Yesterday, on Day 23 of the Raw Food Challenge, I ate: – Small piece each banana and pineapple, 1 glass lemon water with 1/2 scoop calcium/magnesium powder and 1 probiotic capsule, and a breakfast salad: romaine lettuce, spinach, shredded carrot (easier to digest if it’s shredded than chopped), tomato, hemp seeds, clover/radish/alfalfa/mustard sprouts, and frozen [...]
20 Inner Thigh Lying Abductor Raises (targets the inner thighs) 20 Stability Ball Pikes (targets the abs and shoulders) Perform this set ten times for a total of 200 Inner Thigh Lying Abductor Raises and 200 Stability Ball Pikes! For the Inner Thigh Lying Abductor Raises: 1. Lie on a mat on your right side. [...]
As some of you may know, my major at university is in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications. Writing and language are equally as important to me as health is, and it is for this reason that I have decided to begin a rhetoric blog alongside Living Healthy in the Real World. Consider this the launch party [...]
Today marks the one-year anniversary for my blog. A year ago today, I published my first post! (Hopefully both my understanding of health and my skill in writing have improved muchly over that period of time). To celebrate, I baked a batch of these peanut butter cookies last night. They turned out beautifully, perchance because [...]
I have been tagged by Stevia ‘n Spice! I’m pretty sure everyone in blogland has seen this before but the idea is to share 7 random/weird facts about yourself: 1. I LOVE pearls and cameo jewelry2. One year on St. Patrick’s Day, the pub that I was at ran out of regular beer glasses. So [...]
There’s no better way to start off your birthday than with some grueling workouts at boot camp. And as an added bonus it was too cold for the mosquitoes this morning! I celebrated my birthday last Saturday in conjunction with my housewarming party. It was a great time; about 30 people were there in total [...]
This is it! Tomorrow I leave early in the morning for Ontario to visit my grandparents. On Wednesday, August 20th my plane departs for Rome (!!!); we’ll be heading straight to Palermo, Sicily for 3 days. Then we’ll take the train back to Rome for 5 days before staying in Florence for another 3 days. [...]
At the moment I am the proud owner of an ancient pay-as-you-go cell phone. It does the necessary functions that a phone should do- that is, it rings, I answer, we talk, and hang up. And it’s even got the awesome futuristic feature of having text messaging! Excuse my sarcasm. I am grateful for my [...]
The past couple days, for some reason my left knee was starting to bother me. It was feeling rather sore and was just irritating me to no end. After complaining about it to my mum yesterday, she sat me down, brought out her infra-red laser, and performed laser acupuncture on me. A couple hours later, [...]
Being an English major, I’m taking a History of Greek Literature class at university, and right now we’re studying Sophocles’ Antigone. Yesterday my prof posed an interesting question to us: how would your reaction be to this play if it were called Creon instead of Antigone? For those of you who don’t know the story [...]
