Melissa Joulwan is the best-selling author of the Well Fed cookbook series and the award-winning blog MelJoulwan.com, where she chronicles her successes and mistakes in the gym, the kitchen, and in life. Well Fed Weeknights: Full Paleo Meals in 45 Minutes Or Less is her newest cookbook. Melissa discovered the paleo diet in 2009 after a lifetime of yo-yo dieting and seeing food as the enemy. She has been happily following it ever since. In the same year, she had a thyroidectomy. She became particularly interested in how eating influences hormones, body composition, temperament, and motivation following the operation and rehabilitation.

Melissa's workouts these days are just as likely to entail yoga and meditation as they are to include lifting heavy objects and sprinting to beat the stopwatch. Her first cookbook, Well Fed, was a Wall Street Journal best seller, and her second, Well Fed 2, was named one of Amazon.com's best books of 2013 and a Washington Post best seller. Read More chevron_right

Melissa Joulwan is the best-selling author of the Well Fed cookbook series and the award-winning blog MelJoulwan.com, where she chronicles her successes and mistakes in the gym, the kitchen, and in life. Well Fed Weeknights: Full Paleo Meals in 45 Minutes Or Less is her newest cookbook. Melissa discovered the paleo diet in 2009 after a lifetime of yo-yo dieting and seeing food as the enemy. She has been happily following it ever since. In the same year, she had a thyroidectomy. She became particularly interested in how eating influences hormones, body composition, temperament, and motivation following the operation and rehabilitation.

Melissa's workouts these days are just as likely to entail yoga and meditation as they are to include lifting heavy objects and sprinting to beat the stopwatch. Her first cookbook, Well Fed, was a Wall Street Journal best seller, and her second, Well Fed 2, was named one of Amazon.com's best books of 2013 and a Washington Post best seller. Melissa is the author of the recipes in Melissa and Dallas Hartwig's New York Times bestseller book It Begins With Food. Her recipes have appeared in print in Low Sugar Living, Inspire Health, and Where Women Cook, as well as online at Buzzfeed.com, FoodNetwork.com, Nylon.com, PopSugar.com, and Men's Journal. She also writes a column for Paleo Magazine.

She has been a featured chef for the United States of America. Wellness Meats and Lava Lake Lamb, as well as a Whole Foods instructor Melissa, her husband David, and their cat Smudge are currently residing in Prague, Czech Republic, where they are learning to adapt Czech and European cuisine to the paleo diet.