From the monthly archives:

October 2009

This apple a day isn’t keeping any doctors away (or dentists)

It’s called The Giant Halloween Candy Apple, and you can buy it at Williams-Sonoma online. I promise if someone buys this for me, I will eat it, and then if I’m still alive, I’ll write about it. Did you guys know that caramel apples are my favorite treat? And knowing is half the shopping angst.
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Week #3 Goals

October 25, 2009 by hollie Goals Update

Week #3 starts tomorrow, and it’s time for a new week of goals. I’m going to keep my exercise and veggie goals until I’ve been able to meet them for at least four weeks. After that, it will hopefully have become habit, and I can move on to something more challenging with a solid foundation [...]

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Week #2 Summary

October 25, 2009 by hollie Goals Update

I’m really enjoying this. I love that I’ve gotten started, I love that I have a path I’ve stayed on for an entire 14 days (miracle!), and I love that you’re all along for the ride with me! The benefit to a blog, besides accountability, is the community. It takes a village to raise a [...]

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I went swimming every day this week (I am the cleanest person in Seattle)

October 23, 2009 by hollie Exercise and Fitness

I wasn’t trying to overdue it (honest!), but I think I did. My second week of The Plan started out great, with salads and swimming happening right off the bat. And then, as you look at the calendar, you can see it just didn’t let up. Beth got new goggles, and she had to use [...]

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Pardon the dust, while I go eat fondue

October 21, 2009 by hollie Goals Update

I’ve managed to screw up both tags and categories, which is why you don’t see either on the site right now. I’m going to go through and fix that, but this week is super busy (two friends coming into town, yay!), and it might not get done until the end of next week.
What I’d like [...]

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I’m eating a Cinnabon and surfing diet websites

October 19, 2009 by hollie Deep and Meaningful Commentary

We went to the mall tonight, that bastion of healthy food, that very model of consumer moderation, and of course Beth wanted to visit the food court. Miles, our son, is taking a class on making models at a gaming store (need to get those geek kids started early), and Beth, his four-year-old sister, has [...]

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Young man, there’s no need to feel down…..

October 14, 2009 by hollie Exercise and Fitness

…..I said, YOUNG MAN, come and get your free personal training…..ummm…..
I joined our local YMCA back in August when we moved in, and I’ve been going pretty regularly, at least once a week (such great moderation!). I usually go swimming with Sonja. She said yesterday that going to the pool is our version of going [...]

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I ordered a FitBit

October 13, 2009 by hollie Exercise and Fitness

This purchase actually happened yesterday before The Moderately Great Weight Loss Plan. I just want to say that now, in case someone is tempted to jump on me for Doing Something New. Someday I’ll get lambasted for Doing That Annoying Capitalization Thing, and I’ll blame it all on Winnie The Pooh. Who had a problem [...]

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The Moderately Great Weight Loss Plan (heh)

October 12, 2009 by hollie Weight Loss

After my Kale Realization of 2009, it was time to face reality: I want to lose weight, and I’ve wanted to lose weight for the last year, and I haven’t gotten very far. In fact, I’m getting larger (ironically all thanks to my love of a vegetable). So what’s a girl to do? I sent [...]

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Canned food contributes to breast cancer?

October 12, 2009 by hollie In The News

This was a new one for me. According to this article in The Daily Green:
In addition to being found in many plastic bottles, Bisphenol A is also found in the epoxy resin liner of most canned fruits and vegetables. The BPA from this lining has been shown to leach into the vegetables in the can. Studies [...]

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