This post is not meant to come across as criticism for the way others choose to eat (though I know without a doubt that some will feel that way no matter how I write it). My hope is that visitors will read, and take a few minutes to think critically about where the animals products [...]

Before I had a baby, the farmer’s market seemed impossible. I wanted to sleep in! How could this place full of folding tables and farmers be worth the loss of sleep?
Now I’m singing a totally different tune, and the list of reasons why I would skip out on a week at the farmer’s market is [...]

My Food Diary has turned out to be even more effective than I imagined it would. Public accountability is unbelievably intimidating, and my goal of eating mindfully is working out just as I had hoped. I’m losing weight, slowly, but slowly is good if it’s sustained over a long period of time. I’m working to [...]

My weight loss progress has, quite frankly, sucked so far, and though I do plan on sharing everything I’ve been doing, today I’m just going to point you toward my latest weight loss scheme. That Husband has been urging me to start calorie counting again, but I’m too obsessive to only do it halfway, and [...]

That Husband and I try to read scriptures out loud together each night, and after finishing the Doctrine and Covenants we decided to start reading through the bible, starting with the Old Testament. We’ve been simultaneously reading the LDS Institute Old Testament Manual for a verse-by-verse analysis of the scriptures and the paragraphs on Genesis 9:2-6 [...]