First things first: what is this real food lifestyle we're talking about? 

We like to keep it simple around here. 

Eating REAL is filling your plate with whole, unprocessed foods (most of the time). 

It's avoiding foods that come from a bag or a box (with a few exceptions), focusing on food closest to the form it's found in nature- from the farm, earth or sea.

In short, eating REAL means eating food in its simplest form!

A good rule is the more ingredients = the less real. 

So why eat real food? 

Eating REAL, quite simply, is about fueling your body the way it wants to be fueled. It's about nourishing your body and treating it right. The easier it is for your body to use and assimilate the nutrients you get from your food, the easier your body runs. There is less stress on your organs, you are getting a balance of nutrients to help reduce the chance of chronic disease and increasing your health and longevity, finding your body's happy weight, boosting energy and helping you live the life YOU want to live, healthier, happier and whole.

Now tell me: what kind of foods are real foods? 

Real foods are foods from the earth, the farm or the sea. Any combination of the following that works for you, works for us: Veggies- as many as your heart desires. Fruit (focusing on the low-sugar varieties more often than not), natural meat, fish, poultry and minimally processed vegetarian proteins, starches (sweet potatoes, winter squash, spaghetti squash, white potatoes), grains and legumes (if they work for you), healthy fats (olive oil, coconut oil, grass-fed butter and ghee, fatty fish/fish oil, avocado oil, macadamia nut oil, avocados, olives, nuts and seeds in their whole form). Natural sweeteners. Sea salt or Himalayan salt and health-boosting herbs and spices.

What foods are NOT real food?

We like to focus on the positive around here, but there is always two sides to every story. The next lesson is all about the top 7 ingredients I recommend avoiding in the foods you eat, and why. In short, if you can't pronounce it- it's probably not a real food.

Let's do this real food thing, shall we?