Posts Tagged ‘Nutrition

« Previous Entries
Next Entries »
17
Dec
11

Leap

By Feerlessfood 8 Comments
Categories: Eating disorders/ recovery, fitness, Motivation, Nutrition and Workouts
Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Leap: that term can be met with one of two answers:

  1. Skepticism and what are you talking about? Leap? What??
  2. How high?

I find myself being on both sides of this answer depending on who the direction is coming from.  And I think this is the simplest factor in success of your goals and overcoming your fears and restraints.
For years I’ve been struggling with eating right, exercising correctly for my goals, and devoting more time and brain power to thoughts about food and workouts than to the people who matter most in my life.

That’s where the skepticism occurs.  I can do research all day online about the best ways to eat or exercise, listen to different experts in the industry speak on health and nutrition, or have intense conversations with loved ones about how much more I could be getting out of life.  But if you don’t truly BUY IN to this, and are willing to Leap, you won’t meet your goals if you’re the one holding yourself back.

I’ve spent years meeting with different registered dietitians trying to find the right ones.  The majority I haven’t been able to make progress with.  Either they didn’t understand me and my goals, or they were completely wrong about nutrition and the sessions were spent with me educating them!  I’ve had a few who have been amazing—they knew what they were talking about, I believed them,  I respected them, and most importantly, I trusted them and looked up to them—almost like a boss or celebrity.

These are the ones where they told me to “Leap” and I respond “how high?”  Maybe you don’t have this problem with your goals.  I have no problem doing many things where I trust myself, but nutrition and exercise are the points in my life that I need the most guidance on.  Currently, I am putting my team together to help get my life in order.

  • I have an amazing family who I trust and love and who I know will always be there for me
  • I finally have a doctor who understand the implications of what disordered eating and strenuous exercise can do to your health and is keeping tabs on me
  • I have a great triathlon coach and friend who is helping me with my plan and racing who I really trust, and I also have a number of close friends in the triathlon community who support me
  • Finally, I have a new Dietician who is incredible.  Not only does she know far more than I do, she GETS me and she has been through the same struggles I have.  She is also extremely responsive and I can tell she actually cares!  I’m sure you all know what I am talking about—when someone truly cares, their input makes a world of difference.  She was straight up with me and said “do exactly what I’ve told you to do—I will not get you fat, I promise!”

So what do I think one the keys to success and change is?  Trust.  You must buy into the commitment you are making and trust those who are there to help you.  This goes for all goals—if you’re trying to lose weight or gain weight, you need to find a nutritionist you can trust.  Find a personal trainer who cares about you and wants to see you succeed and buys into that goal WITH you.  Finally, connect with your family and friends and get them on your team.

Thus, I’m ready to embrace this change heading into 2012.  But I’m not waiting until January 1st to start—instead I am already embracing next year and the ones to come after that.  After all, health and happiness aren’t annual  entities—they are life long.

My nutrition is improving too and I’m making the adjustments that my nutritionist and I have planned.  I’m eating much more fat from natural sources than I ever have in my life.  It really is so much more satiating and makes you feel so much better—grass fed meats, avocados, coconut butter and coconut oil, olive oil, nut butters, eggs, and raw organic full-fat dairy like whole milk, whole yogurt and cheese, and real butter.

Cedar plank salmon... Yeah I did light the plank on fire at the very end- shut up

Grilled chicken, raw cheddar, and avocado on corn tortilla

Paleo banana, pumpkin, peanut butter, coconut pancakes!

Paleo Energy Cookies

Recipes coming soon!

I’m also focused on eating better around my workouts and during my workouts!  I made my first batch of paleo energy cookies last weekend and I’ll start posting some of those recipes.  The biggest limiter for me is sleep.  What do you mean 4 hours isn’t enough?  I know, I know… Amy, my nutritionist has also given me guidance on my strength training as well and her number 1 rule is, if less than 6 hours of sleep, not allowed to workout.  You won’t have the energy and your body will instead just secrete more Cortisol which can lower testosterone and other factors of increasing fat storage and hampering muscle gain.

My triathlon support team is also making progress.  I want to have my most successful year to date in 2012 and know I can improve when pairing a better diet and sleep with better training.  I looked at a few of my results this morning and I noticed that I have gotten faster, and raced longer, but not substantially from when I was a new triathlete to now.

So, 2012 goals—besides being healthier, happier, and a better friend and family member!

