Declutter Your Diet
RSS Feed- The FPP ‘bagged fat’ food drive June 1, 2012Last year, on the suggestion of a Wells Weighs In competitor, Team Caylor did a “canned fat” drive in which we donated the equivalent amount of team weight lost (38 pounds) to Community Harvest Food Bank in Fort Wayne. This … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- Shifting my weight-loss focus May 31, 2012Though it’s far too odd to publish anywhere other than this blog, if I wanted to lose weight right now — and I do want to drop a couple of pounds, actually, because I’ve slacked off a bit after the … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- Food fight: Single-serve Nutella vs. Snickers May 30, 2012Given how dangerous it is for us to keep a container of Nutella in the house, I was thrilled to see they’ve come out with a single-serve container paired with tiny cracker “breadsticks.” Then I compared this snack to a … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- Fitness Tunes and fried plantains: The ‘Eclectic City’ flashback interview May 29, 2012What do Nikola Tesla, Disco Demolition Night and Neil Young’s new rendition of “Oh Susannah” have in common? They’re all part of the mix on Gabriel Szoke’s most recent episode of “Eclectic City,” a pod cast of diverse tunes and … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- The upside of the 98-degree ‘brick’ wall May 28, 2012My sister and I were planning to get together for a run on Friday, but when we realized it was going to be in the 90s, we decided on a bike-run “brick” instead. I’m not sure when I’m going to … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- Not-so-stealthy smoothie secretly satisfies May 26, 2012Nearly an hour after she griped about trying the blueberry-kale smoothie I’d loosely based on a recovery drink created by Elizabeth the Ironman competitor, Colleen ‘fessed up: “It was OK. I’d probably go ahead and drink it next time.” She … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- Fitness Protection Program in 5th-place finish May 25, 2012The official results have been tabulated for Wells Weighs In, and our team, the Fitness Protection Program, finished fifth out of 101 teams with a loss of 8.96 percent. We’ve got to salute the winning team, “Here We Go Again,” … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- The ‘whim triathlon’ training schedule May 24, 2012One of the problems with deciding to do a triathlon with just four weeks lead time is that I had to start in week 7 of the 10-week training schedule I was ostensibly going to use. I’d been running about … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- Communicating with your brain May 23, 2012Like a baseball coach using hand signals to communicate with a batter, I sometimes tweak a simple snack — a banana folded like a hot dog into a slice of Healthy Goodness bread — to signal my brain as to … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- How People Eat: author Ann Staadt May 22, 2012Deciding which of Ann Staadt‘s novels to read first was an easy choice for me: A New Moon for Emily, featuring a character who drives a purple Volkswagen Beetle like I did back in the day, got first dibs. Between … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- The FPP ‘bagged fat’ food drive June 1, 2012
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Historian Jon Pontzius’ dietary philosophy
When I first met historian, sculptor and retired social worker Jon Pontzius, I figured he was in his 50s. Turns out he’s 72. Pontzius attributes his energy and good health to a dietary regimen based on Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s book, … Continue reading
DIY mud run
My sister Traci and I were talking the other day about how we couldn’t wait to get back out on the trails “once they dry out a bit.” And then I heard about this women-only “mud run” where they purposefully … Continue reading
A dollhouse-sized king cake
Is it possible to make a king cake out of a single crescent roll? The answer appears to be yes — though I should note that I’ve neither made nor consumed (nor even seen) a real live king cake before … Continue reading
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Tagged dollhouse size king cake, king cake
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Colleen lays down the law
Colleen refused to let me make a king cake on Fat Tuesday. “Mom, are you nuts?” she asked. “It’s only two days til weigh in!” It’s probably a good thing she intervened, because all four members of the Fitness Protection … Continue reading
A tale of two socks
One was a trendy pair of rainglo-colored Reebok knee socks like all the cool sports chicks wear. The other was a pair of dull gray wool Lands End socks like my grandpa would’ve worn. The rainglo Reeboks were just unwrapped … Continue reading
Imagine the possibilities
What if everybody blogged? I posed a similar question in a running post last fall, in which I speculated that if everyone on the planet who was capable took up running — as human physiology was apparently designed to do … Continue reading
How an ex-pro ‘footballer’ turned marathoner eats
Michael Dobson was captain of the professional British football team Walsall F.C. when it won the League 2 championship in 2007. But he was devastated that his biggest fan and harshest critic — his father — was too sick with … Continue reading
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Tagged Flexercise, Michael Dobson, Walsall F.C.
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Destination Run No. 1
Was it disrespectful to loop around my great-great grandfather’s tombstone and slap it like a game of tag at the turnaround of Friday’s run? I don’t think so. It wasn’t much of a “visit,” because I didn’t want to lose … Continue reading
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Tagged Amos Hege, civil war grave, destination run, General Sherman
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Rocky Ridge Pudding
I couldn’t resist picking up the Laura Ingalls Wilder Country Cookbook at the library the other day, even though it’s from an era when people needed a lot more calories to fuel their much more physical work. Just about every … Continue reading
