Food & Fitness

Healthier chocolate

The mother dear insists that her youthful appearance and energetic demeanor is directly related to a steady diet of beer and chocolate. While I think it's highly improbable that a Mars Bar contains any nutritional value whatsoever (antioxidants are only found in good quality dark chocolate!), I think she's onto…

What do you do when you’re not at work?

After spending 17 years of my life in academic programs (wow 17 years seems like a long time to be in school!), it's very strange to no longer be taking classes. I never took a gap year between finishing high school and starting university. I jumped right into it. I…

Plankathon

Josie over at Yum Yucky issued a plank challenge, and seeing as abs exercises are my most favourite form of fitness, I figured I'd better accept the challenge! In the video below, I do everything from talk about my 100 Push Ups Challenge to dance (while holding the plank position.…

Trying to decide what’s healthy and what isn’t

Becoming a Certified Holistic Nutritionist I'm happy to announce that as of yesterday, I am halfway to my goal of raising enough money to pay for the courses that will lead to my degree as a Certified Holistic Nutritionist! I'd also like to let you all know that all proceeds…

Green powders: health or hype?

Tropical Traditions sent me a jar of their Antioxidant Natural Greens powder, a berry-flavoured supplement which includes ingredients such as milk thistle, kelp, beet, aloe vera, flax, chlorella, spirulina, alfalfa, spinach, and several different dairy-free probiotics. The added ingredients that weren't there for health purposes include: stevia, citric acid, natural…

Meditating in the bathtub

One of the ladies that I work with has a bath every single evening when she gets home from work. Even if she doesn't get home until 10pm, she still has her nightly bath. She's also a lovely, sweet, very laid-back woman, even though her job must be an incredibly…

Go green: use cloth bags

The boyfriend's mother dear recently lent me her book Sleeping Naked is Green by Vanessa Farquharson. The book is based on Vanessa's blog, Green as a Thistle, and I adore her writing style. I also adore the premise behind her blog/book: making one environmental change every day for an entire…

(Almost) Wordless Wednesday

I like having lots of families - such lovely people in my life! ...and so many more loved ones in my other various "families". I think it's good to have lots of families for all of the different parts of you.