We live in that wonderful consumer society that is constantly shouting to us: As soon as you have/are ____ you will be happy!!” So we buy more and more stuff, we fight to become whatever is the cultural ideal of the moment, we mindlessly follow the latest trends, hoping, finally this time, hap[...]
Archive for the ‘Food & Diet’ Category
June 21st, 2010 - 10:35 am § in Deep Thoughts, Food & Diet, IT Band, Injury, Precision Nutrition, Spinal Injury
Two weeks down
It’s been two weeks and a day since The Incident. Saturday I managed to walk to Mount Tabor, although I had to sit on a bench for a while when I got there, and walk back. Yesterday I walked to the Academy Theater, watched a movie, and walked back, about 1.2 miles each way. The [...][...]
April 20th, 2010 - 8:37 am § in Food & Diet
On being vegetarian
Because I’ve been vegetarian now for about 10 years (ever since that fateful holiday chicken dinner in 2001), I’ve been asked why I choose to eschew meat many, many times. My answer has never really changed. I never really liked it much in the first place, and it always made me feel ill[...]
April 14th, 2010 - 12:23 pm § in Food & Diet, Precision Nutrition
The Maintenance Diet
There’s a crazy new diet plan out there. It’s better than the one “mysterious” trick for losing inches off your belly. It’s better than Atkins, the Zone, and Weight Watchers combined. It’s called, wait for it… The Maintenance Diet! You lose one or two pound[...]
March 30th, 2010 - 3:39 pm § in Food & Diet
Hey Sugar
As I mentioned in my previous post, I was in Spokane last weekend, and as we all know, staying with a relative or friend always poses challenges when it comes to diet (if you’re a picky eater like myself or have dietary restrictions). Of course, my grandmother had already gone out and bought f[...]
January 19th, 2010 - 12:58 pm § in Food & Diet, Precision Nutrition
It’s like magic
I finally made it solidly back into the 130’s. When I look back to what I was doing last year to get to my all time low of 130.0, I was working out twice a day, plus a 30 minute walk during lunch counting calories and keeping a food log hating life And now? Quasi-following PN (maybe more at[...]
PN week one, struggling still
Can old dogs learn new tricks? Everything went really well until…the weekend. Damn! I drank way more than I intended. Two glasses of wine on Friday night, 4 glasses of whisky on Saturday night (groan), and a beer tonight. And I didn’t feel particularly great at anytime, in fact I pretty [...]
Feeling Bipolar: Revelations, PN & PT
Long post alert! Well, half of me feels great. I am on day 5 of Precision Nutrition, and I have had 100% compliance. I think the thing I am most proud of right now is the fact that I have gone out twice to bars and have ordered tea. And it wasn’t even horrible. I wasn’t [...][...]
Bitch time
Warning, warning, warning: I will be bitching about my knees for a few paragraphs. People ask me what part of my knees hurt. Well. Let’s see, where should I start? When I’m biking, right below my left knee on the back of my calf hurts (no my saddle isn’t too low). Sometimes the fro[...]
Finally, foam rolling actually did something
I admit I was skeptical that foam rolling twice a day and icing afterward would actually do anything for my knees. After years of problems, I’m pretty pessimistic when it comes to overuse injuries. Well, I’ve been keeping my workouts very light, absolutely no running, no hill climbing, n[...]
