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What I Did Before Blogging, Fast Food, Cardio Frequency & My Biggest Petty Annoyance

Welcome to the latest edition of CNC Instagram Live WITH TEXT! I heard you guys loud and clear, and I’ll continue to transcribe my videos on the blog! 🙂 So, I actually haven’t done an Instagram Live in a few weeks, and when I asked for questions, I received a bazillion of them – love it! I’ve answered a few in this Instagram Live and will save the rest for future ones. Thank you all for your awesome questions so far and keep them coming!     Did you go to college? Yes! I went to Union College in Schenectady, New York. Union is a pretty small liberal arts school with an engineering school – and it was awesome! I absolutely loved it and always joke that I did college really well. I worked hard, but also played hard. I was part of a sorority, so I was definitely in that whole “party” scene, but I also (somehow) managed to get really good grades. I graded cum laude! 🙂 It was the best time, and after I graduated, I went to Boston College for my master’s degree in Higher Education A

The Definitive Guide To Fish: Why and How To Eat It

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In nutrition, there are very few universal consensuses. Conventional wisdom says that fat makes you fat and whole grains are essential, and millions of people agree, but the ancestral health and keto communities (and reality) disagree. Primal and keto folks don’t worry much about saturated fat and limit polyunsaturated fat; conventional health advocates do the opposite. The opinion on meat intake varies wildly, with some people suggesting we eat  nothing but red meat, others recommending “palm-sized” pieces of strictly white meat, and still others cautioning against any meat at all. Pick a food and you can find a sizable group that hates it and a sizable one that loves it. You can find researchers who spend their lives making the case against it and researchers who spend their lives making the case for it. But not fish. Fish is about as close to a universal as any food. Barring the vegans and vegetarians (some of whom, however, are sneaking wild salmon when their followers aren’t wa

Almost Seven (Teen)

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First grade or fifteen? Happy back to school! First grade seems so much older than kindergarten to me. And it was so nice not having to worry about the bus! Let’s look back on all the first days! 2s Back To School Shopping I took Mazen back to school shopping on Sunday, and we got everything on the list plus a new backpack. Last Bits Of Summer Before our beach trip, Mazen and I biked down to Fridays After Five to meet up with some friends. He’s so easy and fun one-on-one like that! We got pizza for him and Tilman’s salad for me, and he played with friends while I had a beer and talked to Sarah! Big Brother Is Entertaining It was fun to have him home to help play with Birch these last few days too! Mazen and I taught B how to eat pancakes! I also taught him how to eat little peas and cantaloupe. He’s not sure about either one. Gobbled down the sweet potatoes and bread though! Oatmeal with Cottage Cheese + Sunflower Butter I’ve been craving oatmeal, and I

How Motherhood Balanced Me + What I Ate (+ Macros)

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A certain little someone is heading to Kindergarten in just a couple of weeks, and I just can’t believe our baby is off to school. I feel like he was just starting preschool. Mumma is definitely going to shed some tears on the first day of school! But, honestly, Quinn is SO EXCITED about his new school, I can’t help but be excited too! As part of our first day of school preparations, we needed to buy some supplies for Quinn as well as his classroom. On the list was a 3-prong plastic folder, markers, crayons, and glue sticks. Quinn loves shopping at Target and anything related to a good art project, so he was ALL about it! 🙂 I honestly can’t believe summer is almost over. This is always a bittersweet time of the year for me – part of me is holding on tight to the last of these summer days, especially now that Quinn is heading off to Kindergarten, and the other is excited to get back into a fresh routine that comes with the start of the school year. But even though our days will be