Posted in Nutrition on Oct 26th, 2008
I am somewhat intrigued by the fact that I’ve taken some hard falls – swan dives, superman dives, endoes from hell – and walked away like it was nothing. Sure, my muscles, skin, and blood vessels have been abused from strains, scrapes, cuts, and bruises, but my bones have been just fine. I [...]
Posted in Nutrition, Weight Loss on Oct 1st, 2008
Well, I certainly did not stay within my POINTS range, today. Before dinner, I’ve consumed 41 POINTS. That works out to about 2,050 calories. I knew what I was getting into with the milkshake. That was planned. I feel like crap. I feel tired and my throat hurts. [...]
Posted in Nutrition on Sep 24th, 2008
Last winter, I was continuing an unending battle with asthma and sinus congestion. It had been a chronic problem for three years. Being a person who has a difficult time consistently taking antibiotics for ten days, or regularly consuming a multivitamin, I found the daily doses of steroids to be just one more [...]
Posted in Marquette, Nutrition, Upper Peninsula on Sep 17th, 2008
Even though I live in a cycling community where mountain biking is as natural as going to the bar – no, really, going to the bar is just the Yooper* thing to do – my metamorphosis from a runner into a cyclist was quite easy because there is so much that runners and cyclists have [...]