Nutrition

Eating To My Metabolism – Revisited

March 27, 2013

Somewhere along the way, it seems like counting calories became a bad thing. At times I have felt guilty and embarrassed because I do so. Why do people who look down on this practice care? To each their own. It may not be something that works for everyone, but it works for me. Last Fall [...]

Tagged as: Marathon Training, Nutrition, Resting Metabolic Rate, Sports Nutrition

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Sharing What I Love – 02.15.2013

February 15, 2013

Five Food Firsts: Lately, what I love about being healthy is learning to love new (to me) foods that I thought I hated. In truth, I had never actually tried some of these foods before. When I was little, someone I looked up to probably said they didn’t like it so I decided I didn’t [...]

Tagged as: Nutrition, Recipes

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Need. Whole. Foods.

January 22, 2013

I wish I had kept a food journal (or at least blogged) during the time that I lost so much weight. What I recall about that period is that I was so disciplined in my eating habits — what I ate, when I ate, portion control, etc. I was never tempted by sweets or second [...]

Tagged as: Nutrition

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My First Green Smoothie

January 14, 2013

I’ve always been skeptical of green smoothies. I’ve never seen one that looked appetizing so how tasty could they possibly be? Perhaps my skepticism came from seeing a Jamba Juice worker cutting grass with a regular scissors to blend into a shot drink. Or when I asked someone at Jamba Juice who drank one of [...]

Tagged as: Green Smoothies, Nutrition, Recipes

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6 Months Into A Gluten-Free Lifestyle…

January 10, 2013

It’s been a little over six months since I adopted a gluten-free lifestyle. At first I wasn’t sure I would be able to stick with it for more than a week, but I found that it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. What Made It Easy: + I found gluten-free products like [...]

Tagged as: Gluten-Free, Nutrition, Recipes, Restaurants

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30-Days Gluten-Free!

July 5, 2012

I looked at the calendar on Tuesday and realized it marked 1-month of eating gluten-free! When adopting a gluten-free diet was first suggested to me I thought it would be really a hard change to make. But I’ve found that with a little extra time spent planning (which by the way, I love to do…); [...]

Tagged as: Gluten-Free, Nutrition, Recipes

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Experimenting with a Gluten-Free Diet

June 12, 2012

A few of weeks ago I complained to Trainer Dave about how hard I workout and watch what I eat and yet I gain weight. It just didn’t make sense to me. He suggested modifying by diet by going Gluten-Free. My initial reaction was, “Oh I don’t have Celiac’s Disease, I don’t need to do [...]

Tagged as: Gluten-Free, Good Reads, Nutrition

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Moving Forward…

June 3, 2012

Although I didn’t get to run the marathon I trained for, the training cycle didn’t go completely to waste. In the days after making the decision not to run it (which I do not regret), I did a lot of reflecting about what I could have done better. The list was long but there were [...]

Tagged as: Nutrition, Running, Strength Training, Weekly Workout Recaps

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