I'm IIN!

.. at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN) that is If you happened to catch the Tweet earlier you already know.. but I am now a member of the 2010 class at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition!! I stumbled across this program a while back and had been tossing around the idea of pursuing it for sometime. The more research I did, and the more I reflected on my professional and personal goals moving forward, the...

Sunday Studying

“Ouch Charlie” I’m still not sure why this is so funny but I makes me giggle everytime: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1] But for real.. I’ve had the worst stomachache all weekend and I’m sooo not cool with it! So for the next week, lactose is getting booted from the diet, because I have...

Fitness Love

Wow, what an incredible weekend! I flew out to Long Beach on Friday for Camp Savage California (http://www.cathysavagefitness.com/). Ever since I did one of Cathy’s Summer programs my 2nd year in Baltimore, I wanted to attend a camp. Right after that, however, I moved to Phoenix and it was just never conveinent to go to camps which are usually on the east coast. So when I heard she was having a camp in California, I...

I gave in..

I baked! But I did not eat. I have always loved baking. It goes back to when I was a kid and would spend hours in the kitchen baking holiday treats with my mom. It’s a stress reliever for me, completely therapeutic. During undergrad I became known for the crazy baking spree I’d go on as soon as finals were over. It would get silly! There’d be pans, cookies, cupcakes, pies, biscuits, spread all over the...

The Tightrope

For the last 5 weeks I’ve felt I’ve been performing a a tightrope walk while juggling school, work and my contest prep. It was as though if everything went just right, if nothing threw off my specifically planned daily schedule, then things would be fine, but if anything threw my slightly off I would slip off the rope and everything would come tumbling down. Well, I haven’t completely fallen, but things are...

Finals Countdown to 1

I have a new love .. Tea that tastes like coffee?!?  I added just a couple tablespoons of Unsweetened Almond Breeze and a couple tablespoons of Sugar-Free Pumpkin Spice Syrup with a few dashes of Pumpkin Spice = Amazingness I also picked up a couple variety packs I’m looking forward to testing out So onto my Sunday, which like Saturday, was completely taken up studying for finals. However, my day started out...