The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-344 – Ellen Jaffe Jones – Eat Vegan on $4 a Day!
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Hello my friends and welcome to episode 4-344 of the RunRunLive Podcast.
Today we talk with a fascinating and successful woman – Ellen Jaffe Jones – about how to eat healthy on the cheap! .
I connected to Ellen because my daughter brought home Ellen’s book How to Eat Vegan on $4 a Day. I started looking at it and saw that Ellen had a cool back story and was now a practicing endurance sports addict as well as a vegan and an author.
She has escaped from being a broadcast news personality on a fast track to an unhealthy and early demise by eating better and living a healthier life. Whether you are vegan or not you can pick up some tips on how to shoehorn some healthier food into your busy life.
She’s also one of those people that we talk to a lot who take control of their story and change directions mid-life. That should give all of us hope that the only thing stopping any of us is the decision and action to make the change we want and start telling a different narrative about our lives.
I am not vegan but I do like to eat clean-ish. I get a lot of fruits and vegetables and nuts in my diet. The thing is, I like fruits and vegetables and nuts. You have to make these decisions for yourself but there are simple ways to eat a bit healthier. One is to get your fruit and veg and nuts. Another is to ease into eating less of the bad stuff.
It has been consistently shown that there are a small set of lifestyle inputs that have an outsized impact on your health, quality of life and longevity. Going all the way back to episode 97 in 2010 with Dr. Monte we talked about this:
In no particular order:
Number one: Eat a healthy diet with lots of fruits and vegetables nuts (fiber).
Number two: Don’t smoke.
Number three: Exercise consistently.
If you’re listening to my voice here on the RunRunLive Podcast you probably have most of these covered. All three is great. If you can’t do all three, two is good and even just one of these is better than nothing. It’s not black and white. We’d all like to be perfect but just remember your goal is progress not perfection.
This is just for your physical health. There’s probably a similar list that includes cultivating a positive attitude, working on your self-awareness and having an attitude of abundance.
There’s no winning the game. We all end up in the same place. What you get is a few more good years. A better life and a better legacy, maybe.
Anyhow – in summary – Eat Kale! Heh…I actually see that bumper sticker when I’m commuting. “Eat more Kale!” like it’s some sort of political protest.
I do have some Kale in my garden. And some chard. My squash were making a wonderful display of prolificness this week but, much to my ire, Mr. Woodchuck has dug a burrow directly under my squash bed and is browsing his way through the plants.
And so another battle is pitched. Man vs nature in a dance played out each summer season for the last 8,000 years. Chaos want to have its way with our taming of the world.
And this is 100 feet from where Buddy hangs out in the front yard! Brazen woodchucks and bunnies and squirrels!
I guess Buddy is more of an observer than an interventionist. A Laissez-faire border collie.
He had a big week this week. He had surgery to remove a couple of the large lumps that were accumulating. He’s an old dog, but there was one under his back leg that seemed to be restricting his range of motion. He made it through the surgery fine and is now recovering. He went out for a quick run in the woods with me yesterday and seems no worse for wear.
I’ve been trail running like a maniac. I signed up for a trail marathon in Indianapolis July 30th – yes next Saturday. This past Sunday I did a 20 mile trail tempo run that I was pretty proud of. My runs have been crappy in the heat and humidity so far this summer. So that one was a confidence builder. Come up and join me next weekend! It’s called the Eagle Creek Trail Marathon. There’s a half and a 10k too I think.
One Interesting thing that is bugging me is that my pace has slowed to the point where the deer flies can catch me now. I never had a problem with the bugs because I could stay in front of them. But now I’ve reached an inflection point where they can catch me and it’s quite bothersome. On a couple of these trail runs in the heat I’d have what felt like hundreds of deer flies swarming me in the woods. 50 would hold me down while the other 50 bit me. I feel so violated.
In section one today I’m going to talk about beginner trail running – now that I’ve made it sound so sexy. In section two we’re going to talk about understand the narratives that other people are listening to.
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Have you watched the new Tony Robbins documentary on Netflix? It’s fascinating. He does these live intervention things with people where you can see him reading the people. He watches their physical cues and asks them questions, almost like a psychic would. It’s an amazing example of how good or at least practiced he is at reading people. It’s fascinating.
I guess we’re lucky he’s not using those skills for anything overtly evil. He could make these people do anything in these seminars. It’s like the old religious camp meetings.
There are a lot of the things we recognize as familiar behavioral tricks. Like getting people to change their state – i.e. breaking their frame. Getting people to lean in – to buy in – a little bit at a time until they are totally susceptible to suggestions and instructions. Asking good questions that get around the façade. Getting past the perceived problem to the deeper self-awareness. And then, using the power of a shared experience to reinforce behavior.
