Breaking News! You can now "look inside" my upcoming book on Amazon!

Check out the Table of Contents, index, my most personal memoir story (I'm baring my soul! -- there are many in the book but the big one is in the free preview), plus a few sample recipes and pics!

Woot!

By the way, if you've already pre-ordered, you can snag 14 recipes + 1 of the workouts now. Here are the deets.

Now on to our regularly …

Meet our Herbie of the Week, Russ! After switching to a plant-based diet, he lost 119 pounds and went off ALL of his medications for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high triglycerides and depression.

I also love that as fate would have it, our 100th interview in this series, lost 100lbs — err excuse me, 119lbs!!!

"Me and a friend this last Lent (Spring 2013), and I was down within 5 lbs of where I am now."

HH: What spurred …

NEW & IMPROVED!

Our meal plans just underwent a new make-over! We've streamlined the shopping list (shorter lists, even less ingredients!) *and* we now have a step-by-step make ahead cheat sheet that shows you how you can make (or prep) all your meals for the week.

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Eating healthy has never been so FAST or so easy! Get started right now.

Fall back into health! 

Plus this week's plan is one …

I've been getting a lot of emails asking for an explanation of the term "processed" — what is a processed food exactly? Is X food more processed than Y food? Is Z food processed? 

Here's an example of a recent email:

My sister contends that both wine and oils are processed, so is wine not okay as oil is not okay? Any suggestions?

Anything that isn't a whole food is technically processed. For …

Productivity has been a popular topic on Minimalist Monday. It's one of those things I keep trying to get better at, especially as I dive deeper and deeper into my minimalism.

My big breakthrough was when I stopped multi-tasking and started to single task. It's shocking how much more productive you are when you narrow in and stop jumping between tasks. It goes against all logic, but you accomplish so much less when you multi-task. (If you haven't read …