From the monthly archives:

February 2009

Super healthy/super junk: my diet is a mess

February 15, 2009 by hollie Deep and Meaningful Commentary

My friend Ivana recently commented:
Okay, I have a stupid question, and I hope you don’t take offense, but this is a curiosity thing…do you eat food that is, uh, I don’t know how to put this…”just halfway healthy”? (Sorry, I am clearly not the writer that you are)
What I mean is, I get the impression [...]

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Bicycling consistency

February 15, 2009 by hollie Exercise and Fitness

On the 12th I had 4 days of bike riding every day, and I talked about consistency. Then we got busy with Valentine’s Day, some serious fatigue, and suddenly I realized I’d gone two days without riding. I considered breaking the streak, but I knew I’d be sorry. Instead, I decided to make it up.
Today: [...]

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120 minutes of bike riding

February 12, 2009 by hollie Exercise and Fitness

When we got my stationary bike set up, I thought about different goals I could set. Distance ridden, intensity, time; these things immediately came to mind, but in the end I decided the most important thing to develop first was consistency.
Thirty minutes seemed like a good first goal. Thirty minutes every day, even if it [...]

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A Wordle to represent the content of this blog:

February 12, 2009 by hollie Deep and Meaningful Commentary

I like the way it looks like a footprint, and I love how “green” is actually in purple. Also how “sure” and “HEY” show up right at the top like that. I made this using a site called Wordle, that puts a set of words from a blog, speech, or other text, and assigns them [...]

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Joaquin, Joaquin, why dost thou mess with me so?

February 12, 2009 by hollie In The News

So if I continue going vegan, will I end up with a bad beard and a burgeoning hip-hop career?
I can’t imagine this is real. It has to be a hoax. As most of you (okay, none of you) know, I’ve been in love with the Phoenix boys since I was a wee girl. And this [...]

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Now placing bets

February 11, 2009 by hollie Deep and Meaningful Commentary

About two months ago, we lost the top to our salad spinner. It’s strange that this has had such an effect on my life, me, the woman who once described vegetables as “food that food eats”. You would think that “salad spinner” might be something I’d use to torture vegetables with, and to that I’d [...]

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Yup, sprayed down with Awesome.

February 11, 2009 by hollie Food and Recipe Reviews

I woke up this morning at 7:20am, which is 40minutes before my alarm goes off. And usually when that alarm does go off, I spend twenty minutes hitting “snooze” and cursing my 9am class. In fact, I can hear that alarm going off upstairs right now…..
I woke up feeling refreshed, cheerful, and my body didn’t [...]

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Green smoothie before bed; the best medicine

February 10, 2009 by hollie Raw Foods

I’ve been eating horribly the last few weeks, which is about how long I’ve been in school. I’m sure these two things are connected. When stressed, I go toward the familiar foods, and I’ve been eating loads and loads of high-fat carbs, chicken (ugh), and sugar. I’ve gained three pounds. I can feel it around [...]

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So about that whole exercise bike purchase…..

February 10, 2009 by hollie Exercise and Fitness

I mentioned before that I had an exercise bike on order, and I was going to talk about why I bought one. It arrived a couple of days ago, and I just love it. I bought the LifeSpan Fitness R3 Recumbent Bike from Amazon.com.
For several years, Greg and I had a True brand treadmill that we [...]

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Ded of the cute

February 5, 2009 by hollie Recipes

I’ve seen this floating around some raw food blogs, but didn’t click on it until tonight. I am so glad I did. This is Zion, making flax and banana cookies in the dehydrator. I loved the Violent Femmes in the background, it was such a lovely mix of nostalgia and hippy food. I want to [...]

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