treechic93 Member

I never run within 2 hours of eating. If I must eat dinner before my evening run it has to be very very light and small servings. Don't believe what you read about exercising before bedtime. It's all how your body reacts. Try a few things and see how it works. I can finish running 60 minutes before bedtime and sleep just…

I would wait on the 10K unless you do a run-walk program for it. Run 4 minutes, walk 1 minute. That will lesson the pressure on the body and joints and still allow you to do the 10K but make sure you do at least a 5.5 mile run using that method so you know how it'll feel and give your body and joints time to understand…

Unless you have celiac or gluten intollerance I would never recommend it. It's frustrating, expensive, and time consuming. If you want to eat healthier then ditch processed foods and follow the Eat Clean Diet. That plan will get you further nutritionally and over all healthier lifestyle than anything else you could do.

I would sugget my method but it's nearly too depressing to offer. In my life for the first time this holiday I'm officially gluten intollerant and lactose intollerant. So unless I make special things to take to my family gatherings just for me to eat I'm going to be eating some plain turkey breast, pickles, and plain…

The artificial sweeteners can do weird things to the way your body processes things. After about 3 days off diet soda I felt so much better. Clearer thinking, more energy, less sluggish on my runs, less food cravings, etc. I don't doubt any of the changes you've noticed, the chemicals react so differently in everyone's…

Cookinglight.com offers some great recipes that you can search for using those ingredients. Lentils are a fast cook and we make a lentil burger with ground chicken or turkey breast in them - very tasty. I'd do some online recipe searches and include Eating Well as a site too. Lean towards the vegetarian recipes because…

I pick quarts and quarts of them in the summer here because they grow wild and then freeze them in quart bags. I put a cup of frozen berries in my morning oatmeal and it thaws the berries and cools off the hot oatmeal. The berries taste very fresh that way! Yes, the calories are low but the natural sugars are still there…

I am fortunate to grow my own organic veggies and even supply 3-4 families in my area with boxes of organic veggies at their request weekly, kind of a mini-business. I hope you find a way to make this work for you. You will be STUNNED at how long fresh veggies will last in your fridge vs. what you find in a regular grocery…

Best thing I've found to help my feet was to keep a golf ball in the freezer and roll my foot over it in the evenings and before and after I exercise. I used to have rigid orthotics and they made my feet worse. My chiro recommends ONLY insoles called FootLevelers. The bad thing is they are not covered by insurance and…

Yes, I think your geographic location can have an impact on your healthy eating but only if you let it. I live in a small town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and I'm 65 miles from Walmart and 101 miles from the closest "health food" store with quality organic ingredients and I have two small grocery stores - and IGA and a…