by Lani Muelrath | Dec 15, 2011 | All Posts, Holidays, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Plant-Based Nutrition
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 7 of 10: “Follow the 50/50 rule for vegetable and fruits” One of the best year-round tips I can give you for...
by Lani Muelrath | Dec 2, 2011 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes
Smoothie: The movie! Plus, all hail kale chips; 2 ways to make greens more kid-friendly. (Be sure this article is opened in its own page for the video to appear). Smoothies and green drinks are not necessarily the best choice every day for those of us who are all...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 12, 2011 | Plant-Based Nutrition
What did early humans eat? And what about the answer to that question should we pay attention to when it comes to designing our own, modern, personal diets? Two of the most popular – and two of my own personal favorite – presentations at last weekends...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 14, 2022 | All Posts
The elephant orphans of Kenya again called to us, and last August we once more journeyed to Kenya to work with them, and to be with the magnificent wildlife that lives in this part of Africa. This time, another extraordinary experience was ours in meeting Jack...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 4, 2018 | All Posts, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Move Your Body, Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes
The Day The Blue Zones Called Imagine my delight when the managing editor at Blue Zones central reached out to me regarding The Mindful Vegan. They had fallen in love with the book, and were particularly interested in sharing an excerpt from Day Seventeen in The...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 18, 2017 | All Posts, Holidays, Recipes
The very same day I had scheduled to publish the recipe for Chocolate Mousse here on The Mindful Vegan blog, Christa from The Artistic Vegan did the same, accompanied by a giveaway for a copy of the book The Mindful Vegan: A 30-Day Plan for Finding Health, Balance,...
by Lani Muelrath | May 21, 2016 | All Posts, Plant-Based Journey, Travel, Video
We’ve just returned from three weeks of adventure on a Biodiversity Expedition in Indonesia. Here in Greg’s latest video release, a peek at our adventure. Watch as we dive alongside manta rays, sea turtles, and yes, even sea snakes!. Along the way we...
by Lani Muelrath | Dec 14, 2015 | All Posts, Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition, Reviews
Now Doctor Recommended for Your Health: The Plant-Based Journey Book! We know that a plant-based diet has been increasing extolled by doctors and the medical community as the diet for optimal health: I am excited to announce that The Plant-Based Journey is now...
by Lani Muelrath | Dec 1, 2015 | All Posts, Plant-Based Journey, Recipes
Portobello Pot Roast Recipe from The Plant-Based Journey Portobello Pot Roast from The Plant-Based Journey has been such a runaway hit that we’ve decided to publish the entire recipe here for everyone to enjoy. Just a glimpse of all the goodies you can expect...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 15, 2015 | All Posts, Plant-Based Journey, Recipes
Recipe Photos from The Plant-Based Journey If I had a wish list… …for The Plant-Based Journey, it would be that she (1) go into second printing quite quickly, (2) be reviewed by a major publication such as VegNews, and (3) that she have marvelous photos of...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 1, 2015 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
Azumio, an online and mobile service that publishes daily insights into health and fitness, has asked me to be a contributing author to their nutrition column. This is my article published at Azumio this week: Are Beans The Ultimate Skinny Food? Have you ever noticed...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 19, 2015 | All Posts, Appearances, Media, Plant-Based Journey, Recipes, Video
In this five minute segment, filmed live during CBS TV Good Day Sacramento earlier this week, I demonstrate five superfast ways to plantify your plate. Double click on the video image below to watch this five minute segment. Five Fast Ways to Plantify Your Plate No...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 28, 2015 | All Posts, Plant-Based Journey
The official Plant-Based Journey blog tour launches September 1! You’ll find the complete list – including links added each day when that day’s tour stop goes ‘live’ – at the end of this article. More about the tour in a minute, but...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 1, 2015 | All Posts, Weight Loss
Peggy called me for help, deeply discouraged because her weight loss efforts had stalled. She felt at a loss as to how to get moving again toward the weight loss she wanted and needed. She was also quite frustrated by the pattern she had developed of overeating in the...
by qualiant | Jul 16, 2015
Your Pre-Order Bonus Gifts for The Plant-Based Journey! When you pre-order The Plant-Based Journey: A Step-by-Step Guide to Transition to a Health Lifestyle and Achieve Your Ideal Weight, we want to say thanks by giving you bonus gifts. After all,...
by Lani Muelrath | Jun 25, 2015 | All Posts, Plant-Based Journey, Travel, Video
If we’ve been on this journey together for any time at all, you know this about me: I travel. A lot. I figure someone’s got to demonstrate how you can eat and live plant-based – in glorious fashion – and stay active anywhere in the world. So...
