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Posted in diet & exercise, random on Nov 20th, 2012
When I first started running I would get this strange feeling like my heart was skipping some beats. Google searches revealed other adjectives like fluttery and irregular. It turns out I needed more electrolytes and as soon as I drank water with electrolytes the problem went away. Well, lately I’ve had the fluttery feeling [...]
Posted in diet & exercise on Nov 2nd, 2012
I’ve always been an anxious person. As a child I read that Mozart died prematurely because his father kept him up too late at piano recitals. Of course I know this sounds crazy, but as a child this caused me to have chronic insomnia. If Mozart could die young, so could I! In college I [...]
Posted in diet & exercise on Oct 1st, 2012
I haven’t talked about exercising lately and you may be wondering how it’s been going. Or you weren’t wondering at all because fitness blogging is boring. My activity level is slightly up, but I’ve been eating more. Because after months of salad, I really wanted some chocolate. The top image was going down [...]
Posted in diet & exercise on Sep 24th, 2012
There’s a new vegan restaurant in town called Frisch and I’m obsessed. This is a kale salad and veggie wrap. Amazingly, all it takes to be full all afternoon is a salad, a wrap and chia pudding. Chia is the new wonder ingredient in health food. It has a huge amount of protein [...]
Posted in diet & exercise on Sep 19th, 2012
Occasionally I Google my name in case someone is talking bad about me on the internet. I realized today that my running playlist on Spotify is associated with my name. I’ve since deactivated their automatic publication setting. Ridiculous. Potential clients do not need to search on my name and discover that I like to run [...]
Posted in diet & exercise on Sep 9th, 2012
The garden has produced tons of tomatoes lately. Two of the tomato plants didn’t even start producing until September and now I pick tomatoes every day. The spotted ones are part of the newer producers. When you have lots of tomatoes, you need to use them in recipes. But I’m trying to cut [...]
Posted in diet & exercise on Aug 16th, 2012
There’s a lot of information on the internet about diet and exercise. One thing that seems ridiculous to me is the argument that there’s no point in exercising because it won’t help you lose weight. See, for example, this NYMag article or this blog. A lot of people also think that you can be healthy when you’re [...]
Posted in diet & exercise on Aug 7th, 2012
I’ve been reading exercise blogs lately, and they’ve very boring because they’re too centered on the writer so I’m going to try and write a more interesting one. I’ve been using the Fitbit since March and I’m slowly making progress. The Fitbit generates an activity score, which is a measure of how sedentary the user [...]
Posted in diet & exercise on May 4th, 2012
Oh man, what a week. This month is crazy and packed with activities. Last weekend we went to Las Vegas for an attorney trip. This weekend I’m planting my garden and I rented a 400mm f/2.8 lens from BorrowLenses.com, the same company where I rented the lens in San Francisco a few months ago. All [...]
Posted in diet & exercise on Sep 19th, 2010
I wasn’t always a vegetarian. In fact, I used to be one of those people that wanted to try exotic things like crocodile and quail. But I was never completely comfortable with meat that resembled the animal from which it came. I much preferred a chicken breast to a chicken wing because you could pretend [...]