No Excuses Weight Loss w/ Jonathan Roche - May 28,2008

This show is about Empowering People to Avoid Excuses and Helping Them Maximize their Fitness and Weight Loss Results. No gimmicks, just research-based facts from Award-Winning Fitness Expert, Certified Personal Trainer, 13-time Boston Marathon Finisher and 10-time Ironman Triathlon Finisher Jonathan Roche. Jonathan has now helped over 150,000 people get fit through his fitness videos and products - ARE YOU NEXT? Visit www.MomentumFS.com for free workouts and recipes and to learn more.

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5 Facts

It's been an awfully long time since I've been personally tagged for a meme. I am busy unpacking, sorting the accumulated mail and plowing through email, but since I don't have time for much of a real post this meme is a nice stop gap measure.

Thanks to Sarah of Suite Apple Pie for tagging me.

1. Link to your tagger and post these rules
2. Share 5 facts about yourself
3. Tag 5 people at the end of your post and list their names, linking to them.

4. Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog. I'm sending them direct messages via Twitter instead.

5 Facts (you probably don't know about me)

Strega cocktail
1. Last week in the Italian city of Benevento I was one of the judges of a student cocktail competition with the theme "Cucina & Magia" which means cooking and magic. The winning cocktail used white rum, Strega, lemon and blueberry juice, muddled basil leaves and was garnished with a spiral of zucchini. Refreshing and light, I wish I had the recipe. The winner was the only woman contestant. Brava!

homemade merguez
2. Last night after seeing a movie I dined at a very inexpensive North African restaurant called Cafe Zitouna on Polk street. The fantastic homemade merguez was served over couscous with a big bowl of vegetables, and the fragrant chicken b'stilla was moist and flavorful. I look forward to going back.

knitted sweets
3. A few weeks back at the Maker Faire I was totally smitten by these knitted cupcakes and donuts. Utterly useless but so darn cute!

ham sandwich
4. At the Frankfurt airport I ate a surprisingly delicious sandwich of thinly sliced ham, green apple and horseradish cream on a wheat roll studded with pumpkin seeds. It helped steady my nerves after being frisked by German airport security.

5. My first breakfast after coming home from Italy was a smoked fish platter at Miller's East Coast Delicatessen. It had whitefish salad, belly lox and sable. There was so much fish I bought extra bagels and it was enough for another breakfast--for 2 people! The coleslaw, potato salad and pickles are still in the fridge.

5 people/bloggers I'm tagging are--Gluten Free Goddess, Hedonia, Lucullian Delights, Vanilla Garlic & Ms. Adventures in Italy. Each are bloggers who inspire me in one way or another, they are also all on Twitter. Are you?

Healthbolt healthy health links of the week

A whole bunch of random goodness for you this week around the blogosphere. So fun to see all our health compadres kicking out great articles. Hope you find something particularly useful. Enjoy! A new blog that’s taking the world by storm, Weighting Line has a very interesting perspective on 6 ways to commit discrimination against the obese. Is blaming global warming on them one of those ways? And speaking of weight, if you’re new to the weight loss game, but you’re looking to hook up with a gym, how do you know which one is the right fit? The fabulous MizFit explores that very notion with some awesomely specific advice. Of course, getting fit also means eating right. At Best Health Mag, find out why you should be eating more of nature’s candy…bananas! Switching gears, earlier in the week I talked a bit about skin cancer awareness, remember? Well, Elaine from Genetics and Health goes a step further by covering how a sun-induced skin cancer starting point has been discovered. And finally, perhaps one of the funniest (and most excruciatingly accurate) posts I’ve read all week (month? year?), Scott at Health and Men shares exactly why men are so much happier. Exactly. Have a healthy week, everyone! Tags: Fitness Advice, Fitness Blog, Health Advice, Health Blog Links, health blogs, Healthbolt, Weight Loss, Weight Loss Advice, Weight Loss Links, Weight Loss TipsShare This (Source: Healthbolt)