Anyone else have a tough time going to sleep last night knowing a good pounding of snow was on the way today?
I’d only first heard it was really coming as I finished up a terrific winter walk in the woods at Lake Chauncy late yesterday afternoon. I ran into a woman walking her dogs who told me a bit stressfully that she was making the most of the time she had right then to get outside before the snow.
“We’re really supposed to get snow?” Read more »
February 1st, 2014 
Blog, Salads & Salad Dressings 
Comments Off on Power Tuna Salad Step-By-Step Video
Click this link or the picture above for a short step-by-step video that uses a combination of video, sound and text-over-video to show how to make power tuna salad that substitutes high fat and calorie mayonnaise with high protein, low calorie non-fat Greek yogurt.
Great stuff and all quick and easy to make using the ingredients shown below.
It’s about perspective. Sometimes you don’t get what you want, but what you do get turns out even better – if you give it a chance.
I remember the weather guess about a week and half ago calling for just enough snow to make driving – and cycling – a problem for that Saturday and Sunday. The cycling part bothered me. I’d been just a hair ahead of pace to meet an aggressive personal mile goal this year that runs April to April but was starting to lose ground due to weather and a stretch with the flu (yah, even with a flu shot) that kept me off the road in December. Read more »
January 27th, 2014 Blog, Fitness/Health Comments Off on Transforming Plain Tuna Salad into Power Tuna Salad 
Here’s a quick and easy way to substitute traditional mayonnaise, which is high in fat and calories, with non-fat, high-protein plain Greek Yogurt (2-3 times the protein content of regularly processed plain yogurt) along with a little mustard to turn plain old tuna salad into reinvigorated fantastically flavorful Power Tuna Salad.
Ingredients are shown below. Just click either picture on this page for a complete, easy to follow step-by-step picture book recipe.
January 25th, 2014 Blog, Breakfast, Fitness/Health Comments Off on What I’ve Learned From 1 Week of Coffee Without Sugar 
Earlier this week I wrote that I was going to try a full 7 days of coffee without sugar in an effort to be more personally aware of how much sugar I take in day to day. Yesterday was day 8. I started out trying coffee again with no sugar and didn’t like it at all. Read more »
January 24th, 2014 Blog, Cycling, Fitness/Health Comments Off on Pre-XC-Ski Lower Sugar Power Breakfast Doing the sugar research I’ve been doing lately has made me look a lot more closely at my own sugar intake. In the last piece, I wrote about cutting sugar completely for a week from the coffee I look forward to every morning. That week just ended yesterday. More about that soon. Read more »
Whoa, there have been times in my life I sucked down way more sugar than I needed and sure paid a heavy – well over 200 pound – price for it. Not too long ago, even though my weight has remained stable in the mid-160’s for decades, I was still dumping almost 2 tablespoons of sugar into a large mug of coffee – and drinking quite a few of those mugs, like the one shown above, daily. I’m now sure that contributed to my otherwise medically monitored but healthy stomach not feeling well for years. Read more »
Got home from the rink about 9:30 Saturday morning just as light snowflakes started to fall. “C’mon, man. Move!”, I told myself, sometimes quite out loud, while I changed into bike clothes in what seemed like slow motion.
But then I pushed out – “finally, ya’ big…” and the flakes were floating fat as cornflakes, which “thwapped” my face, made me laugh, and turned the road to salty, sandy crunchy goo. Even though it was only 5 miles, it was one of the best “Star Wars” rides (flakes = flying stars) I’ve ever had, especially knowing I’d made the most of a window that closed just as I got home. Read more »
What I like most about being on the Westborough BPAC (Bike & Pedestrian Advisory Committee) is getting the kind of things done we reported to our Board of Selectmen last night.
First, our charge:
Here’s where we are since our progress report last spring. Read more »
January 13th, 2014 Blog, Fitness/Health Comments Off on Mindful Eating: The Key to a Meaningful Diet 
First, I think when people hear or speak the word “diet”, they mean one intended to promote weight loss, though diet in its pure sense is what we as individuals eat regularly. Everyone has a diet, whether it’s healthy or not, and some of those diets are more targeted than others. A gluten-free diet is one specifically intended to eliminate gluten consumption. A diabetic diet is one intended to control blood sugar levels. The list of targeting dieting options is probably endless.
Second, I’m a huge TED talk fan. TED stands for “technology, entertainment and design”. TED talks are short, specific, delivered by experts and, to me at least, add an enriching and inspiring perspective to life. Read more »