by Lani Muelrath | Jun 21, 2015 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
Which Plant-Based Food Plan is Right For You? Have you noticed that the more popular whole food plant-based eating becomes, the more it can seem that ‘plant-based diet’ can mean one thing to one person, another thing to someone else? It might...
by qualiant | May 31, 2015
Welcome to the resources page for The Plant-Based Journey: A Step-by-step Guide for Transitioning to a Healthy Lifestyle and Achieving Your Ideal Weight. To download a free 40-page preview of The Plant-Based Journey, click here. The Plant-Based Journey is Doctor...
by qualiant | May 29, 2015
The Plant-Based Journey is now officially released! ORDER YOUR COPIES TODAY Pre-order bonuses are no longer available. Your Pre-Order Bonus Gifts for The Plant-Based Journey! When you pre-order The Plant-Based Journey: A Step-by-Step Guide to...
by Lani Muelrath | May 10, 2015 | All Posts, All Setup, Animals, Travel, Video
We just returned from three weeks of travel adventure in Indonesia, where we journeyed for scuba diving, rainforest hiking, and doing what we always do on our travels – trek to wildlife sanctuaries and preserves to give support, bear witness, and bring back...
by Lani Muelrath | Apr 8, 2015 | All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
According to a new meta-analysis – that means a review of mountains of research studies – published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, adopting a vegetarian diet causes weight loss, even in the absence of...
by Lani Muelrath | Apr 7, 2015 | All Posts, All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes
For decades now, my diet has been plant-based. You can tell by taking a peek inside my refrigerator. So when someone complains they can’t think of ways to get more vegetables in their diets, as you can imagine I have plenty to say. For me, I’ve been...
by Lani Muelrath | Apr 5, 2015 | All Setup, Appearances
When five-term mayor of Marshall, Texas, Ed Smith, received a diagnosis of prostate cancer in 2008, he decided to treat it with aggressive dietary changes under a doctor’s supervision. Mayor Smith began eating only whole grains, vegetables and legume, nuts, and...
by Lani Muelrath | Mar 6, 2015 | Recipes, Reviews
My friend Jill Nussinow, aka The Veggie Queen, has recently created a wonderful cookbook with a unique theme. And she’s giving a copy of the downloadable electronic book for one of my lucky readers. Nutrition CHAMPS – 200 recipes True to form – as...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 22, 2015 | Plant-Based Nutrition
This week the U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee pulled back the curtain on its official advisory for what Americans ‘should’ be eating. Due out every five years, the last Guidelines were revealed in 2010. That means this is the year for an update....
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 11, 2015 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
If you were to ask me the biggest challenges in writing The Plant-Based Journey, I would have to say one of them is this: Keeping up with the daily flood of information about the benefits of plant-based eating. News about easy weight management, longevity,...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 8, 2014 | All Posts, All Setup, Plant-Based Journey
I love it when you share your ideas. You have so many good ones! Based on number of reads and your replies in comments, Five Health Tips for Plant-Based Baby Boomers has emerged here as one of the most popular articles of 2014. I invited you to share your tips to...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 1, 2014 | Holidays, Recipes
Holy calendar whiplash. It’s November! This time of year is always a mix of good times, good eats, right along with challenges to healthy living, eating, and personal equanimity. Let me see if I can help a little bit on all fronts. Below, I’ve linked six...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 27, 2014 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes, Reviews
Enter the YumUniverse book giveaway at bottom of this post… Guess what just came in the mail? One of the nice things about being in the publishing world is that not only do I get to rub shoulders with some of the best authors in the business, but I also receive...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 20, 2014 | All Setup, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Move Your Body, Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition, Travel
I don’t care what any one says, when you become a ‘lady or gentleman of a certain age’, something shifts. Muscle maintenance can be harder, weight gain easier, and the inclination to simply not move as much can sneak up on you. When I jumped into my...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 22, 2014 | All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition, Reviews
The new Forks Over Knives book is like a visit with the kind plant-based doctor you wish you had. You know, the doctor who is keenly interested in your health and well-being, assumes you actually ARE interested in taking practical steps – instead of pills...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 23, 2014 | All Posts, All Setup, Move Your Body
The FDA called Holy health in high places! A staff member from the FDA in attendance at the recent PCRM International Conference on Diabetes – that I recently reported in to you about here – in apparent enthusiasm, shared her copy of my book Fit...
