Category: Health & Food

Earlier in the year I confessed to drinking about 600-800 mg caffeine per day. My goal was to cut this in half, and so far, so good. As of now I am consuming around 300-400 mg caffeine per day, which is a huge improvement. I recently learned that the average daily consumption of caffeine in the USA… Continue reading Holiday Weight Managment, and a Coffee/Tea/Caffeine Update

Did you see this blog post by the New York Times? It made me so happy! Basically, the food label may be getting a makeover soon. If I had to name one thing/person who needed a makeover the most, it would be food labels (and of course a few others that I have in mind, but I won’t mention… Continue reading Label Mania

On Monday night Nick and I listened to Christmas music, drank hot cocoa, and put up our fake tree. Yeah, you read that correctly, FAKE! This was our first year doing fake, but our apartment won’t let us have a real tree  We were both pretty disappointed, but we figured fake is better than nothing at all.… Continue reading Christmas Cheer and Clean Eating

Hey everyone! I hope you are all having a great week. I’ve been super busy, but made time to write this post, and have been trying really hard to read as many blogs as possible. Please bear with me, I promise I’ll catch up sooner or later  Sometimes life just takes over! Biggest Loser Review Dislikes… Continue reading Biggest Loser Review and Division One Training Center

Nick and I watched Food Inc. on Thanksgiving (after we ate our meals). Like we expected, the movie was fantastic and it really put things into perspective. Was it a good perspective? Not so much, but boy am I glad we watched it. What’s scarier? THISOR THIS?Don’t answer that please. After watching Food Inc., my vote would… Continue reading Food EEEEEK! Review

I know it might sound crazy, but Monday, November 16th, 2009 was my FIRST experience eating a pomegranate. I automatically assumed I wouldn’t like it because it was “seedy”, you know? But just look at it: Not only are they delicious, but they are beautiful. I already knew that, but boy am I glad I discovered… Continue reading The Low FODMAPs Diet and Biggest Loser Review

Today I have an blog post agenda. The agenda includes clearing up a few things about my last post, sharing with you my favorite part about the holidays, a little probiotic review session, a giveaway update, and my life update! Alright, here we go….. Sodium and “Bloating” It became clear to me, after reading all of your comments, that I… Continue reading Probiotics; The Healthy Bacteria

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! Yeah, I know this is a repeat picture, but I had to post it on Halloween! Today and tomorrow I will be talking about food labels. They are a big issue right now, and I believe you can never know too much about them.Would you feed your child, or yourself for that matter, bagel-fuls for breakfast or a… Continue reading Label Lies, Crappy Foods in Disguise

Yesterday I spent the entire day re-creating many of my lost files, but I’m very much aware that many of them are gone for good, including all of my statistics from my research (if my adviser ever finds that out….I’m in trouble!!). Anyway, before I get started on my work for the day, I thought… Continue reading Do You Weigh Yourself?

To those of you who commented on my post from today, it WAS a duplicate post  I realized I had not updated the date and it wasn’t showing up when I opened my blog, so I re-posted it. Sorry for the confusion! To update you on my hard drive, it’s officially gone and I have had it… Continue reading FNCE Day 2; Omega Updates