  • Do a full muscle-up!  Check out the video—basically a full pull-up into a dip (Means I’ve got to get stronger!)
  • Break 3 hours at the Boston marathon and possibly at another marathon later in the year
  • Qualify for ITU Long Course Duathlon Worlds
  • Qualify for ITU Long Course Triathlon Worlds
  • PR in every distance race
  • Break 4:50:00 in a half ironman race
  • What else?  I know I’ve got more that aren’t so result oriented and I’ll add them as I think of them

Speaking of change, I’m thinking about changing the name of my blog… the content wouldn’t change, but being that I write about more than just recipes, I’m considering the change.

Vote here and let me know what you think!

  1. What are your goals for 2012?  How are you going to achieve them- do you have a plan?
  2. Merry Christmas!
05
Oct
11

“Racing Weight”- My take

By Feerlessfood 7 Comments
Categories: fitness, Nutrition and Workouts
Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Being that this will be read by many athletes and especially endurance athletes, I know a lot of you may be familiar with Matt Fitzgerald and books such as Racing Weight as well as his other articles.  The focus of these books and articles are about being at the ideal weight for you to race at where you will your fastest.  However, having been there myself, a number of us, ignoring the principles the Matt clearly lays out in his book, take the wrong approach to getting down to what we define arbitrarily to ourselves to be our “Racing weight”.  We often assume that if we weigh as little as possible, we will automatically be faster, but this is not always the case.  Here are my considerations for your Racing Weight and ways that approaching this in the wrong fashion can actually hurt your performance.

First off, weight loss is often assumed to with a caloric decrease, a calories burned increase, of a combination of the two.  I don’t believe that to be the whole story, but that’s for another article.  This being said, we assume that if we eat less and exercise more, then we will lose weight.  This is likely, but if you are not doing it intelligently, your performance will decrease.  If you cut out too many calories, you are not going to have the energy or the stamina to complete the hard workouts you engage in with the hope of getting faster.  To become a better athlete,  you must train smart, and this means pushing yourself through a focused workout which takes fuel.  If you can’t make it through a workout due to a lack of nutrition, you aren’t going to become a faster athlete.

On the flip side, by skipping post-workout nutrition, your body is not going to recover from a tough workout and you’re going to experience the same lack of results described above, not to mention perpetuating the cycle of not having reserves for your next workout.

Your Race Weight is also not the lowest weight you can achieve.  It’s where you are the fastest.  If you are already lean and strong, losing any more weight could be a really harmful idea.  Let’s take the example of a triathlon: if you think losing 5 more pounds will help you be faster for your bike and run, maybe you’re right to an extent.  Let’s say that by losing 5 pounds you decrease your bike by 4 minutes and run by 1 minute.  So you’ve saved 5 minutes from the weight loss.

But let’s think about where that weight is coming from—likely muscles and your fuel stores which you REQUIRE to help get through a race.  Thus, in our example, this loss of muscle costs you 8 extra minutes on the bike due to being underfed and a loss of muscle, making it so you can’t reach the speed you are capable on the bike.  This fatigue carries over to the run and costs you and additional 4 minutes on your run time.  This adds up to a 12 minute disadvantage.

If we add the 12 minute gain to the 5 minute decrease, you’re still 7 minutes slower overall.

You may completely bonk all together.  You are expending way more energy on race day than in your training and, thus, your body may not be able to handle the increased workload if it is not fueled properly.

So instead of focusing on losing weight to get to my “race weight” what should I focus on, you say?

Wild salmon with mushroom, onions, and steamed broccoli

I say, take the time when you would focus on getting to racing weight, and instead focus on eating “race nutrition”.  If you had planned to try to lose a little weight in the last 2 weeks before the race, instead focus on eating a very clean, unprocessed, high-octane diet.  This can mean no processed food, cooking all your own meals, not skipping any meals, and eating appropriately around your workouts.  This becomes extremely important as recovery and “pre-covery” are key.  Making sure you have proper fuel to begin a workout will help you get through it, but also aid in buffering some of the muscle breakdown that the workout will cause.  Along with the solid snack, this is where taking something like an amino acid can help.

"Kona Punch"

After the workout is even more important, so that as your muscles breakdown during exercise, they are immediately built back up with solid nutrition.  Doing this will ensure your muscles and body have the fuel stores they need on race day.

HoneyMilk

With proper nutrition, you in fact lose a few pounds, who knows.  Your body will find the weight it wants to race at, and to try and manipulate that is not a good idea, especially for a more taxing event.

