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 …
It started out, as Katniss Everdeen would put it, as “a hollow day… a day where no matter what you put in your belly, it’s never enough.” (The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Limited, 2008.) I had my green smoothie, as usual, but instead of a plain banana oat cookie (the usual,) I topped it …
Sometimes I know you worry about me… you know, spending all my time either working out, or by myself in the kitchen, slaving away over my latest recipe, then taking a million pictures to get 5 good ones for the blog. Rest assured, dear friends, this is not the case! In fact sometimes I scramble to get …
Hello friends! I have to admit I feel kind of weird writing a “Year in Review” post, given my baby blog wasn’t born until nearly halfway through the year! But I have to give credit to all the exciting things that have happened in my little corner of this crazy online world, so let’s take a …
Hello lovely readers! It’s “Christmas Eve Eve” and amazingly, I’m not up to my eyeballs in wrapping paper and last-minute cookie baking. Maybe that will be tomorrow… But today, I have a quiet moment and I want to just reflect on these last 8 months of blogging and say a big THANK YOU!!! I had no …
Some things are not meant to be… Last Saturday my family piled into the car and drove to the airport for a multi-family vacation to Bohol. I planned on having fun with family & friends and posting an awesome beach bootcamp workout- since nearly half of my early morning class would be there at the …
What an exciting week it’s been! I’m late with my “What I Ate” post because I’ve been preparing for my presentation at the 2015 Asia Health Summit, an Asia CEO Forum event, at which I was honored to be a speaker for the 2nd year in a row. Presented by Healthway Medical, this all-day conference …
I haven’t weighed myself for 42 days. This means I’ve missed about 150-200 weigh-ins. Friends, you think I’m kidding, but I’m not. I’m a board-certified, Master’s-degree holding nutrition professional. I’ve spent 7 years in full-time nutrition education and I could spell out for you the metabolic pathways of protein synthesis and lipogenesis (but I like …
This post is not about food… or fitness… for once. The reason this post is not about food or fitness is because health is not always about food or fitness. But since my blog generally uses clean-eating recipes and workout tips to point you in that direction, I could easily give you the idea that I believe if we just “eat …
I was looking over my blog posts of the past 8 weeks, and I was startled by how its colour scheme shifted abruptly from yellows & greens when I was in Manila, to blues and reds since I’ve been in the U.S. The difference between mangoes and berries, I guess! Get ready for the shift back …
