Becoming an althete

My weight plateaued at 185 lbs. through most of summer, which I was okay with for the most part because I had lost 50 lbs. over the course of about six months, which is a HUGE physical adjustment. Also, I lost those pounds through diet changes (going paleo/primal)...

Running for Joy

As a girl, I always looked up to my Aunt Sheila because she was (and still is, in her 60s) a runner. To me, she represented the ideal of “healthy” because she ate right and she ran every day. It was something I admired from afar, though; my mother spent...

Paleo/primal: what’s in a diet?

I have a hard time saying I’m following the Paleolithic “diet” because while it is, technically, a diet paradigm, it isn’t “a diet” in the way that popular culture conceives of such a thing. It’s a lifestyle, actually, which is why I like Mark Sisson’s attempt at...

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