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Hi Friends!

This week’s podcast is Part 1 in a 3-Part series we’re doing on the journey ones goes through when switching to a healthier diet, whatever that diet may be. If you’ve switched your diet before, you know how hard and isolating it can be, and if you have not, then this show is going to be really helpful for you. We share our experience in this episode and recommend the steps you need to take to get started right away.

Hope you enjoy today’s show:)

Making the change, how does one change to a healthier diet?

Things we cover:

Food Matters (Documentary that helped us switch to a plant-based diet)

Crazy Sexy Diet (Kris Carr’s Book)

Thrive  (Brendan Brazier’s Book)

Choosing Raw (One of My Absolute Favorite Blogs)

Oh She Glows (Great Recipe Blog)

The Seasonal Diet (Our website)

Holy Cow! Life Without Cheese (Podcast Episode)

Blendtec Vs. Vitamix

How to Choose a Juicer

Our Private Facebook Group (Great for support)

How to Create & Maintain Healthy Habits

We really hope you liked this show, and if you did make, sure you come back on Monday, June 22nd for part two.

In the next show we cover how to make your new diet become a habit, what to do when you come up against resistance and all the positive things that we experienced when we found “Our Footing”.

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This week, on the pod, we talk about healthy food that can be made Quick… like a bunny!

Some nights we are so tired and the last thing we want to do is make dinner, but we feel too guilty eating fast food or going out, so we have 5 categories we like to rotate through on nights like those.  To get the exact recipes, check out the downloadable below!

5 Recipes we make when we’re short on time and want something fast and healthy:

How to make sweet potato fries (vintage S&P video)

Bitchin’ Sauce (the sauce we like to use in wraps)

So Good Caesar Dressing (great for wraps)

HB13: Holy Cow! Life without Cheese Episode

Chaco Canyon Cafe (they make the best grain bowl)

Get our favorite Healthy Recipe for each of the categories we mentioned above! 

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Thanks so much for listening, and if you’ve been digging the show… could you leave a review on iTunes? It would mean the world to us and really help us out.

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Hey There!

This week’s show is really fun… You may already know, but Peter and I don’t eat cheese. We gave it up about 5 years ago, and still to this day, when we tell people they can’t believe it! Life without cheese?! Yep. It’s true, and it’s actually not that big of a deal. In today’s show we explain how we gave it up (Peter was the brave one to go first!) and what we eat nowadays instead of cheese.

Crazy Sexy Diet– Kris Carr’s Book

Nutritional Yeast– Cheese flavor flakes

Daiya Cheese– Very Popular (not fans personally, but the mozzarella is okay)

Kite Hill– Love the cream cheese (made from almonds)

Hedi Ho– We haven’t tried these yet, made from veggies & chia seeds

Miyoko’s Kitchen– Very popular cashew cheeses

Teese Cheese– Our fav, junk food cheese

Napizza– Our new favorite pizza place in San Diego!

Macadamia Nut Cheese Pizza Recipe

How cheese is made

If you want to get yourself off cheese, be sure to check out This Guide on Getting Off Cheese.

You can do anything for 30-Days, and if it doesn’t do anything for you, no harm done, right?

For us, and many others who do this experiment, there is No Way we’d ever go back.

At least not without a note from our doctor (and that’s highly unlikely)!

Thanks for listening! If you’re struggling to give up cheese, make sure you get our downloadable on how to quit cheese in 30 days. And we’d love to hear from you…

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Hey Friends,

Today we take you behind the scenes and share how we function together as a team. We spend a lot of time together and usually we can end the day still liking each other.  This is a great show for those of you who are curious about our relationship or maybe wish you could get along a little better with your spouse.

The Miracle Morning

Abraham Hicks

Deepak Chopra Affirmations

Thanks for listening!  See, it’s not all rainbows and butterflies around here:)

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Hi Friends. This episode is our little PSA: DRINK MORE WATER!!!

It kills us to see how little water the people around us drink. Water is necessary for proper brain function; your body is made up of mostly water, and if you’re not replenishing that water, you won’t be able to preform at your peak, your best. Also, when you don’t drink enough water, your skin, hair and overall health suffer.

Peter’s Current Water Bottle

Sarah’s Current Water Bottle

The water bottle we’re trying next

Infusion Water bottle

‘Cuppow’ Sippy Cups

Essential Oils

Glass Straws

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Win our top 3 oils for sprucing up your water: Wild Orange, Grapefruit and Peppermint!

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Hey Friends,

This week’s show is all about the importance of mobility! About a year ago I  hurt my back really bad. I had no idea what it was from, and eventually I had to get x-rays as it was not improving. Turns out, I lost the curve in my lower back from… Sitting Too Much! I had no idea that sitting could affect my health so much, and for 2 weeks I couldn’t sit, stand or lay down without pain. As a very active and health-conscious person, you can imagine how debilitating this was for me!

Today we wanted to share my experience as well as what we’ve done to sit less. This show is very important to me because I really don’t want you to have to go through the pain I have felt this past year.  I hope you enjoy this show and take some of the information and apply it to your life.

