Liz Wolfe is a nutritional therapy practitioner certified by the Nutritional Therapy Association, blogger at CaveGirlEats (now RealFoodLiz.com), and is the author of the new book, Eat the Yolks. She's also a real-food cook and amateur homesteader raising goats, chickens, and pigs. In this episode, Abel and Liz discuss:

• Happiness (not appearance) and enjoying food as part of health;
• The danger of obsessing over "vanity pounds" and weightloss;
• Transitioning from a modern, urban life to a farm as a bad cook;
• Ancient bread and the pitfalls of conventional farming;
• Thoughtful omnivorism and a rant against the "Paleo Police";
• And more about former diet dilemmas to cooking real food.

Enjoy the show!

[powerpress channel="podcast"] Show Notes

• Six years trained with Michael Rutherford, Bootcamp Fitness, Kansas City.
• Coach Rut introduced Liz to Robb Wolfe who was breaking out on his own.
• Started her own blog talking about Paleo and sharing what she was eating.
• Her appearance used to be at the expense of health, but later flip-flopped.
• Misery and restriction diets she was on made her terribly unhappy.
• Maintained a "thinspiration board" with skinny pictures for motivation.
• Had skin issues and disorders (like acne, eczema, etc) tied to her food.
• After five years of eating well, she's never been happier and healthier.
• Don't picture yourself thin, picture yourself in full health instead.
• Our body's expression of full health may not be what we want to see.
• Once you learn to love real food and health, you'll also love your body.
• You can't put a number on feeling good (e.g., scale, tape, calipers, etc).
• When you try to lose "vanity pounds," you lose the point of this journey.
• Strive to be functional and happy your whole life instead of preoccupied.
• Was on The Zone, Low-Card, Ketogenic, etc and something was still missing.
• Grass-fed beef was her first introduction to this new healthy lifestyle.
• In city, farmer markets were plenty; once rural, food is paradoxically bad.
• This led to developing her farm, growing her own food, and homesteading.
• Conventional farming and conglomerates are changing the food landscape.
• She says she's more about real food, without processed stuff, than Paleo.
• "Paleo" is just a label for a diet, but it's not about the lifestyle.
• Paleo is about a vast body of information, science, and common-sense.
• Ancient bread is made with rhizome, which is not a grain at all.
• Modern wheat is not like ancient, wild wheat (like Einkorn) or grains.
• Paleo is not a historical reenactment, there's still science on our side.
• Today's food are fundamentally different than our grandparents' food.
• Wheat sourced in America vs. sourced traditionally (like in Italy).
• Fermenting, properly preparing foods such as sprouting, and organic.
• You don't have to be a good cook to start making and enjoying real food.
• Breakfast used to be FiberOne, soy milk, with Aspartame sprinkled on top.
• So there is a learning curve but it gets easier and you find favorites.
• One way is to find great restaurants that support local producers.
• Liz coined the term "thoughtful omnivorism," which Abel likes.
• It's thinking about where your food comes from, giving back to the soil.
• Excusing ourselves from the food chain is making us sicker, less happy.
• "Where does my food come from," and then "where can I get better food."
• "Embrace the suck," and be outside rather than on the treadmill.
• Quit talking about weightloss at all costs, or whether caveman ate bread.
• Focus instead on real food, where it comes from, and how it makes us feel.
• We should stop "Paleo-policing" each other about dumb, little points.
• Went to high school with Lewis Howes, a past guest on the show.

Recommended Resources

• "Eat The Yolks" by Liz Wolfe
• CaveGirlEats (now RealFoodLiz.com) is her blog
• Coach Rut (Michael Rutherford)
• Rhizome for ancient bread
• 24 Diner restaurant in Austin
• Common acquaintance is Lewis Howes

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