So the key takeaway I leave you with- focus on race nutrition, not race weight.  Proper fueling is the key to success not being as light as possible!

These are just my thoughts so take it for what you will, but it’s something I’ve been thinking about for a long time.  If you have any questions or opinions, please let me know and I’d love to discuss with you!

Also, thank you to everyone who saw some of my Tweets earlier this week and sent me encouraging messages!  I was going through a rough time and I will be blogging about it later this week, but wanted to say thank you.  I would write that post now, but I really wanted to get this out there first.  Hope everyone is having an amazing week!

  1. Thoughts on “racing weight”?
18
Aug
11

20 things that make life awesome and WIATFMBW

By Feerlessfood 10 Comments
Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
I hope by now you’ve all had a chance to check me and Lori’s recipes and left comments on our posts!  I can’t get any pictures, but will have a video up soon.  Can anyone tell me how to post a video I record using iMovie on my mac??
Anyways, this has been a long week of travel but I got to see my family and also go back to Virginia Beach for some job training.  Although, I’ve had the absolute worst experiences, I’m going to stay positive.
Speaking of positivity, here are 20 little things that occurred to me that make like awesome:
  1. All of you.  Thank you for everyone’s comments on my last post and the support you gave to me.  It’s really helping me get through a little bit of a rough patch right now.
  2. Summer and sunshine—I am loving Florida right now, but didn’t realize how much so until 2 realizations.  First, it’s been rainy and gross the past 2 days and I’ve hated every minute of it.  Second, I realized that when I am doing the Disney Half Marathon in October, it will still be hot!
  3. Sweet potatoes—they’re just so versatile and I can fit them into any meal.  Either with coconut oil, in my almond butter fry recipe, topped with butter, almond butter, or with cheddar cheese (and possibly a little maple syrup to get the maple cheddar flavor).  And always cinnamon
  4. Butternut squash—See “Sweet Potato”
  5. Riding bikes outside—There’s nothing better than hitting the road and riding in the sun after a long day, especially a long ride on the weekend with other people who will push you
  6. The pool at my apartment building—I swear its longer than an Olympic size pool… which either makes me feel like I’m doing more work or that I’m really slow, ha
  7. My little brother—the only person who can relate when I call him at 1 o’clock in the morning to tell him about a story on the news with a headline that read “Library rape benefit”.  No thanks, I’ll take my library membership without the rape, thank you.  What it should have said was “Benefit function held at the library to raise money to fight against rape.”  Syntax people.
  8. Food Network—come on now, it’s only channel you can put on for background noise in the evening and it will always entertain… although does anyone else think “Chopped” is on like all the time now?
  9. People who go out of their way to explore real research behind the science of nutrition and how we should be eating—I’m always doing research, hence why I am trying a paleo diet right now, and become more enlightened everyday from the different viewpoints I read and truths that are exposed.
  10. Trying new recipes that I make up AND being successful at them—enough said
  11. Discovering new awesome blogs—you know when you Google something and actually find a recipe or an idea that sparks you?  Or your find another local triathlete who lives nearby and actually end up training with them?
  12. Racing triathlons—nothing beats it.  Training can suck sometimes, but nothing beats racing
  13. My 4Runner—my bike fits inside it no problem
  14. Twitter, and everyone I’ve met through it—it’s amazing the amount of support I’ve found through Twitter and blogging.  It’s a pretty cool phenomenon
  15. Crunchy almond butter—yeah bro,  Don’t bring the smooth crap up in here
  16. People who have changed my life, yet I have never met—that’s most of you.  Thank you, and I pray that one day I can meet and thank you.
  17. Other who are battling and winning against an eating disorder who are there for me to give advice but also ask for and listen to advice
  18. My eating disorder–not for the disease itself, but for all the strength and learning about myself it has allowed me to see.
  19. The “Favorite” button on Twitter–I read through Twitter all day and every time I see an interesting article or link, I “Favorite” it from my phone, then go back and read them all on my computer as I eat dinner in the evening.
  20. Broccoli–and did I mention Ketchup??  (Need to break that obsession lol)

So what about you?  What are some little things that make your life awesome?

Also, here is my first ever WIATFMBW! That stands for “What I Ate To Fuel My Body (last) Wednesday!”  Wanna get faster, better, and healthier?  You have to got to eat well and enough to fuel your exercise AND fuel your recovery!

