My organic garden just got protection.
I hired Dan Brown of Enright Construction… to build a deer fence fence. Dan and two helpers did it all in a day, even moving a couple of those raised planing beds a bit for better positioning within the fence. I couldn’t be happier with their work. They built a six foot high deer fence around the series of raised bed planters I’m using for my vegetable garden.
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…What do you eat? People keep asking me that. I tell them most nights, it’s pretty much the same thing.
At three nights a week, we eat a variety of the shish kabobs you see on the grill. We cook up a bunch of them. The amount you see in the picture lasts us for three meals, sometimes four. Each kabob consists of free range chicken grilled on a skewer with generous hunks of onion,
…Whew. I just carried four 50-pound bags of top soil from the trunk of my car to my garden, traipsing across the lawn and up a few steps to the raised beds.
I did it one bag at a time.
And I couldn’t believe how hard carrying those extra 50 pounds were on my knees and my back.
A year and a half ago, I was carrying that much weight plus nearly 20 more pounds.
…Ah, what’s a couple of pounds?
Ever heard that voice? I did this morning when I noticed that my weight has gone up two pounds. It used to be that I would shrug off the creepage and figure it was due to water retention or too much humidity or muscle gain or poor food digestion or… whatever. If you’ve struggled with weight, you know how easy it is to rationalize or pretend the gain is
It’s time for drastic action: A deer fence.
…Over the years, I’ve tried repellents, planting flowers like marigolds that deer find offensive, detergent and all sorts of natural anti-deer approaches. They don’t work. My raised bed vegetable garden is annually decimated by foraging herds of suburban deer. They even eat the tomato plant leaves, which are supposed to be mildly toxic. And after taking out my plantings of green beans, cucumbers, squash, peas, strawberries and
At our most recent SuperHealthyMe MeetUp, Jim Ciotti, the head trainer and general manager of the Rochester Athletic Club, says Sugar is toxic – bad food, dangerous, in fact, linked to runaway obesity, heart disease and even cancer.
…Jim referred us to the 60 Minutes segment linked here, reported by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who notes that the average American eats nearly a third of a pound of sugar EVERY DAY, or 130 pounds a year.
…What do you eat? People keep asking me that. I tell them most nights, it’s pretty much the same thing.
At three nights a week, we eat a variety of the shish kabobs you see on the grill. We cook up a bunch of them. The amount you see in the picture lasts us for three meals, sometimes four. Each kabob consists of free range chicken grilled on a skewer with generous hunks of onion,
…Ah, what’s a couple of pounds?
Ever heard that voice? I did this morning when I noticed that my weight has gone up two pounds. It used to be that I would shrug off the creepage and figure it was due to water retention or too much humidity or muscle gain or poor food digestion or… whatever. If you’ve struggled with weight, you know how easy it is to rationalize or pretend the gain is
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Like a lot of people, I’m on vacation this week. The challenge is to stay reasonably on track, food wise and exercise wise.
I brought my bike and did a fast hour long bike ride this morning. I plan to repeat that every day. And walks on the beach will keep me moving during the day.
But food and eating right is always the hardest part of a vacation. The first step is to realize
There is one simple secret to losing weight: Do the Math.
Seriously. Do the math on how many calories you need a day, how many you burn and make sure that you take in less than you need to maintain.
…One pound of fat equals 3,500 calories. Therefore, if you want to lose one pound a week, take in 3,500 calories less every week. Want to lose two pounds? Take in 7,000 less calories. By
My organic garden just got protection.
I hired Dan Brown of Enright Construction… to build a deer fence fence. Dan and two helpers did it all in a day, even moving a couple of those raised planing beds a bit for better positioning within the fence. I couldn’t be happier with their work. They built a six foot high deer fence around the series of raised bed planters I’m using for my vegetable garden.
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I wrote yesterday about the Gravel Grinders, that group of cyclists who hit the back roads of Southeastern Michigan’s Oakland, Macomb and Lapeer Counties most every day, all year around.
What’s it like out there? Check out these photos by Bruce Mack presented in an inspiring video by Leslie Whyte-Mack.
…The video shows the freeze-thaw-mud-and-snow conditions the group has been experiencing this winter. And if you look closely, you’ll see one of those four-inch
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It’s 2012 and this year, like every year, the number one New Year’s Resolution on most folks list is to lose weight and get in shape. There’s some cool gadgets and smartphone apps that may not exactly give you the willpower to succeed, but they’ll sure make it easy to get on a program that works for you.
So if working out and losing weight is on your health agenda this New Year, I thought
I think I’m obsessing too much on my daily weight. No, I know I am.
Some experts say you should weigh yourself no more than once a week. Others say every day.
I do every day.
And it’s freaking me out right now.
…See, I can gain three pounds in a weekedn. Just by making bad food choices. I’m serious. Three is a lot and it doesn’t happen all the time. But it just did.
At our most recent SuperHealthyMe MeetUp, Jim Ciotti, the head trainer and general manager of the Rochester Athletic Club, says Sugar is toxic – bad food, dangerous, in fact, linked to runaway obesity, heart disease and even cancer.
…Jim referred us to the 60 Minutes segment linked here, reported by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who notes that the average American eats nearly a third of a pound of sugar EVERY DAY, or 130 pounds a year.
…I have a lot of friends who drink diet soda. One guy, as a matter of fact, drinks a can every meeting I attend with him. On some days, we’ve attended four meetings together and I’ve watched him drink four cans of diet Mountain Dew. My boss drinks diet Pepsi all day long. And my best friend will down two diet cokes during dinner.
