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Tag: Nutrition
November 13, 2015
October Review
This report is a little late, but an important milestone in the year, nonetheless. This one last month to prove to myself that I was a marathoner. This month was highlighted by some gruelingly long runs: 25km, 27km, then a half-marathon. I know other marathoners usually swear by having one or two twenty-milers in their season, but having lost several weeks to a foot injury, I had to back off a bit this season. I wrote a review of how much I enjoyed using myfitnesspal. I will probably continue to use it. And of course, I ran the New[…continue reading]
October 15, 2015
Nutrition Tracking with MyFitnessPal
As I mentioned in my September review, I’ve been using MyFitnessPal.com diligently for almost a month now. It has been a really eye-opening experience and another motivator for my weight loss journey. Adding it All Up The principle is pretty simple: Create a free profile, log into the website, and enter each and every item of food that you eat and every exercise that you do. This sounds really hard, but it gets much easier after the first day. On the first day I took photos of all my food and the nutrition labels so that I could[…continue reading]
October 3, 2015
September Review
Back to reality and buckling down after a rough August. I’ve been executing the action plan pretty aggressively. There are several things I quite enjoyed this month. The most was the cooler temperatures! But I didn’t really like how sunset is getting earlier and earlier. I have also discovered that my favourite thing is sleep. Definitely sleep. 9 hours of sleep in a night is the most amazing feeling and I will fight like a monster to continue to be able to do that! A highlight of this month was definitely pacing the Oakville Half-Marathon. It was very confidence boosting to[…continue reading]
