Eat. Sleep. Move.

Coconut Yoghurt Recipe

Crystal — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 22:50:27 +0000

Tags: Blender, Chocolate Egg Nest, Coconut, Coconut Yoghurt, Easter, KitchenAid, Paleo Recipes

I posted up a picture of our homemade Easter treats to Facebook and the response was huge! The Chocolate Egg Nests were a huge hit with both our family and our Facebook fans. And let me tell you, not only did they look awesome, they were also super tasty! But the question on everyones lips (and fingertips) was: "What is coconut yoghurt?...Can I make that?...How do you make it?" And the answer is yes, you absolutely can make it at home and it is easy! Continue reading →

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Easy Egg Pancake Recipe

Have you done the 2012 Paleo Survey yet?

Crystal — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:29:33 +0000

Categories: General

David Csonka of Naturally Engineered needs your help! He has put together the 2012 Paleo Community Survey. The purpose of this survey is to collect information about paleo diet community members, including demographic information, medical conditions, dietary preferences, and physical activity.

Why should you participate?

The resulting data will be invaluable in terms of understanding the nature of the paleo movement. It will be provided to other bloggers and researchers with the goal of providing a clearer picture of how the paleo diet has affected the lives of its adherents. Last year there were over 6,000 respondents, so don't miss your chance to add your input into the Paleo Pool. Click here to take the survey now ---> 2012 Paleo Community Survey Continue reading →

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Paleo Link

Sleep or Death?

Crystal — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:10:15 +0000

Categories: Sleep, Weight Loss

Tags: Bent Formby, Eddie Izzard, Go to Bed Earlier, hormones control weight loss, Lights Out, melatonin, Sleep, weight loss

"That's a pretty easy question, anyone...everyone can answer that..." - Eddie Izzard, Cake or Death

Sleep or Death? Too Dramatic? Not according to this neat little infographic. Continue reading →

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Easy Egg Pancake Recipe

Crystal — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:12:37 +0000

Categories: Eat, Paleo, Paleo Recipes

Tags: egg pancake, how to flawlessly flip an egg pancake or omelette, omelette, paleo omelette, Paleo Recipes, recipes

The Easy Egg Pancake is both easy and tasty! This is my go-to brekkie meal most mornings and is the recipe I shared with Jimmy Moore and Mindy Noxon Iannotti when I was a guest on the Low-Carb Conversations Podcast recently. If you don't have any mad spatula skills then this one is definitely for you! Egg Pancakes and omelettes can be easily mucked up when it comes time to flip them, giving you no option but to turn your nice brekkie into a dodgy looking scramble instead. [frowny face] With a neat little flippy trick that I picked up from Paleo Cookbooks you can cook up beautiful looking pancakes and omelettes and easily pass yourself off as a Masterchef to any hungry brekkie guests. Continue reading →

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Paleo Link

Crystal — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:35:10 +0000

Categories: General

Tags: lifestyle, online paleo store, Paleo, paleo books, Paleo Link, Primal

Hey guys, Things have been pretty slow on the blog post front lately...my apologies for that! A big thank you to everyone who has 'liked' The Eat. Sleep. Move Facebook page or subscribed to get blog updates by email. The blog is continuing to go from strength to strength! I have recently been a guest on Jimmy Moore's Low Carb Conversations Podcast and have helped out with an informal Paleo talk at Crossfit PTZone. I am learning a great many things at the moment, on the nutritional front and also on the back end. I have all kinds of things in the planning including recipes, youtube videos and an online store. So, although I may not be able to put up as many blog posts as I would like to in the next month or two you can rest assured that there are a lot of things going on in the background that I will be able to share with you in time. A lot of my time at the moment is being diverted towards my new project, called the Paleo Link. The PaleoLink.com will be an online store for all of the things you might need to support a Paleo or Primal lifestyle. Continue reading →

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Debunking Calories In vs Calories Out for Weight Loss: Assumption #1

Crystal — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:39:19 +0000

Categories: Nutrition Theory, Sleep, Stress, Weight Loss

Tags: Calories In vs Calories Out, diseases of modern civilisation, eat less and exercise more, excess fructose, Go to Bed Earlier, hormones control weight loss, Robert Sapolsky, Starvation, Stephan Guyenet, stress, Sugar, weight loss, Wheat

When any government organisation or weight-loss guru advocate eating less and exercising more to lose weight, they are really trying to bend and contort the Calories In vs Calories Out principle into a weight loss strategy. To apply this principle to weight loss they are forced to make some assumptions.

