Hey guys! Welcome to Day 4 of my Green Mountain at Fox Run diaries! Work-outs today introduced participants to fitness tools they may have never seen before, such as: BOSU Ball Toning Ring aka Pilates ring Fitball Medicine Ball Resistance bands Aerobic Step After breakfast, I took pilates with LynnAnn who was kind enough to [...]

Amended Hey guys! You know how I said I was “reframing” my approach to health? I wish I had done it sooner. But forcing yourself to achieve mental clarity is like forcing someone to love you. In the end you only get half-ass, or false, devotion meant only to appease you rather than set the [...]

Hey guys! Gotta make this quick — giant paper due tomorrow — but I wanted to share two amazing recipes from Thanksgiving, both from Post Punk Kitchen (recipes linked below). Pumpkin Pie Brownie (Vegan) Nutritional Facts per 1/8 slice (calculated via Spark Recipe Calculator): 319 calories, 12g fat, 4g fiber, 3.7g protein Freakin’ delicious. Fickle [...]

Hey guys! Have you ever met someone and felt an instantaneous connection, like you were kindred spirits? That’s exactly how I felt on Saturday when I met the gorgeous blogger behind “Eat, Move, Write,” Jasmine. Check out her re-cap of our meeting! Her talent with writing makes me disinclined to write my own re-cap lol [...]

Amended Hey guys! I’ve compiled some cool resources in the past couple of months relating to the “local food” movement and I wanted to share them with you and get your thoughts. In general terms, the local food movement is an effort to build local “food communities” for both social-health and sustainability reasons. Basically, people [...]

Hey guys! Whether you’ve had your own wedding, been to one, or even eschew the thought of marriage — you’ve got to at least have an opinion on how much one should compromise, if at all, when planning it. There was an article in the Sunday New York Times centering around that very question of [...]

Hey guys! You know I’m a huge supporter of all things Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser (co-producers of Food Inc.), so when Schlosser’s Op-Ed in the New York Times hit today, I was all over it like vegan cupcakes [full article here]. Schlosser’s piece focuses on the FDA Food Modernization Act — a bill that [...]

Hey guys! TGIF! Thanks for some very interesting feedback on yesterday’s post! I love respectful debates. So, yea, there’s way too much going on in the food world for me to hog all the info. myself. If you’re following me on Twitter, I’m sure you’ve seen me mention a lot of this stuff. If you’re [...]

Are my boyfriend and I doomed to a tragic love-affair? [photo cred] Are we two star-crossed lovers, fated to have our disapproving families battle it out in the streets until our inevitable demise? No freakin’ way — this isn’t the 1500s and our families aren’t into dueling. But it does seem like there are people [...]

[source] If you’re interested in food politics, you’ve got to check out Michael Pollan’s book review in The New York Review of Books titled, “The Food Movement, Rising” and linked here. The books under review: Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories From the Local Food Front All You Can Eat: How Hungry [...]