France announces fines for pro-anorexia First, I recommend you check out an article in the Winnipeg Free Press (unfortunately the article is no longer available online), which is likely only one of the many articles about the topic on France fining for pro-anorexia currently circulating major newspapers. What do you…
Dinner today was homemade turkey burgers on homemade wholewheat buns. We demolished them pretty effectively! It's amazing how similar ground turkey is to ground beef. Do you also find that a lot of food that is healthier or made with less fat tends to taste virtually identical to the regular stuff?…
Short post today because of the excessive amounts of studying that is piling up (a week from today and I'm finished exams!), but I wanted to share this with all of you---I thought you might appreciate it and be able to relate. It's not too often I have a serious…
I finally mastered the hula hoop last night! The knack is to do it slowly---who'd have thought? It was also the first time that we learned walking steps in my bellydancing class. It was much more of a workout than the other classes we've done! We had to walk on…
Yesterday I had the day off work, so I slept in until just before 9am and decided that I was due for a good run. In the warmth of the sunshiny day, my intentions to go for six miles were exceeded... first with seven, then eight, then nine, and then,…
Yesterday one of our cats was diagnosed with heart disease. He was in pretty rough shape and it all happened rather suddenly, but it was time to put him to sleep. Pounce was well-known for walking on people's heads in the middle of the night, haunting the dinner table while we…
The part about my high school Global Politics class that has stuck with me the most were discussions we had on population and hunger. We talked about the issues of poverty and development and then focused for a brief period on the distribution of food. According to the United Nations---this is…
Yesterday was my last day of classes! Excellent, now I can spend even more of my time reading everyone's blogs and writing on my own... I mean, studying for my upcoming exams. Yesterday was also my third belly dancing class; we've graduated to learning how to do snake arms and…
My first day of the challenge was a success! I filled up on tasty foods: Plain yogurt with frozen berries Skim milk Apples and bananas Copious amounts of white tea Carrots Oatmeal with sugar and cinnamon Salmon poached in white wine with scallops, roasted yam fries, and steamed asparagus Today…
Today marks the first day of my challenge to myself to eat only non-processed foods. That means limiting all additives and eating basically only natural, whole foods. I think it can be done, with a little bit of careful effort and preparation. We've been making all our own bread at…
