Gym etiquette – my biggest pet-peeve

<RANT ON> I’ve read once in one of my fitness magazines about Gym Etiquette. Most of it makes perfect sense to me. For example, the fact that people shouldn’t bring their laptops to the gym to surf the net  or use their cellphones while they work out; the fact that they shouldn’t use the gym as [...]

Tely 10 and meal preparation

No, I didn’t run in the Tely 10, but we did decide to take advantage of  the fact that the main road next to where we live was “closed off” for traffic for about 2 hours to go for a bike ride along with the runners. I say the road was “closed off” because it [...]

Counting calories made easy

Counting calories can become very tedious if not down right impossible, if you have a family, a job, an animal or two and plenty of other things to do on a daily basis. I’ve tried it before and failed every single time. Recently though I found it increasingly important to find out how much calories [...]

Carb cycling

I have been cleaning up my act since January 2010. Yes, it was one of those quiet New Year’s resolutions. I say quiet because I didn’t go through the whoopty-doo announcement of starting something new, I just quietly eliminated crap that has accumulated in my diet by means of negligence and laziness. Yes, I admit [...]

Vegetarian fiasco

It’s time that I admit something publicly – I have cheated on my vegetarian diet. Not once, not twice, but many times now. So what went wrong? Well, first of all I came to the conclusion that I cannot envision my life without fish (fresh or smoked salmon are a must for me). So if [...]


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