Leslie over at The Weighting Game wrote a post on dieting every other day, which has initiated this current train of thought (my apologies in advance for the sarcasm and cynicism throughout)... Ever since I started paying a wee bit more attention to my nutrition and general health---sometime around January 2007---it's…
Last night was my first of eight belly dancing classes. It was awesome and I'm already looking forward to next week's class---there are only about 10 of us in the class and most of the women appear to be between their late 20s and early 40s. There are all types…
Today I read an article entitled Junk-food dieters fake their way to skinny by Lesley Rotchford that really made me shake my head. You can view it here. Basically, the article is a review of how people will take extensive measures to achieve the "ideal" of being thin, no matter what…
I adore holidays. I see them as the perfect opportunity to enjoy time with family and friends, eat good food, and dress completely head-to-toe in one color (today I've got a green shirt, green sweater, and green scarf to celebrate the Irish! I'm also drinking green tea and have a…
Wondering how to make exercise less boring? This article will help you out! Earlier today I was considering really buckling down on the four (cringe!) research papers that I have to have completed in the next couple weeks, when my dad announced that he was going for a run. I…
Being an English major, I'm taking a History of Greek Literature class at university, and right now we're studying Sophocles' Antigone. Yesterday my professor posed an interesting question to us: how would your reaction be to this play if it were called Creon instead of Antigone? For those of you…
The gym that I went to last year, the downtown YMCA, is set up so that the treadmills are all at the very back of the main workout area. It's a gigantic room; upon entering, you walk past a slew of weight machines and elliptical machines and bicycles and other…
After reading Leah McLaren's article in The Globe and Mail the other day about the TV show How To Look Good Naked, I was prompted to think about other TV shows that I've seen which are based upon health/nutrition/fitness, and consider the effect of this media on women today. I…
In early January I began running, and within a week or so I was already able to run for an hour without stopping at a pace of 6 mph. I decided that I'd train to run the half-marathon in June and have been running between one and three times a…
It used to be that when I heard about a lower fat/calorie/sugar food item, I'd be really interested to try it out. Special K cereal bars, BBQ crispy minis, C2, rice crackers, cup-a-soups, oatmeal-to-go and so on. Usually when you read the nutrition labels on these kinds of packages, they…