But before we dive in – We want to thank all of you who have left iTunes reviews. We read every single one of them and it seriously brings the biggest smiles to our faces:) Thank you so very much.  We picked a winner last week to win our Epic Healthy Giveaway mentioned in Episode 5.  We used a random number generator and it picked #3 Stacey Bryant, who also happens to be a close friend of The Seasonal Diet. Thank you for your support & kind words Stacey, we’ll be sending these goodies your way asap!  

If you want to leave a review for the show you can do so HERE. Thanks so much:)

What is acupuncture and how to use it

Talia – Sarah’s acupuncturist (if you live in San Diego, you gotta go!)

What happens when you sit too much – Washington Post (what Peter hung on his wall!)

ART – Active Release Techniques (more info)

Sheppard Spine & Sports Clinic– Where I’m currently going for ART in SD (ask for Cory if you go!)

VARIDESK– Moveable stand for your desk, up or down

The Level– Board to stand on while working (Indigo campaign)

Stability Ball– These are the balls we sit on when we do sit

Creative Stand-Up Desk Options

Feng Shui Post: How we re-designed our house

Earth Day Post– How can we consume less

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The complete step-by-step guide to building a desk like we have in our house!

Thanks for listening, and I really hope you found this show useful.

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We have a great show for you today, it’s all about positivity and the things we do to stay more on the happy side of life. Although, we do touch on an all-time low I experienced last year, and am still working through. If you have been feeling down, or need some ideas for what to do next time you find yourself a little under the weather, then you are going to like this show a lot.

The best things to lift your spirits up, when feeling down, such as:

4 things Peter is loving: Pinterest, The Miracle Morning, warmer weather, kayak training plan (see below!).

Kayak Training Moves:

Shoulder press

4 things I’m loving: More daylight, daikon radish, Pinterest-ing, Instagram, Hot Yoga in the AM

Spiralizer

Inspirational Books: The Miracle Morning, The War of Art

Energy Light

The Tapping Solution

How to Tap

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Get our checklist for the 6 things you need to do to instantly get happy:)

Thank you for listening! Please, if you liked this show, leave us an honest review on iTunes & share this podcast with a friend!

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Hi Friends!

Oh man this was a tough episode to record. Peter and I have some different views when it comes to sugar and what we consider “sugar”. But hey, that’s how it goes, and we got through it :)

If you’re a member of The Seasonal Diet, you know we don’t believe in food restrictions, but we do think cutting back or eating less sugar is really important. Sugar is very addicting and so easy to consume. If you’re curious about sugar and the amount of sugar we eat, give this episode a listen.

Hungry for Change– Food Matters Film

Bad Sugar, Good Sugar is there such a thing – Sugar happens video

Living Candida Free -Book review

How to Avoid that Artificial Stevia Taste

26 Things You Never Knew About Me – I admit to eating honey

Homemade Chocolate Recipe

Sweet and Sara –  The Vegan Marshmallows we brought camping

A list of our pre-packaged approved low sugar treats and snacks + a low sugar Chocolate Tahini Cookie Recipe

Gracias amigos! We are so happy you’ve been digging The Health Beet.

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If you’ve been curious about seasonal produce, shopping at the farmers market or just don’t get the appeal… then this, my friend, is the episode for you. We get really excited about seasonal produce and eating the way mother nature intended us to. We also share a fun story I like to call ‘The case of the Seattle Coconuts!’ Hope you like it, and make sure you get our downloadable (Let’s Eat Seasonal!) below.

CSA: Stands for Community Supported Agriculture. It’s a way to get a variety of local produce from a local farm(s). Check out the links below for more information!

Things to Think About Before Joining a CSA Program

San Diego CSA Programs

Find a Farmers Market in your Area

Find a CSA outside of San Diego

What’s with the Wax on Apples?

Let’s Eat Seasonal Includes…

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Hi Friends!

We are back, Episode 6 is here and it’s hot! This episode got off to a rocky start, Peter went in one direction and I went in another. Luckily we came together and decided to share things we always have on hand, so they aren’t really splurges for us anymore, but I think you’ll still find some interesting things we “splurge on” or have on hand at all times.

Living Intentions – Our totally tasty sponsor, and makers of the best chocolate cereal on the planet!

Sunfoods – The raw cacao brand we buy

Cacao Recipes on Our Blog: Peppermint Smoothie, Red White and Blue Crepes and Spicy Chili

Pukka Tea – We added this to our Matcha Iced Tea

Mint Matcha Cooler Recipe

Quinoa Milk

Raw Almonds: Nuts.com or Living Nutz

Peter’s Almond/Hemp Milk Recipe: 1/2 cup soaked raw almonds, 1/3 cup raw hemp seeds, 5 cups water, 2 drops liquid whole leaf stevia, 3-4 dashes cinnamon, 1/4 tsp. vanilla extract/flavor (liquid).

Probiotics Brands We Enjoy: Garden of Life, Genestra HMF

Vitamin B12 –  Contains other B vitamins as well

Download A List of EVERYTHING in our Kitchen (pdf download here)

*This giveaway is limited to United States residents (excluding Puerto Rico & Hawaii)

I can not say this enough, thank you so much for tuning it and sharing our podcast with your friends!

Peter and I have received the nicest reviews on iTunes and from everyone who has tuned it! If this is your first time here, please introduce yourself below and let us know if there is anything you’d like to hear on up coming episodes!

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