My Journey: With Chronic Pain, Part 2
My days were long; my nights even longer. I felt hopeless. I feared getting older. If I felt this badly in my 30s, how in the world was I going to function in my 40s, 50s, and beyond? [...]
Health
Easy-Peasy Granola Bars
When our family began the journey to clean(er) eating, I started examining the staples we kept in the pantry. Much to my dismay, pre-packaged granola bars had several ingredients that I wasn’t happy with. [...]
My Journey: With Chronic Pain, Part 1
Though physical pain and emotional pain are two very different things, they share many similarities. Both are brutal… both are very personal hells no one else around you can see or feel. [...]
Sustainable Changes: Living at Peace with Your Food
I am anti-diet. If I go on a diet, I’m almost certain to be unhappy while I’m on it, and I’m just as likely to gain most if not all or more of that weight back afterward. [...]
Logging: A Two-Week Challenge
You’ve heard the old cliché that you can’t out-exercise a bad diet. Like so many clichés, it’s true. [...]
The Sustainable Struggle: Enjoying Exercise
Now if you’re expecting me to tell you to suck it up and start running, rest easy. I ain’t gonna. I hate running. [...]
Holiday Habits: Surviving the Calorie Apocalypse
Our instinct is to take food when it’s offered. Before you do, stop and ask yourself, “Do I really want to eat this?” [...]
The Sustainable Struggle
We don’t have multiple hours a day to work out, or a personal chef to get our brown rice and chicken breast on the table every three hours. If the farthest you’ve ever run in one go is three miles, you wouldn’t go out tomorrow and try to run a marathon. Why take that sort of approach to weight loss, to health and fitness? [...]