Thank you for finding my “Ozark post office story,” an unexpected heart-felt story, coming right out of America’s heartland in the Ozarks mountains. It really starts nearly one hundred years ago when my great-great grandma Nellie Maynes Morrison, at 65 years old in the 1930s, traveled to California to fetch her children back to their…
We do need some car window decals here at Eat Like a Bear, but I really don’t think we need flags on our shopping baskets because it’s pretty obvious who we are just by taking a peek in the cart. Here’s a few supermarket selfies for the record. 🙂 View this post on Instagram A…
Mama needs a new pair of shoes! Yes, I get questions all the time: “Really??? You LOST A SHOE SIZE???“ I know. SMH. I was a size 7W my entire adult life, and even then had to shop for the more “orthopedic-like nurses shoes” along with a custom orthotic after about age 30. WHAT??? You’d…
This might be the community’s favorite soup, just based on the mountains of posts we get across social media. It is certainly easy to make and delicious. The point that we can also lose weight eating it is just a great, unexpected universe. Take the recipe and run, or soak in some of the extra…
This is a story about a video with a simple message gone viral and touching the lives of scores of people in the process. Viewed by over five million people in social media, the heart-felt message in A Postcard from Yellowstone has shaped the culture and success rate of the Eat Like a Bear community….
What’s better than your own personal vision board? OK, maybe nothing is better than that, but how about a community-wide vision board? Our vision is that we will create some very simple photo albums here on the Eat Like a Bear website, filled with all of the really fabulous photos coming out of the community…
A big part of my weight loss story is my “why” — I injured my knee, was limping around my house in the Giant Sequoia National Monument, and wanted desperately to get out and hike with my sons. I could see giant sequoia trees right out of window, like a living “vision board” reminding me…
“Fat Mama Creek” is the seasonal creek on our property, in highly inaccessible terrain. The name is an unofficial one, not logged on any legal maps. Way back about eight years ago, as my sons and I explored it together, we realized that the creek was too small to have an official name. We named…
We’ve all tried soup for weight loss before, if we have any years on us at all, and if we’ve struggled for more than a minute with our weight. The “Cabbage Soup Diet” is a classic example. Ninety-five percent of chunky people across time and space have used it to trim up a bit. The…
The quad-state tornado dominated the news as our own forest roads opened to the area of the Giant Sequoia National Monument that was devastated by the Windy Fire. Visions of storm-ravaged communities hung in my vision as my older son and I drove with some loathing and heaviness through our hiking stomping grounds in the…