health and fitness

January 19, 2009

In Helsinki

health and fitness, travel / 17 Comments

My brother, my Dad, and I have made it to Helsinki safely – my other brother was coming from Charleston and will meet us at the Warsaw airport. Our flight was good – a bit delayed for de-icing, but we had a long layover in Helsinki anyway so we still have plenty of time. I slept the whole way (thank you, lorizapam), so I’m fresh as a daisy feeling like it’s 9 AM (which it is, Helsinki time)… while Dad and my brother stayed up and are feeling like it’s 3 AM. Not my fault! I did wake up for …

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January 15, 2009

A minor emergency and then a major one

health and fitness, travel / 33 Comments

Feeling a bit better now… still sick but nowhere near as bad as yesterday. After I posted, I decided that I would brave getting up to throw clothes on and hit up the grocery on the ground floor of my building, where I could get chicken soup, ginger ale, and popsicles. I got the chills a little bit when I was in the elevator, but figured it would take less than 5 minutes and I’d be okay. Yeah, I thought wrong. I shuffled through the store, grabbing ginger ale directly on the way to the popsicles, where I grabbed the …

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January 14, 2009

Coming to you live from my bathroom floor

diet, health and fitness / 12 Comments

A long time ago at the library, I picked up a copy of the South Beach Diet. I love reading diet books, not necessarily to follow them but more to learn about the different schools of thought around dieting and weight loss. The book ended up sitting on my shelf for a long time, but this weekend I finally got around to reading it… and I really liked it. It made perfect sense, and it seemed to match what I’ve noticed about my own body when I give up certain things. The simplified version of explaining South Beach is that …

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January 13, 2009

Make like a hockey player

health and fitness, running / 22 Comments

I’m halfway done with my Disney marathon race report. Sounds pathetic, but hey, it’s only been 24 hours, and that’s halfway more done than I am with my Honolulu report! Hopefully I can get Disney knocked out either later tonight or tomorrow, and then you can see all 110 of my lovely pictures from the course (I deleted most of the blurry ones). Today I wanted to work out, but wasn’t quite sure what to do. My calves/knees are a bit sore from yesterday, but really not that bad. When I first woke up, I experimentally did a few leg …

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January 7, 2009

Short and sweet: kicking your routine up a notch

goal setting, health and fitness / 13 Comments

Today I worked from home, and I finished my work 30 minutes before the conference call we had to discuss our progress. So what? Well, that meant I could squeeze in a quick 15 minutes down at the gym before I had to be back to collect everyone’s work and compile it into a deck. You may be chuckling to yourself, thinking, “she’s going to spend only 15 minutes at the gym? That’s nothing!” If that’s your thought process, you are sadly missing out on one of the best motivational techniques of all: the short but sweet workout. I first …

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