I’ve given up telling them it’s bad for them. Among other
This forever will be known by me as the lost weekend. I’m just recovering from a bout with food poisoning. And it’s one weight loss solution I don’t recommend.
…The symptoms mimic the flu, severe lower abdominal cramps and all the unpleasant side effects that require a close proximity to the bathroom. It hit me about 10 P.M. Friday night and now, early Sunday morning, I’m recovered enough to say I’m alive. I slept till
We call the day before Lent “Fat Tuesday” because, traditionally, it’s the day people of faith gorge on the foods they’ll be giving up for Lent, the supposedly contemplative time before Easter. But in my neck of the woods, it’s Fat Tuesday because it’s Paczki Day.
A paczki – erroneously but most commonly pronounced punch-skee… – is a supersized donut, stuffed with gooey, sugary cream or fruit fillings. These Polish-inspired concoctions have 300 to 450
…Meet my new addition: A gently used 2006 Roadtrek Adventurous motor home. I plan to take it to a lot of places, with bikes in the back (first extra I bought was a bike rack), hiking shoes inside and plans to do lots of outdoor activities. My wife and I have been shopping for a used and very well cared, low milage one of these for over a year and found the perfect one this
Came across this video spoof on YouTube that truly explains why some people are “cyclists.”
Excuse the bad language but the truth of this parody is beyond dispute. I have heard many “cyclists” say these very same things.
I suppose it could be true of any sport and it’s obsessive fringe elements but it sure rings accurate of bike riding, er, “cycling.”
I can’t believe how addicted I am to working out. Still sidelined with some knee issues, I’m depressed, cranky, paranoid about eating too much and violently envious of all those people I see cycling in this awesome early spring weather.
…There. I feel better now.
But not much. That’s because exercise withdrawal is a realphysical condition.
“Exercise addicts display all of the hallmarks of substance addicts: tolerance, craving, withdrawal and the need to exercise ‘just
My otho doc told me last week… after draining my knee and giving me a Cortisone injection that I should to use crutches for a week and to do no cycling until I see him again on April 12..
But my knee feels remarkably better. I put away the crutches Saturday. There is no pain, just an occasional little twinge if I twist it wrong. The pain was pretty much gone the day after my
I’ve just signed up for a 90-day experiment… that will run concurrent with this all-encompassing year-long SuperHealthyMe experiment… an experiment within an experiment if you will.
I’m going to add one thing to my diet. A special coffee that makes some pretty amazing claims. I’m going to find out whether I can lose weight drinking coffee. Not just any coffee, mind you, but a patented organic coffee that is a thermogenic fat-burning coffee.
Huh?
That
…My gradual 28-day detoxification program is now over and it’s time now to begin the natural healthy eating plan that will be my permanent diet. And that is kind of scary.
When you’re on a plan that says eat this at this time, take this four times a day, do this, don’t do that, there is boredom but comfort in the regimentation.
Now, there are lots more choices.
What do I eat for breakfast? What
My second session with my nutrition coach today had me leaving with reams of handouts and instructions and an ugly new word: Detoxification. Despite one of the handouts claim that “detoxification is the most exciting tool in natural medicine for its simplicity, low cost and superior therapeutic results,” I gotta say, I’m skeptical.
…Simple? I have pages of instructions, charts, recipes and a 28-day titration schedule. There’s a new word for me: Titration, meaning, according
My organic garden just got protection.
I hired Dan Brown of Enright Construction… to build a deer fence fence. Dan and two helpers did it all in a day, even moving a couple of those raised planing beds a bit for better positioning within the fence. I couldn’t be happier with their work. They built a six foot high deer fence around the series of raised bed planters I’m using for my vegetable garden.
You
It’s time for drastic action: A deer fence.
…Over the years, I’ve tried repellents, planting flowers like marigolds that deer find offensive, detergent and all sorts of natural anti-deer approaches. They don’t work. My raised bed vegetable garden is annually decimated by foraging herds of suburban deer. They even eat the tomato plant leaves, which are supposed to be mildly toxic. And after taking out my plantings of green beans, cucumbers, squash, peas, strawberries and
It’s getting close to gardening time and I’ve been having a lot of fun planning how to best plant my organic garden this spring.
…As the weather begins to warm up, surveys show an estimated three out of every four Americans will be planting their own flowers, fruits, and vegetables. With that much interest, it’s no wonder more people are turning to smartphones or tablet apps to help them grow their gardens just right.
I
Although we just got three inches of snow, I’m already thinking spring gardening and healthy, organic food for my table.
To that end, I did two things this snowy winter weekend.
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I’m Hobbled. Sidelined. On crutches.
And I don’t even have a good story for what happened to my right knee. No athletic heroics, barroom brawls or massive gym feats.
I was sitting at my desk yesterday and noticed that my knee was sore. It was one of those way-too-many-meetings days and I had been sitting a lot. So I stood up and almost fell flat on my face.
My knee swelled to the size of
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Long-term change takes time.Especially when it involves changing the way we eat and our fitness habits.
Eating nutritious, healthy, whole and organic food is a severe departure from the typical American diet.
But if you are determined, you can indeed change. It’s happened with me. I’m not all the way where I want to be. Yet. But I believe I am nearly there.
I’ve put together a sort of one sentence checklist that characterizes what
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