Tag Archives: health
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PSA: Step away from the desk and exercise!
Posted on July 2, 2012 by FitYoginiRunner in Coaching, Eating healthy, Making it happenShare I had lunch with a fellow corporate warrior/amateur athlete today. We both brought lunch and sat outside in the beautiful weather in the courtyard. My lunch was organic heirloom Mexican red bean salad with beets, on the P90X2 vegan pattern of 1/2 legume serving and three vegetable servings, in this case organic beets and [...]
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What’s Organic About Organic?
Posted on June 6, 2012 by FitYoginiRunner in Eating healthyShare If you are at all interested in eating well, I’m sure you’ve asked yourself at some point if you should buy organic. If you’re like me, you’ve read conflicting statements about whether or not organic produce is more nutrient-dense than conventional, whether or not the pesticide residues are harmful, in fact, whether or not [...]
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Preparing for CSA season
Posted on June 3, 2012 by FitYoginiRunner in Eating healthy, Making it happen, RecipesShare If you have circled me on G+, you have probably seen me promote Community Supported Agriculture. Over the last 20 years, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) has become a popular way for consumers to buy local, seasonal food directly from a farmer. Here are the basics: a farmer offers a certain number of “shares” to [...]
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What’s better than a chocolate superfood shake? A vegan, tropical superfood shake.
Posted on April 17, 2012 by FitYoginiRunner in Eating healthy, Making it happenShare That’s not really Starbucks. That’s my chocolate superfood shake Shakeology. Made with a cup of soy milk, it makes it pretty close to my 200-Calorie snack size. I was super exited about the new vegan flavor, Tropical Strawberry, and called to switch my automatic home delivery flavor to Tropical Strawberry as soon as it [...]
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To change your lifestyle, be willing to be a weirdo
Posted on April 7, 2012 by FitYoginiRunner in Eating healthy, Making it happenShare Did this week’s shopping today. Hit up the farmer’s market hoping to find kale but no luck. Not surprisingly, most of the stands are still products. If you want sauces and bread you’re in good shape! If you live in the area you will want to know that Honeyacre Farms is already out there [...]
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Say Mmm can make your meal planning and grocery shopping easier
Posted on April 7, 2012 by FitYoginiRunner in Eating healthy, Making it happen, My fitness journey, RecipesShare A while back, I saw that a recipe-related service called Say Mmm had been linked to Evernote. I took a quick look, thought it could be useful, and archived the thought away for later. With the three-day weekend due to Easter, later arrived yesterday and today. I have now checked Say Mmm out and [...]
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New Beachbody Program Released: Tai Cheng
Posted on March 27, 2012 by FitYoginiRunner in Beachbody AnnouncementsShare The first thing I thought when I saw the name of this program was “Oh my gosh, they got the name so wrong!” It turns out it’s not quite as bad as it looks. Rather than having taken non-pinyin misspellings of Mandarin words to a whole new level, the name of the program is [...]
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Vegan Tropical Strawberry Shakeology is here!
Posted on February 20, 2012 by FitYoginiRunner in Beachbody Announcements, Eating healthy, Making it happen, My fitness journey, Online resources, RecipesShare If you’ve read this blog for a while, you know about Shakeology. Shakeology is Beachbody’s superfood premium nutrition shake. It’s not a protein shake or a meal replacement shake in the sense that while you can use Shakeology as either, the real point is all the micro- and phytonutrients from the plant ingredients. There [...]
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The Anatomy of a New Fitness Routine
Posted on February 17, 2012 by FitYoginiRunner in Online resourcesShare Someone from Vibram contacted me to let me know that they had a new infographic up about starting a new fitness routine. I took a look at it, liked it, and so without further ado, here it is.
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Open Invitation: 90-Day Challenge Group Starting Nov. 7
Posted on October 24, 2011 by FitYoginiRunner in Coaching, Making it happen, Online resourcesShare When I look around, I see so many people around me who sacrifice their health ambitions – knowing that they are doing so – because living a healthy lifestyle is a genuine challenge. I am young enough to not be cynical about work-life balance, but old enough to have had good and bad experiences to [...]
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