First update: My food discipline is crap right now. Despite working out pretty regularly I'm actually a bit up from my last post. I need to find discipline but I've not yet managed it. That said, I've run quite a lot (until this week) and so I'm keeping the exercise going ( Read more... )

So tomorrow, according to MyFitnessPal, is the 365 day mark ( Read more... )

Things have been extra stressful at work for the last few weeks, as there was a departmental reorg, I got a lot more responsibility and a WHOLE lot of uncertainty that I've been dealing with. The anxiety has been building up, bit by bit, and it's been wearing at me ( Read more... )

At least I assume it's progress again ( Read more... )

This week's been really really good for running. On Sunday I went out with my 8 year old daughter, and we ran together. She liked it so much, she said she wants to do it again; so I'm hoping we'll make that a regular thing ( Read more... )

So the back isn't back to where it's been best, but it's down to simply being a minor discomfort most of the time, one that reminds me often that I shouldn't sit like that or stand like that. But each day seems to be a little better than the last so hopefully it reverts to the happy days from before. For now I'm assuming it will, so long as I take ( Read more... )

The astute of you will notice that this is my first post this year, and that it's been 5 weeks since I've posted. Bad me ( Read more... )

Realistically, 'french bread' should be a baguette. That's pretty much THE bread in France. But because we're Americans and we always get this stuff wrong, it's not. Instead, French Bread is more or less the same bread, but in the shape of a batard, or a torpedo.

French bread is a lean bread, meaning it doesn't use oil, nor sugar. I put a little ( Read more... )

So on Christmas, I was going to make buttermilk rolls, a thing I found on Thanksgiving that I really adored ( Read more... )

I didn't post last week, and this week is a short post ( Read more... )