The Functional Rd

Weight is a fickle beast. Too much excess weight is one of the biggest contributors to some of the most prominent diseases in America. Namely: Diabetes, heart disease, stroke, gout, & sleep apnea. There are a thousand different ways to lose weight in America including dieting, exercise, & weight loss surgery. Since the weight loss industry is worth well over a billion dollars, it can be hard to weed through all those diets to determine what will work for you. “I’ve tried them

We had a holiday party last weekend and three more this upcoming weekend so this is probably the timeliest post I will ever write! It is amazing how we have SO many holiday parties when we get older. Everyone is ready to celebrate and some people genuinely hold it against you all year long if you do not show up to their party. This has happened to us on several occasions. So now we go to every party we can, which typically means relay marathon nights where we hit 2-3 differen

When you get a special request to make meatballs.. you make meatballs! This is a great recipe to add to your list of easy Pot Luck Dinner Meals for all your holiday parties that are (probably) happening this week! I got this special request while walking through the freezer isle and getting asked very nicely, "can you eat any of these?" Eggs, breadcrumbs, ummm... no! Even the gluten-free varieties are on the no-go list! No worries, though, because I can create something that

The holidays are a hard time for eating right. These tips can help you stay on your diet throughout the holidays, whether you are paleo, low

Happy Halloween everyone! Halloween is one of my all-time favorite holidays, and yet it fell on a Monday… my most uninspired day of the week! Seeing everyone be in the holiday spirit at the office today made me really excited to do something, though. Since food is my outlet, naturally a Halloween-inspired dinner was what had to be done! Of course, it is still Monday and my lack of inspiration melted with my lack of time and energy combined with my desire to do something fun m

Welcome to October, the month where the weather starts to finally cool down in Texas (it’s in the 80’s ya’ll!) and the month where everyone starts getting more festive in anticipation of all the holiday cheer! In the spirit of keeping everything joyfully Halloween-centered, I wanted to go super basic and get some pumpkin on the menu! Because there is NOTHING more October than pumpkins! The thing I love most about Paleo is taking some sort of dessert and pumping up the health

Dining out. One of the small pleasures in life that we tend to take a little too much advantage of. Having food sensitivities typically makes dining out a little less pleasurable, though, and a lot more anxiety-riddled. Fortunately, that anxiety can be lessened when you learn these tips and are adequately prepared. 1. Do a little pre-game research. Before I go any where new I always pull up the menu online. Thankfully, we live in a world where you have easy access to probabl

Those of us with food sensitivities know that if we keep the offending foods in our diets then we struggle to get better or even just to feel normal. The problem is, though, that eliminating multiple food sensitivities from our diets is TOUGH WORK! There are periods where I thrive and I can go months without taking one single bite of a food that causes the influx of inflammation that I get from my food sensitivities. However, there are plenty of times where I dig myself into

I love pot roast so much I think it deserves its own food group. It was always the top of my request for my birthday dinner growing up (with a side of bread and brownies for dessert – I had a serious love for the carbs!) Surprisingly, as an adult I have never felt overwhelmed with the urge to cook pot roast. I’ve craved it plenty of times, but I suppose I never thought that I could make it like mama does. So, after I went home this weekend and got some good, home-cooked food

One summer, way back before I learned about my food sensitivities, I was working at Buffalo Wild Wings. I had a customer come in one day with her only child saying that her daughter cannot eat eggs. She had already checked the website and knew what she could get, but she wanted me to double check with the manager that we did not have any cross-contamination with eggs. I obviously obliged and I received such negative feedback from my manager who said I was “stupid for asking”