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Yesterday I had my one month check in with my Naturopath. I LOVE her, by the way. I had some good and bad news. The bad news is something that I’ve already discovered through the first part of my reintroduction of foods after my cleansing diet. I’m sensitive to dairy. The first food that I read on ..

I love a good challenge, and in April I’m taking part in THREE (in addition to the Bikini Birthday of course). 1) “Cut the Crap” Challenge hosted by Beth @ Dining and Dishing which runs until April 17th. I’ve adapted her challenge, and here’s what I’m doing: No alcohol No white sugar or artificial sweeteners read on ..

Tonight I feel stuffed like a turkey. Maybe it’s the 8 cookies that I ate. That’s right 8. Four for each pint of blood I donated is a fair trade, no? I always use my blood donation days as an excuse to binge on cookies, regardless of it it’s Lent or if they’re not in read on ..

Yesterday was a perfect day for cooking. It was rainy and ugly outside all day long so it was great to stay indoors and cook some brand new things. First, I headed over to my dad’s house to learn from my nonna how to make the baccalà. Apparently, it’s super easy (especially since nonna did read on ..

The Good: I came home at lunch yesterday to let Bagigis out for a walk. I was so excited to see what the mailman brought for me: I flipped open the book to look at the bread recipes that are in it and saw “Power Bread”. Naturally, this had to be the first bread I read on ..

(Image Source) I hate to dislike food. I want to like everything. If there is something out there I don’t like I’ll try to come up with a way to prepare it so that I’d be willing to eat it again and again. In the past I have successfully converted myself from a hater to read on ..

I wanted to lose 2lb this week so that I would be at a loss of 8lb in 8 weeks. It didn’t happen. I stayed the EXACT same as last week: 146.8lb. That said, this week also marks 2 months on the Bikini Birthday program so let’s look at my change over the last 2 read on ..

This morning I woke up extra early to head to the gym. Normally I’m up not up until 7:00 but this morning I was up at 5:45 to be at the gym for 6:00. I wasn’t as tired as I expected to be, but I was extra hungry this morning after my workout. Does anyone read on ..

The past 4 weeks I have been working on strength rather than muscular hypertrophy by  doing 6-8 reps per set of each exercise. Searching for a way to measure my progress I found this nifty 1 Rep Max Calculator. The table below compares my one rep max at week 5 to my one rep max read on ..

Here are a collection of my favourite health news stories recently: 6 natural remedies that really work (from msnbc) Lemon balm for the mind, Onion for prevention, Cayenne for pain, Plaintain for skin, Parsley for UTIs, and Hawthorn for the heart. 7 Foods That Help You Lose Weight (from That’s Fit) How oats, eggs, skim read on ..