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8 Common Mistakes That Sabotage Your Performance as an OCR Athlete
As a Certified Holistic Nutritionist who helps OCR athletes around the world consistently achieve their personal best performance and as an OCR athlete myself, I hang out in a lot of Facebook groups full of OCR athletes and spend most of my days talking to athletes....
How to Eat the Week Before an Obstacle Course Race
I want to preface this by mentioning that there’s no miracle foods you can eat the week of your race that are going to erase months (or a lifetime) of poor eating choices. Also, changing your diet the week of a race is likely not a good idea in general. With that...
Spartan Beast Nutrition Strategies
Fueling for Spartan Beast I get a lot of questions about fueling for longer races like the Spartan Beast. As I mentioned in a previous blog, IF you have an ideal performance diet and show up to a race with a full supply of glycogen, it only provides about 1,400 to...
Coconut Maca Energy Balls
Maca is a highly effective energy booster that provides essential nutrients for physical and mental performance. When combined with dates and coconut, you get a delicious energy ball that is a great pre-workout snack or tasty treat any time! This is also a great fuel...
Cauliflower Wild Rice Soup
If you're looking for a deliciously rich and creamy soup full of nutrients, this cauliflower wild rice soup is your answer. Bonus, it's naturally gluten free and vegan and uses common ingredients that are easy to find if you don't already have them in your pantry....
Rosemary Garlic Lamb Shanks
I'm Greek, so you KNOW I love lamb. We're also experimenting with the Elimination Diet right now, and lamb is one of the few meats we are allowed to eat. Score! Lucky for us, our beloved truLOCAL meat delivery service offers lamb. Double score! In our last order, I...
Vegan Gluten Free Pancakes
Vegan, Gluten Free Old Fashioned Pancakes I adapted a recipe for Good Old Fashioned Pancakes to make it egg free, dairy free and gluten free to accommodate our food intolerances. Inspiration came...
Roasted Red Pepper Tomato Soup
I don't know if you know this, but I am obsessed with soup. Like, ADDICTED. As in, even when it's 30 degrees Celsius outside and I am sweating through my clothes, I still crave and eat soup. One of my favourite restaurants in our town is a soup cafe. Every day they...
4 Steps to Reading the Nutrition Facts Table
How to Read the New Nutrition Facts Tables The Nutrition Facts table is on the side of most packaged foods. It’s often found close to the ingredient listing. The purpose of it is to help you make better nutrition decisions. When you can see the number of calories,...