Posts by Molly Patrick
Frances Reverses Type 2 Diabetes with a Plant Based Lifestyle + Plant Based Oil Free Refried Bean and Salsa Soup
Watch the video in this post to hear Frances lost 55 pounds and got her A1C from 13.8 to 5.8, allowing her to get off both of her type 2 diabetes meds in just 7 months. All through food. When you make badass changes to your diet, and fuel with plants, your attitude about yourself and how you treat your body changes – all for the better.
Read MoreI Broke My Own Rule + THE Plant Based Smoky Gouda Cheese Sauce Recipe
Before I commit to something, I always make certain that I have the want, the time and the bandwidth to do it. This goes for a trip out of the country or lunch with a friend. If I don’t want to do it, if I don’t have time to do it, or if I can’t do it for whatever reason, I have no problem saying no.
Read MoreCrappy Eating Has Nothing To Do With Willpower – Dr Doug Lisle Explains (Video) + Wild Rice Recipe
You can know something all day long, but if you don’t put it into practice, it can’t serve you. The Pleasure Trap doesn’t go into why eating a healthy plant based diet is so powerful for human health. It goes into why people don’t eat a healthy plant based diet, even when they know how powerful it is for human health.
Read MoreMy Morning Dance + Antioxidant Packed Vegetable and Wild Rice Soup
Did you notice that my morning routine doesn’t consist of meditating for an hour and a half, followed by 20 rounds of sun salutations, topping it off with aligning and cleansing my heart chakras with fresh stream water that I gathered? Don’t add shit to your morning routine just because everyone else is doing it and you feel you “should”
Read MoreTake A Pause And Do This + Basil Crusted Baked Tofu (Oil Free)
Take a pause and wrap your ENTIRE body in love and gratitude. Do this without exception and without being selective. This is your vessel through life. You only get one. And this is it. If there are parts of your body you don’t like, set aside your dislikes and wrap them in love too.
Read MoreI Ate A Burrito Instead… + Whole Food Plant Based Barley Risotto
Life is really hard sometimes. That’s the reality of it. Shitty days, unfair circumstances, fights, tragedy, assholes, stress and heartbreak are all guaranteed. What’s not guaranteed is how you handle them. That my love, is entirely up to you. You can self destruct or you can inject love.
Read MoreThe Plant Based Wizardry Behind Team Dirty + Creamy Avo Quinoa Salad
Last year I was on the brink of a meltdown…But let me back up. Clean Food Dirty Girl has been 100% self funded. Luanne and I started working on our business full time in January 2014. We put in 12 hour days for two years straight before we started making enough money to pay our rent and our bills without a side gig. For those first two years we were running on passion, determination and trust that one day it would gain traction and it would work.
Read MoreHow I Stuck to Eating a Whole Food Plant Based Diet During my Recent Three Week Trip to Australia (with pics)
Eating like a champion plant eater takes a bit of time and effort, regardless of where you happen to be. When you travel, you won’t be getting your batch on like you do at home, but you will have to gather up some ingredients and put a few things together. What you make will depend on the amount of kitchen and refrigerator space you have to work with.
Read MoreWhy I’m Not Dedicated to Eating a Healthy Plant Based Diet + Roasted Beet Hummus
There’s a huge difference between trying to eat really damn healthy because you think you should and eating really damn healthy because you honestly prefer it. When you honestly prefer to nosh on unprocessed plant food it becomes really easy to do so, regardless of where your body happens to be in the world or what anyone around you is eating.
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