I was very athletic growing up, and I was always on sports teams, and that kind of transitioned into this very regimented workout situation. On exercise: In my fantasy world, I’m dabbling in Gyrotonics, but my reality is that I’m so slammed. Now I try to limit my intake, and when it’s my special coffee day, I do a shot of espresso, and I will add some Sex Dust, some Spirit Dust, sometimes Collagen Protect, and steamed almond milk if I’m not intermittent fasting. When I became a regular, every-morning coffee drinker for the first time in my life, I really looked forward to it I was finding God. I had a lot of fun with coffee for a good year and a half and then something started to happen where I was like, “I feel a little negative when I have coffee every day.” And it didn’t start off that way. On coffee: I started drinking coffee when my baby was probably 4 months old, my husband was on tour, and I was back to work and not sleeping. Everything really piles up, and I used to do 12 to 20 trips a year that I’ve come to realize could have just been a Zoom. I’ve been taking inventory around the impacts of these trips - everything from the jet fuel, to the Ubers that I would take to the airport back and forth, to the disposable bottles and utensils on the road, to maybe staying a night in a hotel and those sheets being bleached. Maybe because I’m a little bit more of a sensitive person, the flying really takes a physical toll on me, and I don’t think I realized how much all of the domestic flights that I was taking for work regularly had on me. On how COVID-19 affected her wellness: I’ve really come to realize how much I hate airplanes and the whole experience of being in an airport. This time around, “the goal was easy, fun, comforting, yummy food - and at the heart of it, it was my job to worry about things like the recipes being low-glycemic (and secretly they’re all anti-inflammatory foods).” Expect recipes like Horny Goat Weed Brownies, Supershroom Pancakes and Waffles, and Eleuthero Chocolate Chunk Cookies.īelow, Bacon spoke with the Cut about how the COVID-19 pandemic changed her approach to wellness, not working out, and what she does when she feels like “absolute shit.” It’s much more “approachable” than her first, Bacon promises. In that stillness, she was able to work on her second cookbook, The Moon Juice Manual: Adaptogenic Recipes for Natural Stress Relief (which is out now). Forced to stay at home and communicate through Zoom, she recognized the toll that constant traveling was taking on her body.
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Photo-Illustration: by The Cut Photo: Courtesy of Amanda Chantal BaconĪmanda Chantal Bacon - the founder behind Moon Juice, the destination for adaptogen-powered supplements and skin care - changed her approach to wellness during the pandemic.