Aprovechar

If you’re new here and want to understand the title and purpose of my blog, you can read my first post by clicking here. You may also want to subscribe to my RSS feed so that you don’t miss further posts of interest to you. Thanks for visiting, and I hope you’ll stop by often! […]

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Why is this such a difficult post to write? For about two days now, this screen has been up on my computer, and I have been struggling to say what I am trying to say. I guess it is because this topic is so interwoven and because it is still, in some ways, a painful […]

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My 100th post on this blog: a great time to celebrate a new level of fitness. It’s me . . . in a size-8 top and size-10 jeans! This isn’t the first size-8 top I’ve bought lately–it’s the fifth or sixth one in the last few months–but this is my first size-10 pair of jeans […]

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Dan and I start our thrice-weekly work-out class this week. In practice, going to the class shouldn’t be terribly different than coming home and going for a run was prior to now. However, I’m planning to succeed by assuming that it will put me home later than I expect—-and planning meals as if I will […]

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All day yesterday, it threatened to rain, so I never got to go strawberry-picking as I had intended.  At the farmer’s market this morning, however, one of the farmers had a deal:  $2/pint for the strawberries she had picked on Tuesday.  They were just past their peak, but Dan and I knew we could use […]

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I worked last Saturday morning and thus sent my husband to the neighborhood farmer’s market (which is only held on Saturday mornings) to pick fresh, local vegetables for our week’s meals. He came home with several veggies, including a bag of lovely fresh, shelled peas. He had picked the peas rather at random, but peas […]

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I’m proud of this girl.  This girl is a runner.  Look at her at her very first 5k last fall.  Awwww. Running has made her feel like she has the possibility to be an athlete.  It’s there inside her.  Even more so now, it’s there in her strengthened thighs, strong calves, and crazy-hard obliques.  It’s […]

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Life is just buzzing along–busy as usual!  Here’s my meal plan for the week, which is, as always, focused on locally grown/produced foods, high in veggies, low in processed foods, generally healthy, and free of gluten, soy, eggs, and dairy/casein. By the way, it looks like this loss of sheep and goat dairy may be […]

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When I saw Heidi’s coconut macaroon pancakes, I knew I had to try them. When my friend Les saw them independently, she felt the same way. We integrated them in to our simplicity circle retreat meal plan. When the time arrived to make them, we altered them to be gluten-free and egg-free, and we hoped […]

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A photo of me at around 215 pounds A photo of me at 163 (To see more photos of my transition, click here.  As a side note, I’m a big proponent of the “embrace what God gave you” philosophy, so the above photo of me with straight hair is only the third time in my […]

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