Live Fit Blog

I’ve mentioned before that my wife is both an excellent baker and a yoga instructor.  A combination that isn’t exactly conducive to keeping me slim and trim.  Over the Christmas break, she made a variety of treats, which she gave as gifts to friends and co-workers.  One of them, pictured below, is her dark chocolate [...] Read more »

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Calorie dense drinks can present problems for people trying to lose weight.  At one time, soda products were a real weakness for me.  That and sweet tea.  I drank a lot of water, but man can not live on water alone, and I didn’t like coffee.  Or rather, I should say that I only liked [...] Read more »

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My wife and I like to cook at home, and I recently wrote about how much we’ve come to enjoy old fashioned oats.  We’ve also discovered the benefits of baking with oat flour.
I recently discovered that one of my aunts was diagnosed with celiac disease.  This set me on trying to find out the nature [...] Read more »

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In trying to find ways to manage both my hunger and my weight, I finally hit upon the idea that eating high fiber foods might be the best thing I could try.  That’s when I started reading about old fashioned oatmeal.  According to my reading, the average American gets about half of the fiber in [...] Read more »

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I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m officially not a kid anymore.  Sounds shocking, I know.  I’m only 36 years old.  Unfortunately, I find myself thinking things like “…my kids watch too much television…” and “…they need to get outside and exercise more…”  I find myself pondering these things at the same time I’m adding [...] Read more »

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