Why paleo diet for athletes even while travelling??
You might ask, “What does traveling the world have to do with paleo salad recipes?” In my opinion, Paleo is so much more than nutrition. It’s a way of life and a way of thinking. It's striving for health, which encompasses all aspects of how humans are intended to live. It nurtures body, mind, and spirit. I am so blessed that my career is focused on spreading one simple message: In order to live the best life possible, you must first begin by eating real food.
Eating real food quite literally saved my life and, in return, my only wish is to share with others the good health that I have been given. It might sound crazy to some, but to those who are like me and have regained their health, you know exactly what I’m talking about. When you finally have the energy to make it through your day, when all the ailments that have plagued you (even though you probably thought the long list of problems were just “normal” parts of life) finally dissipate, and when you start to become strong and capable in your own body, it’s difficult to keep quiet about your newfound lease on life. Now, five years into my Paleo journey, I’m still sharing, learning, growing, and happy that there is no end to this adventure. In fact, it’s only just beginning.
As my children grow they are testaments to this amazing lifestyle. Each passing day is a reassurance that I am meant to continue to share our story about living a Paleo lifestyle and to help others navigate along their own paths to health and wellness. I firmly believe that the Paleo lifestyle can help us all not just survive our way through life, but thrive. Now I have the opportunity to take Everyday Paleo around the world, and I’m bringing all of you right along with me!
This cookblog is not an introduction to Paleo, but I’ll offer a brief explanation of Paleo’s tenets. The Paleo plan recommends avoiding grains, dairy, legumes, vegetable oils, and processed sugar while focusing on unprocessed foods such as grass-fed meats, vegetables, fruits, and healthy fats like animal fat, coconut, olive oil, nuts, and seeds. This blog is appropriate for anyone living a Paleo or gluten-free lifestyle. However, if you are brand new to Paleo, I suggest you also read my first blog, Everyday Paleo, as well as The Paleo Coach by Jason Seib. And if you are interested in more of the “science” behind this lifestyle, I also recommend The Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf. These books will give you all the information you need to help you begin a healthier, more natural approach to eating.
You’ve caught a glimpse of who I am. I love to cook, I love to eat, and most of all, I love spending time with my family. My husband and my boys are my greatest gifts in life, and having the energy to play, laugh, explore, and learn alongside them rather than just watch from the sidelines has been the best side effect of eating, moving, and living as humans are intended. Today, the Fragoso family has entered a new chapter.
I find it incredibly important to honor the vast array of different cultures, traditions, and lifestyles, and there is so much we can learn from others outside of our own home base. My own family has many cultural influences, including Spanish, Mexican, Filipino, Irish, Native American, and Portuguese, and all are privileged with amazing cuisine. Part of the joy that I have found when cooking is adapting different traditional ethnic cuisines and making easy paleo salad dressing. I have always desired to write ethnic cuisine cookbooks, and you’ll find several cultural influences throughout all of my blogs. But in order to create an entire blog based on one specific cultural cuisine, I wanted to have the true experience and understanding of that culture. This was necessary in order to offer you valid and authentic recipes. That is how Everyday Paleo Around the World was born. I decided to travel the world and bring back authentic recipes straight from the source. Just deciding to pack up and travel is not all that easy, though. I wanted to include my family in my journeys. That is truly what Everyday Paleo is all about—experiencing life to its fullest with the ones you love most.
Once the decision was made to embark on this crazy adventure, my husband and I started formulating a list of places we wanted to go. We began making the arduous plan of how the heck to leave the country for a month without everything in our reality crumbling around us. Of course, friends and family teased us about how rough it must be to have to live abroad for a month. But the reality is that there’s a lot of sacrifice, planning, and stress involved in a trip of this magnitude. To top it all off, shutting down my husband’s chiropractic business for this length of time was seriously scary. When you operate your own business, there is no such thing as vacation time or sick leave, so it took careful organization, budgeting, and finger crossing to make such a huge undertaking actually work. After weeks of debate, discussion, and logistical decision-making, we decided that our first stop—and, therefore, the first blog in this international cookblog series—would be Italy.
We live in a huge world jam-packed with several choices of where to go first, but I thought it would be appropriate to start with a cuisine that everyone loves dearly. As Paleo and gluten-free folks, some of us may feel that Italian food needs to be written off as an indulgence of the past, especially considering the beloved pizzas and pastas. This blog will offer you a true taste of Italy but from a Paleo perspective, and I’m sure you will feel not the least bit deprived after discovering the delicious food that awaits you in the recipe section.
Back to the planning! Along with having to shut down John’s business, we also made the decision to homeschool our youngest boys, Jaden and Rowan. We wanted to feel confident that they could leave for a month and not be behind after missing so much school. My oldest son, Coby, however, was a different story. Coby was about to enter his junior year of high school, and homeschooling was simply not an option. Embedded deeply into school activities, extracurricular events, and, of course, his friends, I was in no way going to suggest that Coby depart from traditional schooling with only two years left before college. I was confident, however, that we could arrange something with his teachers so that he could join us on this extremely important trip. After a visit with Coby’s high school counselor and emails back and forth with his teachers, he made the difficult decision to stay behind. I was devastated. This was the first big adult decision that my seventeen-year-old son made, and while I begged and pleaded with him (I am way more rebellious than my teenage son), I relented to his calm reply that his junior year in high school was too important to miss. I was now presented with my first epiphany from this journey even though our trip hadn’t even really begun. The message was plain as day: Letting go is very, very hard to do.