So really it’s just another version of the group run!
On with the show!
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Section one –
Trail running for beginners – https://runrunlive.com/trail-running-for-beginners
Voices of reason – the conversation
Ellen Jaffe Jones
Bio: Ellen Jaffe Jones won 2 Emmys and the National Press Club Award during 18 years in TV news as an investigative reporter in St. Louis and Miami.
She is the only female in her adult family without breast cancer, and has placed in 101 5K or longer races since 2006 “just” on plants.
She placed 7th in her age group in the National Senior Games in the 1500 meters, 10th in the 400.
She is a certified personal trainer and running coach.
She is the author of 3 vegan cookbooks, “Eat Vegan on $4 a Day,” “Kitchen Divided,” “Paleo Vegan,” and a 4th on the way, “Vegan Fitness for Mortals.”
She co-hosts “Dr. Don’s The Vegan Myth Busters Radio Show” on KAAA-AM.
- The Veg Coach & “The Broccoli Rep”–because who else is? 😉
- SOON! VEGAN FITNESS FOR MORTALS!
- Eat Vegan on $4 a Day
- Kitchen Divided: Vegan Dishes for Semi-Vegan Households
- Paleo Vegan: Plant-Based Primal Recipes
- Running, Eating, Thinking: A Vegan Anthology
- Co-Host “The Dr. Don Show”
- Motivational Speaker
- Fitness, Health & Life Coach
- PETA’s “Sexiest Vegan Over 50”
- 1 of PETA’s 5 Inspirational Women Who Stand Up For Animals Every Day
- -7th in ’13 US W60-64 1500 Meters 2013
- -101 5K+ Age Group Awards since ’06
- -1st FL ’14 W60-64: 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1500 Meters 2014
5K+ Age Group Awards since ’06
Section two
Other peoples’ narratives – https://runrunlive.com/other-peoples-narratives
Outro
Well my friends time to put down that fist full of raw kale and get on with your lives. You have grazed your way through to the end of Episode 4-344 of the RunRunLive Podcast. Next week I have a cool interview with a guy who hit the slot machines for a couple million bucks, it ruined his life then he became an ultra-runner…of course.
The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access To Exclusive Members Only audio
- Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you!
- Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows
- Intro’s, Outro’s, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3’s you can download and listen to at any time.
For the cost of a 5/8 ounce bottle of The Original Blue Waltz Perfume! On Half.com you can be a member of the runrunlive support crew.
I am currently working on an additional podcast feed so you can subscribe and the members audio will be downloaded to your listening device with no extra effort. Like Magic! Because my existing members asked me to do that.
I’m also going to go back through time and re-curate some of the 300+ interviews I’ve done that I particularly liked for members.
Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com
I finished my stint wearing the heart monitor for my doctor. I ended up running out of electrodes. If you’re working out every day and it’s summer time you take a lot of showers – and that chews up a lot of electrodes if you replace them every time. Going in to see them in August but I don’t think they saw anything.
I think it was the heat and jet leg and just getting old! I also think the few rounds I went with pneumonia in May and then the antibiotics that nuked my biome knocked me down a couple pegs. Not much I can do about that. Just put the head down and muddle through. One of my mantras is to wake up every day and do the best I can with what I have – or as Schwarzkopf said – “You fight with the army you have.”
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I do have a new project that I’m working on. And part of this project is to put it out there, share it broadly and ask for feedback.
I’m writing a new book. Specifically I think I will write about how to create a powerful personal narrative to drive your life. I believe this ability to create a powerful narrative has enabled me to be successful, but more importantly to be at peace with myself and my choices.
I would like to share this keystone ability with the world. I know there are millions of people like me who are in a place where they don’t know what to do next or don’t have a purpose or reason in life and are struggling. By walking them through the process of documenting their past narrative, identifying the negative narratives in their life, re-writing and internalizing a powerful, positive self-narrative I can change their lives.
The difference this time, or differences are:
- It will be a self-help styled book with simple exercises and such to specifically walk you through the process.
- It will be designed to be saleable.
- It will be designed to support speaking engagements around those themes.
- It will be designed with publishers, publicists and media as the target audience.
There you go. It’s out there. No turning back!
If you want to help. I’d love to get feedback as I create this project and its content. If any of you have ideas or people I should talk to feel free.
I’ve always been a go-it-alone, do-it-myself guy but this time I’m aiming to break that bad habit and learn something new.
Because at the end of the day if you’re not scaring yourself you’re not growing.
Keep growing with me and I’ll be out there seeing you do it.
MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks – http://www.marathonbq.com/qualify-for-the-boston-marathon-in-14-weeks/