Hi folks! Wanna have fun with a little body-part bootcamp we did in class last week? It focusses on one major muscle group at a time: The “PUSH” muscles: chest, shoulders, and triceps The “PULL” muscles: lats, rhomboids, and biceps LEGS (There are technically PUSH and PULL muscles in the legs as well, but for an …
Living in Southeast Asia, I eat a lot of Asian food… like this cabbage salad with creamy sesame dressing. But when I go home for the summer, I almost never eat Asian food. Funny that! I have no idea why, since I can get all most of the ingredients I need at my local grocery stores …
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For those of you who follow me on Instagram, you know I’m currently obsessed with beets. If it’s possible to be in love with a vegetable, I would send these sweet things a love note every day. First of all, they are the most gorgeous things ever… but you wouldn’t know it unless you got …
What is this world coming to??? I didn’t have my “usual” green smoothie and banana oat cookies for breakfast!!! And I admit I feel kind of weird about it. I was feeling adventurous (for 5am) and I added frozen strawberries & bananas instead of pineapple to my smoothie along with the spinach & cucumber. The …
This is the soup that sustained me throughout my illness in the past 2 weeks. I might even give it some credit for helping me get better… it’s that good! I actually got the inspiration for this soup as I watched Turbo’s homemade potato-rice-carrot food cool on the counter. Yes, he is spoiled… but admittedly, …
Hello friends! It’s nice to be back in the land of the living! I spent the last (almost) 2 weeks fighting a nasty respiratory virus that knocked me off my feet, literally. I did nothing after getting the kids off to school except rest and sleep in order to muster the energy to make dinner. I began to …
Some of you may be under the balmy impression that because I’m a dietitian, my children also tow the line of embrace the near-vegan, low-sugar, no-processed-foods diet that characterizes my lifestyle. So let me describe a conversation that occurred at my dinner table a few nights ago… Kids: “Oh I remember string cheese as such a childhood food…” …
Howdy folks! That little head cold I mentioned a couple of posts ago? … turned into a full-blown sinus infection. Shows what happens when you let yourself get run down… or just breathe in the wrong germ, I guess! But unless I’m sick to my stomach, I don’t see illness as a reason not to …
I must confess that Valentine’s Day has never made a whole lot of sense to me. I mean, if you have a “true love,” then why set aside only one day to celebrate… CELEBRATE EVERY DAY, PEOPLE!! And if you don’t, then it seems like a sort of “in-your-face” holiday at best. I’ve long harbored …
I was just thinking the other day how long it’s been since I’ve had a cold… or any illness, really, and I felt inwardly smug. I prided myself on how my super-healthy eating and workout routines obviously keep my immune system impervious to germs. Well. I’m sitting here this morning with my face completely blocked up with …
