Month: February 2010

  • News to Note

    Personal Health – Food Rules From Michael Pollan Worth Following – NYTimes.com. I highlighted the Jon Stewart Daily Show video with Michael Pollen a while back. But I suspect that this little book, which is based on research but not annotated, can do more than the most authoritative text to get you motivated to make…

  • Badges of Honor

    My brother sent this to me the other day and I wanted to share it because it’s so true in a super exaggerated way. Remember, feeling super sore and wanting to stop is the way most people feel after the first week or so! Exercise breaks you down, and then builds you up! Your body…

  • Week 3 and going strong!

    My husband, Scott has pneumonia.  It’s something that we have to be really careful about. His immune system is still somewhat compromised from the chemo and he is more susceptible to all sorts of bugs. I feel so bad for him – you can clearly see how uncomfortable he is. And he is not the…

  • Appreciations and Inspirations

    So this week at the company I work for it is Spirit Week. It’s that time of the year where our students, parents and teachers take some time to do a bunch of different things to show their spirit for the online school! So I am going to play along – but switch it up…

  • News to Note

    Six Meaningless Claims on Food Labels – Well Blog – NYTimes.com. Although food labels are supposed to tell us exactly what’s in the food we’re buying, marketers have created a language all their own to make foods sound more healthful than they really are. Prevention.com – 25 Ridiculously Healthy Foods. Lots of good ideas about…

  • Stick with it!

    Here is another Monday! Another gorgeous sunrise to be seen! Another boot camp workout! 2 min Burpees- the goal was to try to get at least 20! CORE: Teeter totters Bicycles moving up and down with our torso One leg up rotations which are called ROBs 25 bottom up pushups 3 rounds AMRepsAP. We had…