Real Nutrition. Real Simple.
In January 2011 I read 4-Hour Body and dove into a rabbit hole of dietary advice. I gobbled up every tidbit in that book then moved on to read and listen to everything by Gary Taubes and Michael Pollan among others. I’ve always been interested in mildy obsessed with nutrition but I was never able to [...]
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Okay so at a 34C I don’t really qualify as having large breasts anymore, but when I started my journey I did. At one point I was a 36DD. I also have sensitive breasts that don’t take kindly to being jostled around so when I first started working out in my 10 year old sports [...]
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December is upon us which means holiday parties, work events, eating at your desk while working late to finish projects before the end of the year and many other opportunities to ruin your diet. If your work holiday party is anything like mine used to be you’ll have a few cocktails, pop some carb loaded [...]
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With the holidays and all the food temptations that come with them on the horizon, it’s more important than ever that you stick with your fitness goals. I’ve repeatedly mentioned how valuable my BodyMedia FIT armband has been in my weight loss journey. I’m happy to announce that BodyMedia is offering free shipping on all [...]
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I do most of the P90X videos in my bedroom. We have sliding closet doors that are mirrored so I can see everything I’m doing and make sure I have good form. I recently started working out in a sports bra with no shirt since I’ve dropped a few and toned up a bit. Now [...]
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I purchased a Reebok StayBall a couple of years ago in yet another attempt to get in shape and lose weight. I think I used it twice. Then it became just another thing collecting dust in the spare room. Last year I hurt my lower back and had a lot of trouble sitting all day [...]
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So you may notice that the one thing missing from this site is progress photos. It’s not that I didn’t think about taking them. To be honest, I really didn’t think I would complete the program so I didn’t think I’d need “before” pictures. As I’ve mentioned before, I never worked out for more than [...]
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I’ve never been one for taking vitamins regularly. I always buy them and then they end up sitting there for a year until they expire and I throw them away. But, now that my diet is better and I’m paying attention to the nutrients I’m getting, I have also committed to taking a few supplements. [...]
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The Beachbody people push their recovery drinks pretty hard through P90X, understandably since they make money off of them. If you already use protein or recovery drinks anyway, it probably makes sense to use theirs during the program. I don’t use any recovery drinks because I am on such a calorie restriction. Recovery drinks have [...]
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One of the biggest questions I’ve had so far doing P90X is “how many calories am I burning during the workouts”? I read various articles and blogs where people estimated they were burning 1,000 calories during plyometrics and kenpo. While that sounded promising and while plyo certainly feels like it should burn 1,000 calories, I [...]
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