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health

Book Review: The New Rules of Lifting for Women

January 19, 2010

FYI: Tomorrow’s post is going to be password protected. If you want the password then I want to give it to you so please, please, contact me. You’ve got email, twitter, facebook, BBM, or you can just let me know in a comment on this post. I’m sorry to keep password-protecting posts on you guys [...]

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Portland, anyone?

January 14, 2010

Remember when I said I was going to run a marathon this year?
Well, I’ve already picked out the one I’m going to be doing and I plan on signing up next week after I get paid. Efficient, aren’t I? On 10/10/10 me and Lisa are running the Portland Marathon in Portland, Oregon!
That’s right. I’m signing up to [...]

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Icky

December 8, 2009

Morning guys, sorry for the late post. My schedule feels all wonky now that I’m DONE school for the semester. Ya that’s right, I’m done till 2010, whooo!
How was your weekend? Mine was SO fun but also SO unhealthy.
My weekend consisted of A LOT of this:

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Quite a few of these:

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Not nearly enough [...]

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The Monday Meeting: Balancing Health and Work

December 7, 2009

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Hey guys, I’m busy cramming for my two finals that I have today so I’ve arranged a guest post. Please welcome Jess, today we will be discussing tips and tricks for maintaining a healthy lifestyle while balancing a 40+ hour work week.
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Hey everyone. This is Jess from over at Run Girl Run and I’m [...]

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Let’s talk about H1N1

October 29, 2009

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It’s a pandemic that’s swept across North America in the last six months. People are dying; men, women, children, young people, old people, middle-aged people. No-one is safe from it.
It’s the flu, but it’s scary.
I’ve kind of been ignoring it, going about my life, thinking it will just go away. But more and [...]

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Ending Fat Talk

October 20, 2009

Did you know that it’s Fat Talk Free Week?
Did you know that body image is a world-wide problem. 54% of women would rather be hit by a truck than be fat and 81% of 10-year-olds are afraid of becoming fat. How sad is that?
Every time I watch the YouTube video below, it brings tears to [...]

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Y-M-C-A

October 16, 2009

Young man, there’s a place you can go.
I said, young man, when you’re short on your dough.
You can stay there, and I’m sure you will find
Many ways to have a good time.
It’s fun to stay at the y-m-c-a.
It’s fun to stay at the y-m-c-a.
They have everything for you men to enjoy,
You can hang [...]

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Balancing Act

October 6, 2009

I’ve had a few people, both in blogland and real-land, ask me how I balance all of my commitments. So I thought I would address it in a blog post (warning, this is a LONG post). Currently, I am balancing a full-time course load, two part-time jobs, a bit of freelance work on the side, [...]

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Hello, Garmin

September 22, 2009

So despite my lack of blogging about it lately I am still running on a regular basis. In fact, I am running my third half-marathon on October 11 in Kelowna and Eric is flying down that weekend to cheer me on. Can’t wait!
For my birthday my parents got me the Garmin Forerunner 305 . Umm, [...]

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Aren’t women supposed to stick together?

September 3, 2009

Have you guys seen this post over at Glamour.com? When I was drafting this blog post last week it had 682 comments. It probably has even more by now.
By the way, all this debate and controversy is over this photo:

This is 20-year-old, Lizzi Miller. She’s a plus-size model and this photo appeared in Glamour’s September issue. It’s [...]

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