Hey everyone I'm Liz Wolff. I'm a nutritional therapy practitioner and author of the upcoming book Modern Cave Girl releasing in May 2013 and I'm here with Diane San Philippo who is a certified holistic nutrition consultant and the New York Times best-selling author of Practical Paleo. She's also the woman behind balanced bites.

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Welcome to episode 68 of the Balance Bites podcast.

What's going on, girl?

Your bangs looks super cute.

Are you hanging out in New Jersey, the access around which the world turns, apparently?

It does.

Yeah, New Jersey. My bangs, I've been joking all day that I look like a teenage cartoon character with these bangs. They're like they're extra swoopy today.

So I'm in New Jersey, yep, just sipping on some licorice root tea.

My kambuja habit has been curtailed to about a half a bottle a day or eight ounces,

which is down from my one sometimes two per day habit that I developed since quitting

coffee over the summer so man it feels like forever since I was drinking coffee regularly

but also it feels like just yesterday. Anyway I started the 21 day

sugar detox yesterday and it was my dad's birthday party yes he's a New Year's baby. And so it was me and like roughly

one million 60-something. So yeah that was awesome. Sounds like your type of people.

Yeah, that was awesome. Sounds like you're a type of people.

Yeah, so I, you know, had some faith time with a bunch of them because actually my parents

have this thing where they actually love selling my book to pretty much anyone who

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