As per several requests, here is my list of the top ten things I wish I’d known would happen to me emotionally when I started getting healthier: 1) You’re on your own. There’s a lot of people out there – often people close to you – who will mock you, roll their eyes at you, [...]
On Wednesday night, I had the opportunity to attend an event at the Park Theatre: the premiere of the documentary “Fresh, the Movie”, followed by a panel discussion of four local farmers. Nicole and I both attended as representatives of The Food Label Movement. It was great to see that the event was sold out, with [...]
Check out all of my HITT at Aspire Fitness blog posts: Week One: HITT and the City Week Two: Tracking food and exercise online with Aspire Fitness Week Three: Looking for the Ultimate Workout Week Four: The HITT Diet Plan Motivation and Relationships Something that I love about Aspire Fitness is that along one wall [...]
Today’s guest post is from hydrantgirl, a friend whom I have known pretty much all my life. She is awesome. Check out her blog, www.hydrantgirl.blogspot.com, to see the guest post that I wrote for her blog today! Hello, my name is hydrantgirl. I’m 32 years old, a certified firefighter and paramedic, a cowgirl, an infertile, [...]
I finally had the opportunity to see the documentary film America the Beautiful yesterday evening. The film describes how various industries in American culture influence people to think of beauty in a very specific way. The combination of health with rhetoric is one that I can never resist, and this documentary was incredibly insightful as [...]
Be sure to enter my coconut oil giveaway! Operation Lose Five Pounds Carrying around an extra five pounds may not seem like such a big deal, but even just a few unnecessary pounds of fat can be a health hazard. Most of us can significantly reduce our risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, and [...]
BlogHer Yes, yes I am going to spend the new few months talking about my excitement of going to the BlogHer 2010 conference in NYC in August The agenda and speakers look awesome (Sahar is one of them!) and it looks like it will be a fantastic time. It will be especially fantastic if you- yes you, fellow [...]
Not this past weekend, but the weekend before, the mother dear and I took the Friday and Monday off work and drove to Riding Mountain to stay at a resort for a few days. We just wanted some time out of the city; a little mini-break holiday to relax and be pampered. And pampered we [...]
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week was from February 21st to 27th. I missed it. Well, no: I didn’t really miss it. I only found out that it was National Eating Disorders Awareness Week very last-minute, and I already had our Grocery Shopping mini-series set up, so I postponed discussing eating disorders. At the time, I [...]
This is my last week of exams and final papers, and then I will truly be on holidays (cue streamers and balloons, please). I’m looking forward to it! As a Rhetoric student, one of the classes I took this term was Rhetoric of Identity, which examined how our national identities are shaped within our societies [...]
