Yep! They’re new. They come with this realllly sweet cinnamon sugar butter but it comes in a container on the side so you can ration or just toss it.
Road food… Small Wendy’s chili and a plain baked sweet potato… Kind of awkward to eat in the car but oh well.
Live Fit, Phase 2, Week 4: Back
Just logging today’s workout here. Should have been chest, but at the rate it’s raining here I’m going to have to build an ark or go to the gym in the couple of early, early morning hours when it isn’t basically a hurricane outside. I guess I will possibly try to do that tomorrow before I leave town for the weekend…. Didn’t feel like doing cardio today; whatever.
Lunch! Late last year I had a job developing recipes for this company that makes healthy, Latin-style rice and soup mixes. Usually boxed soup/rice is gross, but I accepted the gig because not only do the products actually taste good and authentic, but the ingredients are all real foods and pronounceable — rice and/or beans, dried vegetables, spices, and that’s about it. They passed the Whole Foods test actually and you can find them at WF around here.
Anyways, I forgot I had a mother lode of product left over, so for lunch I cooked up this coconut-raisin brown rice mix, and I’m having that with a chicken breast and mixed frozen vegetables, because I’m lazy.
jimicowan replied to your post: I see tons of Fitblrs posting articles from LiveStrong like they’re scientific gospel, so here’s why you should not.
Very good analysis! It’s like BleacherReport, sans $ for writers. Quantity rewarded while quality suffers. Worse yet, people fail to realize these are only opinions from “users”; rarely practitioners or professionals in qualified positions.
Yes, exactly. Other web properties full of garbage designed just to attract clicks include Examiner, Squidoo, Helium, and HubPages. They pay their “writers” pennies, and it shows. I think LiveStrong was one of the worst, though, since it is a well-known brand and the author bios at the end of each article there are meant to give a veneer of authority.
I see tons of Fitblrs posting articles from LiveStrong like they’re scientific gospel, so here’s why you should not.
Almost all of the informational articles on LiveStrong were written and edited by underpaid, overworked people employed freelance by a content mill called Demand Studios. A “content mill” is a derisive term for any number of companies currently operating whose business is to churn out cheap written articles for large web sites. These “articles” are really just meant to attract Google hits and then serve up ad impressions on the page.
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After years of obsessive calorie-counting, bad habits, and worse self-image, I'm choosing to get better... So bear with me as I retool this blog a bit.
