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Episode 411 – Tim Grahl – Publishing a Book

Fuel 53 + What I Ate In A Day

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Hi, guys! I’m SO PUMPED to see that so many of you are interested in the FREE Fall Macro Challenge . It seems like you guys are super interested in macros, so I’m glad I’m doing the challenge and hope you find it helpful. The deadline to sign up is Columbus Day (10/8), so make sure you’re on the list! Yesterday morning started bright and early at 5:15 AM. Recently, I’ve been waking up with Mal to get a jumpstart on work and walk Murphy before he leaves for school. It’s one less thing for Mal to worry about in the morning, and it’s a nice part of my morning routine. That little pug face is always SO HAPPY for a walk followed by breakfast. Speaking of breakfast… mine was a delicious overnights oats combo made with So Delicious blueberry dairy-free yogurt , oats, chia seeds, pumpkin seeds, unsweetened vanilla Ripple milk (found it at Target), and a big scoop of Teddie Peanut Butter to finish it off. Mmm! It was so tasty and so filling ! And, of course, I enjoyed my usual iced coff

Baby: 34-36 Weeks

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34 weeks In my mind the home stretch started at 30 weeks, but the REAL home stretch starts around 35/36 weeks when you enter into the “I can’t stay pregnant forever and I’m really uncomfortable” zone. Of course, the probability doesn’t really go up until the days around your due date , but it’s still exciting to think that meeting our baby is going to happen in the near future (knocking on wood, always.) I am convinced he is going to come early for no reason other than I’ve been feeling so much more this time around. Many more Braxton Hicks, more twinges and pressure down there. Occasionally I will stand up or shift my weight in such a way that I feel like he’s going to fall out! Braxton Hicks have gotten more frequent and intense lately. I had one in the middle of the night that was so intense I couldn’t move! It wasn’t painful at all, but I just couldn’t really bend to get out of bed. It lasted a few minutes too. I generally get them whenever my uterus changes – getting up, sitti

Clean Eating Wild Rice Vegetable Soup Recipe

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This clean eating wild rice vegetable soup recipe is light yet hearty. This delicious soup was a project I had for school. I’m taking culinary classes online and I had to develop a recipe using certain techniques and knife skills. It was certainly a challenge, but in the end, the soup was delicious. Well worth the effort! I’m still waiting to hear back on my grade, but I think I did pretty well! One of the main techniques I had to work on with this recipe was sweating the vegetables. Up until now, this has actually been a frustrating process for me. I couldn’t get the heat right or keep the vegetables from browning. But for some reason, I broke through that with this recipe and now I want to sweat all the vegetables, all the time. WHY SWEAT VEGETABLES? Sweating is so wonderful for adding flavor where you don’t want to add a bunch of salt or fat to get a well flavored dish. It pulls the flavor out of the vegetables so that they are fully available for seasoning the broth. It also