I’ll be honest with you—I still wish Coby had joined us on our adventure because I feel that traveling the world is a better education and experience than school can provide. But that’s just my own rebel spirit and not the views or wishes of my very independent and mature son.
Eating real food quite literally saved my life and, in return, my only wish is to share with others the good health that I have been given. It might sound crazy to some, but to those who are like me and have regained their health, you know exactly what I’m talking about. When you finally have the energy to make it through your day, when all the ailments that have plagued you (even though you probably thought the long list of problems were just “normal” parts of life) finally dissipate, and when you start to become strong and capable in your own body, it’s difficult to keep quiet about your newfound lease on life. Now, five years into my Paleo journey, I’m still sharing, learning, growing, and happy that there is no end to this adventure. In fact, it’s only just beginning.
As my children grow they are testaments to this amazing lifestyle. Each passing day is a reassurance that I am meant to continue to share our story about living a Paleo lifestyle and to help others navigate along their own paths to health and wellness. I firmly believe that the Paleo lifestyle can help us all not just survive our way through life, but thrive. Now I have the opportunity to take Everyday Paleo around the world, and I’m bringing all of you right along with me!
This cookblog is not an introduction to Paleo, but I’ll offer a brief explanation of Paleo’s tenets. The Paleo plan recommends avoiding grains, dairy, legumes, vegetable oils, and processed sugar while focusing on unprocessed foods such as grass-fed meats, vegetables, fruits, and healthy fats like animal fat, coconut, olive oil, nuts, and seeds. This blog is appropriate for anyone living a Paleo or gluten-free lifestyle. However, if you are brand new to Paleo, I suggest you also read my first blog, Everyday Paleo, as well as The Paleo Coach by Jason Seib. And if you are interested in more of the “science” behind this lifestyle, I also recommend The Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf. These books will give you all the information you need to help you begin a healthier, more natural approach to eating.
You’ve caught a glimpse of who I am. I love to cook, I love to eat, and most of all, I love spending time with my family. My husband and my boys are my greatest gifts in life, and having the energy to play, laugh, explore, and learn alongside them rather than just watch from the sidelines has been the best side effect of eating, moving, and living as humans are intended. Today, the Fragoso family has entered a new chapter.
I find it incredibly important to honor the vast array of different cultures, traditions, and lifestyles, and there is so much we can learn from others outside of our own home base. My own family has many cultural influences, including Spanish, Mexican, Filipino, Irish, Native American, and Portuguese, and all are privileged with amazing cuisine. Part of the joy that I have found when cooking is adapting different traditional ethnic cuisines and making easy paleo salad dressing. I have always desired to write ethnic cuisine cookbooks, and you’ll find several cultural influences throughout all of my blogs. But in order to create an entire blog based on one specific cultural cuisine, I wanted to have the true experience and understanding of that culture. This was necessary in order to offer you valid and authentic recipes. That is how Everyday Paleo Around the World was born. I decided to travel the world and bring back authentic recipes straight from the source. Just deciding to pack up and travel is not all that easy, though. I wanted to include my family in my journeys. That is truly what Everyday Paleo is all about—experiencing life to its fullest with the ones you love most.
Once the decision was made to embark on this crazy adventure, my husband and I started formulating a list of places we wanted to go. We began making the arduous plan of how the heck to leave the country for a month without everything in our reality crumbling around us. Of course, friends and family teased us about how rough it must be to have to live abroad for a month. But the reality is that there’s a lot of sacrifice, planning, and stress involved in a trip of this magnitude. To top it all off, shutting down my husband’s chiropractic business for this length of time was seriously scary. When you operate your own business, there is no such thing as vacation time or sick leave, so it took careful organization, budgeting, and finger crossing to make such a huge undertaking actually work. After weeks of debate, discussion, and logistical decision-making, we decided that our first stop—and, therefore, the first blog in this international cookblog series—would be Italy.
We live in a huge world jam-packed with several choices of where to go first, but I thought it would be appropriate to start with a cuisine that everyone loves dearly. As Paleo and gluten-free folks, some of us may feel that Italian food needs to be written off as an indulgence of the past, especially considering the beloved pizzas and pastas. This blog will offer you a true taste of Italy but from a Paleo perspective, and I’m sure you will feel not the least bit deprived after discovering the delicious food that awaits you in the recipe section.
Back to the planning! Along with having to shut down John’s business, we also made the decision to homeschool our youngest boys, Jaden and Rowan. We wanted to feel confident that they could leave for a month and not be behind after missing so much school. My oldest son, Coby, however, was a different story. Coby was about to enter his junior year of high school, and homeschooling was simply not an option. Embedded deeply into school activities, extracurricular events, and, of course, his friends, I was in no way going to suggest that Coby depart from traditional schooling with only two years left before college. I was confident, however, that we could arrange something with his teachers so that he could join us on this extremely important trip. After a visit with Coby’s high school counselor and emails back and forth with his teachers, he made the difficult decision to stay behind. I was devastated. This was the first big adult decision that my seventeen-year-old son made, and while I begged and pleaded with him (I am way more rebellious than my teenage son), I relented to his calm reply that his junior year in high school was too important to miss. I was now presented with my first epiphany from this journey even though our trip hadn’t even really begun. The message was plain as day: Letting go is very, very hard to do.
I’ll be honest with you—I still wish Coby had joined us on our adventure because I feel that traveling the world is a better education and experience than school can provide. But that’s just my own rebel spirit and not the views or wishes of my very independent and mature son.
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