Best Books – Food Edition!
Today I wanted to share my favorite books on food. Some of them are cookbooks and others are a bit different. They’re all books that for one reason or another I really love. In one of his books, Michael Pollan talks about how people spend more time watching cooking shows than actually cooking these days. […]
My February Whole30 Win
Yep, this time around I finished the Whole30!! 🙂 I’ll jump right into the improvements and good things I’ve noticed: I feel more optimistic about my health. I don’t 100% feel like I’m ‘there’, but I feel like I’m definitely on the right path. I’m closer to ‘there’ than I was 2 months ago. I […]
My January Whole30 fail
My big goal for January was to complete a Whole30. I will say right off that I did not succeed. I was going strong through day 16 when everybody in the house came down with the stomach flu. I managed to stay compliant to the program for three whole days of the flu after that […]
Know YOUR numbers
Some time back, I watched a YouTube video of a TED talk by Daniel Amen. He spends lots of time looking at brain scans as part of his clinical practice. I definitely recommend this video. Later, I checked out one of his books on Overdrive from my library’s ebook collection. His books talk about steps […]
Whole30 mega-post
In this post I’ll talk about what the Whole30 is all about, go over my experience with my first Whole30, provide some resources for if you’re interested in doing one, and talk about why I’m doing another one. I mentioned in my last post that this year I am focusing more on monthly goals than […]
Food! And food gadgets!!
This week I am experimenting with a new sous vide cooker that I picked up on sale over cyber Monday and a FoodSaver vacuum sealer that I got on sale at Costco. My friend Sarah stopped by a for a visit once and made us an excellent sous vide meal plus she’s always talking about […]
It’s still 2018
In January, it’s easy to be gung-ho about goals for the year ahead. By this time of year, I just feel like thinking about next years goals. Frankly, I don’t want to look at where I fell short of my aspirations for the current year. I do have a practice of reviewing the previous year […]
It’s not good for you to get everything you want
My friend J and I were talking about parenting a while back. She explained how her and her husband S always gave her stepson Little S reasons for things. If they were at the store and he wanted something and the answer was no, the reason might just be it’s not good for you to […]
Our memories suck
And I don’t mean that we remember crappy things, just that we can be crappy at remembering things. There is one point from the intro to psychology class I took in college that has always stood out to me. There was a section on how our memories actually really suck. We learned about different experiments […]
You never know
This morning I am thinking about how we never know what somebody else is going through. A couple of weeks ago, I was having a particularly bad day and I had stopped by The Flying Star with B for a bite to eat. There was a man at the table next to us who was […]