Nava Health and Vitality Center offered me an opportunity to try their intake services and compensated me for this post. A few weeks ago, I headed over to the Nava Health and Vitality Center to meet with one of their staff and get blood drawn for a variety of tests. The experience as a whole was…
Category: weight loss
TOTR: Running free for all
All of us over at Tuesdays on the Run have a little bit of crazy going on in our lives right now, so we decided to make this week be a “free topic” week. So write about any running related topic and link up with April, Patty, and me this week. Real topics resume next…
Thinking out Loud: Where do I go from here?
You knew it was coming, right? I’ve finished my major goals for the first half of the year and apparently I’m feeling blasé about the fact that I have 6 half marathons in 6 days in 6 states in September. Eh, what’s another state when I’ve already done 5 in 5 two times? Ahem. I’m…
TOTR: Weight loss or maintenance during distance training
Welcome to Tuesdays on the Run!! Thanks for joining Patty, April, and me while we talk about weight loss/maintenance while running long distances. I’m gonna be honest here – I don’t have all the answers. I’m not even sure I have some of the answers. Fact: I gained weight when I trained for both previous…
21 Day Reset and Pure Barre
From September 8-September 28, I participated in Laura Peifer’s 21 Day Reset. She offered me the opportunity to participate for free in exchange for discussing my experience on my blog. In addition to the food reset that I did with her, I signed up for the unlimited package at the local Pure Barre studio. Because…
Metabolic Effect Update
I hate calling it a diet. I know that the primary meaning is “the kinds of food that a person, animal, or community habitually eats,” but it seems to more often than not “diet” refers to a strict eating plan designed to bring about weight loss (or some other physical change). So far, the Metabolic…
Glad that’s over…
The sugar detox, that is. I didn’t have any of the physical withdrawal symptoms that some people had: no headaches or crankiness or anything like that. I just found myself constantly on the prowl for food. Some of that would have happened anyways (thank you, hormones, for making my life awesome. Not.) But a big…
Three Things Thursday: Home again, blog migration issues, and a winner
1. We are home. We flew home yesterday on a near perfect flight. I got on the scale this morning and found I’d only gained a little over a pound while I was gone. I always gain a little bit at my parents’ house, in part because I’ll join my dad for a beer occasionally…
Bad habits
It always amazes me how easy it is to make bad habits a part of your life, but how difficult it is sometimes to make healthy choices a habit. I used to run at least once every weekend. I used to do strength training of some sort every time I went to the gym. I…