Most people just sell books on Amazon. But we’re the little rural folk who are so rural that Amazon can’t verify us to approve our store and so we just have to boot strap all of this. It turns out that rural boot strapping makes for good stories, and the sales of the book Half…
My Arkansas story is filled with unexpected connections and even the discovery of a lost piece of important folk art (read it here), but all of those unexpected twists and turns may not ever rival a key thing I learned when I returned to Arkansas. In fact, I’ve thought for a few months about how…
Have you ever considered what we eat here at Eat Like a Bear and how it is only possible with the very impressive growth, harvest, and distribution of the produce industry? It’s impressive all year round but it feels downright miraculous in the wintertime. I went down to Yuma, Arizona to thank Yuma farmers for…
We do weight loss really well here at Eat Like a Bear — really very well. If you poke around this website and into our community, the social proof of our success in weight loss may be unmatched. I don’t spend much time defending it or comparing, because the evidence around here speaks for itself….
Our quarterly Community-Wide Three-Day Challenge launches Monday, January 2, 2023. It’s a community event where we gather quarterly to re-commit and set new goals. The regular Three-Day Challenge is available any day of the year – it’s an email-based mini-course. The main difference between the regular and the Community-Wide Three-Day Challenge is that with the…
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….