About the Author
Matt is our BBC nutrition nut. He will post various articles on nutrition and overall health tips so that we can all better ourselves as a team. Matt is a nutrition nerd who will scope out the nutrition facts before even thinking about eating or drinking it. Matt is a strong believer in eating lean meats, lots of vegetables, some fruit, little starch and no sugar, unless it’s natural sugar. Eating this way will help you make tremendous gains and see massive results when combined with BBC. Eating healthy, unprocessed foods can be very fun and taste wonderful, it just takes a little creativity. This is why we have this blog for you to use so that you can get some ideas on how to prepare meals and also get some great health tips. We ask you to please take advantage of this blog, as it will greatly help you grow in your fitness journey.
Seventy Five Percent!
If you are a Brown's Boot Camper, you know the answer to this shout out is - NUTRITION! We end every camp by reminding ourselves of this truth - total health takes more than just a good workout. As we say - You can't out train a bad diet! Our goal at this blog is to educate you on how your body works so you can give it the nutritional support to fuel your active life! Underpinning every post is the belief that we must educate ourselves in order to take control of our health. For too long in America, we have tried to outsource responsibility for our bodies - to doctors, to pharmaceutical companies, to diet gurus, and to personal trainers - and it has turned us into one of the most unhealthy countries in the developed world. It's time to take your power back and take charge of your health!
Become a Locavore
Shortly after I started living a Whole Foods lifestyle, I quickly became bored with what the grocery store had to offer in the way of produce. There’s only so many times a girl can eat the same vegetables over and over before she starts to go mad. Especially when this girl firmly believes in the [...]
Ginger Coconut Chicken with Sir-Fried Veggies and Cauli-rice
Have you ever seen the movie Despicable Me? If not…well, I won’t recommend you sit through it unless you have kids but it is seriously funny (for a kid’s movie). Steve Carell. Nuff said. Anyways, one of my favorite parts is when Carell’s character – a grumpy, mad scientist – wins the biggest fluffiest unicorn [...]
How to Cheat…and Enjoy Every Second of It
I really hate the word “cheat” when it comes to nutrition. I know it’s just a short way to say “Eating something I know will not help me advance my health, and I’m very well aware of it so please don’t give me crap and just let me enjoy this brownie/wine/pizza/etc”. Before you think I’m [...]
Recipe Roundup – Thanksgiving Meal Ideas
Who’s ready for some awesome holiday food? Me! Want some? Get some! Ha ha…that’s not quite what Randy meant when he coined that popular BBC phrase. Thanksgiving is upon us, but that doesn’t mean you have to drop all the progress you’ve made. A cheat or two? Sure – but if your plan [...]
Green Chile Beef Stew
Ahhhh – it’s finally sort of winter time here in the Old Pueblo. Temperatures are still soaring into the 90′s but I don’t care. It’s November and I’m going to eat me some stew! We’ve got to get it in while we can! For a recent camping trip in the mountains, I knew we’d [...]
Recipe Resources
A frequent question I’ve been asked is “What cookbooks do you recommend?”. When it comes to finding recipes, I have two main sources – blogs and books. Blogs are my go-to for a couple of reasons. #1 – They’re Free. #2 – They are readily available at a moment’s notice. Years ago, when [...]
Recipe Roundup – Pumpkin
It’s that time of year again… Pumpkin Spice Lattes. Pumpkin bread. Pumpkin Ice cream. Pumpkin muffins. And all of it loaded with sugar, gluten, grains, and seed oils. Sad, really, since poor inoffending pumpkin is getting dragged to the “destroy your health” party when really he (or is pumpkin a she?) has no business [...]
Making Whole Foods Convenient
When switching to a whole foods diet, one of the most challenging things people face is having food at the ready. Because most conventionally prepared foods contain some ingredient or another that it is best to avoid, you are required to cook most things from scratch. Have no fear! There are strategies to overcome this [...]
Mob Boss Salad and Thoughts on Food Culture
Although I consider myself through and through to be at heart a West Coaster, I definitely have some East Coast sensibility. Which makes sense since I was raised there. One reason in particular I love the culture of the Southwest is that it’s much more friendly to a healthy lifestyle. For whatever reason, we are [...]
Paleo Diet 101
For anyone floating around in the world of health these days, you may have run across the term “Paleo Diet”…also referred to as the “Primal Diet” or “Ancestral Health”. If it brings to mind images of cavemen chasing down a mammoth, it should. The big idea behind the eating strategy is that, in order to [...]
Roasted Pumpkin, Sausage and Egg Breakfast Sandwich
Breakfast during the week is usually pretty quick – some eggs scrambled quickly, some raw or sauteed veggies, a little fruit – but on the weekends I like to treat myself (and my family!) to something special. This is a rejuvenating and important highlight of my week that I look forward to. I find a [...]
5 Quick and Healthy Breakfasts
Breakfast. The most important meal of the day, according to moms and school teachers everywhere. And, this time at least, they are right. Breakfast does exactly what it’s name implies…it breaks your nightly fast of 8 hours or more. So, yeah. It’s kind of important to get this one right. What does a good [...]
Briny Sauteed Chicken and Wilted Mixed Greens
One of the best things you can do to improve your nutrition is to stop following recipes. Hypocritical then that I have a section on recipes…what can I say. Stick with me. It’s not that I think you should never follow recipes, it’s just that mastering the art of the “throw together” meal will go [...]
Four Attitude Changes that will Change Your Health (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this short little series, we addressed 4 Attitudes that get in the way of truly building health. Now, let’s take a look at the Top 4 Attitude Changes we want to embrace! As you go through the process of transforming from an unhealthy person to a healthy person, one of [...]
Four Attitude Changes that will Change Your Health (part 1)
It won’t take you long hanging around BBC before you’ll hear it: PMA. Positive. Mental. Attitude. It is the #1 determinant of achieving success – and not just with weight loss and health goals, either! One of the things we hear over and over again from Campers is how much they [...]