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….
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…
This is a story about shipping 10,000 books from a rural post office: Why we had to do it, how we teamed up with a tribe of rural postmasters to make it happen, and how the story landed in national press. It’s a timeless story about the power of community. Thank you for your support…
We’ve done it!: From a single original weight loss story, 100 people have lost over 100 pounds without the use of surgery, drugs, branded products, or membership or coaching fees, with a meal framework that can be done on food stamps. We’ve been counting up to our “century” century mark for months here at Eat…
We have a growing collection of premium content here at Eat Like A Bear!, and we also have me running around saying “You don’t need to buy anything. You only need yourself.” Together, those statements cause confusion, so I attempt to navigate the issues for you here. No Drugs, No Surgery, No Branded Products, in…
Update: We have done it. From a single original weight loss story, 100 people have lost over 100 pounds without the use of surgery, drugs, branded products, or membership or coaching fees, with a meal framework that can be done on food stamps. Below is an article from May 2021 as we counted from 95…