When heading out for a run, we all know that we should take some steps to protect ourselves. Carrying a phone with you is a smart plan, but I know that not everyone likes to carry their device. Making sure to have some form of ID is also smart. I …
Last week I ran a whopping 6 miles! Go me! Excuses are like armpits, everyone has them and they all stink. The basic gist is that the weather sucked this weekend. It rained and hailed all day on Friday. Saturday and Sunday were windy and I wasn’t taking the baby …
I really wanted to breastfeed my baby for her first year. I’ve always heard how “breast is best” and I was happy that milk came in and I didn’t have any problems breastfeeding. I have a love/hate relationship with breastfeeding in general. I like that I don’t have to buy …
The Vegan Athlete: Maximizing Your Health and Fitness While Maintaining a Compassionate Lifestyle is a short book, but it does have a lot of information packed in. Just like other books from the author Brett Stewart (Ultimate Jump Rope Workouts and 7 Weeks to Triathlon are just a couple), there …
I recently got to try a FlipBelt. It’s a belt to carry items while running or working out that’s very different from any I’ve tried before. It’s a loop, so you either have to put it on over your head or pull it up like a pair of pants. (I …
Here’s a quick recap of my training this week: Monday: 4 miles Tuesday: 3.2 miles Thursday: 1 mile Friday: 10.16 miles Sunday: 3.2 miles Total: 21.57 miles for the week I set a goal for myself to run 12 times during February. Instead of doing a mileage goal, I went …
It seems like so much of the world tells us that we measure our value based on numbers on a scale or on the tag in our pants. I’ve struggled for a long time to break myself of the habit of determining my personal value based on the number on …
I went shopping with a friend to pick up my February outfit to meet my resolution challenge. Charlene gave me lots of good tips and challenged me to step outside my box. (Okay, my standard over the past 7+ years of telecommuting has turned into wearing a t-shirt, jeans that …
I recently had the opportunity to try CORE Foods bars, the Defender lineup (high fiber/vegan). The bars are meant to be a meal replacement, basically each pack is a “bowl of oatmeal” on the go. The bars are fresh, real food… that means they’re perishable. Once you receive them they …
It’s National Eating Disorders Awareness week. The theme is “Everybody Knows Somebody”, eating disorders are very prevalent in this society… especially when much of popular culture seems to encourage disordered eating. Eating disorders are not lifestyle choices, they are serious illnesses with the highest mortality rate of any psychological disorder …