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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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The perks of being married to a programmer

July 16, 2009 by hollie Deep and Meaningful Commentary

One of the annoying things about doing an elimination diet, or trying to find out any useful information from your day to day routines, is that to do so you have to be fairly religious about writing everything down. EVERYTHING. This can get really old after awhile, yet it’s so important, especially when you’re trying [...]

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The Twinkie Defense: “But I didn’t know it had DAIRY!”

July 11, 2009 by hollie Deep and Meaningful Commentary

Last night certain monthly womanly things happened (subtlety, I has it), and I was craving something bad for me. Now, normally, I’d want Greg to run up to the corner store and get me a Skor bar, but for some magical reason, the mere mention of anything with milk (like milk chocolate) has me cringing. [...]

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Eating meat: so far, no heart attack

May 30, 2009 by hollie Going Vegan

Well, the last three days I’ve had two servings of meat a day, a whole slew of fruits and veggies, and hardly any grains at all. I feel a little confused and guilty admitting this, but I feel amazing. In two days:

My anxiety has been much better. Yesterday I almost missed a dose of my daily [...]

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Food: it’s broken

April 14, 2009 by hollie Deep and Meaningful Commentary

I tried to eat tonight, in an effort to stifle some feelings, and it didn’t work. It was the strangest thing. I’d had a rough day, I’m not even entirely sure why. I made an old family dish that I love, some real comfort food. After I’d piled my bowl high, I sat down with [...]

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Who am I if I’m not someone who eats to cope with feelings?

April 12, 2009 by hollie Deep and Meaningful Commentary

Well, the journey continues. After finishing my weight history, I was supposed to look it over and see if any trends or themes were revealed. I haven’t done that part yet, I haven’t felt able to. I’ve spent the last couple days coping with a fountain of emotions released from all this. It’s one thing [...]

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Minor miracles

April 6, 2009 by hollie Deep and Meaningful Commentary

It’s been a few days now. I’ve been doing great. I want to write more, but we’ve been busy all weekend following my 4-year-old daughter having a Day of Hurling, and now my 6-year-old son is sick, and my husband will be in Seattle all day tomorrow. Hard to find the time to update!
Mostly I’ve [...]

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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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Animal welfare, or animal rights?

November 18, 2008 by hollie Going Vegan

Bob Torres at Vegan Freak has made an interesting post about animal welfare versus animal rights. This is an issue I think about on a near-daily basis, as I wind my way through the many food choices I have available to me, trying to decide what’s best to eat: local, vegan, vegetarian, humanely-raised….if the choices [...]

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It’s the baby seal anniverary, and a going vegan update

November 11, 2008 by hollie Deep and Meaningful Commentary

It’s mine and Greg’s 13th wedding anniversary today! I can’t believe it’s been so long already. In the car on the way out to my Mom’s house, where we were dropping off the kids for the day (Yay Mom!), he said he’d looked up what the thirteenth anniversary was.
“Oh yeah? What is it?” I asked [...]

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