Hi everyone,

Hope you all sur­vived that nasty day of weather yes­ter­day. Yuck. I had to lit­er­ally wring out my socks at the end of the day, after tredg­ing through the slush and snow down­town. Is spring ever going to come???

Today, I would like to talk to you a bit about the Paleo Diet and what I’ve recently learned about it. What exactly is the paleo way of eat­ing, you might ask? Well, to put it sim­ply, it’s return­ing back to the diet of the cave­man; one that con­sists solely of lean pro­tein, eggs, veg­eta­bles, nuts (in mod­er­a­tion), seeds and fruit (again, in mod­er­a­tion). Dairy, grains, legumes and sugar (for the most part) are strictly forbidden.

Hi there,

Hope you all had a great day!

I thought I’d share with you a few yummy recipes that I’ve enjoyed in the last few days. I’m always look­ing to bring some new, healthy and deli­cious food ideas to my daily meal plans. As you already know, I’m a com­plete peanut but­ter addict. In fact, any nut but­ter makes me swoon with delight. So, with that in mind, I decided that I was tired of shelling out mucho dol­lars on peanut and almond but­ter (my two faves), and fig­ured, why not make some myself? I mean really, how hard could it be when the only ingre­di­ent is the nut (or legume, excuse me!) Any­ways, it seri­ously was as easy as pie.

Happy Fam­ily Day! Hope every­one is enjoy­ing this beau­ti­ful sunny day!

I started my day with a packed spin class; what a great way to start the day. After a much needed hot shower, I sucked back a frosty pro­tein shake and a big bowl of steam­ing steel cut oats. Yum!

Hi all,

Hope you had a great day! My day started with a quick 10k on the tread­mill, keep­ing as fast a pace as pos­si­ble for the dura­tion, save for the 8 minute warm-​up. I’m plan­ning on run­ning the Toronto Half Marathon in May so long as I can keep my hips in good con­di­tion. They tend to get unhappy around the 15k mark but we shall see. I’m tak­ing the train­ing slowly, with just one long run/​week and increas­ing my mileage grad­u­ally. I’d like to do a few triathalons, hope­fully olympic dis­tance in the sum­mer, but I haven’t had my butt in the pool all win­ter so I bet­ter start swim­ming asap! I enjoy set­ting spe­cific goals or chal­lenges so that I have some­thing to work towards and all the train­ing helps to keep me sharp. If you’ve never done a race of any kind, I’d encour­age you to try one. You don’t need to be a high-​level ath­lete to par­tic­i­pate and hon­estly, they’re really fun! (so long as you’re pre­pared going in).