by Lani Muelrath | Dec 2, 2013 | Recipes
I’d forgotten how absolutely yummers lentil loaves can be. That is until I was combing through my recipe collection for not only a main dish for Thanksgiving, but for something that I would also be able to slice for fast, hearty sandwiches. Honestly, it’s...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 13, 2013 | Recipes
When wildlife threw a “let’s gnaw-the-drain-hoses under the dishwasher” party while we were away for two weeks on scuba adventure (see video below) – taking any last vestiges of ‘ease’ out of kitchen clean up – we had to...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 28, 2013 | All Posts, All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition
The mammogram results alert letter arrived in my mail late on a Friday afternoon. I tore into the envelope, looking for the usual ‘normal’ results report to which I had become accustomed. Instead, I found a formally worded letter with references to...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 4, 2013 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
People look at me today and tell me that they find it hard to believe that I ever had a weight problem. But I did. I’m the one on the left (see above, circa 1998). It doesn’t help that everyone else in the picture is skinny. For decades, over thirty...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 29, 2013 | Fasting, Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes, Travel
If the names Lisle and Goldhamer sound almost as familiar to you as Rogers and Hammerstein, it may be because they are co-authors of the brilliant and popular The Pleasure Trap. This visionary book could be considered the foundation of the practices and principles...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 21, 2013 | Plant-Based Nutrition
I had the great good fortune of meeting up with Sharon and her family earlier this summer at Vegetarian Summerfest in Pennsylvania where she first told me her story. I’m honored to share it with you today. Prevent Breast Cancer: Shifting the Focus from Treatment...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 14, 2013 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes
Potato Palooza Salad is inspired by my new Instant Pot that has me cooking an entire 5 pound bag of organic potatoes at a time on a regular basis. This means I’m a fast 15 minutes away from a bucket of taters good for steaming hot spuds for dinner, leftovers...
by Lani Muelrath | May 3, 2013 | Move Your Body, Plant-Based Nutrition
What should you eat before and after your workout? Trendy marketing materials and the supplement industry push shakes, powders, and special supplements. But what if you are more interested in the real food, plant-based diet solution? Does meal timing making a...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 18, 2013 | Weight Loss
Note: Today’s guest author Dustin Rudolph, PharmD., is throwing a Fit Quickies book giveaway contest on the Pursue a Health You Blog. Click on the image below to enter. Weight Loss – The Recipe For Success by Guest Author Dustin Rudolph, PharmD ...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 21, 2013 | Recipes
Beans in 10 minutes? If those four words don’t get your fired up about the pressure cooker, I don’t know what will. For someone like me who loves to eat, but cooking – not so much – fast, simple and healthy reign supreme when it comes to the...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 15, 2012 | All Posts, Holidays, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
November advances. And so can your health and fitness – or not, depending on how you navigate the minefields of the holidays! No worries, here to help. As someone who for years successfully plowed through bowls of Christmas cookie dough and carried an extra 50...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 31, 2012 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Move Your Body, Weight Loss
“Thank you so much!! It was all amazing!!! Thank you very much!!!” “You got me right back on track. I don’t know how to thank you enough.” “What an amazing call! I took so many notes and can’t wait to put the...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 18, 2012 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Plant-Based Nutrition, Travel
Our ‘busy’ – yours and mine – may not always look the same, but no matter what outfit it’s wearing, busy has its set of challenges. ‘Busy’ demands that we set priorities and make plans to make sure they are honored. For...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 18, 2012 | All Posts, All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition
When we say ‘salad’, we tend to think bowl of greens, or crunchy green and yellow vegetables, or both, tossed with a dressing and served as a prelude, side, or even main course of a meal. This is limited salad thinking. Set yourself free. Here’s...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 4, 2012 | Weight Loss
This teleclass has already taken place. If you would like a recording of the event, simply fill in the form below and follow through on the confirmation email and the download link will be sent to you at no charge. Join me and my special guest Chef AJ on September 11...
by Lani Muelrath | Jul 30, 2012 | Recipes
Top o’ the spud! Fellow plant-based foodie Vikki Deedrick launched a potato pondering that turned into a gold mine of ideas. The minute I saw where it was going, I knew I had to get this into your hands. Somehow it only seems fitting as the special guest on...
by Lani Muelrath | Jul 28, 2012
The following is a clickable list of recipes from the McDougall Newsletters that do not comply with the Maximum Weight Loss(MWL) guidelines. Appreciation to Letha for compiling this list. For recipes that are compatible with the McDougall Maximum Weight Loss plan,...
by Lani Muelrath | Jun 30, 2012 | Plant-Based Nutrition
It’s quite possible this will bring on another onslaught from the Paleo diet people, who have, in the past, taken me to task on my unbridled support of a whole-foods, plant-based, low fat, starch-rich diet for the health and well-being of humans as well as dear...
