My first day of the challenge was a success! I filled up on tasty foods: – plain yogurt with frozen berries – skim milk – apples and bananas – copious amounts of white tea – carrots – oatmeal with sugar and cinnamon – salmon poached in white wine, scallops, roasted yam fries, and steamed asparagus [...]
Today marks the first day of my challenge to myself to eat only non-processed foods. That means limiting all additives and eating basically only natural, whole foods. I think it can be done, with a little bit of careful effort and preparation. We’ve been making all our own bread at home (I LOVE breadmakers!), and [...]
My final assignment for my nutrition class was to research a nutrient or supplement and determine whether or not the claim being made about it is legitimate and true, according to scientific studies. I chose the topic of calcium and its claim to aid in weight loss (that is, a decrease in fat mass, as [...]
Okay, so I’m still a bit sick- I’ve been nursing a sore throat the past couple days with ham and split pea soup, excessive amounts of green tea, yogurt, and oatmeal. Yummy! Also, this morning I made some fantastic hot chocolate: take 3 small squares of Lindor 99% dark chocolate (probably about 15 grams?), 1/2 [...]
Happy Easter everyone! I hope you are all engaging in much egg and chocolate consumption (although, as I write this it occurs to me that I haven’t partaken in any egg or chocolate eating yet today. Hmm, must rectify that…). Unfortunately I’ve been sick since Thursday, which has really been incredibly inconvenient considering the workload [...]
Leslie over at The Weighting Game wrote a post on dieting every other day, which has initiated this current train of thought (my apologies in advance for the sarcasm and cynicism throughout): Ever since I started paying a wee bit more attention to my nutrition and general health- sometime around January 2007- it’s been really [...]
Last night was my first of eight belly dancing classes. It was awesome and I’m already looking forward to next week’s class- there’s only about 10 of us in the class and most of the women appear to be between their late 20′s and early 40′s. There’s all types of body shapes and sizes but [...]
Today I read an article by Lesley Rotchford that really made me shake my head. You can view it here. Basically, it’s a review of how people will take extensive measures to achieve the “ideal” of being thin, no matter what the health costs. Because as long as we’re all skinny as rakes, nothing else [...]
I adore holidays. I see them as the perfect opportunity to enjoy time with family and friends, eat good food, and dress completely head-to-toe in one colour (today I’ve got a green shirt, green sweater, and green scarf to celebrate the Irish! I’m also drinking green tea and have a huge salad full of a [...]
Earlier today I was considering really buckling down on the four (cringe!) research papers that I have to have completed in the next couple weeks, when my dad announced that he was going for a run. I haven’t gone running since Tuesday, and I wasn’t quite in the mood to read endless articles on dynastic [...]
