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
Category Archives: running/fitness
Interview with an Ironman competitor
Elizabeth is both a triathlon fan and competitor. She blogs about news and trends in the Ironman universe with the kind of authority that comes from firsthand experience. You know that baby triathlon I’ve been blathering about lately? Turns out the … Continue reading
How Runners Eat: ‘Bearrunner’ of Nova Scotia
Bearrunner is a marathoner from Nova Scotia prone to whining about the weather — though in his defense the air up there registered a windchill of minus-22 recently, so who can blame him? During the coldest part of winter he’s … Continue reading
Embracing the elements
Nothing kick-starts your Adrenalin after a long layoff like running down an unplowed road in a 17-degree snowstorm. “Just remember,” I shouted to Ben, who reluctantly agreed to accompany me, “they run marathons at the South Pole!” I’d been feeling … Continue reading
A frugal mom’s review of Three Rivers Running Co.
It’s really driving me crazy not having a key to the Bluffton City Gym, where I used to run on a treadmill in bad weather. So even though I’m feeling better physically, I didn’t get in much mileage this week. … Continue reading
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Tagged Saucony Progrid Kinvara, Three Rivers Running Co.
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A therapeutic run on a gorgeous day
Heading out on a gorgeous faux-spring afternoon for my first real run in six weeks, I keep reflecting on the perfect storm that knocked me out of action, wondering whether it could’ve been averted. At least I didn’t take the … Continue reading
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Tagged physical therapy, pinched nerve, running
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The Flintstones’ treadmill
A manual treadmill is a piece of fitness equipment you might expect to find in Fred Flintstone’s cave. There’s a swath of fabric on some rollers and handles to hold onto, and that’s where the similarities to what is conventionally … Continue reading
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Tagged Flintstones, manual treadmill, treadmill
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4 Running Goals for 2012
It feels weird to consider goals for the coming year when all I really want is to move past this neck/shoulder pain that’s basically kept me away from running for the past month. I never imagined that the Galloping Gobbler … Continue reading
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A Christmas run at the cemetery
It would’ve been so cool to have done a destination run to the Ossian cemetery for our annual Christmas Eve candle lighting at my grandparents’ grave. Ever since 1994, the year both my maternal grandparents died, my brother, sister and … Continue reading
Taking a new mii for a test run
Earlier this year I thought maybe I’d spend this past weekend getting my first taste of the Huff 50K, doing one lap of the 10-mile loop through Chain O’Lakes state park in anticipation of bigger and better things down the … Continue reading
Multi-tasking yoga pose
Know what works as well as one of those antigravity astronaut pens that let you write upside down? A pencil. This is why I suck at yoga. Maybe if I let myself unwind enough to stop multitasking — scribbling in … Continue reading
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Tagged bridge pose, glute activation raises, yoga, yoga for pain relief
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