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Not-so-lazy Sunday

Wendy — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:31:51 +0000

People say Sundays are for rest. I've had many a Sunday where I've done just that. Although it's nice to curl up with a good book, or be contemplative, meditative, or heck, even vegetative for a couple of hours, there's only so many of those types of Sundays I can have before I end up having a Sunday that's just action packed from dawn to dusk of to-do items---things I can't put off any longer or decided to get a jump on for the following week.

What’s Cooking? Vegetable Soup

Wendy — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 04:32:23 +0000

This recipe is very loosely based off of the P90X Nutrition Guide's Vegetable Soup recipe. Basically I added in green peas, asparagus and parsnip in place of half the amount of potatoes. And doubled the amount of cilantro since I didn't have parsley (I love cilantro, so there!). And instead of tomato sauce I added in tomato paste, for that extra concentrated shot of tomato-ey acidic flavor that balances out the sweetness of the green peas and parsnip.

What’s cooking? P90X turkey meatballs

Wendy — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:00:21 +0000

As some of you know if you've visited this blog from time to time I've been going through the P90X and P90X2 workout programs. One of the recipes I make quite regularly are the turkey burgers that are in the P90X nutrition guide. I decided this week I'd just make them as meatballs and bake them instead.

What’s cooking? Non-seafood & vegetarian sushi

Wendy — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:32:45 +0000

I love food. I love going out and trying new dishes from different cultures. Like those pork knuckle bones with all that gelatin in the Dominican Republic, lol. Anyways I thought I'd start just taking pictures of new dishes I cook from time to time and post them here for fun and so I can remember what I put in them; I usually end up modifying from the original recipe and then forget. :)

P90X Post-Mortem

Wendy — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:37:19 +0000

It’s February 2012 and since my last post which chronicled my finishing of Round 1 in August 2011 I’ve completed a second round of P90X in the classic variation, ending in late November 2011, and then I did about 3 weeks of Phase 1 of classic P90X in December 2011.

P90X – Before and after photos

Wendy — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:19:17 +0000

All right…here are the before and after pictures…not posting them all but just a couple… Go ahead, laugh at my before pictures. You can tell I was pretty skeptical of the whole “taking the before” thing to do. Could I roll my eyes up any further even in side profile? Answer: Yes! Lol. But honestly, [...]

P90X – Motivation

Wendy — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:22:40 +0000

It probably seems a little backwards to talk about motivation after blogging about P90X FAQs and nutrition. If you ask me, it doesn't make sense to get people all fired up about the program if they're not properly informed of what they will be getting themselves into in order to get to Day 90 and beyond. Because if your expectations aren't set up or tempered properly, you're just going to set yourself up for failure right out of the gate.

P90X – Nutrition

Wendy — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 04:43:41 +0000

So, you've read the general Q&A post, you're intrigued about the P90X program and what it might be able to offer. And now you're curious about the nutrition component that goes with it....

P90X – FAQs

Wendy — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:34:31 +0000

So as some of you who follow me on Twitter or are friends with me on Facebook you may have seen me updating my status just about every day the past 2 months using some Twitter hashtags called #p90x and #lean. I've also been getting a lot of questions from some of you about P90X and so I decided I'd write a post about it as well as some other posts over the next few days:

Packing Tips from Professional Travelers

Wendy — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:42:00 +0000

...via nytimes.com via unclutterer.com, an extremely useful article on how to pack from pilots and flight attendants, who should know a thing or two about travelling. The slideshow, also from the same site, also shows you how to do the packing.