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This is How it Starts

April 25th, 2012 | Add a Comment

Days upon days, super busy at work, more things piled on top of others before anything has time to get done. Headaches, nausea, stress. I have no energy, I don’t want to eat, I don’t want to do anything.  I don’t want to go to my bodypump class. I don’t want to take the time to cook dinner. This is how it starts. One day, skipping the gym, eating badly, blossoming into another, and another.  Less and less energy till I’m a lump and the cubes have won.  I fought against it…felt like crying, so drained, went to my exercise class.  Lifting those weights, the endorphins flowed into my body.  I was glad I came.  That gave me just enough oomph to get home and cook and eat dinner.  Cubes … Read entire article »

Filed under: Food, Health/Exercise, Work Career

Results of Almost No Sugar – Will I Go Back or Not?

April 4th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Almost 2 months ago, my roomie/best friend decided to give up sugar for two months. Since we share groceries and cook together, and since I don’t have a large sweet tooth, I decided to try his experiment, and do an almost no sugar for the same time. I wrote about this, and updated it. For maybe a week and a half out of this whole time, I’ve had sweetened soymilk, and I’ve had craisins in my sandwich every week day the whole time. Once I had sweetened hot chocolate, once I had a chocolate spritzer drink. Once I had a sweetened juice. I can’t remember the other times during these two months that I’ve eaten sugar, but I can tell you, there weren’t that many more. My friend has a … Read entire article »

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Walking City Food

March 23rd, 2011 | Add a Comment

I mostly grew up in NH, but moved to the Boston area (Waltham, just 20 minutes away) at 17 for college, and to Boston as soon as I graduated, then to San Francisco when I was 27. This means that I’ve lived my entire adult life in cities, and not only any cities, but some very healthy cities, where people tend to walk or take public transportation everywhere. Two of the most expensive cities in the US (NYC & SF flip flop for #1 & Boston usually sits at #3). I hated NH so much that I’ve blocked a lot of it out, and so I’m pretty thoroughly indoctrinated into my own way of life.  That means I’m spoiled. There are a ton of things that i’m spoiled by, but … Read entire article »

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Is it Justified to Expect People to be Healthy For Other’s Sake?

March 9th, 2011 | 2 Comments

My parents are not the healthiest people on earth. They don’t eat particularly badly, but they never move around anywhere, and over the years, it taken a toll on their overall health. This worries me, and for a long while, I’ve been pushing the idea that they start exercising. And it’s paid off, at least with my mother. She’s finally started exercising! When my mother told me this, and when she’s been keeping at it for a couple of weeks, I felt really relieved. I like having a mother, and want her here for a good, long time. And I want her to be healthy so she can enjoy herself. She hasn’t been able to win over my father yet, though… This got me to thinking though – what responsibility … Read entire article »

Filed under: Health/Exercise, Introspective

Roast Chicken and Cucumber Water

March 3rd, 2011 | 1 Comment

Cucumber Water Sometimes simple recipes are very good recipes. I recently had a couple of good, simple, yummy food experiences, and just wanted to share them with you. Our local whole foods down the street has random friday sales, where they deep discount one thing, for only one friday. The other friday, it was whole chickens. We bought two. Neither of us had ever made a whole chicken.  My mother used to all the time. chicken roasts, or tiny fryer chickens to boil and use in things like chicken and rice the saucey kind or sweet n sour chicken. These were definitely roasts. We got them home and i started looking online. All of the roast chicken recipes seemed involved. I’m lazy. I also didn’t want to have to buy a … Read entire article »

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11 Days Less Sugar Update – I’M STARVING!

February 18th, 2011 | Add a Comment

This whole week I’ve been super busy at work, and feeling a bit under the weather, and thus have fallen even more behind on blog posts. I had a spare moment, and wanted to update everyone on the sugar experiment. For background information, read my blog here, and my best friend, who is the one whose experiment it really is’s post here. My best friend is also my roommate and we tend to eat most of our meals together, so when he decided to give up sugar for 2 months, I kinda went along for the ride. I didn’t really make any promises or huge effort. We started Tuesday of last week (not this Tuesday of this week) (and can I say, he hasn’t cheated even once!) and I … Read entire article »

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Link to A Guy who Really Gave up Sugar Cold Turkey

February 12th, 2011 | Add a Comment

My best friend, who I mentioned is a total sugar guy, & is giving up sugar for the next two months as an experiment (nudging me to cut my sugar myself) has written a blog entry about his first few days and what it’s been like so far. I thought some of my readers might find it interesting, so I’ve linked it. Click here for his blog entry: Sugar Intervention. … Read entire article »

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Taking a Sugar Break

February 7th, 2011 | Add a Comment

A few people dislike sweets. A lot of people really LOVE sweets. I’m kind of in the middle. Even as a child, I’ve never been a fan of most candy. I’m more a fruit or chocolate dessert person. Growing up, I had an average amount of sweets, with my mother/myself/my sister baking us (usually from scratch) desserts usually on a weekend, and a sweet homemade family breakfast once a weekend. I was more prone to snack on something savory. Left to myself, I probably wouldn’t eat too many sweets. But, then, there’s my best friend. He isn’t a candy person either, but he loves sugar. He pretty much has to have something sweet every day, so every couple of nights I’ll hear, what’s for dessert, do you want cake or … Read entire article »

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A quick note about HFCS

May 11th, 2010 | 4 Comments

saturday morning roomie and I made waffles from scratch from my mother’s yummy recipe. I was saying how long it was taking us to finish the jumbo saver syrup bottle we’d gotten way at the last apartment, and glanced at the ingredients. I gasped and threw the whole thing out! Here’s what I saw: corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, dye, chemicals. I knew it wasn’t natural but I didn’t figure it was completely corn syrup! Fortunatly, I had some real maple syrup lying around i’d been given as a gift and we used that. It doesn’t even taste like the same thing..it took a couple bites to get used to..then it was great. Airy, light, not overwhelming. From now on, that chemical gross isn’t getting into our shopping cart … Read entire article »

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