Breakfast: 3 scrambled whole eggs with lean chicken sausage and some veggies, plus an apple

Breakfast

Lunch: Grilled chicken breast, sweet potato slices with cinnamon, and an apple

Lunch

Pre-workout snack (Not pictured): Chocolate banana shake… with some grapes blended in.  Yeahhh…. thats about how it tasted…

Dinner: BBQ wild caught salmon and nut butter sweet potato fries, with broccoli and grapes!

Headin for the oven...

With mushroom, onions, and Dinosaur BBQ sauce!

So good... so good...

And then of course my usual nighttime shake with protein and milk.  Along with my latest obsession, almond butter mixed with Tropical Traditions coconut cream!

  1. What are some of the little things that make your life awesome?
  2. What was the best think you ate on Wednesday?
04
Apr
11

Do You

By Feerlessfood 13 Comments
Categories: Dinners, Eggs, fitness, Motivation, Nutrition, Pizza, Recipe, Restaurants and Workouts
Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Success!

Movement March was a success! Every day in March I worked out for at least 30 minutes!  I’m really proud of this to be honest and I was also successful in 2 different races. I have taken the past 2 days off and just chilled out and am preparing for an epic peak as I move into this last month before Wildflower. I am going to be ON POINT this next month- great workouts, correct nutrition, and a huge focus on sleeping more!

That moves me to my next challenge for April- which I must do. First, no coming home from work, taking a nap, and then working out.  This gets me to bed too late and just leaves me tired again the next day. Second, not getting up on a weekend, having breakfast, and going back to bed until I go workout.  I will instead go workout in the morning which not only guarantee I go, but also leave me with time in the rest of my day to do stuff.

Something that I have been struggling with a little bit lately is the need to compare. To compare myself to other athletes, and more notably, other bloggers.  I know this is something that a lot of people have written about before, but it really hits home.  When I go on a blog and see that this person ate this (or didn’t eat this) and that they did this workout etc.  Not a big deal if I’ve worked out that day, but if I’ve taken a day off it just makes me feel guilty and awful. I know that I like to Tweet the workout I did after I do it every day and now I’m considering stopping it due to that.  The reason I do it is to keep accountable to myself and because I’m usually so happy after a workout… and Twitter is basically just a steam of consciousness anyway, but you see my point.

Do you ever feel the same way? Here’s what you’ve got to remember:  First, everyone is different! Metabolisms, athletic ability, genes, preferences and so on.  Maybe you see that some “did the elliptical for an hour” and you compare and feel bad for only running for 30 minutes or something.  What I need to remind myself is that everyone is training for different things! Not everyone wants to do Ironman triathlons, Chuck, and that they probably enjoy a good session on the elliptical. I also know that I probably balled out on my run so there is no winner or loser- no one is better or less of a person or athlete based on how they workout!  I can’t tell myself that I’m not as good as someone else based upon a workout!  There’s more to life than clocking hours and miles and calories- “Chuck” is not defined by how much I workout, but instead by the person I really am, my desire, my passion, and the love that I can show to others.

In short, do you. Don’t let comparing yourself to others define you.

Saturday was my first day of going to the gym in the morning (in April, that is).  This was because my friend Thadd and I were going to opening night for the Cincinnati Reds!  It was an awesome day- I had a great workout that really tested me and I also finished it with a 3,100m swim which is one of the longest I’ve done in a long time!

Thursday was the Reds opening day and I got out to take a few pictures:

 

Reds fans on Fountain Square

 

My favorite float was the giant inflatable Chiquita bananas. Skyline Chili was also on hand to serve chili coneys… I MAY try the chili before I leave Cincinnati… but maybe not lol

 

Cheese Coney

 

Before the game Saturday, we headed out to get some food.  The night before a bunch of us went to the Cyclones Hockey game as got some input on where to go.  I was jonesin’ for some pizza so went to a place with a brick oven.  Not only was the pizza great, it was so healthy too!  Paper thin crust, fresh Roma tomatoes and basil, topped with double chicken breast!

 

My pizza

Thadd's meatball flatbread

 

The game was awesome, the Reds won, and there were fireworks after!

 

Great American Ballpark

 

Now, I also made an amazing new recipe this week!  Bison stroganoff over homemade whole wheat biscuits.

