by paige on April 8, 2010
APRIL DOES SOMETIMES feel like the cruelest month, because for me, every year, this is when I revamp my diet and exercise routines. Something about warm air and sunshine makes me tune back in to my too-often-neglected body and my health, and as a result, I’ve been scouting around the net for blogs and websites that help me clean up and pare down my eating. Here’s a baker’s dozen of sites that are my current faves for inspiring me to cook and eat in a way that is healthy for me, and the planet. [click to continue…]
by paige on January 15, 2010
I WROTE BEFORE OF MY DECEMBER VOW to do a little more, err, shaking of my booty. I’ve kept it up, save during “vacation,” when I was without childcare (or school). Now that school’s back in session (thank heavens), I’m back at the gym, dancing up a storm. But this isn’t your ordinary cardio class. [click to continue…]
by paige on January 1, 2010
IAM NOT MUCH for New Year’s resolutions. They mostly just make me feel like a slacker by the time March rolls around, one more thing for me to beat myself up for not doing well enough. (And don’t we all have enough of those already?) This year, instead of chaining myself in the guilt of unkept resolutions, I’ve decided to take a more, uh, aggressive approach. [click to continue…]
by paige on December 1, 2009
IT’S THE HOLIDAYS, which means we all eat and drink until we want to hang our flabby heads in shame. But it doesn’t have to be that way, does it? We have had a giveaway to help; read on. [click to continue…]
by paige on September 21, 2009
DO YOU, LIKE I DO, dread visits to the doctor because of the inevitable weigh-in and BMI discussion? While I am, apparently, of average American size, I am also overweight, not just by the tables and the scales, but by my own estimation. I’d like to be 35 pounds or so lighter, like I was before I got pregnant for the first time. I don’t know if that will ever happen. I like to cook and eat, I find it extremely difficult to diet, and though I am active, for sure, I don’t know that I’ll ever build in the two hours per day/six days per week workout schedule I know I need to really remove that much weight, not to mention keeping it off. [click to continue…]
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