This Week's Q&A: Oil-Free Salad Dressings, Plant-Based Body Building (Pictures!!) & Eating Out Healthfully with Friends

Posted by:Lindsay S. Nixon Category: FAQ

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Q: What do you put on salad instead of oil based salad dressing?

A: A no oil dressing :)

There are several recipes in EHH and a few in HHC and several coming out in my new book later this year. I've also done a few blog posts on salads, salad dressings, etc:

How to Make Oil-Free, Fat-Free Salad Dressings (+ I've sold 150,000 books!) 

How to Make Salad Dressing Without Fat or Oil

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The Brands I Personally Use + BREAKING NEWS! See inside my new book!

Posted by:Lindsay S. Nixon Category: Advice

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.

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Herbie of the Week: Russ (100 lbs GONE!) — Our 100th Interview!

Posted by:Lindsay S. Nixon Category: Herbies

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 …

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NEW & IMPROVED MEAL PLAN! + West African Vegetable & Peanut Stew, Butternut Red Curry, & More this week!

Posted by:Lindsay S. Nixon Category: MealPlan

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! 

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Defining "Processed" — What is a "Processed" Food? What to Consider When Deciding if a Food is "Processed" or Still "Healthy" (How to Navigate Premade Foods).

Posted by:Lindsay S. Nixon Category: Popular Advice

 

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 …

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