It isn’t an “ouch” but more of an “ugh” now, of course that was after a big “yay!” from how my hard workout went this afternoon.  This week was my first week of really ramping up the running.  I celebrated the first trot on a treadmill last week, but this was for real trying to build up my running back to where it was a few years ago.  It went a lot better than I had expected, but I’m certainly feeling it a bit now.

This link started making the rounds of my social media and I went from being a little skeptical to down right incredulous. I don’t know whether it is the book author or the article author that have more fail going on, but needless to say we have yet more people trying to greenwash away healthier eating because “science”, supposedly.

Almost two weeks of sticking to my getting to the gym guns got blown up for a legitimate reason (bad headaches).  That was just enough time for my brain to rationalize why today was yet another day that we supposedly shouldn’t go to the gym.  That mindset had to get beaten into submission ASAP.

When I get into a fitness groove it is often a combination of diet and exercise that really happen at the same time.  Even when doing a long stretch of “being healthy” it’s really the combination of the two.  And when I do that I go into full Rambo mode on both, versus kind of muddling through.  Because the two happen at the same time it is hard for me to break out whether it is one or the other or the combination that is really the driving factor.  I’ve always wanted to see if it was diet or exercise that was driving that.  I’m now set up to do just that.

In my daily mail inbox I was met by this NPR story about how the USDA has figured out that while it recommends we get 2-3 cups of veggies per person we only grow about 1.7.  That was their main lament.  Buried in the article is a far greater one.

I’ve recently returned from my second trip ever to the state of Hawaii. While a lot of Hawaii reminds me of other tropical places in the the world, it is unique to me in also being a volcanic island. The hiking bug in me is activated as soon as I see the miles of beach coast and inland trails to explore these natural features. My ability to indulge in those sorts of activities has changed a bit however.

In the age of modern pharmaceuticals and medical techniques it is often easy to just say “screw it” on lifestyle decisions with the impending potential surgery or lifetime on drugs being the only penance that one needs to make as an after effect.  Yet, I think people do that more often at a sub-conscious than conscious level. People made lifestyle choices that ultimately ended in their early demise long before these advances came along.  It’s therefore part of the human condition which has us concentrating on more immediate realities than far future potential ones.

Perhaps this product has been out for a while now, but I recent stream of Cheerios with Ancient Grains has sprung across my social media universe.  What fresh hell is this?

Yes!  The Six Week Nutritarian challenge is now in the books!  I’ve been covering it week to week, but what did it look like all put together?  I obviously didn’t ace each week, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t highlights or lessons.