Dirty Hurty
The Dirty Hurty tee-shirt that got me out of bed The Dirty Hurty is a half marathon all dirt trail race in Ivins, which is just outside of St George, Utah. When my alarm went off at 5:30 on March 10th, I groaned, shut it off and went back to sleep. Race day had...
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Test Results
More good news! A few days after the raw food cleanse I got some blood work done to see what happened on the inside. I really hate needles so for me to just volunteer my arm up for puncturing was pretty amazing. I got my lab results back and I’m pretty excited. My...
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28-Day Summary
Well it’s been 28 days of raw food. I wish I could say it’s been 28 days of only raw food but I can’t. Which means I still haven’t accomplished my goal of a 30-day raw experiment. The good news, however, is that I’m really excited to keep on eating raw food and to...
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Freedom
I’m nearly two weeks into this raw food experiment and I’m feeling pretty hopeful. This is the longest I’ve ever gone without eating a significant amount of sugar each and every day. I went to the grocery store this afternoon. I was in a bit of a hurry because Makai...
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One Tough Mudder
I was facebook snooping last year and came across Monique, who was my friend and neighbor when I lived in California. She looked exactly the same as the last time I saw her 16 years ago- beautiful and happy. She has lots of fun pictures and lots of crazy adventure...
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I Feel Good…
Whoa-oa-oa! I feel good, nah, nah nah, nah nah, nah nah! I knew that I would, now nah, nah nah, nah nah, nah nah, I feeeeeel good, nah, nah nah, nah nah, nah nah, I knew that I would, now……. 4/1/11 The past ten days have been great. I’ve eaten all raw and...
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How to Take a Great “Before” Picture
Taking a weight loss/body building “before picture” is really an exercise in optimism. No one would ever sign up for this exercise in humility unless they truly believed an “after picture” would soon follow. I am either really lacking in the self discipline department...
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To Go or Not to Go…
Day Three: 3/16/11 That is the question. I’m still on very shaky ground here with the raw-vegan detox diet while living in the real world plan. Tonight is the Relief Society birthday dinner complete with lavender-frosted cupcakes. At one time I thought I’d take...
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Sugar Junkie Goes Raw for 30 days
3/11/11 AM I’m afraid to drive in Hong Kong. And I haven’t got a thing to wear. What do these two things have in common? Sugar, sugar sugar. Too much of it in my diet, to be specific. My sister will laugh at this since she has once accused me to blaming...
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