  • 8oz lean meat (I mixed bison and turkey breast)
  • 1/4 cup milk (and more liquid as needed)
  • 1 tbsp flour
  • 2 tbsp Greek Yogurt
  • Sliced onions
  • Sliced Mushrooms

Start by browning the meat with onions

 

Brown the meat

 

Next, remove from the pan and add the flour to the now empty pan.  After letting it toast for a second, add is the milk and stir till combined.  Then add in the onions and vegetables and stir till the sauce comes together. Finally, add your meat back in and let it heat till ready to serve.

 

Sauce ready to go!

 

I then plated up a couple biscuits and served the stroganoff over top!  I even put some REAL butter on one half of a warm biscuits… killer!

 

2 biscuit halves

Yum. Serve with remaining biscuit halves and fresh vegetables

 

This was by far the best meal I had all week. Here is the biscuit “recipe” as well (if you want to call it that.)  Makes 4 biscuits:

  • 1 cup flour
  • 1/4-1/2 cup almond milk
  • 1/4 cup pumpkin

Mix together, form into 4 biscuits and bake at 425 for 12-20 minutes or until they are done.

Since I made 4 biscuits, I tried a similar idea with serving Eggs Marinara over the biscuits:

 

Top the warm toasted biscuits with laughing cow cheese...

Eggs baked in marinara sauce, mushrooms, and onions! Atop the biscuits

 

A cool story from this week- through Twitter (Follow me @ChuckFeerick) I won a free entry in the St. Anthony’s Triathlon in Florida from one of my sponsors, GU Energy!  Bummer though is that I am racing Wildflower the day before, so there’s no way I could get to Florida in time without help. I proposed a pretty elaborate plan to GU to help me chronicle the cross county adventure across the US in 2 days racing in 2 epic races.  My friends over at JTwoFilms would have been able to film the whole thing and we could have made a sweet documentary!  GU liked the idea but said they couldn’t bankroll it.  Haha oh well, I tried.

On that note though, be on the look for more developments on the Feerless Food TV Show… we’re about to blow up!

Thanks for reading guys and have an awesome week!

  1. Do you every find yourself comparing yourself to other people or bloggers?
  2. What Easter goodies are you looking forward to?  Cadbury Eggs… ohhh man…
26
Feb
11

Chuck: Off the bike

By Feerlessfood 18 Comments
Categories: Dinners, Eating disorders/ recovery, fitness, Nutrition, Peanut butter, Recipe, Side dishes, sweet potato, Vegetables/ Vegetarian and Workouts
Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

I’ve been about blogging the past couple weeks- sorry!  I’ve been either really busy or not busy and therefore  doing other things life calls for.  I was chatting with someone a few weeks ago and I realized that I don’t often post about the other aspects of my life and that all my pictures are mostly me working out lol.  So here it is- Chuck: Off the Bike

Me! Forgive the bathroom shots- I took these at work

That’s me in real clothes lol. 

I won’t lie, this past week has been really hard, and that’s another reason I haven’t blogged.  I literally was off the bike.  After a great week last week, I wound up taking more days off than I wanted this week due to being over tired and then having to travel for work.  But when I did workout, they were pretty epic, and I am going to try and reconcile myself with knowing that I can only do so many epic days in a row before I need a recovery day so that I don’t keep burning out.  I’m going to try and implement more yoga and recovery rides.  That being said, since Sunday, even though I only worked out 4 times, I got over 35 miles running and 4 hours of cross training, plus a little swimming.  So on average the week was alright.

But that takes me to my next point: off-days.  We need them.  That’s how our bodies repair and recover.  I’ve learned that you can go incredibly hard for 2-3 days and take a day off and repeat and get the same results as going less hard but every day.  Your net calorie burn will be the same, thus, you don’t need to eat less on theses “off-days”!  You may not have your pre or post workout meals, but that doesn’t mean you should deprive yourself of any nutrients that your body needs.

As awful as I felt about the off-days I took, again, that Eating Disorder screaming at me with no remorse, I tried to re-frame the situation to myself.  I liked what I came up with- “I didn’t have to work today; I was too busy repairing and getting stronger.”  This helped a little bit.

Back to “Chuck”.  The past week I’ve also gotten the chance to hang out with a lot of new friends here in Cincinnati.  Not only is this fun (Virginia Beach, you got noting on Cincinnati) but it helps me to normalize myself and forget about my eating disorder for a while.  I think this is the same reason I am as close with my best friend David as I am.  We’ve been really close since college, and as close as we are, we rarely talk about my eating disorder, and I don’t even know that he knows that much about it.  But in a way, this is a blessing- it allows me to just leave the eating disorder at home when we hang out and makes me feel normal.

