Having been to culinary school, the single greatest asset I learned there was how to cut and chop properly. It's an investment of money that will save you hours of time down the road, and hopefully some cut fingers.

After my first week of no wheat, my stomachaches were gone, my mucous cleared up, and I felt incredibly energetic. My headaches were also less frequent and less severe, and I had lost 3 pounds, most of it swelling and water weight my body had been holding onto as part of its response to the wheat products in my diet.

If you live your life all out today, not only is it fun, but you are preventing a midlife crisis.

If I don't get to go to the gym, walking is the answer.

I love to look at my life and look at what I can do better, how I can contribute more and where I can push myself.

I have so many girlfriends in their twenties who live in a white box apartment, having mediocre meals with mediocre friends, waiting for the life they want to hit them in their forties or fifties. They are settling in the now - what's the point?

The only reason I write at all is because I am going through, and growing through, something in my life I want to share with others through my personal experiences.