Welcome back to the Living Healthy Guide to Cleaning mini-series! Be sure to check out our previous sessions: Part One: Why Should I Clean? Part Two: Starting Fresh Part Three: Dealing with Housemates By no means am I a Susie Homemaker. But I have learned a few strategies over the…
Welcome back to the Living Healthy Guide to Cleaning mini-series! Be sure to check out Part One: Why Should I Clean? Part Two: Starting Fresh I have been lucky to truly start fresh when I moved from my apartment to my new condo in mid-April. The mother dear helped me…
Don't forget to answer this month's poll! Welcome to another mini-series here at Living Healthy! Be sure to check out our past mini-series if you missed them before: the Guide to Grocery Shopping and Guide to Budgeting. Why Should I Clean? The short answer, obviously, is that if you don't…
Don't forget to answer this month's poll! There are all kinds of excuses for why we can't be bothered to pack a lunch. It takes too long to make lunch. I don't want to carry a bunch of food to work. It's boring. Lunch is an important meal. It fuels…
Don't forget to answer this month's poll! I'm a bit of a neat freak. When the sisterroommate was moving out of our old apartment and we were looking for a new roommate for me, she warned our friend Mladen that he could only move in if he promised to be…
Last month's poll Last month we talked about driving: 27 voters responded in total. 33% spend virtually no time at all in a vehicle each day, 11% spend 5-15 minutes in a vehicle each day, 19% spend 15-30 minutes in a vehicle, 7% spend 30-45 minutes, 19% spend 45-60 minutes,…
Earlier this week, I made the (excellent) decision to join the new Good Life Fitness gym that opened up several blocks away from my condo. Now that I've completed university, I will no longer have free access to the university gym. I thought about going back to the YMCA that…
Mary's Gone Crackers products have been all over the blogosphere lately, so I was excited to get the chance to try these for myself when the company agreed to send me some sample flavours to review (you all know the usual disclaimer... yes, I received these products for free; no,…
I'm a health columnist and health blogger. Friends and strangers come to me asking for nutrition and fitness advice. I routinely set up health challenges and read health books and articles of all varieties on a regular basis. Yet: I still struggle with my emotional attachments to food. Three and…
The past couple weeks have been really fantastic for me because not only has the weather cleared up (sort of) and I've at last recovered from moving house/the end of exams, but the father dear is visiting from Cambodia! For new readers to the blog: The father dear has been living in Phnom…
