nutrition

Eight-Week Challenge Final Report

Weeks Five through Eight did not vary enough from the previous four weeks for me to have much to say worth sharing. In this final report I will focus on what I learned through setting out this personal challenge. Again, a reminder of my goals: eat more nutritious food with fewer empty calories, walk atContinue reading “Eight-Week Challenge Final Report”

Eight-Week Challenge: Weeks Three and Four

Weeks Three and Four: small improvements from Weeks One or Two. Again, a reminder of my goals: eat more nutritious food with fewer empty calories, walk at least 5,000 steps per day, spend one day a week reading the backlog of magazines sitting on the end table, and write at least 500 words per dayContinue reading “Eight-Week Challenge: Weeks Three and Four”

Eight-Week Challenge: Week Two

Week Two: not much difference from Week One. Again, a reminder of my goals: eat more nutritious food with fewer empty calories, walk at least 5,000 steps per day, spend one day a week reading the backlog of magazines sitting on the end table, and write at least 500 words per day for at leastContinue reading “Eight-Week Challenge: Week Two”

Eight-Week Challenge: Week One

It’s time to report on the results of my first week. As a reminder, my goals for the eight-week challenge: eat more nutritious food with fewer empty calories, walk at least 5,000 steps per day, spend one day a week reading the backlog of magazines sitting on the end table, and write at least 500Continue reading “Eight-Week Challenge: Week One”

Eight-Week Challenge: Preparation 1

Make Better Food Choices My first 2017 eight-week challenge goal is eat more nutritious food with fewer empty calories. I was doing so well last year. I had adopted Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s recommendations in his book, Eat to Live, and was benefiting from not only the promised weight loss (with the more important reduction inContinue reading “Eight-Week Challenge: Preparation 1”

Eight-Week Challenge

One of my favorite bloggers is Queen of Blank (real name, Danielle). Her blog is The Caffeinated Writer (from which I nicked the image for this post since I’m following her lead, but you can see that because it is part of the image). She’s on the East Coast, where I came from back inContinue reading “Eight-Week Challenge”