Happy Thanksgiving

” When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us are. We bring mothers, fathers and kitchen tables, and every meal that we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It’s also a...

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Whole lotta salad bar Foods

As I said in my previous post, I ran behind campus twice this week for lunch. I hate how expensive going out for lunch can be, but I also know what a great thing it is for my body, mind, soul and time to be able...

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All about Lunch:

 My days this week have been kinda crazy with our Iron Chef Competition preparation! I went to Whole Foods for lunch twice and brought my lunch two other days… Here is today’s: Spaghetti squash on top of garbanzos, spare rib with mixed veggies. Along with...

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All About Dinner: Pot Roast

“Slow Cooked Pot Roast”I used a small london broil (antibiotic, hormone free, grass fed) that I had found on sale at Harris Teeter. I sliced it into a few small sections and seared it on high heat in a skillet. Once seared, I added the...

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Review: Vega Sport Optimizer

  Vega Sport Optimizer  I was excited that I managed the overall pace of 8:28 minute/mile for my first 1/2 Marathon!  I walked at each of the water stops, two of those included about 2 oz. of a gatorade type drink.  There is no substitute...

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All about lunch

Irony? Candy next to a brochure for Safe, Local, Organic Food from Food and Society Class.There is this conference that is being promoted in the brochure and I tried to convince our professor to somehow exchange our final for going to the conference… The conference...

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Happy Birthday Sarah

Today is my very dear friend Sarah’s birthday! I am just so luckily to have had the chance to work with her on our Metabolism project last year. She and I did amazing on the project and I had no idea what an inspirational, kind,...

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Update!

Body: Post-race recovery has been really great! I am not going to lie, I half expected my knees to blow out or my ankles and during my race I definitely strained my left hip flexor but ignored it mile 9 on. So with that said,...

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Puffins and Candy

Hey there! What the heck have I been eating? Well, I have been busy of course which means fast and convenient. The week before the race I did “carb-load” with lots of gluten free pasta, cereal, and GF cookies! I will get up a pre-race...

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Half Marathon Results

My polar said 1 hour 47 minutes but the clock time indicated 1 hour 50 minutes. Either way, I paced an 8:28 mile and I was extremely happy with that under the weather conditions- It was 53* , windy, and pouring rain for most of...