Wholistic Woman
Embracing a whole life approach to wellness
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Oh, that dang scale. In the classes that I facilitate we have private weigh ins every week. Sometimes people are surprised at the number. Both good (wow, I’m down? I did awful last week!) and bad (I’m doing everything right, why am I not losing weight?) Or they are doing everything right and gaining. Sometimes …
Two weeks to go until my double marathon! Yikes! My schedule called for a 24 mile final long run this past weekend, and as luck would have it, the trail running group I’m a part of decided to hold a nighttime run on Friday. Now, I am a very slow runner. The rest of the …
With the double marathon three weeks away, I’m starting to get the pre-race jitters. It doesn’t help that this past weekend I was rained out on the trails, and the weekend before THAT I just wasn’t feeling it and ended up walking most of the 19 miles of what was supposed to be a 30 …
Recently I had a hormone test done through my integrative MD and discovered that I’m high in cortisol. What? That’s a thing? I have seen cortisol and tummy fat on late night diet pill commercials, and while the pills don’t help, turns out that stress really does cause high cortisol which can lead to weight …
These past few weeks have been a real challenge to get my miles in. Following my Pasadena trip, I had several all day trainings. The weekend I was to do my long run there was an ice storm. I took the day off work on a Tuesday to try to get it in. Unfortunately, I …
