Wow the luster of this bright, shiny new year sure faded fast, didn’t it? The recent events in our nation’s capital make me sad. Since the election I’ve made a point to watch as little news as possible so I didn’t hear about the “incident” right away. I don’t even know what to think anymore. [Read More]
Shed Light on Health with EverlyWell
This post is sponsored by EverlyWell in partnership with Fit Approach. All thoughts and opinions, as always, are my own. As a health-conscious individual I’m good (mostly) about eating well, getting plenty of exercise and making it in to see my doctor for regular wellness checkups. I expressed my frustrations here before about the long [Read More]
Vitamin D: Are you Getting Enough?
One of the highlights of my week last week was getting the dreaded annual physical out of the way. While there, I learned that my Vitamin D levels are low. Again. Despite supplementing and taking in more than my share of fish oils, my 24 units fell well below the 30-100 range that is considered [Read More]
Are You Getting Enough Vitamin D?
Despite a milder winter overall, February in these parts has been especially snowy. I just heard on the radio today that February is the leading month for weight gain too. I think I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve seen the sun. The cold, clouds and short daylight hours (although daylight [Read More]
Scale Intervention
I’ve been having a great summer. Running stronger: You’ve probably seen me post rainbow and unicorn run pics like these on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Hitting the weights/crosstraining hard Enjoying quality time and healthy activities with the kids I’ve gotten in all of my workouts for the Marine Corps Marathon so far. I haven’t let [Read More]
Vitamin D: Progress Report
I’ve taken 3 weekly Vitamin D mega doses so far since being diagnosed deficient at my annual physical. To those of you who questioned the 50k mega-dose, know that I was taking 5,000 IUs daily and was still coming up way short. Crazy, I know. Effects? Nothing noticeable the first week. But last week and [Read More]
D-ficient
In honor of Women’s Health Week last week, ok not really, but rather because I’d been procrastinating for 5 months, I finally got in for my annual physical. The last time I’d seen my doc was January 2011 when I was in complaining of slow running, fatigue, slow running, malaise, sluggishness, and did I say [Read More]
Vitamin D Follow Up
I got my vitamin D test results back the other day. In my case D is for Deficient. My level (25) fell far below optimum (65). Troubling, since I’ve been supplementing for quite some time now. I can’t help but wonder if I have a vitamin D absorption problem? I guess these are issues I [Read More]
The A-B-C’s of Vitamin D
With daylight hours fading to a precious minimum these days now’s a good time to think about Vitamin D, the “sunshine vitamin”. Did you know that 40-60% of the US population is vitamin D deficient? Vitamin D is the only vitamin the body manufactures from sunlight (UVB). But the level of vitamin D found in our [Read More]
