The Tao of Me

First day back of getting into the groove…
I had a hard time going to bed early (i.e., I didn’t), which made it that much harder to wake up this morning. My alarm went off as usual at 4:45 am, but it was another 45 minutes until I dragged myself out of bed. I ate a [...]

They say you are what you eat…
I can only imagine what that would make me after completely blowing 3 good weeks of healthy eating over the holiday weekend. There’s a reason why I am usually pretty strict about what I eat…because when I let up, I really go all out:
* In & Out Double-Double
* with [...]

A month ago I was up 10 lbs from my “happy” weight, 4 lbs above my “acceptable max” weight. That marathon training had me hungry all. the. time. So when it was over I sat down with my nutritionist to make a plan on how to cut back on my calorie intake and get back [...]

One of the things I’m struggling with this week is eating. And trying not to do it so often.
When I was training for the marathon, I more or less ate clean, but ate a lot. I was always hungry, eating just about every 2 hours or so. After doing the Resting Metabolic Rate test and [...]

One of the main reasons I write a blog is to journalize things that I want to remember. This week’s marathon, my first one, was definitely a significant event in my life so indulge me while I break up this recap of the experience into multiple posts to record every detail that I can [...]

(As I mentioned in my last post, this week I’ll be recapping some events that happened in the past couple of weeks that I wasn’t able to write about immediately. This is one of them.)
A little while ago, I had my monthly appointment with my nutritionist.
March had been a challenging month for me – travel [...]

After the hard 17-mile run I had 8 days ago, I spent last week thinking about what things I could change to make my next long run be better.
Nutrition
One thing that came to mind was definitely my nutrition. In the days leading up to the 17-miler, I was on vacation and eating fancy-free. So last [...]