Edited Eating

10th July 2018

So, what’s the deal with dairy on the Paleo plan?

My Edited Eating newspaper column, in which I explore aspects of the Paleo lifestyle, weightloss and getting fit and healthy, appears in the Sunday edition of Weekend Argus. This one explores why it might be a good idea to limit your dairy intake… I don’t know about you, but I tend to do the most intense research when I’m trying...

Food

1st July 2018

Here’s why Paleo people avoid sugar

My Edited Eating newspaper column, in which I explore aspects of the Paleo lifestyle, weightloss and getting fit and healthy, appears in the Sunday edition of Weekend Argus. This one explores why sugar is not Paleo… Bacon. Smoked salmon. Dried sausage and biltong. What do these have in common? They’re all on my list of the most unlikely sources of...

Food

11th June 2018

That’s just not Paleo: grains

My Edited Eating newspaper column, in which I explore aspects of the Paleo lifestyle, weightloss and getting fit and healthy, appears in the Sunday edition of Weekend Argus. This one explores why grains are not Paleo… Of all the things I cut from my diet when I decided to “go Paleo”, grains were the hardest to eliminate. Not only because...

Food

4th June 2018

Myths about the Paleo diet

My Edited Eating newspaper column, in which I explore aspects of the Paleo lifestyle, weightloss and getting fit and healthy, appears in the Sunday edition of Weekend Argus. This one explores some myths about the Paleo diet… Among some of the unique characters I met at this year’s Paleo f(x) in Austin, Texas was a guy called Sloan who attended...

Food

15th May 2018

Reflections on World Meditation Day

Expand your consciousness In Catching the big fish, acclaimed film-maker David Lynch describes our consciousness as a pool in which we fish for ideas and inspiration. If your pool is small, you can expect to catch small fish, but if you want to “catch the big fish”, he says, you have to find a way to increase the size of...

Focus

14th April 2018

Paleo lifestyle helped me shed 36kg

IN FEBRUARY 2018 my Edited Eating newspaper column, in which I explore aspects of the Paleo lifestyle, weightloss and getting fit and healthy, was launched. It appears in the Sunday edition of Weekend Argus. This was my intro column… I’m up at 5am. And out of the door by 6. By 6.25am I’ve parked the car and am hitting the...

Focus/Food

8th March 2018

Next challenge: box jumps

Another kind of box challenge So, as many of you will know by now, I’m all about setting challenges to keep this journey to health and fitness exciting – and to avoid complacency setting in. My latest short-term challenge – with the longer-term one being to reach goal weight by mid-year – is to be able to do a box...

Fitness

8th March 2018

Boxing at Rondebosch Common took my breath away!

Cape Town summers are synonymous with windy conditions. And this was certainly the case when Coach Romeo and I took Box Anywhere to Rondebosch Common… The wind literally took our breath – and our voices – away. Watch my other Box Anywhere videos: Box Anywhere Wynberg Box Anywhere Nantes Box Anywhere Princess Vlei Box Anywhere Camps Bay

Box Anywhere/Fitness

17th February 2018

It’s never too late to start chasing your goals

Coach shares insights February is too late to start working on your health and fitness goals. You might as well leave it until next year when you make your New Year’s resolutions, right? WRONG! It’s never too late. And you’re never too old. All you have to do is make up your mind to do it and then devise a...

Fitness

15th February 2018

A battle on the beach

I rarely go to Camps Bay. One of the reasons is that, when I was growing up, it was off limits to people of colour under South Africa’s Apartheid era Group Areas Act which enforced racial segregation. So, we stuck to beaches on the other side of the peninsula… and I actually have zero recollection of ever having gone to...

Box Anywhere/Fitness

So, what’s the deal with dairy on the Paleo plan?

Here’s why Paleo people avoid sugar

That’s just not Paleo: grains

Myths about the Paleo diet

Reflections on World Meditation Day

Paleo lifestyle helped me shed 36kg

Next challenge: box jumps

Boxing at Rondebosch Common took my breath away!

It’s never too late to start chasing your goals

A battle on the beach

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