Good morning and happy Thanksgiving. I love this holiday, despite the fact that we have to sacrifice a turkey for our feast. At the Zipp home, today, there will be tons of plant-based foods to go along with traditional dishes. The turkey will go on the grill, stuffed with herbs and fruits, while 3 tofurkys cook in the oven. Family members have been asked to make and bring a … [Read more...] about Reasons to Be Thankful…and a Horn of PLENTY!
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Best Laid Plans, Course Correction and Back up Plans, Too!
Good morning and welcome to a new work week. Yesterday's Dolphin game was a great example of how best laid plans go wrong, the importance of course correction and why we always need an A plan, a B plan and a C plan, at the least! So excited to see Chad Pennington get back on the field, he was injured during his first play. Poor thing! So within moments we were looking at … [Read more...] about Best Laid Plans, Course Correction and Back up Plans, Too!
The Rise of the Power Vegan
Last night I trained with Erica and of course we discussed Biggest Loser at length as we always do. She made a good point about the sugar cube challenge, that being that they had to sprint back and forth, for what I think was an hour, gathering those sugar cubes ONE AT A TIME (until the two minute free for all). So maybe there was a lot more physical work involved in that … [Read more...] about The Rise of the Power Vegan
Time to Fall Back…but Never Fall Behind
Last night I was happy to catch up with Kyle and amongst other things, talk about getting back to doing some work on this site. I had asked him if he could put a search tool on here so readers could look up past recipes, or entries about Biggest Loser, or just search for fitness tips and he said that would be easy, but he has been thinking about redesigning the entire site. … [Read more...] about Time to Fall Back…but Never Fall Behind
The Most Important Exercise of the Day
Today, above all, I hope if you have not already done so, you will exercise your right to vote! There was a time, not so long ago in the scheme of things, when only RICH, WHITE, MALES could exercise that right. There were many who fought tough battles to give us all that right. Please, whatever other kind of exercise you do today, make this exercise your priority. Remember, … [Read more...] about The Most Important Exercise of the Day