Hi friends! How are you? Here we are in Week 5 of quarantine… and I confess this week has been hard for me. Not because anything has changed; we are all well and healthy. Praise God for that! But maybe it’s because NOTHING HAS CHANGED, that I’m feeling the monotony of it all. That, and …
Hello friends! First of all, thank you so much for your support and kind comments on my latest post on getting (and being!) super-lean. Your words are golden to me! My calories and carbs have never been so low during a competition prep, and I’ve been feeling the effects… fatigue, flat-looking muscles, and significant loss of …
Hello friends! The last time I showed you what I was eating, I was just a week or two away from my bodybuilding show, and definitely in the last phase of “cutting.” Although my calories never dropped very low (1800 was the lowest I ever went), I found myself often sleepy and out of energy …
It started out just like any other day… WAIT!!! NO IT DIDN’T!!! Because I didn’t have a green smoothie OR a banana oat cookie!!! Hold the phone… first my recipe thingamajig is having problems, and then I didn’t have my beloved tried-and-true-breakfast. Well, if the world is turning upside down, I might as well branch …
I woke up at 2:37 this morning… hungry. Why??? I ate what I considered an almost-literal ton of food yesterday. Take a look! Breakfast #1 was the typical high-carb, pre-workout meal, 1 1/2 hours before my two bootcamp sessions: my usual green smoothie, puffed kamut with a little sprinkle of muesli, chopped apple, and soy …
Some days are hungrier than others… and yesterday was one of those days. Breakfast #1 was my favourite green smoothie (spinach, cucumbers, fresh mint, homemade almond milk, & frozen pineapple) plus a peanut butter banana almond meal muffin. I made these from the almond pulp leftover from …
My children are looking forward to home leave as much or more than I am. But as I recently found out, our eager anticipation is focussed quite differently. Theda: “I can’t wait to get to the U.S.!” Sara: “I know!! Because Pa has GOLDFISH!!” Tommy: “And Cheetos!!!” Theda: “And Toaster Strudels!!!” Yes folks. These are …
