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Originally Posted September 4, 2009

A slight addition to the previous post...I thought it was interesting (and incredibly aggravating at the same time) that Ray Kurzweil advocates an low gyclemic load diet as an anti-aging strategy. As anyone who doesn't live under a rock knows, coming across nutrition theories is about as hard as...well, nothing. They're everywhere!

Sweet and Low Totally Wins Over Splenda In My Iced Coffee

Originally Posted July 22, 2009

Wednesday- so today is supposed to be a repeat of monday's routine (run 1 minute, walk 3 minutes, lather, rinse, repeat). I decided to drive up into the Cornell Plantations for a change of pace. My plan would have worked superbly, since it's astoundingly beautiful, if only I had not gone at 11am. Enter heatstroke and need for a pacemaker. And most likely, sunburn. I made a loop around the Water Lily Ponds, and with the shady sections of the trail, I survived! (I'm ok!) I'll totally go back there for future runs.

Cornell Arboretum

About halfway through, I decided to pick up one of the handy maps, to see if there might be a super fun cool new path to go on...lo and behold, welcome to my "Exploration of the Morgan-Smith Trail"! I found the trail marker easily, and proceeded to run down an amazingly long set of steps, all while thinking "hey! steps! that sounds hard and wonderful and good for exercising!" And then, I proceeded to find myself on a tiny, overgrown, footpath and immediately thinking of nothing but Lyme Disease. Needless to say, I went back to my nice Water Lily Path :) I am pretty excited about some other trails on the map...I'll update if I find anything actually worth checking out.

I'm having trouble with the food still...I don't really like things like oatmeal, or legumes, I'm rapidly becoming not so fond of peanut butter, and I feel that upwards of 1200 calories a day in vegetables probably is useless. Hmmm...I do feel like I need to adventure into the world of sashimi soon, since I should stay away from the white rice in my favorite volcano roll!

Sidenote (that will interest few people)- I started a new knitting project last week, a felted purse. Now, I've never felted before, and I haven't done a project in a while, so I feel it's only natural to link all these "new" goals together. Hopefully, it won't take me 8 weeks to finish this purse, but I'm going to try to work on it steadily! I'll post picture updates as I go along.