. It seems most restaurant menus are designed to thwart our body shaping and health goals! Fat, butter, cheese and meat are everywhere and packed...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 7, 2010 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes
One of my last dietary high-fat holdouts was mayonnaise. I’d switched to Veganaise years ago, so at least had moved away from eggs in the recipe, but the fat content was no less than good ‘ol Best Foods. Once I’d made the decision to opt out of...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 2, 2010 | Move Your Body, Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
Who can complain when you’re lucky enough to live 15 minutes from the XC ski terrain? Plus, it’s a perfect excuse for working up a winter appetite. Not a problem when there are plenty of filling yet trimming foods ready back at home. See What’s in...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 28, 2010 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition
“Is that bread in your cart?” “Uh, yeah.” And yes, I have been approached on more than one occasion in the market with this question. Multiple occasions, as a matter of fact. And different versions of the theme: what’s in my shopping...
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 | Apr 26, 2009 | All Posts, Travel
There’s not much I enjoy more than being able to eat well on the road, stay healthy, stay trim, and then tell all about it! This is our haul from the market in Oaxaca town earlier today. Every meal has been fantastically delicious and easy to prepare! For...
by Lani Muelrath | Mar 23, 2009 | All Posts
Right on the heels of last week’s Diary of A Mini-Fast I got buckets of emails asking for play-by-play of a day of eating! Happy to comply. Here are the last 2 days: Saturday Brekkie: cranberry walnut bread w/ peanut butter and strawberry preserves coffee bowl...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 8, 2009 | All Posts, Weight Loss
(This article is the Feature Article and topic of discussion for the January 8, 2009 issue of the FitDream Ezine)One of the first questions I have for a new client, when they come to me to help them achieve better fitness, weight loss, or energy, is this: “What...