Same thing here in Cincinanti.  Last Wednesday I went to the University of Cincinnati vs. Louisville basketball game!  Louisville were ranked like 13, but UC won by like 11 and it was an epic game!

UC at the line

UC's arena

Sick game.  This past Wednesday, a bunch of friends and I checked went the Cincinnati Cyclones hockey game.  It’s minor league hockey, but it’s an absolute blast… especially on dollar beer night!  I’m not a big beer drinker, but lets just say some people are…

Beer-amid!

Hockey!

I got on the big screen twice during the game; once putting my “hands in the air-a-a-aiirrr” and then again as I taught Cincinnati “How to Doug E”.  I think I was the only one in the arena who know how to do it.

Over the weekend I also did some cooking. I made up a huge batch of my world-famous meatloaf patties!  This mix consisted of ground turkey breast, ground sirloin, and buffalo meat!  Stuffed with onions, peppers, mushrooms, and oats as a binder.  Amazing, as always:

Turk-eef-aloaf? Anyone got a better name?

Meals for weeks!

Finally, Nick over at www.Peanutbutterboy.com is holding a peanut butter expo: The theme is recipes for using peanut butter in “hot” way to warm up the end of winter.  Here’s my peanut butter coated sweet potatoes and butternut squash recipes that I am submitting!

Peanut butter Sweet potatoes:

  • 1 Sliced sweet potato
  • 2 tablespoons peanut butter
  • 1 tablespoon coconut oil (I omitted this but I suggest including it!  I will next time!)
  • Cinnamon
  • Maybe some vanilla or maple extract

Awesome combo

Coated

Baked!

Bake at 350-400 degrees for 30-40 minutes.  Don’t overbake them though, as you don’t want to burn the peanut butter!

Here’s what the butternut squash version looked like:

I used coconut peanut butter!

Coated with cinnamon as well

I hope I win the competition!  Head over there and enter yourself if you’d like.

So more “Chuck”.  I’ve talked about off-days, I’ve shared some recipes… Why not make this post even longer?  Therefore, here are a few totally random facts about me:

  1. I am a huge LSU Tigers fan.  I was born in Baton Rouge so as my hometown, I’ll always be loyal.
  2. I have lived all over.  I was born in Baton Rouge, moved to New Jersey when I was 6 for 8 months, then to England for 3 and 1/2 years, from there to Houston, TX, then to Fairfax, Virginia.  I then went to school in Williamsburg Virginia- meanwhile spending one summer in Hoboken/New York City, then to Virginia Beach where I took a job.  Annnd currently I’m in Cincinnati for 6 months… and who knows where after that!
  3. When I lived in England my parents put in a private British school… I had to wear a full uniform everyday consisting of dress shorts, tie, short sleeve button up shirt, “jumper” (a sweater), blazer (jacket), a cap, and knee high socks.  To this day I still hate Quiche from being served at as a 7 year old in their cafeterias.
  4. I work for Amerigroup Corporation and am part of their Leadership Development Program.  Our company does managed healthcare for the public sector; Medicare and Medicaid
  5. I watching Space Jam right now and it’s awesome.  I don’t have a favorite movie, but I always enjoy a stupid comedy.
  6. I don’t have any pets and don’t really want any.  I hate when pet hair gets all over everything.
  7. I am huge sports fan.  Astros, Magic, Capitals, LSU, William and Mary Tribe, and the Saints.
  8. Age: 24.  Birthday: Novemeber 8th
  9. I have a 19 year old brother at Virginia Tech and a 17 year old sister who is a senior is high school.
  10. I am trying to create a “Feerless Food” TV show that will follow me in my training, nutrition, and struggles, as well as have interviews with top athletes, industry leading nutritionist/dietitians, and take on disordered thinking and nutrition myths.
  11. After my sophomore year in college I finally went in-patient for my eating disorder at Sheppard Pratt eating disorder clinic in Towson Maryland as my eating disorder had gotten to a low point since it’s beginning in 10th grade.  While I still struggle against my disorder, I in much better and strong place now and try to use my experience to help others.

That’s a wrap!  I’ve got my first long ride of the year planned tomorrow, so I’m hoping the rain holds off!  God Bless yall

  1. Tell me something I don’t know about you
  2. Do you ever use nut butters in “unconventional” ways?
« Previous Entries
Next Entries »

FoodBuzz


Categories

Feerless Food

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 377 other followers