Your fridge is stocked with fresh produce, lean meats and low fat dairy products, there’s a whole grain baguette in the bread box, and your pantry has been purged of tempting junk foods. Eating healthy at home is a breeze. But when you’re out and about in the midst of a hectic day of errands and you have precisely 30 minutes to scavenge and wolf down lunch before your next appointment, squeezing in food of any sort becomes a challenge—a challenge to which fast food restaurants have risen. Tasty, convenient, […]
Frappucino at Home
If you read my newsletters from time to time, you may remember that a choosing between a Starbucks Frappie or a McDonalds burger is a surprising comparison. Starbucks frozen drinks pack quite a calorie punch. But I know, I know, you love them. So make one at home – where you control the ingredients. First you need the coffee concentrate. Coffee houses do NOT make their frozen coffee drinks using brewed coffee that has gone cold. They make their frozen coffee drinks using cold brewed coffee. You can find “machines” for […]
Getting Chatty!! My Ironman Chattanooga Race Report
Hobbling around today, is just that nagging reminder to get this race report in the books. As many of you know me, I like to write a short, sweet race report and hopefully find odd places for humour as well as what I learned in this particular journey. So here goes y’all… Training I am adding “Training” as a separate paragraph, because I have been told in my triathlon career that it’s more about the journey. Oh yeah, the journey – this time it was quite a rocky one. Why […]