Assumption #1

That the only two variables that impact our body fat stores are the calories we consume and the calories we expend. THIS IS WRONG. The calories we consume and the calories we expend are not the only determinants of what gets stashed away in our fat stores. Anyone who ponders this for long enough will realise that they actually knew this all along. 10 other factors that can also influence our fat mass... Continue reading →

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Gardening with the Moons

Crystal — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:13:35 +0000

Categories: In the Garden

Tags: capsicum, chilli plants, copper tape, gardening with moon, Grow your own, moon calendar, slugga, tomato

“Most people don’t see the sun, soil, bugs, seeds, plants, moon, water, clouds, and wind the way gardeners do” — Jamie Jobb Yesterday, the 27th of December, marked the 3rd day of the new moon. This means it was the first of 11 days of super growth in the garden for anything above ground. Some of you may raise your eyebrows — or even roll your eyes at me — but seriously, this gardening with the moons caper seems to work. I haven’t put it to the test with any randomised, controlled trials or anything like that but there is a lot of anecdotal evidence going back to the ancient Greeks and Romans — when people were more tuned in to the environment and their survival depended on their ability to grow their own food. They couldn’t just head down to the supermarket and pick up some veggies trucked down from the lush food bowls of Queensland, if their home gardens and crops failed then so did they. With skills born out of need, they observed that the moon phases affected seed germination and the growth and yield of their plants. I have absolutely no doubt that the best tasting, most nutritious food is that which you grow yourself, so to make the most of my 11 day leafy crop window, I got down and dirty in the garden. This is what I got up to... Continue reading →

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The Dieters Christmas Conundrum

Crystal — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:48:51 +0000

Categories: Eat, Weight Loss

Tags: christmas dinner, eat

Christmas is upon us. It might look slightly different for each of us but one thing is for certain...THERE...WILL...BE...FOOD. And there will probably be a lot of it. Roast turkey, ham, new potatoes, roast veggies, prawns, crayfish, oysters, pork, steaks and sausages on the BBQ, salads, yorkshire puddings, panettone, trifle, pavlova, chocolate, christmas pudding, cherries, strawberries, champagne, beer, beer ....and more beer. It is the one time of the year when people who have been sticking to an eating plan might loosen it up a little and have a treat or two or they might loosen it up completely and totally indulge. It is also a time when people who think they probably should have been sticking to an eating plan, might pat their tummies as they politely decline treats and drinks that are offered to them. So, what will you eat this Christmas Day? Continue reading →

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Why the Calories In vs Calories Out Principle is Not a Practical Tool for Weight Loss

Crystal — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:31:17 +0000

Categories: Nutrition Theory, Weight Loss

Tags: Calories In vs Calories Out, eat less and exercise more, Gary Taubes, hormones control weight loss, Stephan Guyenet, weight loss, Why?

No-one actually wants to be fat or overweight, but if it was as simple as just cutting out a slice or two of bread each day then obesity would certainly not continue to be so widespread. When any government organisation, nutritionist, personal trainer or weight-loss guru use ‘calories in vs calories out’ to advocate eating less and exercising more to lose weight, they have to make 3 assumptions. These assumptions are too simplistic and short-sighted for practical use. They do not take into account any of the other factors involved and they do not address what is biologically driving our overeating behaviour... Continue reading →

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The Complexities Surrounding the Simple Task of Eating

Crystal — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 08:57:03 +0000

Categories: Eat

Tags: diseases of modern civilisation, Eat. Sleep. Move., excess fructose, NAD's, Sugar, Wheat

Humans have been eating for over 2 million years, so you would think that we have got the hang of it by now, wouldn’t you? Evidently not. We no longer have to hunt our food down or go foraging in the wilderness for it. The hardest thing we have to do for food now, is to run the gauntlet of the supermarket aisles, battling it out with the other shopping trolleys in the wild west of Woolworths. But, as a race we are fatter, slower and more diseased than ever. We are overweight, snotty, scabby, gouty, crabby, gassy, creaky, over-tired, stressed, demented and diabetic with hormones which are all over the place and arteries that are all clogged up with crap. In our fast paced world of convenience, modern advances in agriculture and commercial food production have meant that we now have a greater variety of “food” to choose from than ever before. Our grandparent’s grandparents would not actually recognise many of the food products that we consume nowadays... Continue reading →

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