Giveaway Winner And the winner of Musselman's Healthy Picks Applesauce is... Julie! Send me your contact information and I'll make sure your applesauce is on it's way. I make (more) bread I had so much fun with making bread last week that I decided to make more this week. This…
Please welcome my workout buddy! Westwood is a writer, outdoor-enthusiast, and one of my best friends. She also reviews applesauce. I’m westwood, and I am an elite, high-performance athlete. I train 25-30 hours a week. I undergo comprehensive fitness testing every three months. I travel across the country six or…
I've been having fun with cooking, as usual. My most recent kitchen escapade was baking bread! I have never made a yeast bread before without the breadmaker at my parent's place. I don't own a breadmaker, so I decided it was high time I learn how to use yeast and…
I'm not a huge fan of applesauce. I can go through an enormous bag of apples in about two days, but applesauce can sit in the fridge for a week or more and I'll forget all about it. But I do love using it for baking, and so I don't…
My relationship with running has been all over the map. Love, hate, tolerate; it's a crazy up-and-down journey that we have gone through. And these days, with the completion of two races, I love it. Really, I do. So much so that I've been craving it and last night went…
It started on Thursday. A sore throat. Then a headache. Then an achy body. On Friday night, somehow inexplicably a party broke out at my apartment. I went to bed at 9pm but got next to no sleep, constantly waking up in coughing fits if the noise didn't keep me…
Over at Living Rhetorically in the Real World, we're talking about definitions, so I thought I'd bring the conversation over here. Check out the post there to discuss how you define yourself in terms of fitness (me, I'm calling myself a runner and an athlete these days). My question here…
Race Training My second race of the summer is coming up fast- the 9k run is on Saturday August 8th! I've had a few questions regarding my training, and here I must confess that I haven't been following any kind of training program at all. I've been running when I…
Last month's poll Last month we discussed the different diets that we have all tried. We had 103 votes: 26% have tried low fat, 25% have tried low carb, 21% have tried vegetarian, 12% have tried vegan, 9% have tried raw food, 2% have tried paleo, and 5% have tried…
Want more health tips? Grab your free green smoothie booklet now >> I'm confident that we can all get enough of the macronutrients (carbohydrates, proteins, and fats) in our diet just by eating real, all-natural, whole foods. I'm not big on supplementation and protein powders and the like. Besides the…