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Enjoying dinner in the Mission District of San FranciscoWe all want to live richer, more purposeful and rewarding lives, but sometimes inertia gets in the way. I want to experiment with my own life by mindfully simplifying everything I do, cutting out the clutter to get to the heart of my ideal existence.
Category Archives: Health & Fitness
Prepping for a New Fitness Regime
Today I started a fresh workout regime. I’ll be doing INSANITY workouts and following a very healthy diet plan where I eat lots of good, healthy food, often (five-ish meals per day). I’ve done INSANITY before in two or three false starts, but this time I’m determined to go through the full two-month regimen without [...]
Also posted in Fitness, Inspiration, Productivity, Routines, Sanity
Tagged Beach Body, fitness, Insanity, routine, workout
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My Fitness Routine
I recently started reading a book, The Checklist Manifesto. It’s written by a surgeon who observed the use of routine checklists in medical procedure and found that the benefits of using simple lists of actions helped save lives and increase efficiency by incredible margins. It’s a fascinating book. I’ve always been obsessed with the idea [...]
Vegetable and White Bean Stew
As part of my search for lunch recipes on Stone Soup, I alighted on this delicious-looking vegetable & white bean stew recipe. I love zucchini and tomatoes together, so the fact that this recipe included both sealed the deal. My mom used to cook sliced zucchini with onions and chopped tomatoes, and after you sprinkled [...]
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Tagged Jules Clancy, mozzarella, smoked paprika, spinach, stew, Stone Soup, tomatoes, white beans, zucchini
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Proatmeal
I am in the midst of doing Insanity right now. I did P90x last fall and loved it. Insanity seemed like the logical next step. Except for a short break to account for the craziness of SXSW last weekend, I’ve been working out six days a week for the past three weeks. The problem, though, [...]
Hearty Polenta and Sausage
Over the past six months, I have really started getting into cooking and getting to know my kitchen. A few weeks ago, I discovered my boyfriend’s practically brand new, never-used Staub Dutch oven gathering dust in the recesses of a kitchen shelf, and I knew I had to break it in. I specifically thought that [...]
Home Cooked Tomato Sauce
I have been trying to cook at home more lately, with great success. Almost every night dinner is cooked by yours truly. However, I feel that I am relying too heavily on processed staples to get me through dinner prep instead of making them myself. Last night, a simple tomato sauce for spaghetti seemed a [...]
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Tagged Beef, Cooking, Dinner, mark bittman, Meals, Mis En Place, Onions, Processed Food, Sauce, Tomatos
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Time to Slow Down
I’ve been running at breakneck pace lately. Full days, crowded evening plans, and imperfect sleep cut short by late nights and made fitful by a recent attack of hungry bugs (I have a half-dozen or so nasty bites to prove it). Last night was the last straw. I needed to slow down. No, more than [...]
Tagged bikram, relaxation, yoga
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Getting My Arms in Shape
As part of my quest to focus my free time devoted to exercise, I’ve been dedicating a lot of time to weight training. Based on my personal research on the subject, I believe that weight training is very important to my exercise routine for a number of reasons. I’ve noticed a HUGE difference in my [...]
Tagged arms, ballet, fitness, Gwyneth Paltrow, Madonna, Tracy Anderson, weight training
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Focusing on JUST one thing
I have always had the problem of wanting to do too many things. And the fact that I love to start things and not finish them. This deadly combination has left me dabbling in a number of different areas and consistently flitting from activity to activity, never staying long enough to achieve my true potential [...]
Rediscovering My Love of Water
When I was a kid, my favorite drink was water. I’m not kidding. Grownups would ask me what my favorite drink was and I would shout, “Water! I love water!” I grew up in a small town in New Hampshire, and given my mom’s profession as a nutritionist, water was just what I drank instead [...]
Tagged beverage, drinks, health, water
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