I love the weekend. With it is a new-ness, even if it is the “end” of the week. There is the joy of being unfettered from what we do every day, of avoiding the “work” requirements. For my family, Saturday…
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The Joy of Cooking (and shopping?)
Tagged with: Food, Gluten Free, Gluten-free diet, good food, Healthy Eating, Healthy Food, Tempeh
Posted in Healthy Food
Posted in Healthy Food
Better Diet. (Not Dieting)
So, I started thinking about what I was eating a while back and how I could improve it. The first obvious step – is eat fewer calories than I am burning. Myfitnesspal works well on helping me with that. Not…
Tagged with: Dieting, Eating, Health, Healthy Eating, Paleo Diet, Paleolithic diet, Runner's Diet, Weight Loss, Whining
Posted in Healthy Food
Posted in Healthy Food
Calories
I happen to work next to a Dunkin Donuts.. This has been very convenient (I love coffee), and not nearly as dangerous as I had feared – as long as I bring food with me. On those days that I…
Tagged with: Burger King, Calorie, Donuts, Doughnut, Dunkin Donut, Health, McDonalds, MyFitnessPal, Weight Loss
Posted in Healthy Food
Posted in Healthy Food
Halloween and the Curse of the Candy Calories
So its Halloween.. That means two things – Trick or Treaters and CANDY!!!!! I don’t think we runners (or want-to-be runners as I consider myself at the moment) are any different from any other person. We will escort our little…
Tagged with: Almond Joy, Butterfinger, Candy, fun size, Halloween, halloween calories, Halloween Candy, Peanut butter cup, Trick or Treat, Twix
Posted in Healthy Food, running
Posted in Healthy Food, running
Cross training with Curb-Found Treasure!
So yesterday was my rest day. Unfortunately I am finding that I really don’t like having days of no exercise. Maybe it’s because I am staring at calories on my phone whenever I eat, or maybe it is simply knowing…
Tagged with: elliptical, Healthy Eating, Weslo G3.8
Posted in cardiotrainer, Cross Training, Healthy Food, Hill Running
Posted in cardiotrainer, Cross Training, Healthy Food, Hill Running
End of last week and week end in review!
So this has been a wonderful weekend (yes, I know it’s now Tuesday.. I’ve been busy!!!) As I mentioned in my last posting – my brother-in-law was in town up until friday morning. Ignoring their very existence, I started thursday with a…
Tagged with: Ithaca, Road running, Tunkhannock Falls, Vibram Five Fingers
Posted in cardiotrainer, Healthy Food, running, running shoes, treadmill run, vibram five fingers
Posted in cardiotrainer, Healthy Food, running, running shoes, treadmill run, vibram five fingers
It’s a GREAT day!!!!!!
ok, So lots of fantastic things happening in the last 24 hours. First one was —- I WON!!!! I am one of those people with abysmal luck.. I enter contests but never expect to win. I pay for a raffle…
Tagged with: Calf, Calf raises, Gastrocnemius muscle, Physical exercise, Soleus muscle, YMCA
Posted in Contest, Healthy Food, running
Posted in Contest, Healthy Food, running
Finding that edge between pain and progress
After running 5 miles on Tuesday, which is a “long” run for me at the moment, I figured I would do something a little bit shorter yesterday. I tossed on my Vibram Five Fingers (after all, it was just going…
Video Games for fitness..
Its interesting the number of “Fitness” video games that are out. Some are billed as such, and others have that “Benefit.” Nintendo of course seemed to start it off most effectively, with the Wii Fit – but ifyou recall they actually started…
Taking it slowly…
One of the biggest problems in stopping any form of exercise, is how much strength/speed/endurance you lose. While in the past I have been able to blame this on being lazy, my injury – followed by hernia repair surgery –…
2013 Was an amazing year, for me, So I am really looking forward to 2014!
Once and Future Runner 